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Every article indexed from the pages of Civil War News — 438 of them across90 issues, 2016 to 2026. Each one opens the full text on civilwarnews.com.
Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
Most “Vision and Valor” articles focus on women’s lives and roles during the Civil War. However, the lives of Civil War women did not begin with the firing on For…
This & That
n the two previous issues, I wrote about three men who played various roles in the tense standoff in Charleston Harbor between Lincoln’s election in 1860 and the…
The Unfinished Fight
The vulcanized rubber ground cloth, or “gum blanket”, was a straightforward and utilitarian piece of equipment that was greatly prized by soldiers on both sides.…
The Graphic War
During the Victorian period in America, a woman’s place was in the home. The Civil War changed all that. With the man of the house off to war, much of the work, p…
Steve Davis: Requiescat in Pace
first met Steve Davis in 1982. He was the Director of – Gould Hagler Education at the Medical Association of Georgia; I was a new hire, on board as a lobbyist. On…
Spared & Shared A Time For Memory and For Tears
This well-composed letter written before Petersburg in July 1864—just days before the Battle of the Crater— was composed by Robert Nelson Traver (1841–1904) who w…
Soldier Pickups Part I Old Abe
On June 10, 1990, the Lions Club and citizens of Jim Falls, Wisconsin, held a dedication ceremony for the unveiling of a statue they had erected. The statue was o…
Ohio Civil War Show
wo hundred fifty years of American independence mark one of the most important milestones in our nation’s history, and that spirit was on full display at the Rich…
Houston CWRT Frank E. Vandiver Award
On July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of cartridges to each man and filling their stomachs. Captain Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, C.S. Gen. John Bell James E.…
General James Henry Lane
My dear Father, I barely have time to write to you to tell you that we have been in several terrible engagements with the enemy, first in the Wilderness & then at…
Civil War Book Reviews
Detailed Account of Thirty-Nine Days of the Atlanta Campaign The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 2: From the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain, May 20 – June 27, 1864. B…
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
During the Chancellorsville Campaign, the 53rd Georgia Infantry’s Pvt. William Stilwell took a few minutes to pen some lines to his wife Molly. Writing on May 2,…
CWRTNY 75th Anniversary
On May 16, the Civil War Round Table of New York celebrated its 75th anniversary, making it one of the oldest round tables dedicated to the study of the American…
Blue & Gray Education Society The Guns at Raymond
Founded in 1994, Blue and Gray Education (BGES), was the vision of retired Air Force Major Leonard (Len) Riedel, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute and a 2…
Award in Publication Excellence Presented to Terry L. Futrell
The East Tennessee Historical Society presented an Award in Publication Excellence to Terry L. Futrell on May 5 for his 2-part series on Burnside’s invasion of Ea…
A Healer’s Hat and Manual Fannie Palmer, Artist
Objects relating to hospital stewards who served either Army during the Civil War are incredibly rare, so the National Museum of Civil War Medicine was pleased wh…
Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
This article describes the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) and women’s roles associated with it. These roles involved many thousands of women, including…
Two Artists: One Forgotten Battle
General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, ordered his commanders to move from their earthworks and to cross the Potomac River from Maryla…
Through the Lens It Fairly Made the Earth Shake
By April 1863, Confederate forces had successfully along the engines for protection, while hay and cotton bales repulsed six separate Federal attempts to seize we…
This & That The Accomplishment of This One Object
n the last issue, I wrote about Robert Anderson, the commander at Fort Sumter, and Samuel Cooper, the U.S. Army’s adjutant general when the crisis at Sumter began…
The Unfinished Fight Photo Analysis
This is an unusual gold-tinted tin-type of a Union Civil War soldier identified as Horace H. Smith of the 16th Wisconsin Company G. Smith enlisted on November 11,…
The Graphic War The Connecticut Plan
The lithographic firm of Currier and Ives was not known for its political cartoons. Rather, it chose to document the battles and leaders of the Civil War with an…
The 31st Annual Chickamauga Civil War Show
The 31st Annual Chickamauga Civil War Show while encouraging others to participate and share their own returned to the Dalton Convention Center in Dalton, collect…
Spared & Shared
At one time I thought I would give up and be taken prisoner. Then I thought I might get hit before I could get out of the woods on their side so I risked the gett…