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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.
The Home Front
The Home Front The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goals. Along with the…
The Atlanta Intelligencer Covers the War
by Stephen Davis The study of Civil War journalism has come a long way in the last few decades. That’s especially true regarding Confederate newspapers. Fifty yea…
Spotsylvania’s Laurel Hill Battlefield
south of Todd’s Tavern, early on May 8, they soon began encountering more Rebel cavalry and Anderson’s rapidly arriving infantry, who were directed into defensive…
Pearce Museum Civil War Collection
the museum produced a fourvolume set containing many of the letters from their collection. Covering the Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi Theaters of war, r…
Ohio Civil War, WWI & II Show MEGA Historical Event
MANSFIELD, Ohio— Bursting with Civil War, WWI, and WWII enthusiasts for a weekend packed with so much to see, two days were needed to enjoy all the special featur…
New Perspectives on the Atlanta Campaign and General John Bell Hood
by Stephen Davis The Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War is over, and the country’s cultural conversation has moved on to other things. But for us armchair…
New Antietam Institute Holds Spring Symposium
A new Antietam Institute, formed by a group of local historians and guides less than a year ago, held its first spring symposium on April 23 at Shepherd’s Spring…
National Register Battlefield Threatened by North Carolina Highway Interchange
KINSTON, N.C.—The Wyse Fork Battlefield, Kinston, N.C., some 4,000 acres of historically significant landscape is now threatened by a proposed construction projec…
Henry Timrod, Confederate Poet
Henry Timrod, Confederate Poet “Timrod could not carry a musket for the land he loved, but he did something better and far more valuable. He filled a part which f…
Hancock Was Superb Battle of Williamsburg – Part II
Revolution War, reported, “Our Revolutionary sires did not suffer more at Valley Forge than did our army at Yorktown and in the retreat from it. Notwithstanding t…
Events — June 2022
Located between Richmond and Williamsburg on the James River, scenic Fort Pocahontas is the site of the May 24, 1864, action in which United States Colored Troops…
Emerging Civil War — June 2022
I’ve often wondered what went through the minds of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee as they slugged it out for the first time in the Wilderness in May 1864. Fro…
Coming Soon: Beyond the Battle A Gettysburg Experience Like Never Before
ADAMS COUNTY, Penn.— Imagine millions of rare Gettysburg artifacts, letters, diaries, photographs, records, battlefield relics, and souvenirs, all at dire risk of…
Claudius Crozet
VMI’s First President and his Blue Ridge Tunnel Today by Joan Wenner, J.D. Claude “Claudius” Crozet was born in 1789 near Lyons, France, and educated as an engine…
Civil War Alphabet Quiz – Y as in... June
Civil War Alphabet Quiz – Y as in... June 1. J.E.B. Stuart mortally wounded here 2. Confederates reused 1781 British fortifications at this town in 1862 3. USN tu…
Book Reviews — June 2022
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country. By Fay A. Yarbrough. Bibliography, index, notes, maps, 280 pp., University of North Carolina Press…
Battery Wagner: Engineers to the Rescue
by Joseph F. Wilson In the fading sunset, the Yankee soldiers waited for the order to charge across the beach and attack the Confederate stronghold on the shores…
American Battlefield Trust — June 2022
Portrait of Ed Bearss, 2017. (Buddy Secor) The Bearss family invites the public to attend a celebration of the life of Edwin C. Bearss, to be held in Gettysburg,…
“A Moving Mass of Blue Coats” Tracing Sherman’s March to the Sea: Part Three of a Four-Part Series
“A Moving Mass of Blue Coats” Tracing Sherman’s March to the Sea: Part Three of a FourPart Series Last month, after traversing the state of Georgia with the Right…
The Tragic Order of Major John D. Barry
The Tragic Order of Major John D. Barry “The trees and bushes were all cut to peses [pieces] with balls and grap[e] shot.” – Letter home from Pvt. Thornton Sexton…
The Library of Congress Collection — May 2022
“CIRCULAR. | HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, March 21, 1863. For the purpose of ready recognition of corps and divisions in this army, and to prevent injustice…
The Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery and Gravestone Project
It began innocently enough with a conversation between a sailor and a Marine. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Two wizened old vets looking for yet one mo…
Satterlee Hospital Philadelphia
One of the more common Civil War prints available to students of the war shows a Union hospital or camp. Entrepreneurial lithographers, such as Charles Magnus, pr…
Robert G. H. Kean’s Inside the Confederate Government (1957)
“An essential Confederate narrative,” David Detzer calls Robert Kean’s wartime diary. He judges it as “a good companion with that of the war clerk John B. Jones.”…