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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
The Confederacy’s Western Theater fighters get little attention compared to their eastern counterparts The army of Tennessee has always lived in the shadow of the Army of Northern Virginia. During the war, it labored under a succession...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Their faces peer out at us from photographs now some 150 years old. These solemn men, five general officers of the Confederacy, stand or sit proudly for their portraits, each resplendent in his gray uniform. We’ve seen these images and...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
From Charlottesville, Va., to New Orleans, La., the removal of Confederate statues from public spaces and the debates over their removal are making national news. Numerous other Southern communities, large and small, are reconsidering the...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
James R. Chalmers was not satisfied. The Mississippian had enjoyed a long, successful life, making his name and fortune as a lawyer and a planter; as a vocal member of the Mississippi Secession Convention and then as a Confederate general;...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Brandon Bies, the new superintendent of Manassas National Battlefield Park, began his career as an archaeologist 16 years ago at Monocacy National Battlefield. He moved on to increasing levels of responsibility at a number of NPS sites,...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Cruel war allowed the Confederate general only two chances to see his beloved daughter. Even as Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson supervised the movement of his Second Corps from the Shenandoah Valley toward Fredericksburg, Va., in late...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
Ambrose Ransom Wright did not complete his after-action report for the Battle of Gettysburg until September 28, 1863—nearly three months after the battle. We do not know why it took the Confederate brigadier so long. After all, his...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Matthew Hulbert started with Jesse James and ended up exploring how the Civil War helped win the West. His 2016 The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West showcases how guerrilla...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
General Roswell Ripley couldn’t get along with anyone.
Not even Robert E. Lee.
For nearly four years Roswell Sabine Ripley wore the wreath and three stars of a Confederate general officer, despite being an unmistakable Yankee by any...
