The Blue & The Greyhound

Leroy Walker was a hard working yet inefficient first Secretary of War for the Confederacy. Francis Pickens was obsessed with defending his ...

One of the more interesting congressional stories during the Civil War was the expulsion of Jessie D. Bright from the US Senate. Bright, a s...

For someone who takes pride in his writing, I don't write very much. As you can see from this blog, my last post was in 2017. Since then...

Rip and I visited the Olustee Battlefield as we were driving back from Jacksonville. It was a beautiful day to check out the largest Civil W...

I just bought Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi by Richard Lowe. I couldn't resist. I'll keep ...

Our home town is Smyrna, GA, so I'm always walking Rip around the historic areas of this small city. One of his favorite places is Smyrn...

Right after Fort McAllister, Rip and I visited Old Fort Jackson, a traditional brick fort. Here are the pics! Also, you'll see we ended ...