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Battlefields&Beyond: New York City

Harold Holzer | Published: May 17, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Harold Holzer's Top 13 Civil War Sites in NYC.

Times Square Tiles

Published: May 17, 2012 at 10:44 am
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Battlefields and Beyond: South Mountain Struggle

John D. Hoptak | Published: March 27, 2012 at 4:56 pm
June Issue Extra: Lee’s first invasion of Union territory was turned back at the Battle of South Mountain

Sites From the Battle of South Mountain, 1862

Published: March 27, 2012 at 4:37 pm

Major General Adelbert Ames: Forgotten Man of the 20th Maine

Dana B. Shoaf | Published: March 27, 2012 at 3:58 pm
June Issue Extra: Adelbert Ames preceded Joshua Chamberlain as colonel of the 20th Maine

Union at Shiloh

Published: February 07, 2012 at 11:48 am
A letter from Pvt. William Christie, 1st Minnesota Battery, to his father. Christie's battery lost three men killed and six men wounded. I supposed you have heard of the great battle on the 6th and 7th of this month. …

Confederates at Shiloh

Published: February 07, 2012 at 11:20 am
On April 6, 1862, following the first day of fighting, General Ulysses Grant ordered Union gunboats on the Tennessee River to fire broadsides all through the night, in an effort to unnerve the enemy. John S. Cockerill of the 70th …

Louisa May Alcott Goes to War

Robert Sattelmeyer | Published: January 30, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Eager to support the North, the budding author volunteered for a fledgling corps of female nurses

Eyewitness Account: The Battle of Shiloh

Published: January 30, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Union Lieutenant William M. Reid recounts the Battle of Shiloh. PLUS: Three other accounts of the battle.

George Crook at the Battle of Kernstown

Scott C. Patchan | Published: December 06, 2011 at 11:46 am
Did the Union general’s refusal to listen cost him the Second Battle of Kernstown?

Is It Mosby

Published: December 06, 2011 at 11:45 am
Is this a previously unknown portrait of the Gray Ghost?

Civil War Book Reviews

Published: December 06, 2011 at 11:39 am
From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature, by Randall Fuller (Oxford University Press, 2010) Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America, by Davis S. Reynolds (Norton, 2010) REVIEWED BY NAN …

Longstreet - Scapegoat or Culprit

Glenn Tucker | Published: December 06, 2011 at 11:36 am
Did Lee order Longstreet to attack at dawn on July 2 at Gettysburg? Did Longstreet drag his feet because he disapproved?

Civil War Ship Models

Published: October 05, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Ship Modeler Ed Parent shares his love of naval history.

Unfinished Railroad Cut at Second Manassas

Earl McElfresh | Published: October 05, 2011 at 2:40 pm
A railroad to nowhere gave Confederates a tactical advantage at Second Manassas.

Battlefields&Beyond: London, UK

Thomas E. Sebrell | Published: October 05, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Rebels ruled in Merry Old England.
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