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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.
From The Lowcountry — March 2017
This issue was full of articles and information leaving very little space for my From The Lowcountry column. Not that I’m complaining about having wonderful conte…
Emory Upton’s Star
Emory Upton went into the battle of Spotsylvania as a Colonel and supposedly was promoted to Brigadier General on the spot for his valiant attack on the Confedera…
Don’t Forget Us: Erastus Winters And The Sultana
“Minnie balls would strike the ground with a dull thud near us, or go singing over our heads like bees on the wing. We were ordered to unsling knapsacks, and plac…
Dalton’s Battlefield Preservation Efforts Are Rewarding
Whitfield County, Georgia, is the home to more Civil War earthworks than any other county in the Nation. On October 29, 2016, Whitfield County, in conjunction wit…
Coping With The Confederacy’s Coffee Crisis
Last month we considered one aspect of everyday life made difficult by war and its disruption of trade–finding soap. This time around we will consider another com…
Confederate Veteran
Yet hold the past life something worth, For it was good and fair; It brightened up this dull old earth. And gave some gallant heroes birth, Whose names we could n…
Civil War Events 2017
Annual Major Octavius V. Catto Honor Ceremony will be held at the corner of 6th & Lombard Streets in Philadelphia honoring the great black equal rights and milita…
Book Reviews — March 2017
Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with timely analysis of the latest and most significant Civil War research and scholarship. Stephen Davis, Civil W…
Are Confederate Monuments A Problem?
According to a May 5, 2016 Washington Post article, Confederate monuments are a “problem” that needs to be fixed. Nonetheless, destroying Confederate monuments -…
A Wicked Fellow
“Action, prompt, vigorous action, is required. While we are deliberating the enemy is marching. King James lost three kingdoms for a mass. We may lose three State…
A Civil War Fire Fight & Black Powder Memories
Everyone who has had the unfortunate experience of being in a fire fight knows that excited soldiers tend to fire high. Hunters faced with the need for a quick sh…
22nd Annual Chickamauga Civil War Show News
DALTON, GA.-Dalton, Georgia was once again the center of the Civil War universe on February 4th & 5th as dealers and collectors from around the country gathered f…
Will Terrorism Affect The Artillery Hobby?
Recently I organized a group of cannon to accompany a large symphony orchestra’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Having done this numerous times since…
The Planned 1864 Revolt For A New Confederacy
In 1864 plans were discussed for a Northward thrust from the South into the Northwestern part of the Union where there was considerable opposition to continuing t…
The A. P. Hill March
Dunker Church kept a silent vigil as the reenactors who were going to reenact the march of A. P. Hill’s Light Division from Harpers Ferry to Sharpsburg awoke in t…
Stephen Sears’ Young Napoleon
A good biographer has a knack for pithy characterization of his subject. One sees it throughout Stephen W. Sears’ George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon (1988).…
Robertson Prize Awarded To Rable
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.—The Robert E. Lee Civil War Library & Research Center of Central New Jersey has awarded the 2015 Dr. James I. Robertson Jr. Literary Prize for Co…
President Carter Defied Fake History
Editor’s note: in our January issue we published a short article on the installation in Atlanta of a new historical marker, “The March to the Sea.” One of our con…
Online Civil War Newspapers
During the American Civil War, citizens North and South, along with the soldiers and officers in the field, kept up with constantly changing events through the pa…
Novel Notes
Sister of Mine: A Novel. By Sabra Waldfogel. 471 pp., 2016, Lake Union Publishing, www. apub.com, $14.95 paperback. “When two Union soldiers stumble onto a planta…
Multiple Musket Loads Revisited
Regular readers no doubt recall that Craig Barry and I, in our respective columns, were speculating on the origins of the famous report on the muskets recovered a…
Louisville Confederate Monument Erected At Brandenburg, Ky.
Louisville Kentucky’s Confederate Monument has been safely dismantled and transported down river to Brandenburg, Ky. The monument arrived in Brandenburg on Nov. 2…
Lincoln Forum Presents Annual Achievement Awards To James I. “Bud” Robertson And The Gettysburg Foundation
GETTYSBURG, NOV. 18, 2016—The Lincoln Forum has presented its coveted annual achievement awards to a revered Civil War historian and a respected battlefield prese…
How Effective Was The Hospital Transport System?
“I was wounded Saturday p.m. I laid [sic] on the battlefield for 48 hours and then rode in a government wagon for 48 hours more. Last night at one o’clock my woun…