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Confederate Flags in Times Square?

Published: May 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Is it, or isn't it? That is our question!

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.

Sherman's Folly at Shiloh

Winston Groom | Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Before one of the Civil War’s most brutal battles, one of its finest generals ignored signs of danger—and paid a steep price

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.

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?

Portfolio: Navy Posters

Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:25 pm
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Online Gallery: Navy Posters

Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Brawny sailors load a gun in a navy recruiting poster from World War I. (Library of Congress) MHQ Home Page MHQ's Winter 2012 issue features a story about how the U.S. navy has reinvented itself—and the American sailor—over the …

Civil War Ship Models

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

Battlefields&Beyond: London, UK

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

Battle of Balls Bluff

William Marvel | Published: August 08, 2011 at 2:37 pm
End of the Gentleman’s War: Bungled messages and poor leadership result in a Union disaster at Ball’s Bluff

DVD Review - Wartorn 1861-2010, from exec. prod. James Gandolfini

R.V. Lee | Published: June 28, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Wartorn goes back to our nation's deadliest war, to letters written by Pennsylvania rifleman Angelo Creapsey describing his despair, and shows how in a century and a half we've barely moved off the dime to address the issue of PTSD.

Mississippi Flooding - Are Historic Sites Threatened?

Gerald D. Swick | Published: May 16, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Will the 2011 Mississippi River floods endanger historic sites?

McClellan's War-Winning Strategy

Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
The "young Napoleon" had a viable plan to beat the Confederacy. What went wrong?
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