The First Battle of Deep Bottom– also occasionally called the Battle of Darbytown, Strawberry Plains, Tilghman’s Gate, New Market Road ,Grav...

Part two in a series. In my previous post I outlined the important series of actions fought north of the James River during the Richmon...

Part One in a Series. What if I was to tell you that a series of desperate battles was fought on the footsteps of the Confederate capit...

Greetings! My apologies for falling off the face of the planet for a while, but my previous post elicited such deranged hatred from some of...

In my previous post , I lamented the troubling legacies of the American Civil War that have been cropping up in recent headlines. In the in...

Well, if ever anyone needed ammunition to bolster their arguments that the haunting legacies of slavery and the Civil War still impact our n...

Just around the corner from Mrs. Lee’s famed rose garden at Arlington house lays a nearly-forgotten monument that was the first Tomb of Unk...

The following is an eyewitness account of Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s death on May 12, 1864. Stuart’s adjutant, Maj. Henry McClellan, wrote t...

While many people are familiar with the Battle of Yellow Tavern and the resultant mortal wounding of famed Confederate cavalry chieftain J....

Look ma, I'm famous! I recently sat down with the good folks at Virginia Time Travel to discuss a variety of subjects, to include Fre...