Thoughts, Essays, and Musings on the Civil War

I just wanted to let all my readers know that my blog is moving to a new address at Wordpress. I found that they offered a more reader-frien...

It is undeniable that Abraham Lincoln was a master of the written and spoken word. For him, the English language was but one weapon in the U...

The good folks at the Civil War Trust have honored me by publishing selected works from this blog at their Website. The first article, ...

When I was pursuing my graduate degree in Civil War history, one of the issues I was most interested in examining was Robert E. Lee’s decisi...

I first posted this essay on Memorial Day 2008 and it remains my personal favorite. I suppose that's because there is a lot of me in it,...