He Was a New Union Lieutenant at Shiloh. The Horrors He Witnessed Left Scars That Never Healed.
A young Union lieutenant and his fellow Ohioans learn the horrors of war on Shiloh’s opening day
Is Everything We Think We Know About Pickett’s Charge… Wrong?
J.E.B. Stuart’s intentions during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg have long been misinterpreted
At First, Antietam Was Her Summer Job. Now She’s Calling the Shots—and Making Big Changes.
Interpretation of the epic September 17, 1862, battle—deemed the single bloodiest day in American history—is also being revisited
Clement Vallandigham Reexamined: A Review of Lincoln’s Northern Nemesis
At most a footnote figure, he is chiefly remembered as the target of an aggressive federal crackdown on free speech
Savage Showdown: Cole’s Cavalry Versus Mosby’s Rangers
Partisan Rangers, Cole’s Cavalry spent early 1864 in a bitter struggle for the upper hand in “Mosby’s Confederacy”
How Union General Robert H. Milroy Spent His Life Trying Redeem His Reputation
Until his death, Union General Robert H. Milroy never stopped trying to redeem his reputation, badly scarred in defeat at Second Winchester
How Union Leaders Sought to Exploit Rebel In-Fighting After the Fall of Atlanta
Lincoln, Sherman hoped to leverage government unrest in Richmond and Georgia to secure an early peace deal after Atlanta fell
How the Union Capture of Brown’s Ferry Changed the War in the West
Grant adopted an ambitious plan to reduce by half the 60 miles of treacherous, rain-gutted roads from the Union supply center at Bridgeport, Ala., to Chattanooga by establishing a new route
Smallpox: A Common Enemy During the Civil War
Vaccination efforts became standard for both armies desperate to prevent the spread of deadly smallpox
Smile! The Evolution of Dentistry During the Civil War
The first appointment of a non-commissioned dental officer in the U.S. Army would not occur until 1872, and a separate U.S. Army Dental Corps would not be established until 1911, only a few years before World War I
How a Violent Little 1862 Cavalry Clash Sent Confederates a Message that Union Troopers Could Fight
An 1862 cavalry clash at Boonsboro, Md., changed the scoresheet for Union troopers
History in Focus: Civil War Photography
In 2001 Bob Zeller co-founded the Center for Civil War Photography to pursue "windows into history"
As Memory Serves: Lee’s 1862 Trek Into Maryland, In Artists’ Eyes
Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia From the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862, explores in detail the critical second stage of General Robert E. Lee’s 1862 Maryland Campaign
Kith and Kin: The Battle for the Heart of the Confederacy
Union and Confederate 1st Marylanders battled here with control of the Shenandoah Valley at stake
General Charles Smith’s Two-Front War
General Charles Smith’s distinguished military career nearly unraveled in Paducah, Ky. — the “victim of a base conspiracy”
A Worse Place Than Hell: A Review of the Union Debacle at Fredericksburg
John Matteson eschews history on the grand scale for a view shaped by the experiences of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Pelham, Walt Whitman, Arthur Fuller, and Louisa May Alcott
