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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.
Miracle at the Battle of First Kernstown
“If You Can Save His Life, You Can Have Him” – She Did! Darkness, despair, and searing pain enveloped wounded Captain James Vance of the ThirtySeventh Virginia In…
Fort Donelson Observes 160th Anniversary
Fort Donelson, located on the Cumberland River at Dover, Tenn., was the site of a battle remembered on its 160th anniversary by a series of tours, talks, a book s…
Follow Me! Battle of Williamsburg Part I
Follow Me! Battle of Williamsburg Part I “Never in my life was I so mortified, never so excited, never so mad. It had at any rate the good effect of making me for…
Events — May 2022
Zurko Promotions presents The National Civil War Collectors Fall Show and Sale which will be held at the DuPage County Fairgrounds, 2015 W. Manchester, Wheaton, I…
Emerging Civil War — May 2022
For all sorts of reasons, I have a militant aversion to banning books. As a writer, a former journalist, and someone who teaches in a School of Communication, I’m…
Classic Show Makes A Come Back
TIMONIUM, Md.—After two years of cancellations due to Covid restrictions, the wellknown Baltimore Antique Arms Show held its 66th show March 19 & 20, 2022. Sponso…
Civil War Alphabet Quiz – X as in... May
Civil War Alphabet Quiz – X as in... May 1. The other 1864 corps in Army of the Tennessee during Sherman’s March 2. The other name for Forrest’s victory at Guntow…
Book Reviews — May 2022
Abraham Lincoln, Color-Blind Host A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House. By Jonathan W. White. Illustrated, index, 251 pp.…
Bissonnet Cavalry Officer’s Sword
by Shannon Pritchard This beautiful Confederate cavalry officer’s sword is signed by the artist near the ricasso where an elegant script inside a scroll reads: “L…
Atlanta: Then & Now
Atlanta: Then & Now Folks often ask about locations of the various battles for Atlanta in 1864 and where this hallowed ground resides amid today’s sprawl of a maj…
American Battlefield Trust — May 2022
Four Generals, Four Battlefields and One Great Opportunity to Save 311 Acres! The Trust is currently working to preserve 311 acres across four different Civil War…
A Remarkable Tale: The U.S. Sanitary Commission
by Joseph F. Wilson The echo of musket fire and shrieking artillery shells ceased. All was quiet on the battlefield except for the groans and cries of the wounded…
Women’s History Month at Weston Manor
Civil War Trails, Inc. has teamed up with the Historic Hopewell Foundation, Inc., and the City of Hopewell, Va., to launch a new Civil War Trails sign at Weston M…
Wilmer McLean’s Civil War
The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goals. The McLean family’s home in V…
We Are Not Here For Plunder
“It looks like fate, twice Texas makes me a rebel.” – C.S. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston In March 1862, U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s “Army of the Tennessee,” was pr…
Ulysses S. Grant’s Birth Weight
Ulysses S. Grant’s early life is not well known. The accepted narrative regarding his birth weight was penned by Albert Deane Richardson as a gigantic ten- and th…
Tracing Sherman’s March to the Sea: “Forage of every kind in superabundance” Part Two of a Four-Part Series
Readers of last month’s column marched with the Army of the Tennessee from Atlanta to the Oconee River, about halfway on its journey to Savannah. Maj. Gen. O.O. H…
The Importance of Reputation
To be introduced by someone meant they were vouching for your character, which also put that person’s own reputation at risk. For this reason, the formalities of…
The Civil War, Tariffs, and Baltic Trade
In Copenhagen, behind the double steel doors of special room No. 11, Danish National Archives, there are 60 meters of shelving containing 700 logs of the Sound To…
Sherman, Wade Hampton and the Hanged Man
After spending more than a month in Savannah, on Feb. 1, 1865, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman led his army of 60,000 veterans into South Carolina, with the in…
Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute Celebrates Completion of Two Projects
Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute (MCWI) prides itself on creating opportunities for students in Civil War Era Studies to engage in research a…
Historic Burger & Brother D-guard Bowie Knife
This knife is extraordinary for several reasons. First, it has the “BURGER & BROTHERS RICHMOND VA.” maker’s mark stamped into the blade. Second, it is a pattern h…
General Benjamin Prentiss’ Capture at the Battle of Shiloh
Shiloh Battle Field. / Gen'l Prentiss is standing on the spot where he was captured at 5.30 P.M., April 6, 1862. Union veterans identified as Col. J.S. Cavender,…
Emerging Civil War — April 2022
I was pleased to open the March 2022 issue of Civil War News to see a review by Joe Truglio of our ECW 10th Anniversary book The Summer of ’63: Vicksburg and Tull…