American Civil War
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 …
Media Release |
Published: February 05, 2010 at 2:48 pm
U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) introduced the “Petersburg National Boundary Modification Act,” to protect 7,200 additional acres of historic battlefields around Petersburg, which would create the largest military park in the United States.
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.
Published: January 27, 2010 at 10:18 am
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Why Cotton Got to Be King
Those Southern planters were always looking for the Next Big Thing.
by Robert Behre
The Race Is On
John Brown spooked politicos all over …
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 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 was …
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.
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