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This & That Crisis in Charleston
imminent attack. Protecting the women and children made perfect sense to everyone, the officers, the men, and the Charlestonians. The move aroused no suspicion. A…
The Unfinished Fight The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Many American grocers in the mid-19th century began their business in the tea trade. The Antebellum United States was predominantly rural and agrarian. If food pr…
The Graphic War Preserve. Educate. Inspire.
Americans tend to forget that politics in America has always been a blood sport. They also forget that America once held a presidential election in the midst of a…
Spared & Shared Battle of Roanoke Island Letter
The next morning we did not move but the small boats were in advance to lookout the ground. Friday morning the 7th, orders were to move on and so we did—the gunbo…
N-SSA celebrates its 75th Anniversary with History, Competition
The North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) held its 152nd National Competition October 3-5, 2025 at Fort Shenandoah near Winchester, Va. Member units compete in…
Fort McAllister Southern Sentinel on Georgia’s Ogeechee River
Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia, was an invincible Confederate stronghold during most of the American Civil War. The bastion’s sturdy…
Emerging Civil War The Book of General Stevenson
Icracked the book open carefully, conscious of its old spine. I didn’t know what shape its pages might be in, either. The book, an edition of Dennis Hart Mahan’s…
Critic’s Corner
The best battle books describe the fighting with enough I call the difference between the practical and the sublime. detail to be definitive without sinking to ex…
Civil War Book Reviews
Letters that Deepen Our Understanding of Lincoln and His Era Rescued from Obscurity A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Li…
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust The 2025 Annual Conference
William Murrell, A History of American Graphic Humor, NY, Whitney Museum of Art, 1933, Vol. I, 11. Library of Congress, object description. Many of the descriptio…
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes
his article highlights female doctors in the Civil War, describing fewer women than the roles typically discussed in “Vision and Valor.” One reason for the small…
Through the Lens Does the General Expect us to Fly?
In retrospect, Gen. Robert E. Lee had no definite tactical plan for his Pennsylvania campaign. Thinking he was facing Gen. Joseph Hooker, Lee likely thought that…
This & That CSS Florida: early Trials and Tribulations
n a recent issue, I wrote of the final days of the CSS Florida and the diplomatic row which followed the ship’s capture by a Federal warship in a neutral port. Th…
The Graphic War John G. Keyser, Artist Soldier for the 24th N.J.
The Graphic War John G. Keyser Artist Soldier for the 24th New Jersey The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meanin…
The Dentist, The Emperor, and the American civil war
In the mid-19th century, a few American-trained dentists emigrated to Europe to practice their profession. Among them was 25-year-old Dr. Thomas W. Evans of Phila…
Library of Congress Collection 10-inch Columbiad in Charleston.
Confederate Brig. Gen. Roswell S. Ripley, commander of the Charleston District in Beauregard’s department, always worried about Federal ironclad gunboats getting…
Emerging Civil War Where Has the Time Flown?
By Chris Mackowski, Ph.D. Where Has the Time Flown? Third grade. I could hardly believe it. Wearing his favorite shirt, my youngest son, Maxwell, climbed onto the…
Critic’s Corner Harwell’s “In Tall Cotton”
“Confederate history has survived its eras of apology, of brag and bombast, of pietistic biography, of debunking, of reappraisal and revisionism,” Richard Barksda…
Civil War Book Reviews
Forgotten Kansas Union Soldier and U.S. Senator The Forgotten Senator: The Life and Character of Preston B. Plumb, by Johanna D. Wickman. Forward, acknowledgments…
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust Vision and Valor:
In December 1883, twenty-one years after the Battle of from the paved roads, utility lines, and automobiles that Fredericksburg, George C. Smithe, formerly a corp…
American Digger’s Antique
For the eighth year in a row, the Camp Jordan Arena in East Ridge, Tennessee, July 26-27, welcomed one of the Southeast’s premier gatherings for Civil War, antiqu…
47th Southeastern Civil War Show & Antique Gun show News
were plant based, and a number of plants were indigenous only in the Southern states. From a physician’s perspective, this was one of the few bright spots of the…
47th Annual Southeastern Civil War and Antique Gun Show
The North Georgia Relic Hunters Association held its 47th Annual Southeastern Civil War and Antique Gun Show on August 9-10, 2025. The show was held at the Cobb C…
Vision and Valor: The War Through Women’s eyes
This Vision and Valor article takes a detour from the usual focus on women’s roles in the Civil War. uring the Civil War, more than 95% of soldiers volunteered to…