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Civil War Book Reviews
Book Reviews Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with analysis of the latest and most significant Civil War research and scholarship. Contact email: B…
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
“A Man Could Have Got Almost Anything He Wanted”: Soldier Pickups on Central Virginia Battlefields, Part I By Tim Talbott Introduction
CWRTNY 75th Anniversary
Patrick Falci and Stan Warrick.
Blue & Gray Education Society The Guns at Raymond
The Guns at Raymond Robert Jenkins, Executive Director, Blue and Gray Education Society
Award in Publication Excellence Presented to Terry L. Futrell
About the author
A Healer’s Hat and Manual Fannie Palmer, Artist
Objects relating to hospital stewards who served either Army during the Civil War are incredibly rare, so the National Museum of Civil War Medicine was pleased wh…
A Closer Look at the Cast – Part 3
& I
Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
“None But the Brave Deserve the Fair”
Two Artists: One Forgotten Battle
Introduction and the Battle
Through the Lens It Fairly Made the Earth Shake
By April 1863, Confederate forces had successfully along the engines for protection, while hay and cotton bales repulsed six separate Federal attempts to seize we…
This & That The Accomplishment of This One Object
& I
The Unfinished Fight Photo Analysis
Horace H. Smith, 16th Wisconsin Infantry, Company G.
The Graphic War The Connecticut Plan
The Graphic War The Connecticut Plan The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the printmaker or artist’s…
The 31st Annual Chickamauga Civil War Show
The 31st Annual Chickamauga Civil War Show while encouraging others to participate and share their own returned to the Dalton Convention Center in Dalton, collect…
Spared & Shared
At one time I thought I would give up and be taken prisoner. Then I thought I might get hit before I could get out of the woods on their side so I risked the gett…
Critic’s Corner
Bull’s narrative of his service in the campaign and in the Federal occupation of Atlanta, May 13-November 15, runs about 30% of his entire memoir. This alone make…
Civil War Book Reviews
Book Reviews Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with analysis of the latest and most significant Civil War research and scholarship. Contact email: B…
Chicora Cemetery Honors
Chicora Cemetery on the Averasboro battlefield site is, like all battleground burial grounds, a place of sadness and remembrance, where the fallen are honored for…
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
CVBT at 30—A Look Back By Tom Van Winkle
Cavalry Hill Cemetery: Rediscovering the Lost Graves
by Robert D. Jenkins Sr.
An Officer and His Sketchbook
Growing up in Scotland in the 1820s, young Jimmy could never have imagined that he would one day cross the Atlantic and play a meaningful role in suppressing a re…
“Living is Not Life... if Lived apart from Nobel Strife”
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes
William Loring: Controversial Confederate Commander
Major General William Wing Loring had a notable military career that spanned several significant conflicts, including the Texas Revolution at the age of 14, the M…
Through the Lens More Serious than Expected
Towards the end of June 1864, C.S. Gen. Jubal Early, Army of the Valley, had left the Shenandoah Valley, Va., to “threaten Washington and if I find the opportunit…