My article on the Bond Schoolhouse battle between Unionists and Confederate militia in Yadkin County, NC, is published at The New York Times / Disunion The…
In Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, most of the Confederate dead, known and unknown, moulder in graves marked only by numbered blocks of granite. That doesn’t…
Well-worn sentimental phrases and verses make Civil War love letters by soldiers no less poignantly heartfelt. The letters of ordinary Civil War soldiers can be rough-cut:…