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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.
Emerging Civil War Bentonville, N.C.
Where the Familiar Seems Different From a tour bus, the fields that comprise most of the Bentonville battlefield look flat and open. But as I stood on the edge of…
Critic’s Corner Reading Mary Boykin Chestnut
…will never be the same. Like you, probably, I grew up reading Mrs. Chesnut’s Diary from Dixie decades ago in a paperback reprint of the 1949 edition, as prepared…
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Emerging Civil War Blog Posts in a Single Package War in the Western Theater: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War. E…
Charleston Free Badge
By 1790 Charleston was the fourth largest city in America, with a population and in excess of 16,000 inhabitants. Of these, 7,684 were enslaved and 586 were “free…
Burnside’s Invasion of East Tennessee: A More Accurate View of
While much has been written about the advance of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s Army of the Ohio into East Tennessee in late August 1863, many narratives are per…
Burnside’s Invasion of East Tennessee
On September 23, 1862, three days after the Maryland Campaign came to its bloody conclusion near Shepherdstown (West) Virginia, the U.S. Secretary of War, Edwin M…
Behind the Lines
The Civil War has been declared dead more than once. That is, pundits have declared that interest in the subject has fallen off and Americans’ attentions have gon…
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes
he previous articles in this “Vision and Valor” series have focused on hundreds of thousands of women, whose names are known only to God, who made crucial and sig…
The Unfinished Fight Vision and Valor:
For a nation composed of rebellious states to wage war, it must possess the financial resources to procure essential supplies such as weapons, armaments, horses,…
The Graphic War Annie Powell and the
The Graphic War An n i e P ow e l l an d Th e G reat S e a l o f t h e Co n f e de r acy By Salvatore Cilella The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers fr…
THE UNFINISHED FIGHT:
The images accompanying this column are straightforward, chosen to highlight a specific historical point. A decade before the Civil War erupted, the U.S. military…
Robbed of Reason: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Civil War
Acurrent thread in Civil War scholarship debates the destructiveness of the conflict. Some historians cite numerous examples of ruins-filled cities like Frederick…
Robbed of Reason:
t was painfully clear in the fall of 1865 that Daniel M. Stearns had been deeply changed by war. His friends and family watched as the veteran struggled to functi…
REMEMBERING PETER CARMICHAEL
any different communities—his neighbors on Tiffany Ln., the Gettysburg area, present and former constituents of Gettysburg College, and the broad community of Civ…
Preservation News This & That
Preservation Triumphs: Middletown’s Commitment to Honoring its Heritage The preservation of 30 acres in Middletown, Virginia, stands as a testament to the unwaver…
Mathematically Impossible
he October 8, Summer and fall had 1862, Battle of been oppressively “I believed that a charge would end in my Perryville, Ky., hot, and water was death and the de…
Emerging Civil War A Trip to New Orleans
By 8 a.m., the French Quarter feels more like a French bakery, although the smells aren’t nearly so aromatic. It’s New Orleans in July, after all. Here and there,…
Critic’s Corner
ne of the pleasures of senescence is the availability of time to re-read literary classics. In that anticipation of joyfulness—or maybe just satisfaction—I pulled…
Civil war Show News
The North Georgia Relic Hunters Association held its 46th Annual Southeastern Civil War and Antique Gun Show on August 10-11, 2024. The show was held at the Cobb…
CIVIL WAR
Homage to their Distinguished Mentor The War that Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher. Edited by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Ca…
Burnside’s Invasion of East Tennessee: A History of Misinformation Part 1
Introduction Authors and historians sometimes present a tarnished view of significant historical events. Published accounts of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s Aug…
Burnside’s Invasion of East Tennessee Financing the Civil War:
Joseph Stalin, we all know, was responsible for mountains of statistics. As one reads about the Civil War, one encounters statistics that, though mere hillocks in…
Band LeaderHistorian Continues to March Forward with AEF Band
Jari Villanueva served with the United States Air Band in Washington, D.C., from 1985 to 2008 as a ceremonial trumpeter, bugler, and staff arranger. While he reti…
America Battlefield Trust Preserve. Educate. Inspire.
Save 132 Acres at Three Historic Civil War Battlefields Demolition at Slaughter Pen Marks Final Phase in Preservation Project In late July, the Trust demolished t…