American Civil War
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 …
Alexandra Filipowski and Hugh T. Harrington |
Published: March 16, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Where is the final resting place of Confederate Private Edwin F. Jemison, killed at Malvern Hill?
W. Cullen Sherwood and Ben Ritter |
Published: March 12, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Who really did capture Percy Wyndham, adventurer, son of an English lord, and a colonel in the 1st New Jersey Cavalry during America's Civil War?
Published: February 13, 2007 at 12:24 pm
In the final week of the war in Virginia, small villages, crossroads and railroad depots previously untouched by the fighting took on enormous importance as Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant sought to bring General Robert E. Lee to bay and …
Thomas M. Hammond |
Published: January 29, 2007 at 11:56 am
William H. Carney's grit with the 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner earned him the distinction of being the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor.
Published: January 17, 2007 at 11:55 am
For most general officers, a headline-making victory accompanied by the abject surrender of an entire enemy army, such as Ulysses "Unconditional Surrender" Grant accomplished at Fort Donelson in February 1862, would have been quite enough for one career. But Grant …
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