Hello, my name is Jeff Brewer. I am the owner and author of content on my touring site, Walkinghome.tours. At Walking Home, my main focus is on the Battle of Shiloh as well as the larger campaign. The Shiloh tour is a program designed specifically as it relates to that part of the battle experienced by my ancestors who were engaged there as part of General Albert Sidney Johnston’s Army of the Mississippi on April 6 and 7, 1862. My family as a whole, and myself from as early a time as I can remember, have been associated with the battle of Shiloh ever since my second great grandfather and third great uncle saw the place for the first time that eventful spring day in 1862. Forevermore it has captured the imagination of many young Southern boys and held the mournful memories of many daughters of the Confederacy down through the years.

At this stage in my life, I come to the realization, as we all do, that I now have more years behind me than I do ahead of me. As I look around and struggle to make sense of the world around me, I now know that the sense of noble sacrifice and singular virtue that I was privileged to learn of from the time I was a small child, is in peril. Institutions acting as caretakers is not enough to do the job alone nor are they any longer a safe haven to preserve history. How is our history to be handed to the next generation if we, who know that history, fail to do our part in passing it down?

From sentiments such as these Walking Home was born. It's my sincere desire that those who follow my work will gain a deeper appreciation and understanding of the Southern people, my people, as I tell their stories and show them forth to a world that no longer understands them and too often wishes to forget them. As such, I do what I can to make sure, at least in my little corner of influence, that these people are remembered and restored to their rightful place as American patriots who owed not their allegiance to the government of man but to the principles of self-governance that established the constitutional foundation upon which that government originally stood. - JLB