Looking for the Confederate War

     Usually, I do not lack for project ideas. As I drudge through the minutiae of history, I see plenty of holes in the historiography that...

   “Major, tell my father I died with my face to the enemy,” is a well-known last request made during the war. It was uttered by Col. Isaac ...

   In all honesty, he was not “Stonewall” Jackson yet. He was still the eccentric Thomas J. Jackson, professor of Natural and Experimental P...

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

Monument at Fort Fisher.     Has the importance of Fort Fisher and the great Wilmington area been missed in the historiography of the past 1...

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 ...

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

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