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A Look at a Popular Magazine’s Civil War Weapons Stories
As the editor of GUNS Magazine, sponsor of this abundantly illustrated publication, notes, “Guns tell stories, and those associated with the Wild West surely have…
Wayne Wolf’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Wayne Wolf’s Top Ten Civil War Books While every historian may choose different volumes as their favorites depending on their specific interests, I feel the follo…
Watching Gettysburg
Watching Gettysburg by Carl L. Sell, Jr. Nineteen-year-old George Humerick stood on the northeast corner of the Emmitsburg, Md., town square for three hours on Ju…
Trust Secures Multifaceted History at Brown’s Ferry
Trust Secures Multifaceted History at Brown’s Ferry With a history that stretches back to before the founding of the City of Chattanooga, a nine-acre property nea…
Trust Pursues 49 Crucial Acres at Gettysburg
Trust Pursues 49 Crucial Acres at Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg has been studied time and time again, but each new preservation victory adds context to that…
Tim Prince’s Top Ten Civil War Books
of chuckled and said to myself, “sure, it will be easy to whittle a list of hundreds of books down to ten….” As a full-time dealer in Civil War and related period…
Thomas J. Ryan’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Thomas J. Ryan’s Top Ten Civil War Books Because of my long experience and interest in the gathering and application of intelligence during wartime, a number of m…
Stephanie Hagiwara’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Stephanie Hagiwara’s Top Ten Civil War Books It would be challenging for me to decide which of the many Civil War books I have read are my favorites. Instead, I a…
Sarah Kay Bierle’s Top Ten Civil War Books
are a few suggested books for delving a little deeper into the stories and experiences of people who experienced the Civil War or who have helped preserve memorie…
Salvatore Cilella’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Salvatore Cilella’s Top Ten Civil War Books 1. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James McPherson, (Oxford University Press, 1988). Anyone interested in…
Ronald S. Coddington’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Ronald S. Coddington’s Top Ten Civil War Books 1. Four Years in Secessia by Junius Henri Browne. O.D. Case and Company, 1865. A war correspondent for the New York…
Robert M. Browning Jr.’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Robert M. Browning Jr.’s Top Ten Civil War Books In Alphabetical Order: 1. Why the South Lost the Civil War by Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones,…
Richard Blumberg’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Richard Blumberg’s Top Ten Civil War Books 1. Attack and Die: Civil War Tactics and the Southern Heritage by Grady McWhinney and Perry Jamieson. University of Ala…
Publishers Note:
We have heard from many of you that since the outbreak of Covid-19 and the current state of civil unrest that many cities across our nation are experiencing, ther…
Pivotal Property at the Heart of Franklin Battlefield Preserved
Pivotal Property at the Heart of Franklin Battlefield Preserved Key to park connectivity, public access, and Civil War education, a two-acre tract of land near do…
Pelham’s Corner & Latimer’s Knoll: Artillery Positions To Visit, Stories To Tell
by Sarah Kay Bierle “Let’s see, the artillery was… there.” Finding artillery positions is one of my hobbies when I’m working on a battlefield. Look for great high…
Paul Taylor’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Paul Taylor’s Top Ten Civil War Books Picking ten favorite Civil War books out of hundreds or even thousands is no easy task. Here are ten that are not necessaril…
Noah F. Crawford’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Noah F. Crawford’s Top Ten Civil War Books 1. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson. Oxford University Press, 1997. One of…
My Most Favorite Book Read in 2020
My Most Favorite Book Read in 2020 The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis, by Gary W. Gallagher. Louisiana State University Press, (2020…
More acreage added to Franklin Battlefield
More acreage added to Franklin Battlefield by Gregory L. Wade FRANKLIN, Tenn.—Just months after “reclaiming” a critical battlefield acre near the center of the No…
Meg Groeling’ Top Favorite Civil War Books
Meg Groeling’ Top Favorite Civil War Books When the request for a list of “favorite books” came to those who review for CWN, I thought here was an excellent, if u…
Marc Ramsey’s Favorite Books
Marc Ramsey’s Favorite Books I have been reading books on the American Civil War since I was 10 years old, when my Aunt Connie gave me my first one for Christmas,…
Letters to the Editor — November 2020
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: I spent some time reviewing the results of the Civil War News Facebook poll taken over three questions relating to treason. In one response,…
Leon Reed’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Leon Reed’s Top Ten Civil War Books 1. 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart. Knopf, 2011. Considering that there are probably more books on the fightin…