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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.
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor from North Carolina Department of Transportation There were some mistakes in the article on the Kinston Bypass and its impact on the core are…
Houston Civil War Round Table’s “Frank E. Vandiver Award of Merit” Presented to Dr. Timothy B. Smith
HOUSTON, TX, June 13, 2022—Continuing a 40-year tradition, the Houston Civil War Round Table (HCWRT) has awarded Timothy B. Smith the Frank E. Vandiver Award of M…
Emerging Civil War — August 2022
From the Editor I am an ambitious tourist. For instance, earlier this month, I had the chance to spend a day in Memphis, Tennessee. I mapped out an aggressive sch…
Cooper Saloon: Philadelphia
Cooper Saloon: Philadelphia The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goals. L…
Civil War Impressionists Association Offers Visitors a Plethora of Historical Impressions
by Bob Ruegsegger The Civil War Impressionists Association’s shared immersion in Civil War research and studies has inspired individual portrayals of a host of pr…
Civil War Events
44th Annual Southeastern Civil War & Antique Gun Show in Marietta at the Cobb County Civic Center hosted by the North Georgia Relic Hunters Association. Cobb Coun…
Book Reviews — August 2022
The Fourth of July and the 1876 Centennial exhibition Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with timely analysis of the latest and most significant Civi…
American Battlefield Trust — August 2022
An effort that has helped define the American Battlefield Trust as a top-tier force in battlefield preservation, the largest private battlefield purchase in Ameri…
Albert Castel: An Appreciation
Albert Castel: An Appreciation Quick! Name a prominent historian of the Western theater! If you didn’t think of the late Albert Castel, you’ve been drinking too m…
A Lost Diary Finished by Both Finder and Loser. And Both Survived
This amazing story is about a lost diary that turned into competing reports about Gettysburg, a capture that brought an enforced tour of Confederate Prisons, an e…
49th Annual Gettysburg Civil War Collector’s Show
Eager collectors explore a vast array of rare Civil War memorabilia on the first morning of the show. by Eric Champigny GETTYSBURG, Penn.—The 49th Annual Gettysbu…
“I should have kept the matter a secret.”
In late April 1906 a Jesuit priest from Chicago wrapped up a lecture tour with an engagement in Springfield, Ill. From there, on April 28, he boarded a train for…
Vicksburg
The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goals. We have written about Alfred…
Ulysses S. Grant’s Revolvers Bring $5.17M at Auction
ROCK ISLAND, ILL.—A significant pair of revolvers presented to Civil War general and 18th president Ulysses S. Grant sold May 13, 2022, at Rock Island Auction Com…
Publisher’s Note:
This year’s annual Gettysburg Edition and July Civil War News was mailed in the same polybag. We decided to upgrade the Gettysburg Edition by producing it as a bo…
No One Can Tell What Would Happen In War
“Who can write the history of a battle whose eyes are immovably fastened upon a central figure of transcendingly absorbing interest—the dead body of an oldest bor…
Milestone Documents
Milestone Documents homepage. Earlier this year, the National Archives assembled a collection of their most requested items into a gathering entitled Milestone Do…
Memoirs and First Hand Accounts
As a group most Civil War collectors and history buffs enjoy doing research to improve their understanding of 1860s material culture. One challenge with historica…
Events — July 2022
Visit our new website at CivilWarNews.com and it will take you to HistoricalPublicationsLLC.com. The calendar is online and an updated before the print issue. To…
Emerging Civil War — July 2022
May offers a wealth of riches for any student of the Civil War. The weather finally got good enough for campaigning, which unfortunately meant new seasons of slau…
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Douglas Southall Freeman deemed it one of “the basic reference works” on the war.1 Ralph Newman and E. B. Long included it the same way in their “Basic Civil War…
Ulysses S. Grant Association Annual Meeting At the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library
by Professor Earnest Veritas Special Correspondent to The – Western Theater – The Ulysses S. Grant Association held its annual meeting March 3-5, 2022, at the Uly…
Trotter Knapsack
Trotter Knapsack Another common Confederate type knapsack was an imported version from Britain called the English pattern of 1854, or “Trotter pack,” an example o…
Tracing Sherman’s March to the Sea: The Last of a Four-Part Series
Tracing Sherman’s March to the Sea: The Last of a FourPart Series “If they are not punished in this world, God will surely punish them in the world to come.” – Ca…