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There was one day of battle during the Civil War that stands out at the bloodiest day of all. It happened on September 7, 1862. The North called it the Battle of Antietum, the South called it  it the Battle of Sharpsburg. The Texans had just been through months of fierce fighting at Seven Pines, […]

Women fighting on the Confederate front line in the Civil War? Yes! Women weren’t legally allowed to fight, but an estimated 400 to 750 women from the North and South disguised themselves as men and fought on the battlefields without anyone ever discovering their true identities. The Confederacy had no age requirement for joining up. If

Acclaimed artist Bruce K. Lawes works with Ultimate Flags to create an original historical work, ‘The Rise of Jesse James’. For collectors of original paintings, this masterwork will be appearing at the Coeur d’Alene fine art auction on July 29th.  To see auction website click on the link: http://www.cdaartauction.com/2017/lot/19180?order=lot   Jesse James fought as a Confederate

What can you say about the Irish born Confederate soldier Henry Kyd Douglas? General Robert E. Lee gave him compliments, Stonewall Jackson relied on his close service, women of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania were enchanted by his flair, drama, and good looks. Even the enemy Federal soldiers held an admiration for him.   Varina Davis,

In March of 1865, a Jewish Confederate Captain Samuel Yates Levy wrote his father from a Union prisoner of war camp, “I long to breathe the free air of Dixie.” Many Jewish Southerners rallied to their states and sacrificed their lives in battle. It was probably the largest ethnic group to serve the Confederacy, made

Nowhere in any other battle area of the Civil War was the fight between the just and unjust, between liberty and tyranny more clearly shown than in Missouri. Toughened by a rough-hewed frontier heritage, Missourians entered the war with a determined willingness to fight. General Van Dorn wrote to Jefferson Davis about the Missourians: “During

“I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten,                                                                                

It was not easy going behind enemy lines to gather intelligence. It takes a bit of courage, cleverness, and wit to act when the opportunity arises.  Sam Watson was a Confederate soldier serving under General Polk in June 1864 about the time of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia. One night he put those

Here’s how one of the men who served under Confederate General Turner Ashby described him: “Imagine a man with thick coal black hair, heavy black beard, dark skin, large black eyes, sleepy looking except when the Yankees are in sight.  Then they do flash fire…” General Turner Ashby came from a long line of military

Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan was one of the Confederacy’s most colorful and successful cavaliers and raiders. His exploits earned him a reputation for audacity and creativity that took him deep behind federal lines – the farthest north a Confederate force ever penetrated during the Civil War.                                                 Morgan grew up in Kentucky, attended college in