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MOC Interview

Published: October 01, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Waite Rawls Revels in His Role as the Keeper of the Confederacy's Complex Legacy S. Waite Rawls has a name and heritage befitting a Confederate general. A Virginia Military Institute graduate, he's got so many Rebel ancestors that he has …

Antietam Remembered

Thomas G. Clemens | Published: August 25, 2010 at 4:34 pm
A veteran of Antietam spent his life collecting accounts of the war’s most horrific fighting

Crazy Boston Corbett Killed John Wilkes Booth

Eric Niderost | Published: August 25, 2010 at 4:29 pm
John Wilkes Booth’s killer achieved instant fame—but folks soon realized he was just plain crazy

What if Lee had been a Yankee?

Published: August 04, 2010 at 7:54 am
If you are viewing this from an IPhone or IPad, click here. …

My Summer Battlefield Tour Pick

Published: July 07, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Civil War Times editor Dana Shoaf gives his summer battlefield tour tip—Perryville, Kentucky.

Richard Ewell at Gettysburg

Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White | Published: July 06, 2010 at 10:36 am
Second-Guessing Dick Ewell: Why didn’t the Confederate general take Cemetery Hill on July 1, 1863?

Lee's Unwritten Memoir

Published: July 06, 2010 at 10:31 am
Why didn’t Robert E. Lee write his memoirs?

Is General Stanley A. McChrystal more like General John Pope or George McClellan?

Published: June 23, 2010 at 3:04 pm
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann compares President Obama's predicament with General McChrystal to Lincoln's decision about General John Pope.

Peter Cozzens: My Favorite Civil War Book

Peter Cozzens | Published: June 17, 2010 at 11:30 am
Civil War editor Dana Shoaf interviews Civil War author Pete Cozzens.

My Favorite Civil War General

Dana Shoaf | Published: June 07, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Editor Dana Shoaf tells which Civil War general is his favorite in his first Civil War Times video blog.

Explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal

Judith Giesberg | Published: April 13, 2010 at 4:45 pm
‘Noble Union Girls’: The thousands of Northern women who worked in Federal arsenals risked their lives for the cause.

Mobile Gains CSS Alabama Cannon

Published: April 13, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Crewmen aboard CSS Alabama pose next to the same type of 32-pounder that was recovered from the ship's wreck site. Courtesy of the Museum of Mobile.The state of Alabama never saw the sloop CSS Alabama, which was built for …

Causes of the Civil War

Gary W. Gallagher | Published: April 13, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Americans who lived through the Civil War established four great interpretive traditions regarding the conflict. The Union Cause tradition framed the war as preeminently an effort to maintain a viable republic in the face of secessionist actions that threatened both …

Israel Richardson at Antietam

John D. Hoptak | Published: April 13, 2010 at 4:43 pm
A Rising Star Struck Down in His Prime Until Antietam: The Life and Letters of Major General Israel B. Richardson, U.S. Army, by Jack C. Mason, Southern Illinois University Press Up to the moment he was mortally wound­ed along Antietam's …

Slave to Soldier: Fighting for Freedom

Paul D. Escott | Published: April 13, 2010 at 4:38 pm
‘We Must Make Free Men of Them’ Confederate General Patrick Cleburne wanted to enlist slaves to fight for the Rebel cause

Resources: June 2010

Published: March 29, 2010 at 4:05 pm
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