Over the past twenty-eight years of being a living historian I have encountered many events.

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Stephen B. Oates, an award-winning Civil War historian who wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr.,…

On the rainy night of November 27, 1863, General John Hunt Morgan and six of his officers, of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, made a ‘great escape’ …

Before daylight, Sunday morning, Gillem ordered Captain Charles Willcox and Company G (approximately 150 men) of the 13th Tennessee Cavalry to…

On April 4, 1865, two days after the Confederate forces had evacuated Richmond, Virginia, President Lincoln entered the former capital of the …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The bust of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader that had been prominently displayed inside the Tenness…

Each January, Hernando County scrambled to put out the welcome mat for what has been called the largest Civil War reenactment in Florida — the…

The United States flag flies high atop a mast at Fort Macon State Park at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.

As I walked upon the sacred grounds of Tipton-Haynes Historic site, I was fascinated with the preservation efforts of those visionaries who sa…

SHILOH – “The sound of cannon fire rumbled again across Shiloh battlefield throughout the weekend of May 29 and 30,” announced Superintendent …

Civil War Trails, Inc. has teamed up with Fairfax County Parks and Recreation, Old Baldy Civil War Round Table and several local stakeholders …

The Battle of Franklin Trust has been selected by the City of Spring Hill to operate and manage Rippavilla, a pre-Civil War home with 98 adjoi…

A recent visitor to Grant Cottage asked an interesting question: “What did Grant’s voice sound like?” The question inspired a realization of h…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Workers arrived at a Tennessee park June 1 to begin the process of digging up the remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bed…

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On June 27, 1864, the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia took place. It was an epic struggle between General Sherman and General Johnston.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama lawmaker who disputes that slavery was the cause of the Civil War has proposed fining cities $10,000 a day …

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities have recovered a Confederate monument that had been stolen in Alabama and was the subject of a ransom note…

Over the course of my tenure as a living historian, I have attended many events, reenactments, banquets. and other festivities. I have found t…

There is a saying that my mother used to say. It goes, “April showers brings May flowers”. The showers of April 24, 2021, did not dampen the s…