Looking for the Confederate War
Historian Michael C. Hardy's quest to understand Confederate history, from the boots up.
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Tuscaloosa’s Prisoner of War Camp
›
Henry Wirz, second commander of the Tuscaloosa Prison Camp. Early during the war, one local Alabama historian wrote, Tuscaloosa became a...
Friday, September 20, 2024
Remembering Snodgrass Hill
›
For many, remembering the war brought painful thoughts of the past. Commanders of companies and regiments frequently had to relive the w...
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Bringing Home the Confederate Generals killed during the Maryland Campaign
›
There were eight generals, four from the Confederate army and four from the Union army, killed or mortally wounded at the battle of Sharp...
1 comment:
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Cyrus I. Scofield, Tennessee Confederate Soldier and Bible Scholar
›
Lenawee County, Michigan, might seem like a strange place for a Confederate soldier to be born. Cyrus Ingerson Scofield first saw the li...
Sunday, August 04, 2024
A.P. Hill and his Staff at Chancellorsville
›
“You have shot my friends! You have destroyed my staff!” In the confusion of the night of May 2, 1863, Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill and members of...
Monday, July 22, 2024
Was Robert E. Lee a Whig?
›
For some Confederate military commanders, their pre-war political lives are easy to follow. Kentuckian John C. Breckinridge served in th...
‹
›
Home
View web version
