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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.
Steal My Dog I Steal Your Cat
“I little thought, when I faced the storm of bullets at Edwards’ Ferry, [Va.] and escaped a soldier’s death upon the field, that it was only to be left by my coun…
Rescuing Old Joe
Whoever weds himself to the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. — William Inge Few realize that Florida was so committed to The War Betwee…
Reenactment History, Dixie Gun Works Catalog
In my December column, I wrote about the confusion at the Civil War Centennial reenactment of the Battle of Antietam. In doing so I ventured an opinion that that…
Perspectives on Stones River
The muzzles of a hundred cannon belched forth fire, shot, and shell, and the earth and air were tremulous with the terrific vibration. – Brig. Gen. Richard W. Joh…
Passing on a Passion for the Past
Scattered throughout communities across the United States are small groups of dedicated individuals who strive to preserve our nation’s history. One such is the L…
National Civil War Memorial Gains Local Support
Sculptor Gary Casteel has been advocating development of a National Civil War Memorial for two decades. He feels he may be closer to the project’s go-ahead than e…
Lincoln and his Generals
This occasional column highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War. It discusses their meaning and most importantly, the goals of the print maker or arti…
Letters to the Editor — April 2019
I enjoy the Civil War News and find it most informative. The piece on Hiram Roosa’s collection was especially timely, as I had been asked to give a book report in…
Improvements for the Reproduction U.S. Model 1861
“Gettysburg, Penn. July 3, 1863. We went out and picked up Springfields and left our Enfields. Nearly everyone did so.”– Diary of William Livermore, 20th Maine In…
Fort Donelson Anniversary Programs
The battle at Fort Donelson was an early turning point in the US Civil War that took place in mid-February 1862, right around St. Valentine’s Day. General Grant r…
Events Section — April 2019
Walt Whitman’s enormous contribution to the Civil War will be the focus of this power point presentation. For three years Whitman tirelessly tended to the sick, w…
Emerging Civil War — April 2019
Years ago, as a young writer in Goddard College’s M.F.A. program, I had a classmate who dreamed of one day being able to walk through her home with stacks of her…
Correction
In the March issue we neglected to give credit for four photographs published with the “This and That” column. The photos were provided by the Stone Mountain Memo…
Clippings from the Past
This article, “Atlanta and Nashville,” is in the Augusta Constitutionalist of February 5, 1865. It is signed “G. W. Y.” On the 7th the paper issued a correction,…
CS Marked Raking Spurs
The original pair of brass raking spurs featured here are, to the trained eye, easily recognized as Confederate. The raking style spur (rowels sideways) is a dist…
Book Reviews — April 2019
Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with timely analysis of the latest and most significant Civil War research and scholarship. Contact Stephen Davis,…
Bill Arp, So Called
Fifty years ago, a writer for the Atlanta Constitution admitted that she did not know much about a regular columnist who had written for the paper in the late 180…
Aboard the Ironclad Ram Arkansas with Naval Surgeon H.W. Macrae Washington
His earthly remains are interred near the moss-covered brick wall that marks the inner burial ground surrounding Ware Church in Gloucester County, Va. Encircled b…
“Transcends the Bounds of Sober Belief”: American Photography before the Civil War
We have seen the views taken in Paris by the “Daguerreotype” and have no hesitation in avowing that they are the most remarkable objects of curiosity and admirati…
University Chancellor Announces Resignation
University Chancellor Announces Resignation Stephen Davis (M.A., UNC-CH,1973) Chancellor Carol L. Folt of the University of North Carolina announced on January 14…
Union Generals in the Western Theater
Union Generals in the Western Theater 1. Who sent the following message to the Confederate commander at Fort Donelson: “I propose to move immediately upon your wo…
The Gibbs Patent Carbine
The Gibbs Patent Carbine With all of the trials and tribulations experienced during the life of the Gibbs Carbine, it is a story might best be entitled The Carbin…
The Atlanta Papers (cont.)
The Atlanta Papers cover and spine. Continuing the dig into Sydney C. Kerksis’s The Atlanta Papers, this month’s column contains additional Federal accounts from…
Private Alfred Rigby’s Diary Focuses on Cedar Creek
Private Alfred Rigby’s Diary Focuses on Cedar Creek By Carl L. Sell, Jr. After a week at sea, with its usual sickness, and another spent marching and riding the r…