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fought and bivouacked. There are three nights of activities and two days of tours. Friday we will be visiting by charter bus Elm Springs, St. John’s Church and po…
Civil War Alphabet Quiz – W as in... April
1. He commanded the USS Kearsage in its fight with CSS Alabama 2. Virginia Governor led an infantry brigade and surrendered at Appomattox 3. Breechloading cannon…
Brothers in Arms: The Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection
In February 2022, the Library of Congress released the Gladstone Afro-American Collection; https://crowd.loc. gov/campaigns/gladstone/. This source contains “… co…
Book Reviews — April 2022
Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with timely analysis of the latest and most significant Civil War research and Reviewed by Wayne L. Wolf scholarsh…
Atlanta’s Wartime Newspapers
In Gone With the Wind, when fretful Atlantans learned that newspapers in the city were printing names of soldiers killed and wounded at Gettysburg, they flocked t…
American Battlefield Trust — April 2022
The Future Looks Bright for the Pending Culpeper Battlefields State Park Long hoped for by residents and preservationists, the creation of a new Culpeper Battlefi…
158th Anniversary – Battle of the Wilderness
Most who study the American Civil War must admit to having a particular battle that interests them most. Whether it be due to an ancestor who fought in it, or tha…
William Sartain’s Civil War
William Sartain’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. P…
Virginia Governor Youngkin Calls for Creation of Culpeper Battlefields State Park
American Battlefield Trust applauds Governor’s request to create a historic and recreational park in the heart of Virginia’s Piedmont region. RICHMOND, Va.—The Am…
Twenty Days in the Life of a Common Soldier
by Bruce Allardice and Wayne Wolf Alonso Corydon Stevens (1837–1917) of Muscatine, Iowa, spent three years in the 10th Iowa Infantry.1 An ardent believer in the i…
Tracing Sherman’s March to the Sea: “Charred and Black as Yankee Hearts”
Sherman embarked upon his March to the Sea on November 15, 1864, taking with him on his southeastward journey two corps from the Army of the Cumberland (re-christ…
The Unjust Hanging of Captain Henry Wirz
by Joseph F. Wilson When the trapdoor opened, Confederate Capt. Henry Wirz dropped to his death at the end of a rope. The sacrificial lamb marched to the gallows…
The Papers of Andrew Johnson
Our nation’s seventeenth president, Andrew Johnson, rose to the chief executive position upon the assignation of President Abraham Lincoln. Thanks to the efforts…
The 27th Annual Chickamauga Civil War Show and Sale
DALTON, Ga.—The show held January 29th and 30th at the Dalton Convention Center kicked off the 2022 season for Mike Kent and MK Shows amid great expectations for…
Smith Run and Second Fredericksburg
Smith Run and Second Fredericksburg by Terry Rensel Having been repulsed at Salem Church, and now cut off from retreating back through Fredericksburg, the Union V…
Robbins & Lawrence Windsor, Vermont
Robbins & Lawrence Windsor, Vermont U.S. Model 1841 rifles were produced by the Harpers Ferry Armory, but also let on contact with private contractors Eli Whitney…
Las Vegas Antique Arms Show News and Gallery
LAS VEGAS, Nevada— January 21-23. Due to COVID, this long running show was not held in 2021. It is back and in living color, lots of energy and well represented w…
John S. Mosby on Slavery and the Civil War
Letter from John S. Mosby to Samuel Chapman, 1907 “Washington, D.C., June 4, 1907. Dear Sam: I suppose you are now back in Staunton. I wrote you about my disgust…
I Shall Never Forsake My Guns
I Shall Never Forsake My Guns Battle of Valverde, N.M. – Part II “Boys, you’ve come too far from home hunting a fight to lose. You must win tomorrow, or die on th…
Four Years in Rebel Capitals
Four Years in Rebel Capitals It’s not often that one catches Douglas Southall Freeman in an error, even a slight one. In The South to Posterity (1939), Dr. Freema…
Events — March 2022
Sponsored by the Maryland Arms Collectors Association. With over 1,000 tables of the finest in collectable rifles, revolvers (pre-1898) and sporting shot guns, th…
Emerging Civil War — March 2022
During the Sesquicentennial, one major theme the National Park Service touted was “From Civil War to Civil Rights.” It seemed an odd choice at the time, designed…
Civil War Alphabet Quiz – V as in... March
Copperhead leader Jackson’s most famous campaign Battle that slowed invasion of New Mexico Official name for ironclad that fought the Monitor Union Brigade comman…
Book Reviews — March 2022
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction. By William A. Blair. 4 tables, notes, index, 173 pp., 2021. The Unive…