Monday, August 29, 2022

Halifax County

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    Formed in 1758 from Edgecombe County, Halifax County was named for George Montague, second earl of Halifax (England) and President of th...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Wilmington, Fort Fisher, and Historiography

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Monument at Fort Fisher.     Has the importance of Fort Fisher and the great Wilmington area been missed in the historiography of the past 1...
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Thursday, July 14, 2022

Destroying Federal naval vessels at the end of the war.

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The Neuse River, looking toward the site of the sinking of the USS  Mystic  at Maple Cypress .    In early April 1865, the Army of Northern ...
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Friday, July 01, 2022

Old Capital Prison

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   In November 1861, Secretary of State William H. Seward told Lord Richard Lyons, British Ambassador to the United States, “My Lord, I can ...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

The Education of the Confederate Cabinet

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   Sixteen men served in the Confederate cabinet, the closest advisors to President Jefferson Davis. Some, like Judah P. Benjamin, John H. R...
Friday, June 10, 2022

William J. Allen and the proposed secession of Southern Illinois

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   Talk of secession was nothing new in 1860. You can read more about various states and territories at this previous post . One of the less...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Expelled from the US Senate for Pro-Confederate Thought Crimes?

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   When the subject of Northerners supporting the Confederacy comes up in conversation, everyone remembers Clement L. Vallandigham. An Ohio ...
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