Departments · 25 Articles
News & Notes
Briefs, letters, editorials, obituaries, and the shorter items that keep the community current.
Featured in News & Notes
Award in Publication Excellence Presented to Terry L. Futrell
The East Tennessee Historical Society presented an Award in Publication Excellence to Terry L. Futrell on May 5 for his 2-part series on Burnside’s invasion of East Tennessee, published in Civil War News in 2025. The Awards of Excellence…
All News & Notes
25 articles · 2019–2026
47th Southeastern Civil War Show & Antique Gun show News
were plant based, and a number of plants were indigenous only in the Southern states. From a physician’s perspective, this was one of the few bright spots of the…
Interview with Harold Holzer
Interview with Harold Holzer Interviewed by Jonathan W. White Harold Holzer is the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at H…
DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN LEE’S LIEUTENANTS: A STUDY IN COMMAND
Lincoln and Immigration: Was Lincoln a WINO? Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. By Harold Holzer, notes, bibliography, ind…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Confederate Centennial Studies
Confederate Centennial Studies Preparing for the Civil War centennial, Dr. William Stanley Hoole, a distinguished historian, and educator, accepted the position a…
Emerging Civil War — September 2023
From the Editor: The road from Appomattox first let me past a small roadside site labeled “Robert E. Lee Wayside.” Here, following his surrender to Ulysses S. Gra…
Emerging Civil War
From the Editor Most people assume I teach history at St. Bonaventure University, which I’ve been proud to call my academic home for twenty-three years. I’m actua…
19th Century Cocktails: The Mint Julep
19th Century Cocktails: The Mint Julep The mission of this column in Civil War News is to research relevant aspects of the material culture of the 1860s. To fully…
Emerging Civil War — May 2023
From the Editor I’m not much of a fried chicken fan, if I’m being perfectly honest. I have nothing against it, personally. I’m not philosophically opposed to it.…
Emerging Civil War — April 2023
sarahkaybierle for some of the shared photos and local history notes! In the Savas Beattie January Newsletter, Sheritta Bitikofer was named associate editor along…
Emerging Civil War — March 2023
From the Editor I frequently describe myself as a “Stonewall Jackson fanboy.” People who know me find it amusing, but I wonder how people who don’t know me take i…
Publisher’s Note
Publisher’s Note: In the current supply chain issues and escalating prices due to the inflation we are all enduring, Civil War News is diligently looking at ways…
Letters to the Editor
TO THE EDITOR: Stephen Davis’ article in the January issue of Civil War News explaining the continuing historical importance of Robert E. Lee is, in a word, super…
Emerging Civil War — January 2023
From the Editor Each fall semester, as we head into Thanksgiving, I challenge my students to notice things. As writers, they’ll need to constantly stay alert to t…
Mark Twain and the War (I) Sam Clemens, Confederate Deserter
Mark Twain and the War (I) Sam Clemens, Confederate Deserter “Twain in his later years was more Westerner and New Englander than Southerner, so that his work does…
Emerging Civil War — September 2022
From the Editor Symposium season is upon us at Emerging Civil War; this is always a great time of year to get together with members of the extended ECW family and…
Emerging Civil War Series Spotlight
Editor’s Note: Civil War News is pleased to continue a new monthly series highlighting books in the Emerging Civil War Series (ECWS) published by Savas Beatie, LL…
Civil War News
We are so delighted to announce our new and improved website. We have been recently working hard to populate it with exciting information for our subscribers. Civ…
News Briefs — October 2019
A. Wilson Greene Receives Houston Civil War Round Table’s “Frank E. Vandiver Award of Merit” HOUSTON, Texas—May 16. Continuing a 37-year tradition, the Houston Ci…
Emerging Civil War — October 2019
Chris Mackowski From the Editor When Kris White, Jake Struhelka, and I sat on the porch of the caretaker’s cottage at the Jackson Shrine in the summer of 2011, ki…
Betcha haven’t seen this one!
Betcha haven’t seen this one! By Stephen Davis Special to Civil War News Quick! What’s this view—a photograph taken by one of the Civil War’s most prominent camer…