America’s Civil War
Edward G. Longacre |
Published: March 01, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Fightin’ Joe: Taunted by subordinates and sometimes ignored by his commander, Joseph Wheeler managed to keep Braxton Bragg from drowning in a Tennessee bloodbath
Robert K. Krick |
Published: February 24, 2010 at 6:02 pm
John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal
It would be hard to imagine a more vivid biographical subject than John Bankhead Magruder. The colorful, emotional and controversial Confederate general, a notable figure during the Army of Northern Virginia's 1862 defense of …
Tim and Elizabeth Rowland |
Published: February 24, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Civil War Preservation Trust announces latest campaign
Fundraising has begun for the preservation of a crucial two-acre parcel on the Gettysburg battlefield. The property, originally part of the historic Philip Snyder farm, lies along the Emmitsburg Road and is entirely …
Kim A. O'Connell |
Published: January 27, 2010 at 10:21 am
When American academic Thomas E. Sebrell II recently led several students through London's historic Kensal Green cemetery—armed with clippers, shears and historical records—the underbrush and thorns they slogged through tore both clothing and skin. Yet the group pressed on in …
Michael C. Hardy |
Published: January 27, 2010 at 10:21 am
Two words came to define McDowell’s military prowess for the general’s most critical
superiors: ‘Bull’ and ‘Run’
Kim A. O'Connell |
Published: January 27, 2010 at 10:19 am
For Ed Bearss, the past is prologue.
Recalling the National Park Service's response to the war's centennial, its former chief historian reflects on a new milestone.
What impact will the sesquicentennial have on battlefield parks?
In 1955, the Park Service …
Peter Cozzens |
Published: January 27, 2010 at 10:18 am
Behind the scenes in the case of a president on trial.
Parke Pierson |
Published: January 26, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Hinton R Helper's book "The Impending Crisis Of The South: How to Meet It," published in 1857, was a call for the confederate south to abandon slave and adopt industrialization.
Published: January 26, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell and the Virginia Civil War sesquicentennial commission remember the war that split the state in two. Literally. Interview by Chris HowlandVirgina House Speaker Bill Howell. Photo by Kevin Johnson.
Why did the Virginia legislature …
Jim Bradshaw |
Published: January 26, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Defenseless Yankees were no match for a girl named Babette.
Tim and Elizabeth Rowland |
Published: January 26, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Civil War battle strategy can be tricky enough itself to convey, but that wasn’t what was giving German journalist Hermann Schmid problems in Gettysburg last fall.
Published: January 26, 2010 at 12:42 pm
‘Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds’
Jason Emerson |
Published: January 26, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Lincoln's Political Generals, by David Work
University of Illinois Press, 2009
Abraham Lincoln made his share of mistakes as commander in chief during the Civil War, but did his politically motivated appointments of nonmilitary men as Union generals help or …
Published: January 14, 2010 at 2:23 pm
RETREAT:
FIRST CALL:
CALL TO ARMS:
CALL TO THE COLORS:
GENERAL QUARTERS: …
Robert Behre |
Published: November 19, 2009 at 3:27 pm
The South’s cash crops buoyed America’s trade and industry before the war—but the planter economy could be as volatile as Wall Street
Published: November 11, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Worry over a nation torn apart etched itself in the visage of Abraham Lincoln.
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