Civil War News, 2024
8 issues published in 2024, with 121 articles indexed here.
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November-December 2024Vol. 50, No. 8 · 19 articles
September-October 2024Vol. 50, No. 7 · 16 articles
July-August 2024Vol. 50, No. 6 · 16 articles
May-June 2024Vol. 50, No. 5 · 6 articles
April 2024Vol. 50, No. 4 · 17 articles
March 2024Vol. 50, No. 3 · 14 articles
February 2024Vol. 50, No. 2 · 18 articles
January 2024Vol. 50, No. 1 · 15 articles
Articles from 2024
121 indexed
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…
“The Place...Shall Be Destroyed by Fire”
“The Place…Shall be Destroyed by Fire”: General David Hunter and the
Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
A Poignant Reminder Of The Tragedy Of The War By Jonathan W. White
This & That Governing Arkansas in the Civil War
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The Lawbook Raid
On June 20, 1863, the newly formed state of West Virginia was admitted to the United States. The northern portion of the new state mostly favored the Union. Conve…
The Importance of Reputation
To be introduced by someone meant they were vouching for your character, which also put that person’s own reputation at risk. For this reason, the formalities of…
The Graphic War Kimmel & Fo st er : L i t h o g r a p h e r s , Part II
The Graphic War Kimmel & Fo st er : L i t h o g r a p h e r s , Part II By Salvatore Cilella The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War…
Stephen Lang, Jeff Shaara
Stephen Lang, Jeff Shaara Star in a Holiday Weekend Ensemble Performance at Gettysburg By Harold Holzer GETTYSBURG, PA—For award-winning actor Stephen Lang, star…
Sacred Places, Profane Scenes: Central Virginia’s Battlefield churches
Sacred Places, Profane Scenes: Central Virginia’s Battlefield churches By Tim Talbott he names of churches that were on or near some Civil War’s battlefields are…
Medal of Honor for Two of Andrews’ Raiders
On July 3, President Biden at the White House bestowed Medals of Honor to descendants of two Union soldiers who had participated in the daring Andrews’ Railroad R…
Importance of Reputation
General John A. Rawlins. (Library of Congress)
Emerging Civil War Newsletter
From the Editor
Critic’s Corner
Critic’s o r n e r Y By Stephen Davis
Civil War Conscription
Just as in modern times, armed opposition fuels volunteerism but is typically followed by conscription when increased mobilization is needed to bolster the ranks,…
Civil War Book Reviews — September-October 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…
America Battlefield Trust Preserve. Educate. Inspire.
Save 278 Acres of Civil War Hallowed Ground Governor Youngkin Unveils Culpeper Battlefields State Park In June, Governor Glenn Youngkin officially dedicated Virgi…
A Trove of General Rawlins Material Comes to Light
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes By Juanita Leisch Jensen
“Gobbled Up” – Four Prisoners of War on Central Virginia’s Battlefields
“Gobbled Up” – Four Prisoners of War on Central Virginia’s Battlefields By Tim Talbott hen attempting to create awareness for the importance of saving a particula…
you are not going to fire here, are you?
“In retreat, double quick, run.” – Officer, 147th N.Y. n July 1, 1863, about 7 a.m., U.S. signal corps. officer Lt. Aaron B. Jerome spotted Confederates approachi…
They died in the service of their country
There are few things an army and its soldiers need more than arms and ammunition. The men and women who manufactured arms and ammunition deserve special recogniti…
The Unfinished Fight Peanuts and Parched Corn
No discussion of Southern Civil War rations would be complete without including peanuts. Period accounts suggest that when bread and meat were scarce, peanuts—a/k…
Supplying Gunpowder to the Confederate Army
These words of Jefferson Davis were written in The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, published in 1881. The following year Col. George Washington Rains…
Shenandoah Shootout at the N-SSA 149th Nationals
The 3rd U.S. Infantry competes with Frank Potts’ rifled howitzer, also known as a pack Parrott. This diminutive portable gun has an aggressive recoil and dispropo…
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: The Problematic Legacy of John G. Walker and the Maryland Campaign of September 1862
Ever since its publication in 1885, an article penned by former Confederate general John George Walker for The Century Magazine, titled, “Jackson’s Capture of Har…
Long Island Civil War Soldiers Project
Civil War Soldiers Project
Gettysburg Film Festival
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Emory and Emily Upton Star Crossed Lovers
“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 fo…
Emerging Civil War Newsletter
From the Editor
Disturbing the Slumbering Hornet’s Nest
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…
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
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…
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
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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
Wounds be Healed? Exploring Battle’s Impact on Families By Jonathan A. Noyalas
How Shall All These Would be Healed?
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Herb Peck Jr.
Herb Peck Jr. poses with a small portion of his Civil War photography collection. (Courtesy the Herb Peck Jr. family)
“Busy at Their Work:” Medical Treatment at the Battle of the Wilderness
The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5-6, 1864, presented a whole host of issues for both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. Among oth…
W. L. Ormsby: Colt and a Fine Art Engraver
The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the printmaker or artist’s goals. Collectors of Civil War sidear…
The Battle of Aiken Attracts Thousands
By Pete Peters William Tecumseh Sherman, resting his troops in Savannah in 1865, declared, “When I go through South Carolina, it will be one of the most horrible…
Sabotage at City Point
Hopewell. You will arrive at a peninsula which juts out into the Appomattox River where it joins the James. During the final months of the Civil War this nowquiet…
Russia and the U.S. during the Civil War
“God Bless the Russians.” – Diary of U.S. Naval Secretary Gideon Welles, October 2, 1863 During the mid-19th century, newspapers were much more widely read than t…
Lockwoods Folly Encounter
By Joan Wenner, J.D. By December 1861, Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles was finding it difficult to purchase, convert, and arm additional ships needed fo…
Igniting an Appreciation for Abraham Lincoln in Children
By Jonathan W. White Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president. There is little doubt that he is widely adm…
Fort Donelson 2024 Symposium
DOVER, Tenn.—On February 10, the Fort Henry and Donelson Campaign Facebook Group partnered with Fort Donelson National Battlefield to host the Second Annual Civil…
First To Flee Andersonville Prison
By Joseph F. Wilson Only a handful of Union prisoners escaped Georgia’s notorious Andersonville Prison. Nearly every successful escape occurred after September 18…
Emerging Civil War — April 2024
Sixty degrees is cold to some people, warm to others. My wife, born in the South, considers a 60-degree day chilly. When I lived in Maine, I remember many a sprin…
Civil War Times Illustrated—An Appreciation
By Stephen Davis Bruce Catton, Virgil Carrington Jones, Edwin C. Bearss—all are Civil War authors familiar to many enthusiasts of America’s greatest conflict. The…
Civil War News Announcement
We are thrilled to announce an exciting evolution of Civil War News! After 50 years of bringing the most compelling and comprehensive Civil War stories to our rea…
Chris Mackowski Receives Houston Civil War Round Table’s “Frank E. Vandiver Award of Merit”
HOUSTON, TEXAS— Continuing a 41-year tradition, the Houston Civil War Round Table (HCWRT) has awarded Christopher W. Mackowski, Ph.D., the Frank E. Vandiver Award…
Burning Alabama
Burning Alabama “If that boy had known enough to give me the point of his saber instead of its edge, I should not have been here to tell you about it.” – C.S. Lt.…
Book Reviews — April 2024
Hoosier Spies and Horse Marines: A History of the Third Indiana Cavalry, East Wing. By James A. Goecker. Illustrated, Bibliography, Notes, Appendices, Index, McFa…
American Battlefield Trust — April 2024
Calling All Volunteers for Park Day 2024! Each spring, thousands of volunteers gather at battlefields and historic sites across the nation to participate in the T…
325.5 Million Visits to National Parks in 2023
Fort Oglethorpe, GA—The National Park Service announced that 400 national parks reported a total of 325.5 million visits in 2023, an increase of 13 million or 4%…
“An Exciting and Brilliant Affair:” The Third Crossing at Fredericksburg
“An Exciting and Brilliant Affair:” The Third Crossing at Fredericksburg By mid-June 1863, the Army of the Potomac’s VI Corps had about enough of the pontoon brid…
William G. Shepardson – ‘all-in’ Confederate War Correspondent
By Joan Wenner, J.D. It’s been written that much weighed on the mind of Confederate Major General George Pickett’s mind a few months after Gettysburg, the disaste…
Two Pardons, One by Each Side, for One Soldier
Two Pardons, One by Each Side, for One Soldier By Carl L. Sell Jr. Francis (Frank) Donaldson was a fast talker and opinionated Union soldier from Philadelphia who…
To A Man Up A Tree
To A Man Up A Tree “Had I been supplied with four Whitworth guns I firmly believe you might have slept in New Bern that night.” – C.S. Gen. James Johnston Pettigr…
Soldiers Rest, Alexandria, Virginia
Soldiers Rest, Alexandria, Virginia The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the printmaker or artist’s g…
Lowcountry Show and Sale Kicks off the New Year
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C.— There are numerous shows and events related to the hobbies of collecting the past and metal detecting. Between January and December, there a…
John McElroy’s Andersonville Memoir (1879)
During one of the intensely hot days of last week, more than three hundred sick and wounded Yankees died at Andersonville. We thank Heaven for such blessings. A c…
Georgia On My Mind
Some of the 500 tables of dealers and displays at this show. DALTON, Ga.—Georgia was on everyone’s mind as the 29th Annual Chickamauga Civil War Show kicked off o…
From Bulls Gap to Lexington and Back
From Bulls Gap to Lexington and Back The Military Memoirs of a Confederate Line Officer: Captain John Reed’s Civil War from Manassas to Appomattox, edited by Will…
Emerging Civil War — March 2024
From the Editor “For your information,” Ernest Hemingway a literary critic in 1939, “in stories about the war, I try to show all the different sides of it, taking…
Book Reviews — March 2024
A Political Scientist’s Analysis of Reconstruction in Texas Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with timely analysis of the latest and most significan…
American Battlefield Trust — March 2024
To start the new year, the American Battlefield Trust launched a campaign to preserve 10 acres of hallowed ground across three Civil War battlefields within two s…
A Heartfelt Tribute of Parental Affection
A Heartfelt Tribute of Parental Affection By Joseph Wilson Behind an old iron gate shrouded in overgrown shrubs, a seemingly forgotten and hidden Pittsburgh cemet…
A Few Thoughts on Men’s Shirts
A Few Thoughts on Men’s Shirts Whether Union or Confederate, all soldiers were civilians before they were in the military, and all of them wore shirts. While seem…
“Under a Terrific Fire from the Enemy”: Ward’s Brigade at Fredericksburg
The quiet solitude of the present-day Slaughter Pen Farm battlefield at Fredericksburg belies the scene of horror it presented to those who fought there on Decemb…
The Southern Historical Society Papers
In their writing, historians have a way of being oblique. But they can also be quite direct, as when Prof. E. Merton Coulter once declared that when the Southern…
The Rosenthals of Philadelphia
The Rosenthals of Philadelphia The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the printmaker or artist’s goals.…
The Pork Ration
No country in the world was richer in salt deposits than antebellum America. By 1860 the United States used more salt per capita than anywhere else in the known w…
The Library of Congress Collection — February 2024
U.S. Third Corps badge, 1st Division. This badge is the same design as the one on the soldier’s jacket. (Courtesy Union Drummer Boy.)
The 2023 West Coast Civil War Round Table Conference “Pemberton and Grant: Vicksburg Campaign of 1863” November 4-5, 2023
The 2023 annual West Coast Civil War Round Table Conference was held in Fresno, Calif., November 4th and 5th. It was a success for all who attended and engaged wi…
Testing Your General Knowledge
This column will cite some events in the lives of ten famous Civil War generals before they became famous and ask you to identify them. See page 39 for the answer…
THE CORPS THAT STOOD ALONE
“Major-General John Sedgwick [standing in the center] and Staff. Sedgwick’s Sixth Corps alone and unaided executed the most successful maneuver during the Chancel…
Lee saved Hill, who returned the favor in 1862
By Carl L. Sell Jr. Major General Ambrose Powell Hill Jr., and his new Light Division, had an impressive record in battle during the summer of 1862 but not so muc…
John Newland Maffitt—USN, CSN, ‘Prince of Privateers’
In 1861 plans were being formulated for joint Union army maneuvers and naval operations in eastern North Carolina. The Navy Department had considered coastal Nort…
Gettysburg Foundation Announces Leadership Change
GETTYSBURG, Penn. —The Gettysburg Foundation Board of Directors announced Jaunary 4, a leadership change for the Gettysburg Foundation. At the start of the new ye…
Emerging Civil War — February 2024
From the Editor It’s Monday morning, and I’ve got nothin’. Pat Kelly-Fischer, our new newsletter editor, is asking me for copy, but my brain is firing blanks. I’v…
Corps Badges
During the American Civil War, Union Army soldiers commonly wore corps badges. These badges were prominently displayed either on the top of their forage cap (kepi…
Brave Men Die In Battle / The Battle of Stones River: Part III
“In the fading light, the sheets of fire from the enemy’s cannon looked hideous and dazzling.” – C.S. Lt. Spencer Tally, 28th Tenn. On December 31, 1862, at the B…
Book Reviews — February 2024
A Detailed View of Little-Studied Campaign Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22-July 23, 1864. By Edwin C. Bearss, edited by David A. P…
Beyond The Battle Named Best New Museum In U.S.
GETTYSBURG, Penn.— Gettysburg Beyond the Battle Museum, operated by the Adams County Historical Society, has won USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice travel award for…
Annie Kyle Learns Sherman Arrives in Fayetteville
By Joan Wenner, J.D. The Fayetteville Observer, led by editor Edward Jones Hale, had the largest circulation in the state of North Carolina, and was such a force…
American Battlefield Trust — February 2024
Persevering to Protect 29 Acres of Civil War Hallowed Ground in Virginia In late fall of 2023, the Trust launched a campaign to help protect 29 critical acres of…
The Final Surrender
Soldiers, I am left a commander without an army, a general without troops. You have made your choice. – Gen. E. Kirby Smith to his command, May 30, 1865 After Lee…
The Confederate Reader
Richard Barksdale Harwell (1915–1988) was a distinguished librarian, bibliographer and historian. Dr. Harwell—he was awarded an honorary doctorate from New Englan…
The 2023 Lincoln Forum
By Leon Reed Once again, the Lincoln Forum brought together the nation’s leading Lincoln scholars and enthusiasts at Gettysburg’s Wyndham Hotel for a threeday bin…
Sykes’ Regulars at Chancellorsville’s First Day
Chancellorsville Campaign. The primary exception for the V Corps was Maj. Gen. George Sykes’ Division, who fought on May 1, 1863. Composed of three brigades, Syke…
Remembrance Day in Gettysburg
GETTYSBURG, Penn.—A collection of Gettysburg royalty, including Acting Park Superintendent Zachary Bolitho; Gettysburg College president Robert Iuliano; Gettysbur…
Huddy and Duval and the Militia
The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the printmaker or artist’s goals. From its inception as a nation…
Emerging Civil War — January 2024
From the Editor For their second assignment this semester, I asked my freshman writing students to tell me a story about a piece of writing that made an impact on…
Civil War News, a transformation of the Civil War Book Exchange, turns fifty
By Stephen Davis That’s right, we’re a halfThe year was 1974, the time century old. when… Civil War News was founded by • People Magazine hits the Kay and the lat…
Book Reviews — January 2024
A Wilderness of Destruction: Confederate Guerrillas in East and South Florida, 1861–1865. By Zack C. Waters. Illustrated, bibliography, index, Mercer University P…
Barnett and Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney and J.E. Barnett furnished some of the first contract rifles and rifle-muskets to arm the Union and the Confederacy in 1861. Both had long been produc…
Atlanta Round Table Honors Jeffry Wert
ATLANTA, Ga.— At their November 12 meeting, the Atlanta Civil War Round Table’s members honored historian Jeffry D. Wert with the prestigious 2023 Richard Barksda…
American Battlefield Trust — January 2024
The American Battlefield Trust has launched a campaign to preserve 184 acres of hallowed ground associated with two of the most important battles of the Civil War…
A Whirl-A-Gust Of Woodpeckers In A Hail Storm
“We will plant it [regimental flag] here, boys, and rally the old Twenty-fifth around it; and here we will die.” – U.S. Col. Thomas Williams, 25th Ill., last word…
42nd Annual Central Virginia Military Antique Show
DOSWELL, Va.—The 42nd annual Central Virginia Military Antique Show, sponsored by Mike Ward and Carl Sitherwood at BulletAndShell.com, a beacon for history enthus…
36th annual Middle Tennessee Civil War Show Report
FRANKLIN, Tenn.—The 2023 Civil War show season drew to a close in a crescendo of history and camaraderie as the 36th annual Middle Tennessee Civil War Show conclu…