Looking for the Confederate War

   Diaries written by common soldiers provide the best insights into the day-to-day life of soldiers. They were not written for wide publica...

   There have been tens of thousands of books written about the war. Even with that seemingly gluttonous number, there are huge gaps in that...

    I was kind of looking forward to this day – 1,000,000 hits on Looking for the Confederate War (6:00 pm on July 3, 2023). It was a dream ...

   We seem to have this idea about the Overland Campaign of 1864. Overall Federal commander U.S. Grant was going to steal a march on Robert ...

   There was more than one Camp Holmes during the war. In September 1861, there was Camp Holmes  in the Fredericksburg area. [1] Another wa...

Over the past few months as I have worked on the Plymouth project, I discovered that no one really understands the role of Col. James Dearin...

   In the 1860s, with a war going on, the theater of operation for William Quantrill was a long way from the Confederate capitol in Richmond...

Friends - I had a chance recently to sit down with Paul at Untold Civil War. We chatted about Lee's Body Guard: The 39th Battalion Virgi...

    As many of you know, from time to time I make comments on interesting things I find on the internet. This is not one I found, but it was...

   We have talked about Confederate currency once before – Lucy Pickens, the first woman on American paper money. You can check out that p...

   Politics always makes strange bedfellows, and the August 1861 contest in District 1 in east Tennessee might make one of the most interest...