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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.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: War Papers (MOLLUS) – Wisconsin
Badger State produced more than 140 papers, including accounts from the Eastern and Western Theaters, the Trans-Mississippi, and a spattering of naval reports. St…
Letters to the Editor — October 2018
TO THE EDITOR: After reading Meg Groeling’s review of Richard Hurley’s book California and the Civil War in the August Civil War News all I could do was echo Meg’…
Kent Masterson Brown’s The Confederacy’s First Battle Flag
“It is upon the back of a true giant in Civil War vexillological inquiry, Howie Madaus, that this book has been written.” So Kent Masterson Brown begins The Confe…
Hiram Berdan’s Special Order Sharps Rifles
For the collector of arms related to sharpshooting during the American Civil War, the ultimate acquisition is certainly an original Confederate Whitworth rifle, c…
Gettysburg Redux and the Mysterious Mr. Reader
I am writing this in August, just after returning from a family trip to Gettysburg. Living in New Jersey, I am fortunate enough to be a little over three hours (p…
General Grant’s Favorite Cigars
Recently, while sitting around the campfire at Stones River Battlefield Park between programs, somebody raised an interesting question about what brand of cigars…
Emerging Civil War — October 2018
As I-26 rolled south from Johnson City through the eastern mountains of Tennessee, I marveled at the green expanses unfolding around me. My last trip along this s…
Cornelia Hancock, a Civil War Nurse
“I was the first woman who reached the Second Corps after the three days fight of Gettysburg. I was in that corps all day not another woman within 1/2 mile... wom…
Civil War Events — October 2018
The Brice’s Crossroads Attack from the Civil War’s Western Theatre will be a reenactment of the Mississippi battle in June of 1864 when a contingent of Confederat…
Boyle & Gamble (NCO) Sword
Mr. Sexton, I own two antique swords that were passed down to me from my father, and I presume that he received them from his father. I first remember them in our…
Book Reviews — October 2018
Restoring Women’s Antislavery Fiction Her Voice Will be on the Side of the Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery Fiction. By Holly M. Kent. No…
Antietam
Antietam 1. The commander of the Union XII Corps who was mortally wounded in the battle was Maj. Gen. Joseph K. F. _____. 2. The bridge over Antietam Creek on the…
A “Flying Dutchman” Writes Home
While the largely-German XI Corps gained a reputation (whether deserved or not) as the “Flying Dutchman” after being routed at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, th…
A Civil War Show is Born
“Wow!” “Outstanding!” “You’ve hit a home run with this one!” “I love the show hall!” “I love this show!” All the above were actual comments from exhibitors and vi…
A Battlefield and Much, Much More
For many years I attended an annual conference in Washington. For a few of those trips I left early with some friends and spent a weekend touring battlefields bef…
Virgil Carrington Jones’ Ranger Mosby (1944)
“How long have you had that book?” My son asked me that question as we sat in the Atlanta airport, waiting to board our flight. I was showing him Virgil Carringto…
The Last Confederate Battle Flag
R. L. T. Beale was Lt. Colonel of the 9th Virginia Cavalry from May 1862 until he was promoted to Colonel in October 1862. He writes in his “History of the 9th Va…
Stonewall Jackson’s Legacy Still Embraced at Ellwood
Ellwood was built by William Jones circa 1790 on 5,000 acres. It was, and still is, a quiet farm. Only two families have owned Ellwood in its 200-year plus histor…
Sixth Corps March Commemoration, June 27–July 2
The movements of the Sixth Corps on July 2, 1863, are such to challenge the admiration of mankind. Its majestic tread on the battle-field, at the supreme moment,…
Rain Can’t Dampen N-SSA 137th National Competition
It doesn’t “take a village” to put on a North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) National Competition. However, it does require about 150 people and a lot of hard…
News Briefs — September 2018
Due to numerous requests from dealers and attendees, the Capital of the Confederacy Civil War Show has been moved back to it’s original date of November 17 & 18 a…
Never Be Afraid
Never Be Afraid “The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.” – U.S. Gen. Philip Kearny On September 1, 1862, both sides were exhausted and sloggin…
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: War Papers (MOLLUS) – District of Columbia
The District of Columbia Commandery published several papers over the years, and their resultant work serves as the focus of this month’s overview. Spanning 1887-…
Manners
Manners The true aim of politeness is to make those with whom you associate as well satisfied with themselves as possible. ...it does whatever it can to accommoda…