American Civil War
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 26, 2010 at 12:38 pm
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A Port in the Storm
The surge of secession provokes an ocean of worry in Annapolis.
By Mike Clem
Growing Pains
With all that bickering in the East, no wonder the West …
Jack Knox |
Published: November 19, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Read the poem tribute to General Nathan Bedford Forrest's horse Roderick.
Chris Howland |
Published: October 30, 2008 at 10:36 am
The Battle of Ox Hill or Chantilly, in Virginia, has been commemorated with a new battlefield park along Rt. 608. The Sept. 1, 1862, battle was fought in a rainstorm and resulted in the death of Union generals Philip Kearny and Isaac Stevens.
Gary R. Rice |
Published: September 23, 2008 at 8:01 pm
On two separate battlefields, Union General Daniel Sickles carelessly exposed his men -- and the entire army -- to possible defeat. Only the quick actions of other Federal officers managed to compensate for Sickles' errors and keep his mistakes from becoming disasters. It was life as usual for 'Devil Dan.'
Published: September 03, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Did Confederate generals ever consider a direct attack on Washington during the Civil War? Noted author Steven A. Sears answers that question for a Military History Quarterly reader.
Published: September 03, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Military History Quarterly's new editor, William H. Horne, writes about World War II's East Front, Apache chief Victorio, black troops at New Market Heights, and the trustworthiness of ancient writers' statistics.
Noah Andre Trudeau |
Published: August 27, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Standard histories of Major General William T. Sherman’s celebrated March to the Sea invariably portray the Confederacy’s response as inconsequential. Such broad generalizations may assuage wounded Southern pride, but they also rewrite history.
Mary Roy Dawson Edwards |
Published: August 27, 2008 at 6:24 pm
An overlooked manuscript in Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, contains a memoir about Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson by a man who was with him from VMI to Manassas.
Stephen J. Recker |
Published: August 14, 2008 at 4:38 pm
O. T. Reilly was an early relic collector and tour guide living near the Antietam battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. This article includes photos of many of the relics he collected.
Marc Leepson |
Published: July 11, 2008 at 11:44 am
Indestructible Confederate general John B. Gordon survived multiple wounds and serious illnesses during the Civil War. From First Manassas to Appomattox, he proved nothing could keep a good man down.
Peter S. Carmichael |
Published: June 03, 2008 at 6:56 pm
The Civil War letters of two North Carolina soldiers reveal discontent in the post-Gettysburg Army of Northern Virginia.
Buck T. Foster |
Published: June 29, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Before Gen. Willliam T. Sherman made Georgia howl, he burned a path through Mississippi, waging a war of destruction that left Southern civilians just enough for survival but not enough to support Confederate military activity.
Published: May 11, 2007 at 10:12 am
Lieutenant Freeman S. Bowley was fighting for his life in the man-made hellhole that was the Petersburg Crater when he noticed that the former slaves in his company of the 30th United States Colored Troops were not the only men …
Published: May 04, 2007 at 1:50 pm
A ragged line of Union soldiers stood in a field along Goose Creek in Rectortown, Virginia, on November 6, 1864. They jostled, chatted and joked with each other, pleased to be outdoors on a brisk autumn day. As prisoners of …
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