Walking With History LLC

23/03/2025

I was asked by a Civil War Round Table to provide a list of presentations I could give...the list is much larger than I thought! If you are involved with a Civil War Round Table or historical organization and need a speaker, let me know. I can travel within a couple of hours of Cincinnati or participate through Zoom.
• Morgan’s First Kentucky Raid
• Morgan’s Last Kentucky Raid
• The Rise and Fall of a Confederate Raider (an overview of Morgan’s various raids at a higher level)
• Turchin’s Brigade at Chickamauga
• Butler County (Ohio) in the Civil War – Butler County had the highest percentage of military aged men to serve during the war of any Ohio county.
• John “Don’t Call Me Hunt” Morgan and the Not-So-Great Raid of 1863
• Augusta College and Its Civil War Impact – Augusta College was the first Methodist college in the United States to confer degrees to its students. It had quite a variety of alumni that would later play a part during the Civil War as well as the abolitionist movement.
• Cincinnati’s Black Brigade – story of the men that helped create the Cincinnati defenses.
• Fort Donelson Campaign – a higher level talk
• Jenkin’s 1862 Raid Into Ohio
• Morgan’s Men in Northern Kentucky – The Battles of Snow’s Pond, Augusta, and Brooksville
• The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky
• The Battle of Rowlett’s Station – The 32nd Indiana Makes a Stand

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26/06/2024

Updated another publication, one that has been available for a spell, but cleaned up a few things and the overall look is a bit better. If you have not purchased this title, this might be the time. https://www.lulu.com/shop/peter-h-clark-and-darryl-r-smith/the-black-brigade-of-cincinnati-expanded-version/paperback/product-95z8yj4.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

26/06/2024

Well, it's published! https://www.lulu.com/shop/darryl-r-smith/across-the-boot-the-jenkins-raid-in-ohio/paperback/product-7k9qmnv.html?q=jenkins+raid&page=1&pageSize=4

26/06/2024

Events on the schedule:

​July 19, 2024 - Madison County CWRT (Kentucky) - Turchin's Brigade at Chickamauga.

September 14, 2024 - Madison Township (Ohio) Historical Society - Butler County in the Civil War

September 21, 2024 - Tour of Civil War Augusta, Kentucky.

​October 18-20, 2024 - Symposium on the Field - Perryville, Kentucky.

​November 16, 2024 - Great Bend Museum (West Virginia) - The Jenkins Raid Across Ohio

March 20, 2025 - Perryville Stories - Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley.

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22/06/2024

The rear and front covers for my upcoming project!

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...