Looking for the Confederate War

Jefferson Davis      During the war years, it was fairly common for presidents, or army commanders, or a congress to call for days of thanks...

  Marker for the Confederate Hospital in Greenville, Alabama    In the past, I have written about Confederate Wayside and General Hospitals ...

    It is hard to fathom, but in 1861, the Confederacy’s most celebrated general was shunted to a seemingly backwater command. Of course, af...

     Knowing what is available is an important thing to both the reader and the researcher. That is why I create these lists: to see what is...

    Many decades ago, in an old Dixie Gun Works catalog, I gained a bit of wisdom. The editor was writing about building a library. A librar...

    While we view lighthouses as interesting pieces of history, they also served a vital role in commerce in the 19 th century. These light...

    This past weekend, the decade-long task of disinterring Nathan Bedford Forrest from a park in Memphis and reburying him in Columbia, Ten...