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Vietnam Magazine
U.S. Military Payment Certificates were an integral part of the Vietnam experience, and like so much else in the war, they played a more complicated role than intended. For GIs, Military Payment Certificates, along with dog tags, combat...
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Vietnam Magazine
When the troops of the Cacti Blue unleashed a crushing air combat assault, they had a VC Local Force Battalion right where they wanted: caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. “Damn it!” I yelled. “What’s the matter...
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Vietnam Magazine
God and all North Vietnam could see us. We were outside Khe Sanh on Operation Scotland II and had stopped at midday to take a bit of rest and to eat. Very tired from humping the hills on this operation, we had set up on the side of a hill...
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Vietnam Magazine
More Noel Thanks so much for your August article and update on Chris Noel. It’s nice to know she is doing well. All those who traveled with the USO shows deserve our appreciation and respect, but none more than Chris Noel. She did indeed...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Buster Keaton was unquestionably the king of American silent cinema, and of all the films he created,his favorite had a Civil War theme.Almost 30 years before Walt Disney and Fess Parker fascinated television-watching kids with the story...
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America's Civil War Magazine
civilwarwomen.blogspot.com When it comes to the women of the Civil War period, most people are still only familiar with the “usual suspects”—nurses like Clara Barton, former slaves like Sojourner Truth and famous wives like Varina...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Recipe for (temporary) Federal-Confederate Reconciliation: 500 chickens, 30 hams and countless pies, all served alfresco at Camp Letterman. The Battle of Gettysburg had been over for two months, but more than 1,600 badly wounded Union and...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Restoration Starts on Mosby Rendezvous Church One of the most significant buildings related to Confederate John Singleton Mosby’s storied career is soon launching an important restoration. During the Civil War, Mount Zion Old School...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Great-grandfather was a bugler Joseph Bilby’s article (“Load the Hopper and Turn the Crank,” July issue) put me more in touch with one of my forefathers. Captain Albert Mack of the 18th New York Light Artillery is buried in the...
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America's Civil War Magazine
To triumph in their 1858 contest, Lincoln and Douglas each had to score politically on the platform and in the press—and do it with style. “No,I do not want to go into a debate with Lincoln.” Stephen A. Douglas, incumbent U.S....
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America's Civil War Magazine
On July 4, 1842, Caroline Quarlls, a 16-year-old St. Louis slave, made her escape to freedom and lived to write about it 38 years later. She had thought about running away for more than a year,had managed to acquire $100, but had yet to...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Ten years ago, after introducing Tony Horwitz to the world of “Civil Wargasms,” I ended up on the cover of his bestseller. Life has never been the same. Time is an odd thing. It is strange to think it has been 10 years since...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Upper Midwest Civil War Museum Coming in June In June, a new Civil War museum will open, and it won’t be located in Virginia or Pennsylvania, or near a battlefield, or anywhere along the Eastern seaboard. Instead, the museum will sit...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina’s Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era by Richard M. Reid, University of North Carolina Press, 2008, $39.50 The Union recruited four black regiments from North Carolina. One fought with distinction,...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death by Mark S. Schantz, Cornell University Press, 2008, $24.95 At a time when the death of one or two American soldiers in Iraq or elsewhere makes national headlines...
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America's Civil War Magazine
In 1864 Bradley Johnson sets off to rescue POWs, Harry Gilmor to create a diversion—but their first engagement is dinner. It was dusk on July 9, 1864, when Confederate Major Harry Gilmor and 20 troopers of the 2nd Battalion Maryland...
