Civil War News, 2024
8 issues published in 2024, with 55 articles indexed here.
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November-December 2024Vol. 50, No. 8 · 18 articles
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Articles from 2024
55 indexed
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes
he previous articles in this “Vision and Valor” series have focused on hundreds of thousands of women, whose names are known only to God, who made crucial and sig…
The Unfinished Fight Vision and Valor:
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,…
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…
THE UNFINISHED FIGHT:
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…
Robbed of Reason: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Civil War
Acurrent thread in Civil War scholarship debates the destructiveness of the conflict. Some historians cite numerous examples of ruins-filled cities like Frederick…
Robbed of Reason:
t was painfully clear in the fall of 1865 that Daniel M. Stearns had been deeply changed by war. His friends and family watched as the veteran struggled to functi…
REMEMBERING PETER CARMICHAEL
any different communities—his neighbors on Tiffany Ln., the Gettysburg area, present and former constituents of Gettysburg College, and the broad community of Civ…
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
he October 8, Summer and fall had 1862, Battle of been oppressively “I believed that a charge would end in my Perryville, Ky., hot, and water was death and the de…
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
ne of the pleasures of senescence is the availability of time to re-read literary classics. In that anticipation of joyfulness—or maybe just satisfaction—I pulled…
Civil war Show News
The North Georgia Relic Hunters Association held its 46th Annual Southeastern Civil War and Antique Gun Show on August 10-11, 2024. The show was held at the Cobb…
CIVIL WAR
Homage to their Distinguished Mentor The War that Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher. Edited by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Ca…
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…
Burnside’s Invasion of East Tennessee Financing the Civil War:
Joseph Stalin, we all know, was responsible for mountains of statistics. As one reads about the Civil War, one encounters statistics that, though mere hillocks in…
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…
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
Barber didn’t shy away from action. In an early encounter with the enemy at Rappahannock Station in July 1862, the chaplain answered Colonel Henry A.V. Post’s cal…
“The Place...Shall Be Destroyed by Fire”
On the evening of May 21, 1864, Colonel David Hunter Strother, a Shenandoah Valley native and a member of Union general Franz Sigel’s staff, stood on the front po…
Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
On February 5, 1864, George Metz of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, noted in his diary that he was reading “the life of Lincoln.” He must have enjoyed it, for he f…
This & That Governing Arkansas in the Civil War
elatively little is written about Arkansas’ role in the Civil War. It was a small state, and though a considerable percentage of Arkansas’ men served in the South…
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…
THE UNFINISHED FIGHT:
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 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…
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
he names of churches that were on or near some Civil War’s battlefields are familiar to many students of the conflict. Places like Shiloh Church; Dunker Church at…
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
In November 2022, the first author received an unexpected phone call. The caller, Mr. William Spann, explained that after reading Ottens’s biography, General John…
Emerging Civil War Newsletter
From Little Round Top, the view across the Valley of Death toward Devil’s Den and the Wheatfield remains as splendid and sublime as ever: a one-time landscape of…
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…
Critic’s Corner
It’s not too much to say that its author, Douglas Southall Freeman, was born in 1886 to write such a book. A Virginian, Freeman was raised and educated in Richmon…
Civil
Just as in modern times, armed opposition fuels volunteerism but is typically followed by conscription when increased mobilization is needed to bolster the ranks,…
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
he last (July/August) “Vision and Valor” column began with the assertion, “There are few things an army and its soldiers need more than arms and ammunition .” One…
“Gobbled Up” – Four Prisoners of War on Central Virginia’s Battlefields
hen attempting to create awareness for the importance of saving a particular piece of battlefield land, appeals rightly often include mention of the soldiers who…
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…
Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
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…
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes
he men and women who manufactured arms and ammunition deserve special recognition. While manufacturing arms remained the realm of male employees, manufacturing am…
This & That 46th Year!
similar, notable in his use of the same adjective, “appalling.” “The entire supply of gunpowder in the Confederacy at the beginning of the conflict, was scarcely…
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…
Shenandoah Shootout at the N-SSA 149th Nationals
Winchester, Virginia, is an appropriate location for the North-South Skirmish Association’s home range. N-SSA units represent both Union and Confederate teams and…
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…