Confederate Veteran magazine overlooked resource
Confederate Veteran magazine, published monthly from 1893 to 1932, is a great and sometimes overlooked resource for information about Southern soldiers …
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‘A scene indescribable in its terrible horror’
Around 4:30 a.m. on a still dark May 12, 1864, 20,000 federal infantrymen under U.S. Major General Winfield Scott Hancock …
Find clues of ancestor’s Civil War service from postbellum artifacts
Sometimes photos or other artifacts from after the Civil War can give you clues about your Civil War ancestor’s military …
Tap Roots movie prompts tapping into ancestors’ past
In my previous post I wrote about John Ford’s Horse Soldiers (1959), starring John Wayne, that depicts events that occurred …
Has a movie ever inspired you to research your Civil War ancestors?
Have you ever had your research into Civil War ancestors prompted by a movie? I have. John Ford’s Horse Soldiers …
Mississippi Civil War Photographs
Reblogged from Mississippians in the Confederate Army: Having begun my career as an historian in the pre-internet era, it never …
What meaning can you draw from ancestors’ historical links?
The first Europeans began settling Virginia more than 250 years before the Civil War. It is not surprising then that …
Did your Civil War ancestor become a prisoner of war?
If your Civil War ancestor became a prisoner of war, then there may be records about his time as a …
Civil War soldier’s pay couldn’t buy much by 1864
The above image is a photocopy John F. Poore’s pay voucher in 1864. Although the voucher is hard to read, …
Do you have sources you at first passed by and later found useful?
Tracing your Confederate ancestor can be very frustrating at times. At least when I tried to trace the service of …
