Walking With History LLC

14/04/2025

Using virtual meeting platforms, I have now presented my talks to new locations.

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.

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...