John B Floyd

Harpers Ferry: The Rise of Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart

By Melanie Savage

On the morning of October 17, 1859, an aide to Secretary of War John B. Floyd hurried off with an urgent message for Colonel Robert E. Read more

John B Floyd

What to See at Fort Donelson National Battlefield

by William E. Welsh

The soldiers of the two armies at Fort Donelson awoke on the morning of February 15, 1862, to another frigid morning. Read more

John B Floyd

Bushrod Johnson: Yankee Quaker, Confederate General

By Roy Morris Jr.

Of all the unlikely heroes of the Civil War, none was more unlikely than Bushrod Johnson, Ohio-born Quaker turned Confederate general. Read more

John B Floyd

The 1st and 2nd Cavalry Regiments: Jefferson Davis’s Pet Project

By Cowan Brew

Under a bright, high sun in a pale blue Midwestern sky, six companies of the United States Cavalry’s 1st Regiment rode into a grassy valley bordering the south fork of the Solomon River in northwestern Kansas on the afternoon of July 29, 1857. Read more