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Published: December 20, 2007 at 11:50 am
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'This Is My Last Letter to You'
By Drew Gilpin Faust
The four-year bloodbath forced Americans to confront mortality as they never had before. The resulting cultural changes linger to this day.…
Published: December 20, 2007 at 11:48 am
Failed Expectation
The Civil War dashed many expectations, and the image on this page mocks two such instances: Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and the ironclad Galena. "Little Mac" was the West Point–trained exemplar of an American military man …
Published: December 20, 2007 at 11:46 am
Drew Gilpin Faust discusses her book, "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War," a thoughtful study of the impact of the war's massive death toll on society and government.
Eric Ethier |
Published: December 20, 2007 at 11:33 am
The ironclad USS Galena failed to live up to its "impervious" reputation and ended its career as a wooden-walled warship, but it saved lives at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Published: November 15, 2007 at 3:27 pm
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Why Lew Was Late By Timothy B. Smith Union General Lew Wallace tried to convince anyone who would listen that he knew where he was and what he was doing at Shiloh …
Published: November 15, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Don't Forget Camp Morton
In the October 2007 "Ask Civil War Times" section, a reader asked whether there was a Union equivalent to the Confederacy's horrific Andersonville Prison. Your answer did not include Camp Morton, the infamous Union facility …
Published: November 15, 2007 at 3:25 pm
What brought about the defeat of the Confederacy? For many years the prevailing theory was fairly simple: The Confederacy lost by a force of arms, beaten down on battlefields such as Shiloh?(see P. 30) by numerically superior Union armies.
But …
David J. Eicher |
Published: November 15, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Politicians and generals on the Confederate side have long been lionized as noble warriors who heroically fought for an honorable cause that had little chance of succeeding. In reality, the Confederate leadership was rife with infighting.
Published: October 04, 2007 at 2:29 pm
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Against All Odds By Jason Phillips Diehard Rebels refused to accept defeat, finding strength in God, rumor and their own version of reality.
Singer's Secret Service Corp: Causing Chaos During the Civil …
Published: October 04, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Stories about a future president evolving from a greenhorn to a victorious commander in the wilds of Kentucky (P. 42), diehard Confederates who refused to lay down their arms (P. 22), veterans reuniting at Gettysburg (P. 36) and an artist …
Mark K. Ragan |
Published: October 04, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Edgar C. Singer and his Secret Service Corps pioneered underwater mine and submarine research for the Confederacy from tiny La Vaca, Texas.
Published: September 05, 2007 at 3:13 pm
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Black Soldiers, Southern Victory? By Frank van der Linden Major General Patrick Cleburne's plan to send slaves into battle fell on deaf ears and doomed his career.
Arming the South With Guns …
Published: September 05, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Madness Great and Small
The War Between the States was madness manifest on a grand scale in its enormous loss of life, limb and treasure. But madness at a more personal level also shaped the course of the war in …
Gerard A. Patterson |
Published: September 05, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Confederate battlefield victories depended in part on supplies of Northern weapons, particularly early in the war. William J. Hardee and Paul J. Semmes were sent North to procure those guns.
George Skoch |
Published: September 05, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Sergeant Clark N. Thorp of the 19th U.S. Infantry was captured at the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga. The solider from Sylvania, Ohio, later wrote this memoir of his 19 months as a prisoner at Andersonville.
Published: August 02, 2007 at 10:20 am
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The Fierce Pride of the Texas Brigade By Susannah U. Bruce Duty, honor and a fervent desire to preserve the storied reputation of the Lone Star State are what drove Robert E. …
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