Civil War News, 2026
5 issues published in 2026, with 74 articles indexed here.
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Articles from 2026
74 indexed
“Rosy was as Contrary as a Hog to Drive”
This letter by corporal Charles L. Fox of Terre Haute, Indiana, who served with the 8th Indiana Light Artillery, offers a vivid personal account of the Battle of…
“Let the Sutlers Know We Take in Washing”
Research on militarily significant roles of women in the Civil War reveals one role, that of washerwoman, that was deemed so important it was specified in U.S. Ar…
We Got Them Now!
On July 17, 1864, President Jefferson Davis relieved Gen. Joseph E. Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee. Throughout the war, Davis and Johnston held fu…
The Battle of Varnell Station, May 9, 1864
uring the late morning of May 9, 1864, Brigadier General Edward M. McCook led his First Division of Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland, a two-brigade force of some 2…
The Abolition of Slavery in Missouri
efore the Civil War, 15 of the nation’s states were Mississippi north of St. Louis. In summary, Missouri “was slave states. Seven seceded between December a regio…
Spirit on Display at N-SSA 153rd Nationals
As the United States of America marks its 250th birthday in 2026, the North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) has its own “Spirit of ’76,” recognizing the 76th a…
Massachusetts Militia Prepares for War
Long before European settlement, Winter Island was home to the Naumkeag people. The island sits in Salem Harbor and is connected to Salem Neck in Salem, Massachus…
Hard Times At Corinth: A Louisiana Unit Suffers in a North Mississippi Town
When most people hear the name of Corinth, Mississippi in the context of the American Civil War, they think of the debacle in the attack on that city of October 3…
Civil War Book Reviews
Reconstruction in Louisiana Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana. By David T. Ballantyne. Maps, footnotes, bibliography, index. 309 pp., 2025. Lou…
Bermuda Hundred Campaign Sign Project
lue & Gray Education Society (“BGES”) is “dedicated to the objective study of the origins and impact of the American Civil War and related events.” This is our Mi…
Behind the Lines
Whenever I travel outside the United States, I am reminded of the impact and influence of our Civil War and its figures on other nations and cultures around the w…
A Man Could Have Got Almost Anything He Wanted: Soldier Pickups on Central Virginia’s Battlefields – Part II
Jedediah Hotchkiss, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s staff cartographer, recorded in his diary the discovery of the body of fellow staff officer and tentmate…
A Few Thoughts on Rations
The accomplishments of Confederate forces during the U.S. Civil War, especially the continued success of the Army of Northern Virginia, are particularly noteworth…
A Conversation with Mike Kent
How did you get involved in promoting Civil War & Gun Shows? I have been a lifelong firearm enthusiast and history buff. I learned to shoot my father’s .22 rifle…
Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
“Enemies in War butFriends inPeace” By Juanita Leisch Jensen
The Unfinished Fight
THE UNFINISHED FIGHT: GUM BLANKET
The Graphic War
The Graphic War Fannie Palmer, Artist The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the printmaker or artist’s…
Steve Davis: Requiescat in Pace
Iwho knew Steve will have many such memories of their own. Requiescat in pace.
Spared & Shared A Time For Memory and For Tears
This well-composed letter written before Petersburg in July 1864—just days before the Battle of the Crater— was composed by Robert Nelson Traver (1841–1904) who w…
Soldier Pickups Part I Old Abe
On June 10, 1990, the Lions Club and citizens of Jim Falls, Wisconsin, held a dedication ceremony for the unveiling of a statue they had erected. The statue was o…
Ohio Civil War Show
Two hundred fifty years of American independence mark one of the most important milestones in our nation’s history, and that spirit was on full display at the Ric…
Houston CWRT Frank E. Vandiver Award
On July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of cartridges to each man and filling their stomachs. Captain Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, C.S. Gen. John Bell James E.…
General James Henry Lane
On the battle field near Spotsylvania C.H. May 14, 1864
D. Scott Hartwig Receives Houston Civil War Round Table’s 2025 “Frank E. Vandiver Award of Merit”
D. Scott Hartwig Receives Houston Civil War Round Table’s 2025 “Frank E. Vandiver Award of Merit” HOUSTON, TEXAS—Continuing a 42-year tradition, the Houston Civil…
Civil War Book Reviews
Book Reviews Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with analysis of the latest and most significant Civil War research and scholarship. Contact email: B…
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
“A Man Could Have Got Almost Anything He Wanted”: Soldier Pickups on Central Virginia Battlefields, Part I By Tim Talbott Introduction
CWRTNY 75th Anniversary
Patrick Falci and Stan Warrick.
Blue & Gray Education Society The Guns at Raymond
The Guns at Raymond Robert Jenkins, Executive Director, Blue and Gray Education Society
Award in Publication Excellence Presented to Terry L. Futrell
About the author
A Healer’s Hat and Manual Fannie Palmer, Artist
Objects relating to hospital stewards who served either Army during the Civil War are incredibly rare, so the National Museum of Civil War Medicine was pleased wh…
A Closer Look at the Cast – Part 3
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Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
“None But the Brave Deserve the Fair”
Two Artists: One Forgotten Battle
Introduction and the Battle
Through the Lens It Fairly Made the Earth Shake
By April 1863, Confederate forces had successfully along the engines for protection, while hay and cotton bales repulsed six separate Federal attempts to seize we…
This & That The Accomplishment of This One Object
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The Unfinished Fight Photo Analysis
Horace H. Smith, 16th Wisconsin Infantry, Company G.
The Graphic War The Connecticut Plan
The Graphic War The Connecticut Plan The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the printmaker or artist’s…
The 31st Annual Chickamauga Civil War Show
The 31st Annual Chickamauga Civil War Show while encouraging others to participate and share their own returned to the Dalton Convention Center in Dalton, collect…
Spared & Shared
At one time I thought I would give up and be taken prisoner. Then I thought I might get hit before I could get out of the woods on their side so I risked the gett…
Critic’s Corner
Bull’s narrative of his service in the campaign and in the Federal occupation of Atlanta, May 13-November 15, runs about 30% of his entire memoir. This alone make…
Civil War Book Reviews
Book Reviews Civil War News book reviews provide our readers with analysis of the latest and most significant Civil War research and scholarship. Contact email: B…
Chicora Cemetery Honors
Chicora Cemetery on the Averasboro battlefield site is, like all battleground burial grounds, a place of sadness and remembrance, where the fallen are honored for…
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
CVBT at 30—A Look Back By Tom Van Winkle
Cavalry Hill Cemetery: Rediscovering the Lost Graves
by Robert D. Jenkins Sr.
An Officer and His Sketchbook
Growing up in Scotland in the 1820s, young Jimmy could never have imagined that he would one day cross the Atlantic and play a meaningful role in suppressing a re…
“Living is Not Life... if Lived apart from Nobel Strife”
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes
William Loring: Controversial Confederate Commander
Major General William Wing Loring had a notable military career that spanned several significant conflicts, including the Texas Revolution at the age of 14, the M…
Through the Lens More Serious than Expected
Towards the end of June 1864, C.S. Gen. Jubal Early, Army of the Valley, had left the Shenandoah Valley, Va., to “threaten Washington and if I find the opportunit…
The Unfinished Fight “God Bless The Russians” October 2, 1863
THE UNFINISHED FIGHT: “GOD BLESS THE RUSSIANS” Diary of U.S. Naval Secretary Gideon Welles, October 2, 1863
The Long Journey Home Finding the Owner of a Stolen Rifle
Afew years ago, I was in my office at work when a man walked in the front door. After I approached the front counter, he introduced himself as FBI Special Agent R…
The Graphic War
The Graphic War Hercules and the Serpent The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the printmaker or artis…
The Fight for Manassas Battlefield Rages on 164 Years After the Battles
Although preservationists have fought for years to protect Manassas National Battlefield Park in Northern Virginia, a new challenge awaits: data centers. “We can’…
Spared & Shared
to circulate but one of the best accounts comes in a letter he wrote describing the reception General Grant received on March 8, 1864, when Grant met Lincoln face…
Emerging Civil War
By Chris Mackowski, Ph.D. “Patriotism and Intelligence” vs. “Superstition, Ambition, and Ignorance”
Critic’s Corner Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight
Critic’s o r n Worthy Of The Cause For Which They Fight e By Stephen Davis r
Civil War Book Reviews
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Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
Early Visitors to Central Virginia’s Battlefields – Part II By Tim Talbott
Behind the Lines
Iam often asked why Americans are so fascinated by the Civil War, and yet relatively few have any substantial interest in or knowledge of the American Revolution.…
A Closer Look at the Cast
In my last column, I wrote about events at Fort Sumter between South Carolina’s secession and April 12, 1861, when the shooting started. In this issue and the nex…
2025 Middle Tennessee Civil War Show
The 2025 Middle Tennessee Civil War Show, held on December 6th and 7th in Franklin, Tennessee, closed out another successful year of events, leaving dealers and a…
What makes a good battle book?
Confederate Grand Strategy: Is What Historians Think About Robert E. Lee All Wrong? By Alexander B. Rossino
Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
He Has A Great Work for Me to Do
USCC Massacre
USCC Massacre at Simpsonville, Kentucky By Charles H. Bogart
Through the Lens A Good Thrashing
“[In support of Col. Emmett MacDonald] a thousand warriors sprang to their feet, and, with one wild Missouri yell, burst upon the foe.” – Col Joseph O. Shelby, Mo…
This & That Crisis in Charleston
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The Unfinished Fight The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Many American grocers in the mid-19th century began their business in the tea trade. The Antebellum United States was predominantly rural and agrarian. If food pr…
The Graphic War Preserve. Educate. Inspire.
The Graphic War Civil War Politics: Abolition and Election
Spared & Shared Battle of Roanoke Island Letter
The next morning we did not move but the small boats were in advance to lookout the ground. Friday morning the 7th, orders were to move on and so we did—the gunbo…
N-SSA celebrates its 75th Anniversary with History, Competition
N-SSA celebrates its 75th Anniversary with History, Competition and Camaraderie By Bruce W. Miller
Fort McAllister Southern Sentinel on Georgia’s Ogeechee River
Fort McAllister, Georgia, Historic Marker.
Emerging Civil War The Book of General Stevenson
Icracked the book open carefully, conscious of its old spine. I didn’t know what shape its pages might be in, either. The book, an edition of Dennis Hart Mahan’s…
Critic’s Corner
The best battle books describe the fighting with enough I call the difference between the practical and the sublime. detail to be definitive without sinking to ex…
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Central Virginia Battlefields Trust The 2025 Annual Conference
Figure 2. Political Caricature. No. 3. The Abolition Catastrophe/Or the November Smash-up. (Library Company of Philadelphia.) 3. 4. 5.