Walking With History LLC

27/04/2024

The latest podcast is out!

After a hiatus due to schedules and sickness, Derrick and Darryl return for another discussion on the Western Theater...well mostly. The guys talk about what...

21/04/2024

Working on my latest Civil War project, a focused effort on the Jenkins' Raid in Ohio, September 1862. It is an expansion of my blog post that will include additional information, along with a driving tour of the route from Ravenswood, WV to Racine, OH. The text is pretty much completed, and I have reached out to a mapmaker to create two maps for the booklet. Next step is a return visit to the area for some higher quality pictures (last trip was overcast and the pictures are not quite up to s***f).

UPDATE - Free tour covering the Ohio portion of this raid in early September, 2022...nearly 160 years to the day! More details HERE.Nearly a year before John H. Morgan led his small Confederate cavalry division on the Great Raid into Kentucky and across Indiana and Ohio, Brigadier General Albert Gal...

17/03/2024

A couple of speaking events and tours now added to the website:

Walking With History LLC tours of historic sites and guided backpacking trips, as well as talks for your group. We use a boots on the ground approach to touring.

18/02/2024

Folks, if you are on Spotify, the first episode of the Department No. 2 podcast is available! Please give a listen, and in order to help others find it give it a five star rating (which I guess you have to do on the phone, and not on the website).

Listen to The Department No. 2 Podcast on Spotify. The Western Theater in the Civil War's (WTCW) The Department No. 2 Podcast is the only show that focuses on the Civil War's most important theater. Derrick Lindow, Darryl Smith, and multiple guests discuss the battles and campaigns, generals and lea...

01/07/2023

My latest post for the Western Theater in the Civil War

On Good Friday, March 25, 1864, the Battle of Paducah, Kentucky took place. Major General Nathan B. Forrest rode into Paducah with approximately 2,500 to 3,000 troops. The goals of what is known as "Forrest’s Expedition Into West Tennessee and Kentucky" were to disrupt Federal supply lines, discou...

13/05/2023

We will stroll and chat about some of the Civil War personalities in Greenwood while reflecting on Memorial Day in a beautiful cemetery.

04/03/2023

Please consider joining the Buffington Island Battlefield Preservation Foundation.  Your financial support via a membership in the Foundation will help us with future preservation efforts.  Simply choose the level of support you would like to give by clicking on the desired membership category. 

27/11/2022

Adding tours and talks to next year's calendar, including a cemetery tour at Greenwood in Hamilton, a talk for the Hamilton CWRT, a car caravan tour with David Mowery of a portion of the John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail, a Morgan symposium in Campbellsville, Kentucky, an the Symposium on the Field at Perryville. Shaping out to be a fun 2023!

Walking With History LLC tours of historic sites and guided backpacking trips, as well as talks for your group. We use a boots on the ground approach to touring.

11/11/2022

The confluence of the Ohio and the Cumberland Rivers.

08/11/2022

Free Civil War tour at Spring Grove Cemetery!

Historians David Mowery and Darryl Smith will be your guides for this tour of Civil War stories within beautiful Spring Grove Cemetery.

14/10/2022

I now offer five publications via lulu.com. Check out my author page and enjoy some very affordable prices! The Fort Donelson book is actually now sold at the Fort Donelson visitor's center...how cool is that? https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/darrylrsmith/

01/09/2022

Named after Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, noted astronomer, West Point graduate, and Civil War general, Fort Mitchel was just one portion of the defenses of Cincinnati, consisting of works strung for miles across northern Kentucky. On September 10th, 1862, a skirmish took place south of Fort Mitchel that...

29/07/2022

This 117-acre tract in Meigs County, Ohio, is threatened by residential development and nearby mining that would encroach on the battlefield and nearby state...

31/05/2022

Darryl Smith TOMMORROW NIGHT Zoom Discussion Wednesday between Darryl Smith and Len Riedel on Darryl's Upcoming Program: The 1862 Kentucky Campaign Join historian, Darryl Smith of Cincinnati and Executive Director Len Riedel as they discuss the purpose, opportunities and results of the 1862 Kentucky...

23/04/2022

I am one of the speakers for this event...very excited!

Interested in the Civil War? Want to find out about Ohio and Ohioans' role in the Civil War?

Make sure to attend the Civil War Symposium at the Library on Saturday, May 7 from 9:00 AM -- 5:00 PM.

There will be authentic Civil War music performed by Steve and Lisa Ball and presentations on the following topics:

Freedom, Citizenship, and Equality: The Story of the United States Colored Troops presented by Anthony Gibbs

The Civil War in Cincinnati presented by David Mowery

Ohio Women and the Civil War Home Front presented by Kelly Mezurek

Rise of the Rebel Raider: John H. Morgan's First Kentucky Raid presented by Darryl Smith

Ohio in the Civil War presented by Mark Holbrook.

Walk-ins are welcome with the understanding that, if needed, seating priority will be given to those who have previously registered.

For presentation times and more information on presentation topics and our performers/presenters, please visit our website: https://bossardlibrary.org/content/civil-war-symposium

16/04/2022

James P. Fyffe (l) and Carr B. White (r) - two gentlemen buried in the same cemetery in Georgetown, Ohio. Men who knew each other prior to the Mexican War and lived in the same small community in Brown County. Later these two men would serve as commanding officers of Ohio infantry regiments during t...

27/02/2022

Much is made of the Fighting McCooks of Ohio, seventeen first cousins who served the Union in various ways. Their exploits in some level are known to many in the Civil War community, from Private Charles M. McCook, killed at First Bull Run, to Alexander McDowell McCook, luckless corps commander in t...

10/02/2022

https://www.westerntheatercivilwar.com/post/a-buckeye-coward-at-perryville

The Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment did not start under the most auspicious circumstances. The regiment should have been formed in the fall of 1861, but the first appointed commander of the regiment, Michael C. Ryan, died of illness on October 23rd, and the regiment did not complete its or...

25/12/2021

Did you know that one of the men who rowed Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry to victory in the Battle of Lake Erie in this painting is buried in Petersburg, Kentucky? If you have been to Rabbit Hash chances are you have driven through Petersburg to get there. Buried in the same cemetery is "Chalkie" Fleek (second from left), a Medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War who dove on a gr***de to save his comrades, as well as several Civil War veterans, both Blue and Gray, including one man from the 32nd Indiana, radical socialist August Willich's regiment.

05/12/2021

The speaking and tour events are filling up nicely for 2022: http://www.walkingwithhistory.com/

Walking With History LLC tours of historic sites and guided backpacking trips, as well as talks for your group. We use a boots on the ground approach to touring.

22/09/2021

Thunderbolt, horse thief, raider – depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon Line one resides might determine which epithet one would use to describe John H...

11/09/2021

https://blueandgrayeducation.org/2021/09/field-report-civil-war-on-the-ohio/

A field report from Diane Hartmann:   A friend asked me what I liked about BGES’s “Civil War on the Ohio” tour. I was honestly able to reply, “Everything.” Darryl Smith gave an outstanding pre…

05/09/2021

Nearly a year before John H. Morgan led his small Confederate cavalry division on the Great Raid into Kentucky and across Indiana and Ohio, Brigadier General Albert Gallatin Jenkins crossed over the Ohio River from Virginia on the first raid on Ohio soil. Jenkins was born in Cabell County, Virginia....

03/08/2021

My tour for the Blue & Gray Education Society is now open for registration. If you are interested please check the link! https://blueandgrayeducation.org/tours/civil-war-on-the-ohio/

A BGES Civil War Field University Program With Darryl Smith August 26–29, 2021; from Erlanger, KY The Ohio River was the key to middle America: Cross it, and the Civil War would take on a whole new…

11/07/2021

Some of the sites related to the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, but not often visited.

29/06/2021

https://www.westerntheatercivilwar.com/post/walking-the-duke-trail

The Duke Trail? Never heard of it! One of the things I find interesting to do is follow army movements to and from a battle location. I've walked the Dry Canteen Trail at Perryville, and driven other various routes at places like Buffington Island. One of the original preservation plans at Chickamau...

19/06/2021

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28/04/2021

18/04/2021

Join myself and Darryl Smith of Walking With History LLC as we discuss two untold battles on the often forgotten Kentucky Front! Learn more about Darryl Smith here: http://www.walkingwithhistory.com/guide2.html Music is graciously provided by Cr...