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Every article indexed from the pages of Civil War News — 438 of them across90 issues, 2016 to 2026. Each one opens the full text on civilwarnews.com.
Ohio Civil War Show News
MANSFIELD, Ohio—In 1977, a dream to start a Civil • Ron Chonjacki – “The Best Show in the United War Show all began with the determination of Don Williams, States…
Misleading History: N-SSA 149th Nationals
On May 22, 1863, the Stockade Redan was the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the entire Vicksburg campaign. Sergeant George Powell Clark, a member of th…
Long Island
t took him almost 20 years, but Robert Farrell has completed what he expected to be short-term. postretirement project: compiling a list of Civil War soldiers and…
Gettysburg Film Festival
his time the leading attractions weren’t George Pickett (Stephen Lang) and James Longstreet (Tom Berenger) but instead were President Lincoln (Sam Waterston) and…
Emory and Emily Upton Star Crossed Lovers
A “November seventeenth [1867]. A day never to be forgotten saw the fulfillment of my dearest hopes. On that day, I promised General Upton that I would be to him…
Emerging Civil War Newsletter
As the Army of the Potomac moved forward across the fields south of Fredericksburg, flags unfurled and bayonets shimmering in the morning sun, Confederate General…
Civil War Field Hospitals Saved the Lives of Countless Soldiers
The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history in terms of lives lost. Conservative estimates of total Civil War deaths range from 650,000 to 750,00…
Civil War Book Reviews
Exemplary New History of Fort Sumter Thunder in the Harbor: Fort Sumter and the Civil War. By Robert W. Hatcher III. Maps, images, bibliography, index, 288 pp., D…
America Battlefield Trust Preserve. Educate. Inspire.
Wilderness Battlefield and Minute Man National Historic Park Among the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in the U.S. Two of the nation’s profound battlefield sit…
the truth at cassvile Was Joe Johnston honest with History?
From the publisher e are delighted to share the news, about the transformation of Civil War News! After five decades of delivering captivating and thorough Civil…
the truth at cassvile Was Joe Johnston honest
With selected images, maps, and excerpts from The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed Confederate Strategy in the Atlanta Campaign, 19 May 1864, Mer…
Maryland ARMS Collectors Show
Maryland ARMS Collectors Show TIMONIUM, MD—The 68th Annual Maryland Arms Collectors Association Show rocked the Timonium Fairgrounds on March 16-17, 2024, and it…
How Shall all These
By spring 1864, Jane Boswell Moore, a nurse at a Union hospital near Bermuda Hundred, witnessed much suffering. During the previous two years, Moore, a native of…
How Shall All These Would be Healed?
Editor’s Note: This story and photo feature has been adapted from articles that appeared in the April 2013 and December 2014 issues of Battlefield Photographer, t…
Tin Cans
Tin Cans The canning of food to prevent spoilage was not a new technology during the Civil War, it dated back to the early days of the 19th century (at least in E…
The War Before the War, Part 4: The Reflections of Ulysses S. Grant
The War Before the War, Part 4: The Reflections of Ulysses S. Grant This column, the final of a four-part series, will look at the Mexican War from the perspectiv…
Remembering Dean Thomas
Remembering Dean Thomas Author, Historian, and Publisher Dean S. Thomas, 74, passed away on July 15 at his home in Fairfield, after a courageous battle with cance…
Photographers and Lithographers: A Fragile Co-existence Part II
Photographers and Lithographers: A Fragile Co-existence Part II The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and…
Library of Congress
Edward A. Cary, Company I, 44th Virginia infantry, in uniform with sister Emma wearing fashion of the day posed for this ambrotype by Charles Rees in Richmond in…
John Steele, Editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer
In the ADI of May 7, 1864, for instance, he editorialized at length on Southern prospects: “We hold that the people of the Confederate States,” he intoned, “are t…
Fort Boreman: Defender Of Parkersburg, West Virginia
Fort Boreman: Defender Of Parkersburg, West Virginia By Charles H. Bogart Parkersburg, West Virginia, is located at the junction of the Kanawha River with the Ohi…
First Army Medal of Honor Awarded in Civil War
By Joan Wenner, J.D. Army Private Jacob Parrott was born in 1843 at Fairfield County, Ohio. He enlisted in the Union’s 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company K, du…
Events — October 2023
General Meade & his Generals and the veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg Honor/Dedication Ceremonies during the Remembrance Day Observance. Honoring all commande…
Emerging Civil War — October 2023
Since the summer of 2011, I’ve had the privilege to serve as Emerging Civil War’s editor in chief, which has really just been a fancy title for “chief cook and bo…