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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.
Confederate Map Collection Now Online
In the May 2016 installment of this article, we explored the Atlas to the Official Records. The National Archives, in October 2017, released 121 Confederate maps…
Civil War Photography – Discoveries and Explorations
CHARLESTON, S.C.—The Civil War provided a number of “firsts” in American History. These include the war being the first extensively photographed. Of note are the…
Civil War Events — January 2018
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CWRT Congress
Can sharing information and ideas among Civil War Round Tables make them better, stronger, and more successful? That was the topic of the first Civil War Round Ta…
Book Reviews — January 2018
An Unconventional Way to Discover Gettysburg Discovering Gettysburg: An Unconventional Introduction to the Greatest Little Town in America and the Monumental Batt…
Artillery Placed on the Franklin Battlefield
FRANKLIN, Tenn.—Three replica artillery pieces were dedicated on the Franklin Battlefield over the Veterans Day weekend after the local preservation group, Frankl…
A Conversation with Grady McWhiney
For many in the Civil War community, Grady McWhiney is a familiar name. Longtime university professor, author of numerous books and articles, Dr. McWhiney had est…
“Oh, I’m a Good Old Rebel”
This occasional column will highlight prints from the Civil War. It will discuss their meaning and most importantly, what the print maker or artist was trying to…
Yankee Entertainments Before Atlanta Burned
Publisher’s note. Recently our Book Review Editor, Steve Davis, gave a talk at the Center for Civil War Photography’s Annual Image of War Seminar in Charleston. H…
Unholy War: For God and Country!
Soldiers going into battle carried a musket, a bayonet, and 60 rounds of lead balls designed for maximum damage. For one company of men from central Pennsylvania,…
The Saga of a Coat
On May 10, 1865, Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy, was captured by Union troops. The night before, Davis rested with his family in an encampme…
The Civil War Round Table of Atlanta’s Harwell Book Award
The Civil War Round Table of Atlanta has presented Earl Hess with the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award for the best book written on a Civil War subject published i…
The American Made “Adams” Revolver
“I captured a splendid revolver, our Col. says we can keep all our booty.”– R. Wallace Mitchell, 16th Penn. Cavalry, wrote in a letter home to his brother George,…
Terry’s Texas Rangers Canteen
Often, when a soldier went for water he carried and filled as many canteens as he could so that his comrades could remain on the battle lines or in marching forma…
Sunday Casualty Rate
Sunday Casualty Rate Civil War events, including reenactments and living histories, are traditionally scheduled for weekends, since this is when most participants…
Stonewall Jackson’s Headquarters Evokes Winchester’s Civil War Heritage
From the Shenandoah Valley Civil War Museum to the Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, Winchester, Va., warmly embraces its Civil War legacy. Local folks tell visitor…
Steam into History Hosts Civil War Weekend
Visitors have been flocking to New Freedom, Penn. At Steam into History, they purchase tickets that allow them to experience railroad travel as it would have been…
Small Talk — December 2017
1. The first Confederate major general to die in the war was not from battle causes—just old age. He was in fact the South’s oldest general, born in 1790 and dyin…
Riding with Sheridan
When an historical event is passing into legend, it helps to have a poem written about it. Thus we have Thomas Buchanan Read’s “Sheridan’s Ride,” based on the bat…
Report on the Conduct of the War
“I hold it to be our bounden duty, impressed upon us by our positions here, to keep an anxious, watchful eye over all the executive agents who are carrying on the…
Message in a Bottle: How Antietam Soldier’s Remains were Identified
Shortly after the war, the grim task of disinterring bodies of Union soldiers from the Antietam battlefield and the immediate surrounding area fell to the United…
Legendary Sports Figure introduces new book on Georgia Cavalryman
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Legendary Georgia football coach Vince Dooley recently spoke to a large crowd at Nashville, Tenn.’s Traveler’s Plantation about his new book: The…
Late War Sharpshooters & A Centennial Saga
Sharpshooters in Name After a conversation with some friends about Spencer rifles and/ or carbines issued to infantry “sharpshooters” in the last year of the Civi…
How Yankees Turned a Raglan and Shawl into a Dress and Petticoats
On May 10, 1865, Union cavalry captured Jefferson Davis in south Georgia, as the Confederate president tried to escape, in hopes to carry on the war. In his memoi…