America’s Civil War
Ron Soodalter |
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:40 pm
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Disgrace was a fate worse than death for a soldier. And thousands of soldiers died to prove it
Honor is a complicated word to define. The concept of honor, according to historian and ethicist Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "seems inherently …
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:40 pm
The Global Lincoln by Richard Carwardine, Jay Sexton, eds. Oxford University Press 2011, $29.95
At the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth in 2009, a new area of Lincoln studies emerged: his legacy outside the United States after the Civil War …
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Broadening our horizons
I appreciated the articles on the Monitor in the March 2012 issue but there were a few inaccuracies. The cover statement that Monitor made "every other warship obsolete" is only true if we mean every other warship …
Harold Holzer |
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Brian Lamb (image courtesy of C-SPAN)I spent a particularly memorable late-winter day a few months ago watching a 6 1/2-hour-long scholarly debate, hosted by the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, on the subject of who best deserves the title …
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Rebels go marauding, emancipation occupies Abraham Lincoln and starving Sioux get restless
July
1 – Battle of Malvern Hill ends the Seven Days' battles with a Union victory.
The Revenue Act of 1862 establishes the Bureau of Internal Revenue …
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Features
John Pope's Manassas misery
He never wanted to come east in the first place. Lee, Jackson and Longstreet saw to it that he left in a hurry.
By Peter Cozzens
Honor bound
Just how far would a soldier go …
Tim and Elizabeth Rowland |
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:35 pm
The original painting (left) next to the Mary Todd fake. (images courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum)The Lady and the scamp
Is she or isn't she? That question has been answered with a resounding "no": The portrait purported to …
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Maryland
"The Medicine of Andersonville Prison" discusses the medicine and medical practices of Andersonville Prison and its impact on the prison population. When: June 9 Where: National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, (301) 695-1864 CivilWarMed.org
"The Civil War Soldier …
Richard Selcer |
Published: May 02, 2012 at 1:09 am
Southern vets had long blamed James Longstreet and Jeb Stuart for their loss, but had Lee called a formal inquiry?
Published: March 07, 2012 at 11:51 am
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The Beast turned loose in New Orleans
Benjamin Butler fed starving Southerners and prevented
the spread of deadly disease, but nobody remembers that.
By Alan G. Gauthreaux
Crescent City captured
A New York …
Published: March 07, 2012 at 11:49 am
Lincoln urges farmers to go west, McClellan stalls and a new Rebel commander takes over
May
3 – Confederate General Joseph Johnston orders troops to evacuate Norfolk, Va. Evacuation is completed May 10, and on May 11, the crew of …
Tim and Elizabeth Rowland |
Published: March 07, 2012 at 11:48 am
The J.E.B. Stuart statue in Richmond, Va.New messages for old statues?
It wasn't quite art, but it wasn't quite vandalism either. So Richmond, Va., police and park employees were a bit stumped at how to handle ink-on-canvas plaques that were …
Alan G. Gauthreaux |
Published: March 07, 2012 at 11:47 am
Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler cleans up and clamps down on the rebellious Crescent City
Joe Johnston |
Published: March 07, 2012 at 11:46 am
Thomas Lewis had avoided war -- until it invaded his own farm
Published: March 07, 2012 at 11:45 am
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, by David W. Blight,
Belknap Press , 2011, $27.95
Just before his death in 1870, Robert E. Lee wrote in a letter to a former aide, Lt. Col. Charles Marshall, …
Published: January 12, 2012 at 11:13 am
Stunning events on land and sea: Naval warfare is reinvented and a placid church gets a bloodbath
March
March 3 – President Lincoln appoints Andrew Johnson, the only Southern U.S. senator to remain loyal after his state seceded, military governor …
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