On the Western Trail of the Civil War with Walter Earl Pittman

Today, historian Walter Earl Pittman calls his wife’s home state of New Mexico home. A current resident of Roswell, Pittman is Southern by birth (a native of Mississippi), but like the men he has chronicled in his latest book, Rebels in the Rockies: Confederate Irregular Warfare in the Western Territories (McFarland), he is well traveled and has called many places home. The son of a career naval officer, Pittman spent much of his youth moving, before he followed in his father’s footstep