Looking for the Confederate War
Historian Michael C. Hardy's quest to understand Confederate history, from the boots up.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Jefferson Davis v. Stonewall Jackson
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Confederate historiography is rife with accounts of Jefferson Davis’s legendary support of certain commanders, like Braxton Bragg, Leonid...
Monday, January 13, 2025
The use of Black spies in Eastern North Carolina.
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While researching my upcoming book on the battle of Plymouth (Savas Beatie), I came across one of the few accounts of the execution of a ...
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Samuel Johnson and the Plymouth Massacre
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Major General Benjamin F. Butler was in a tizzy. He had received a deposition from the provost marshal bearing incredible news, a note h...
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Tuscaloosa’s Prisoner of War Camp
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Henry Wirz, second commander of the Tuscaloosa Prison Camp. Early during the war, one local Alabama historian wrote, Tuscaloosa became a...
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