Looking for the Confederate War

   While the exact number of citizens arrested by the Lincoln Administration during the war is unknown (13,000-38,000) we really know the st...

     There are just a handful of places where visitors can see remnants of Confederate vessels from the War. That small list includes the CS...

37th Alabama Infantry    Back in January/February 1987, an article appeared in Confederate Veteran magazine about the flag of the 37 th Al...

     In June 2015, we were on one of those classic “see America” road trips. Our son had been competing at National History Day in Maryland,...

    Recently, Dana Shoaf, editor at Civil War Times , did a live stream from the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. When the guide w...

   Earlier this year, I started a series on prisoner of war camps in the South. One post was an overview of prisons ( here ), and another po...

     The armies, both gray and blue, tore up the landscape wherever they went during the war. Thousands of acres of trees were felled, and i...

     For a week, Jefferson Davis and the Confederate cabinet had called Charlotte, North Carolina, home. Numerous meetings had taken place, ...

   Recently, while reading the Spring 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor , I came across an article entitled “Who is Buried in Calhoun’s To...