A video link of my presentation at the Lovettsville Historical Society on September 10 will be available at a later date. Please the society’s website, which you can find here.

I will be speaking September 10 at the Lovettsville Historical Society, in Lovettsville, Virginia, at 2 p.m. The title of my presentation, ‘A Tale of Two Raids,’ refers to Jeb Stuart’s Christmas Raid in December 1862 and the mysterious raid the Federals thought he planned to make in the spring or summer of 1863, as…

I confess to still feeling a bit of a thrill when I find what I believe to be an unpublished Custer document. Such was the case earlier this year when I found a December 1863 letter from Custer to Alfred Pleasonton’s Chief of Staff, Col. C. Ross Smith. Pleasonton had apparently ordered Custer to send…