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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
A dusty attic chamber and dogged research yielded a remarkable relic—the long-lost sword carried by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw....
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
For many former slaves, the battle for freedom did not end with Union victory in the Civil War...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
The Civil War-era contributions of African Americans from Maryland’s coastline helped shape a new nation...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
The rise and fall of Martin Delany, the U.S. Army’s visionary first black officer.
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Harrisburg, PA., was the heartbeat of a state that produced much-needed men and materiel for the Union. ...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
The Civil War, which cost roughly 750,000 lives, including more than 200,000 battlefield deaths, is America’s deadliest conflict. It could have been worse....
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
You need a keen imagination to understand the fighting at Nashville...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
On June 15, 1864, at Petersburg, Va., African American troops captured Confederate forts and defeated stereotypes....
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
By the close of 1864, Wilmington, was the only port still controlled by the Rebels. Despite the Federal blockade, an estimated 80% goods made it through....
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
Over an illustrious 20-year career, FBI agent Robert K. Wittman recovered an estimated $300 million worth of stolen artworks and historical relics. Notably, these included many precious Civil War artifacts which preserve for all of us the...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
Control of coastal North Carolina was critical in the Civil War. The inlets and sounds behind the Outer Banks sheltered ships running the Union blockade. ...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Joseph McGill began sleeping in slave cabins to draw attention to endangered buildings, but his efforts evolved into a platform for dialogue about slavery.
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Drawing on personal stories, Ed Ayers follows two counties through the Confederate invasion of Gettysburg to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and the contentious struggles that followed to cross “the boundary between the war and...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
In the spring of 1865, about a month before the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, Union Lieutenant Richard Baxter Foster waged a very different war in the Trans-Mississippi West. Baxter was, he explained in a March 8 letter to...
