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Every article indexed from the pages of Civil War News — 2551 of them across113 issues, 2016 to 2026. Each one opens the full text on civilwarnews.com.
William Gregg and Essays on Domestic Industry
must be, of course, a longer time, and the curing of oily meat, such as pork, is more difficult than that of beef, venison, or mutton. To cure meat in the sun han…
The Vermont Brigade at the Wilderness
among the troops ordered to New York City to guard against, and suppress, the draft riots. After several months spent in their Culpeper County winter quarters, al…
The Library of Congress Collection — April 2023
This outstanding portrait taken January 16, 1863 by Fitchburg, Mass., photographer Joseph C. Moulton shows a determined and hardworking Sanitary Commission nurse…
The Atlanta Appeal Justifies Fort Pillow
The Atlanta Appeal Justifies Fort Pillow At the time of the war, Memphis’s four leading newspapers were the Appeal, Argus, Avalanche and Bulletin.1 After Federal…
Tattered, Battered, Bareheaded, And Blood-Smeared
Tattered, Battered, Bareheaded, And Blood-Smeared “Once more! Try the steel! Hell for ten minutes and we are out of it!” – U.S. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain By late Ma…
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation Piedmont Battlefield 2022 saw great progress in permanently protecting key portions of the twenty battlefields the Found…
Saint-Gaudens Medal Awarded to Historian and Author Harold Holzer
Saint-Gaudens Medal Awarded to Historian and Author Harold Holzer The Saint-Gaudens Memorial, a partner of and advocate for the Saint-Gaudens National Historical…
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Your coverage of the A.P. Hill reburial prompts me to send this note regarding a significant A.P. Hill artifact that is lost and I hope can…
Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865
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Georgia Civil War Heritage Trails: The Atlanta Campaign, Part 1
Georgia Civil War Heritage Trails: The Atlanta Campaign, Part 1 “They came with their heads bowed down and their hats pulled over their eyes as if to hide from vi…
Execution of Sioux Indians
Execution of Sioux Indians The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goals. Ev…
Events Section — April 2023
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Emerging Civil War — April 2023
sarahkaybierle for some of the shared photos and local history notes! In the Savas Beattie January Newsletter, Sheritta Bitikofer was named associate editor along…
Book Reviews — April 2023
The Interracial Fight for Emancipation The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, A Prophet and a Contessa Moved a Nation. By Linda Hirshman. Notes, illustrated, Mari…
Back to Normal—Annual Civil War Show a Success!
Back to Normal—Annual Civil War Show a Success! DALTON, Ga.—The 28th Annual Chickamauga (Dalton) Civil War Show held February 4th and 5th at the Dalton Convention…
American Battlefield Trust — April 2023
the state: Brice’s Cross Roads, Corinth, Champion Hill, and Chickasaw Bayou. Although the Trust has long done work at three of these battlefields, the grants are…
1861 Redoubt Preserved on George Mason University Campus in Fairfax, Va.
1861 Redoubt Preserved on George Mason University Campus in Fairfax, Va. by Carl L. Sell Jr. Preservation has been completed and the Farr’s Crossroads Civil War R…
Winslow Homer “The Sharpshooter”
Winslow Homer “The Sharpshooter” The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goa…
Trust Expands Campaign to Protect 42 Acres at Chancellorsville
Trust Expands Campaign to Protect 42 Acres at Chancellorsville The American Battlefield Trust is battling the clock and hungry developers to see a preservation vi…
Soap
a meat packing industry before the Civil War. As a result of being located in Ohio, Proctor & Gamble became a major Federal supplier of soap and candles during th…
Rest on Arms Reversed
Rest on Arms Reversed Confederate monuments, like war memorials generally, take numerous architectural forms, some common and some rare. Among the less frequently…
One Soldier’s Ups and Downs with the Stonewall Brigade
by Carl L. Sell Jr. This is the story of one member of the Stonewall Brigade. He survived the Civil War despite fighting in major battles, being wounded and captu…
National Archives Patent Drawings
National Archives Patent Drawings During the American Civil War, the trials and tribulations of soldiers sparked many enterprising individuals to submit various p…
Mathew Brady Accused of Insider Trading While Visiting Grant in Virginia
by Bob Zeller This story was originally published in the April 2014 issue of Battlefield Photographer, the journal of The Center for Civil War Photography