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LeMat Revolver
LeMat Revolver Dear John: My dad was born in 1943 and he found this relic LeMat revolver as a child. He found it in a clump of dirt behind a store in Verona, Miss…
Jonathan W. White’s Top Ten Civil War Kids Books
Jonathan W. White’s Top Ten Civil War Kids Books Many of us wish that Americans, especially young Americans, knew more, and cared more, about American history. On…
Jonathan A. Noyalas’ Top Ten Civil War Books
Jonathan A. Noyalas’ Top Ten Civil War Books From the age of five, when I toted a copy of Bruce Catton’s 630 page Picture History of the Civil War to Mrs. Pyzowsk…
John Michael Priest’s Top Ten Civil War Books
John Michael Priest’s Top Ten Civil War Books (in no particular order) 1. The Bachelder Papers, 3 vols, edited by David L, and Audrey J. Ladd. Savas Beatie, 2020.…
John D. Fowler’s Top Ten Civil War Books
John D. Fowler’s Top Ten Civil War Books Choosing the top ten books in Civil War historiography is a daunting task. Well over 50,000 books have been published on…
John Coski’s Top Ten Civil War Books
John Coski’s Top Ten Civil War Books (listed by date of publication) 1. The Scouts of Stonewall by Joseph A. Altsheler. Appleton, 1914. Volume 3 of Altsheler’s 8-…
Joe Bilby’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Joe Bilby’s Top Ten Civil War Books The following is a list of my current favorite American Civil War books. There are some classics here, as well as more recent…
Joan Wenner’s Top Five Civil War Books
Company, New York, 1965. Terrible Swift Sword, Volume Two, The Centennial History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1963. The Comin…
Imported European Muskets for the South
Imported European Muskets for the South The most common smoothbore percussion musket in Confederate hands was most likely a U.S. 1816/22 converted from flint some…
History and Preservation Community Mourns: The Loss of Legendary Historian
Edwin C. Bearss is seen at his desk at his home in Virginia. Buddy Secor / American Battlefield Trust. WASHINGTON, D.C.— Legendary military historian and preserva…
Harold Holzer’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Harold Holzer’s Top Ten Civil War Books 1. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson. Oxford University Press, 1988. Judicious, authoritative, b…
Gould Hagler’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Gould Hagler’s Top Ten Civil War Books Some 100,000 books have been written on the much-studied American Civil War. My top ten? How can I decide, even from the ti…
Gordon Jones’ Top Ten Civil War Books
in the order I first encountered them from childhood to present. 1. The Golden Book of the Civil War by Bruce Catton and Charles Flato. American Heritage Publishi…
Fort McHenry
Fort McHenry The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goals. One of the more…
For 158th Anniversary, Preservation of 278 Acres Celebrated at Shepherdstown
For 158th Anniversary, Preservation of 278 Acres Celebrated at Shepherdstown In September, as history enthusiasts remembered the 158th anniversary of the Maryland…
Eric J. Wittenberg’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Eric J. Wittenberg’s Top Ten Civil War Books 1. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War text by Bruce Catton and the coolest maps ever. American He…
Emerging Civil War — November 2020
From the Editor On June 16, 1858, Republicans meeting in Springfield, Ill., nominated Abraham Lincoln as their candidate for the U.S. Senate. Slavery overshadowed…
Ed Bearss’ All Time Favorite Civil War Books
By Dorothy Partridge Special Correspondent to (Originally published in the November 2018 issue of Civil War News.) Edwin Cole Bearss was the Chief Historian Emeri…
Digitized U.S. Patents
Search results from National Archives. Patent: “To secure the exclusive right of a thing to a person; as to patent an invention or an original work to the author;…
Craig Barry’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Craig Barry’s Top Ten Civil War Books 1. The Rifled Musket by Claud E. Fuller. Stackpole, 1959. Claud E. Fuller had a great collection of U.S. military long arms…
Clifford Roberts’ Top Ten Civil War Books
Clifford Roberts’ Top Ten Civil War Books These lists are personal by nature. 1. With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln Stephen B. Oates. Harper & R…
Civil War Alphabet Quiz - G
G as in...November 1. The stolen train engine involved in the Great Locomotive Chase 2. U.S. Navy vessel with railroad iron plating 3. This brigadier held Culp’s…
Chris Mackowski’s Top Ten Civil War Books
Chris Mackowski’s Top Ten Civil War Books The entries on my list are list appear in alphabetical order by author’s last name. 1. The Civil War: A Narrative by She…
Chris Kolakowski’s Top Five Civil War Books
1. The American Heritage Book of the Civil War by Bruce Catton. American Heritage Publishing Co., 1960. A classic, and for many people, myself included, their int…