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Burnside’s Invasion of East Tennessee: A More Accurate View of
Burnside’s Invasion of East Tennessee: A More Accurate View of Troop Movements
Burnside’s Invasion of East Tennessee
John S. Clark’s
Behind the Lines
The Civil War has been declared dead more than once. That is, pundits have declared that interest in the subject has fallen off and Americans’ attentions have gon…
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes By Juanita Leisch Jensen “Funded by Faith” The previous articles in this “Vision and Valor” series have focused on h…
Tragedies and Statistics
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic.” – Joseph Stalin
The Graphic War Annie Powell and the
The Graphic War An n i e P ow e l l an d Th e G reat S e a l o f t h e Co n f e de r acy By Salvatore Cilella The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers fr…
Robbed of Reason: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Civil War
“Wounded escaping from the burning woods of the Wilderness” by Alfred Waud. (Library of Congress)
Remembering Peter S. Carmichael, PhD
M By Leon Reed any different communities—his neighbors on Tiffany Ln., the Gettysburg area, present and former constituents of Gettysburg College, and the broad c…
Preservation News This & That
Preservation Triumphs: Middletown’s Commitment to Honoring its Heritage The preservation of 30 acres in Middletown, Virginia, stands as a testament to the unwaver…
Mathematically Impossible
Mathematically Impossible The October 8, 1862, Battle of Perryville, Ky., pitted U.S. Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s Army of the Ohio against C.S. Gen. Braxton Bragg’s A…
Lost from the Landscape: Destroyed Homes on Central Virginia’s Battlefields
A current thread in Civil War scholarship debates the destructiveness of the conflict. Some historians cite numerous examples of ruins-filled cities like Frederic…
Financing the Civil War: Cotton Bonds & The Erlanger Loan
For a nation composed of rebellious states to wage war, it must possess the financial resources to procure essential supplies such as weapons, armaments, horses,…
Emerging Civil War A Trip to New Orleans
By 8 a.m., the French Quarter feels more like a French bakery, although the smells aren’t nearly so aromatic. It’s New Orleans in July, after all. Here and there,…
Critic’s Corner
Critic’s o r n e r O By Stephen Davis
Civil war Show News
46th Annual Southeastern Civil War and Antique Gun Show
Civil War Book Reviews — November-December 2024
Book Reviews Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with timely analysis of the latest and most significant Civil War research and scholarship. Contact e…
Burnside’s Invasion of East Tennessee: A History of Misinformation Part 1
Introduction Authors and historians sometimes present a tarnished view of significant historical events. Published accounts of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s Aug…
Band LeaderHistorian Continues to March Forward with AEF Band
Jari Villanueva served with the United States Air Band in Washington, D.C., from 1985 to 2008 as a ceremonial trumpeter, bugler, and staff arranger. While he reti…
Atlanta Historian Receives Prestigious Award In Public History
ATLANTA, GA—The Atlanta Civil War Round Table is proud to announce that our former president and longtime member, Gordon Jones, has been awarded the Emerging Civi…
America Battlefield Trust Preserve. Educate. Inspire.
Save 132 Acres at Three Historic Civil War Battlefields Demolition at Slaughter Pen Marks Final Phase in Preservation Project In late July, the Trust demolished t…
A Fighting Parson’s Deadly Aim
Deadly Aim By Joseph F. Wilson orgive me Lord, for I’m about to dispatch another Confederate soul straight into the afterlife. That thought or something similar m…
A Few Thoughts on Hat Insignia
The images accompanying this column are straightforward, chosen to highlight a specific historical point. A decade before the Civil War erupted, the U.S. military…