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The Battle of Chickamauga Remembered at the 160th Anniversary Reenactment in North Georgia
By Gregory L. Wade CHICKAMAUGA, Ga.—On a clear but hot September weekend, almost 3,000 reenactors from all over the country attended the 160th Battle of Chickamau…
Standing Up For Honor at Chambersburg
Standing Up For Honor at Chambersburg By Carl L. Sell Jr. A college graduate and teacher before the war, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel William Peters was severel…
Reflections on a Busy Summer at Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute
Reflections on a Busy Summer at Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute MCWI and Fort Collier Civil War Center Team Up for Summer Fellowship This su…
Photographers and Lithographers: The Lost Cause Part III
Photographers and Lithographers: The Lost Cause Part III The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the pri…
Infantry Use Of Handguns
Infantry Use Of Handguns “In addition, every one of us had his gun, cartridge-box, knapsack and three days’ rations, a pistol on each side and a long Bowie knife…
How a British Newspaperman Got the Nickname of “Bull Run”
How a British Newspaperman Got the Nickname of “Bull Run” A number of Englishmen came over to witness the Americans’ civil war, and their travels almost always to…
Hallo, Sam, I’m Dead! Battle of South Mountain – Part II
Hallo, Sam, I’m Dead! Battle of South Mountain – Part II “… motion was imperceptible, but could be inferred from the casual glint of sunlight on a musket barrel m…
Events — November 2023
The show will be held on Saturday November 4 from 10-4 at the Elks Lodge on Rt. 50 In Fairfax, Va. Admission is $5 per person. Vendors are welcome. Information an…
Emerging Civil War — November 2023
From the Editor When Oklahoma State Police picked up Timothy McVeigh, he was wearing a t-shirt with an image of Abraham Lincoln on the front. Captioning the image…
Confederate Fort Fisher Undergoes Major Facelift
Confederate Fort Fisher Undergoes Major Facelift By Chris E. Fonvielle Jr. Fort Fisher has not seen this much ongoing construction since the Civil War. The Confed…
Book Reviews — November 2023
Burnside’s Boys: The Union’s Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East. By Darin Wipperman. Photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 510 pp., 2023. Stackpole Boo…
American Battlefield Trust
3.5-mile protected battlefield land corridor. This campaign also marks a first-time preservation effort at Seven Pines, where the Trust aims to protect 12 acres.…
Tin Cans
Tin Cans The canning of food to prevent spoilage was not a new technology during the Civil War, it dated back to the early days of the 19th century (at least in E…
The War Before the War, Part 4: The Reflections of Ulysses S. Grant
The War Before the War, Part 4: The Reflections of Ulysses S. Grant This column, the final of a four-part series, will look at the Mexican War from the perspectiv…
The Library of Congress Collection — October 2023
Edward A. Cary, Company I, 44th Virginia infantry, in uniform with sister Emma wearing fashion of the day posed for this ambrotype by Charles Rees in Richmond in…
Remembering Dean Thomas
Remembering Dean Thomas Author, Historian, and Publisher Dean S. Thomas, 74, passed away on July 15 at his home in Fairfield, after a courageous battle with cance…
Photographers and Lithographers: A Fragile Co-existence Part II
Photographers and Lithographers: A Fragile Co-existence Part II The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and…
John Steele, Editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer
In the ADI of May 7, 1864, for instance, he editorialized at length on Southern prospects: “We hold that the people of the Confederate States,” he intoned, “are t…
Fort Boreman: Defender Of Parkersburg, West Virginia
Fort Boreman: Defender Of Parkersburg, West Virginia By Charles H. Bogart Parkersburg, West Virginia, is located at the junction of the Kanawha River with the Ohi…
First Army Medal of Honor Awarded in Civil War
By Joan Wenner, J.D. Army Private Jacob Parrott was born in 1843 at Fairfield County, Ohio. He enlisted in the Union’s 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company K, du…
Events — October 2023
Nov. 18, Pennsylvania. Remembrance Day in Gettysburg
Emerging Civil War — October 2023
Since the summer of 2011, I’ve had the privilege to serve as Emerging Civil War’s editor in chief, which has really just been a fancy title for “chief cook and bo…
Confederate Centennial Studies
Confederate Centennial Studies Preparing for the Civil War centennial, Dr. William Stanley Hoole, a distinguished historian, and educator, accepted the position a…
Clifton, Headquarters With A View for Both Sides in 1864
Clifton, Headquarters With A View for Both Sides in 1864 By Carl L. Sell Jr Situated on a knoll in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley, the Clifton estate…