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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 Fort Sumter, and they did not end with Appomattox. This article explores sources…
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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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
An Officer and His Sketchbook
Growing up in Scotland in the 1820s, young Jimmy could never have imagined that he would one day cross the Atlantic and play a meaningful role in suppressing a re…
This & That 2025 Middle Tennessee
n my last column, I wrote about events at Fort Sumter between South Carolina’s secession and April 12, 1861, when the shooting started. In this issue and the next…
The Unfinished Fight “God Bless The Russians” October 2, 1863
Harpers Weekly, October 17, 1863, noted that it was “for a goodwill gesture to show the world that Russia was lending support to the liberal government of the Uni…
The Graphic War
It all began with the Greeks. He was Heracles, the greatest Greek hero and son of Zeus and half-brother of Perseus. Somewhere in the mists of time, the Romans ado…
Hercules and the serpent Vision and Valor:
his article addresses an often-overlooked role of women during and after the Civil War: that of teaching in schools devoted to the education of former slaves. Whi…
Emerging Civil War
Apopular meme floating around Facebook for the past year or so features Ulysses S. Grant—President Grant, specifically, late in his second term. Perhaps you’ve se…
Behind the Lines
Iam often asked why Americans are so fascinated by the Civil War, and yet relatively few have any substantial interest in or knowledge of the American Revolution.…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Through the Lens One of the Fiercest Fights
spending some time building houses in the early 1830s in the fledgling village of Chicago, he went to sea as a ship’s carpenter and sailed the Pacific Ocean. He r…
The Graphic War Andersonville
uring and after the war, several printmakers such as Charles Magnus, Edward Sachse, and the Rosenthal’s in Philadelphia produced lithographic images of federal ca…
Moment of Mercy and Reflection Cooling Down
Frozen water or ice, as it is more commonly referred to, is something not taken for granted in the humid South. This was especially true during the Civil War. Whi…
Critic’s Corner The South Won the War
Actually, this genre of counterfactualism goes back further than even the past century…even before the war itself. In 1836, a fifty-two-year-old law professor at…
Awards Announced For Excellence In U.S. Army History Writing
Awards Announced For Excellence In U.S. Army History Writing FORT BELVOIR, VA – The Army Historical Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Army…
Vision and Valor The War Through Women’s Eyes
Think for a moment about all the keystrokes made on all the cell phones so constantly present in the hands of boys and girls (and adults of all ages) these days.…
This & That Through the Lens
s many readers will know, the CSS Florida was a highly-successful commerce raider. Cruising from January 1863 until October 1864, the vessel preyed on Northern sh…
The Unfinished Fight
Atraditional New Year’s dinner in the South during the mid-19th century would not be complete without serving the famous dish known as Hoppin John. It is a single…
The Graphic War
He was destined to be an historian, and he began his life’s work as an artist. John B. Bachelder was a lithographer, a photographer, and a landscape painter, yet…
Home of Joseph Holt Vision and Valor:
Joseph Holt was born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, in 1807. His family was a slave-owning family who raised tobacco and hemp on their farm near the village of…
Behind the Lines
My interest in history originated when I got interested in genealogy at a very early age, about 10 or 11. Knowing that I had ancestors who landed at Jamestown in…
Anesthesia
Anesthesia was a relatively new innovation and science at the time of the Civil War. However, the search for a way to conquer pain is as old as humanity itself. E…
The Unfinished Fight Charles Derudio
Aquestion arose about whether past indiscretions might prevent someone otherwise qualified from serving in the U.S. military during the Civil War. An individual w…
The Graphic War Imagining Emancipation
Historian Richard Hofstadter labeled the legalese in the Emancipation Proclamation as “all of the grandeur of a bill of lading.” Immediately upon proclaiming free…
In Memoriam – Mort Künstler
Mort Künstler once said in an interview that he would prefer to be remembered as a great athlete, but he had to settle for being hailed as America’s most prominen…
Fighting for the Forts The War Before The War
Fort Sumter is frequently viewed as the “beginning of the Civil War.” But in reality, a small war had been underway for four months before the first shots were fi…
Emerging Civil War Civil War to Civil Rights in Montgomery, Ala.
The telegram that began the Civil War: that’s a mighty big claim. But that’s what the Alabama state historical marker at the foot of Dexter Street says, or close…
Critic’s Corner The Civil War: A Narrative Volume Three
e was to go for Lee and I was to go for Joe Johnston. That was his plan.” Shelby Foote opens his third volume of The Civil War with these words from Sherman in Ma…
Behind the Lines
If Winston Churchill really originated all the famous quotations attributed to him, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations would be called Churchill’s. One expression oft…
The Graphic War Dodging the Draft: Offering a Substitute, A
D o d g ing t h e d r a ft : Of f eri ng a S ub st i t u t e , a s ce n e i n the offi c e o f t he P rovo st M a r s h a l l The Graphic War highlights prints an…
Lincoln Forum 29th Meeting in Gettysburg
The 29th meeting of the Lincoln Forum, held November 16–18, 2024, at Gettysburg’s Wyndham Hotel, set new records for attendance, first-time attendees, and, perhap…
Fidelity: The Fighting Swearers
efore the American Revolution slavery was practiced in all 13 British colonies which were to form the United States. In the last years of the 18th century and the…
Famous Civil War Quotes
“I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln’s dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadn…
Critic’s Corner The Civil War: A Narrative Volume Two
fter an absence of two years,” Jefferson Davis declared to the Mississippi legislature upon his return on Dec. 26, 1862, recalling how he had left in February 186…
Behind the Lines
Afew fortunate people can look back on working careers spent doing what they gladly would have done for nothing. I have been one of those lucky ones. The job and…
Through the Lens My Father is Here
Confederate Gen. “Prince” John Bankhead Magruder name gracing a lake, a city, and a county. Lea interacted took command of the District of Texas, New Mexico, with…
This & That Lincoln’s Cabinet
ne of my great grandfathers died in the 1930s from an infection which developed after he suffered a minor cut. A great-great grandfather was twice widowed while h…
The Graphic War Ehrgott and Forbriger
E hrg ott an d Fo r b r i g e r , West er n L i t h o g r a p h e r s By Salvatore Cilella The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War di…
Riddick’s Folly Embraces Cordial Civil war Era Letter
When Mills Riddick’s ostentatious twenty-oneroom mansion with sixteen fireplaces was completed in 1839 next to the Nansemond County Courthouse, his neighbors mock…
John S. Clark’s Estimate of Confederate Strength, Sept. 1862
The author begins by acknowledging the seminal research on Confederate Homespun Dresses done by Vicki Betts. Betts conducted a comprehensive and exhaustive study…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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
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…
This & That Governing Arkansas in the Civil War
elatively little is written about Arkansas’ role in the Civil War. It was a small state, and though a considerable percentage of Arkansas’ men served in the South…
The Graphic War Kimmel & Fo st er : L i t h o g r a p h e r s , Part II
The Graphic War Kimmel & Fo st er : L i t h o g r a p h e r s , Part II By Salvatore Cilella The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War…
THE UNFINISHED FIGHT:
To be introduced by someone meant they were vouching for your character, which also put that person’s own reputation at risk. For this reason, the formalities of…
Stephen Lang, Jeff Shaara
Stephen Lang, Jeff Shaara Star in a Holiday Weekend Ensemble Performance at Gettysburg By Harold Holzer GETTYSBURG, PA—For award-winning actor Stephen Lang, star…
Emerging Civil War Newsletter
From Little Round Top, the view across the Valley of Death toward Devil’s Den and the Wheatfield remains as splendid and sublime as ever: a one-time landscape of…
Civil
Just as in modern times, armed opposition fuels volunteerism but is typically followed by conscription when increased mobilization is needed to bolster the ranks,…
This & That 46th Year!
similar, notable in his use of the same adjective, “appalling.” “The entire supply of gunpowder in the Confederacy at the beginning of the conflict, was scarcely…
The Unfinished Fight Peanuts and Parched Corn
No discussion of Southern Civil War rations would be complete without including peanuts. Period accounts suggest that when bread and meat were scarce, peanuts—a/k…
Gettysburg Film Festival
his time the leading attractions weren’t George Pickett (Stephen Lang) and James Longstreet (Tom Berenger) but instead were President Lincoln (Sam Waterston) and…
Tin Cans
Tin Cans The canning of food to prevent spoilage was not a new technology during the Civil War, it dated back to the early days of the 19th century (at least in E…
The War Before the War, Part 4: The Reflections of Ulysses S. Grant
The War Before the War, Part 4: The Reflections of Ulysses S. Grant This column, the final of a four-part series, will look at the Mexican War from the perspectiv…
Photographers and Lithographers: A Fragile Co-existence Part II
Photographers and Lithographers: A Fragile Co-existence Part II The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and…
Fort Boreman: Defender Of Parkersburg, West Virginia
Fort Boreman: Defender Of Parkersburg, West Virginia By Charles H. Bogart Parkersburg, West Virginia, is located at the junction of the Kanawha River with the Ohi…
Clifton, Headquarters With A View for Both Sides in 1864
Clifton, Headquarters With A View for Both Sides in 1864 By Carl L. Sell Jr Situated on a knoll in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley, the Clifton estate…
The Graphic War — September 2023
The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the printmaker or artist’s goals. Every century since the Middle…
Raphael Semmes’ Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States (1869)
One of the pleasures of—and reasons for—reading the memoirs of participants in important events is to get at their recollections, ongoing thoughts and ruminative…
Partnerships provide visitors to Civil War Trail sites with significant upgrades
Partnerships provide visitors to Civil War Trail sites with significant upgrades Two of Strasburg’s Civil War Trails sites received significant upgrades late last…
Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co.
Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. Civil War researchers have become familiar with famed wartime photographer Mathew Brady, but the names Edward and Henry T. Antho…
Ulysses S. Grant Boyhood Home and Birthplace Site Awarded the Ohio History Connection History Leadership Award for 2023
The Ulysses S. Grant Boyhood Home in Georgetown, Ohio, was named a 2023 recipient of the greatly desired Ohio History Leadership Award by the Ohio History Connect…
Gen. George Thomas
Gen. George Thomas In May 1865, after fighting in the Civil War had mostly ended, there was a parade in Washington, D.C., featuring all the Union heroes. Ulysses…
Confederate History Atop A Mountain
By Joseph Wilson Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains are a familiar destination for many folks who enjoy hiking remote trails in pursuit of the numerous beautiful wat…
Are You Going To Run Like Sheep?
Are You Going To Run Like Sheep? “I give captured slaves their freedom on the ground that they became captured captives and therefore subject to my disposal inste…
AI as a Civil War Research Tool
AI as a Civil War Research Tool This writer admits he can not explain all the workings of the latest buzz in the tech world: ChatGPT, OpenAI, etc. However, one re…
Taking the Oath: Alcohol Use in the Civil War
any traditional folksong or ballad, there are a variety of versions with different interpretations. Robert Burns wrote a version in 1782 that is certainly not a c…
Ohio Civil War & WWI & WWII Show
Ohio Civil War & WWI & WWII Show Our History ~ Not Forgotten MANSFIELD, Ohio—The “Ohio Show” is a true testament that our history is not forgotten; thousands of g…
A Grand Sight to Witness
A Grand Sight to Witness Longstreet was “sitting on his horse like an iron man with his spyglass to his eye, coolly watching the effect of our shots. Limbs of tre…
The Union Refugees
the North. White Northerners were often more sympathetic to and accommodating of, white refugees than black refugees.”6 Why the lithographic firm of John H. Buffo…
ShipIndex.org
ShipIndex.org Whether researching the brown water or navigating high-seas naval action during the American Civil War, this month's source— https://www.shipindex.o…
Military Courts and Courts-Martials – only a ‘skeleton of direction’ to Guide Rulings
Military Courts and Courts-Martials – only a ‘skeleton of direction’ to Guide Rulings By Joan Wenner, J.D. In the Civil War, notwithstanding 'command responsibili…
Jon Meacham and Jonathan W. White Win Lincoln Prize
On April 11, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History awarded the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize to historians Jon Meacham and Jonathan W. White…
Jeffry Wert to Receive Atlanta Round Table’s Harwell Award
Jeffry Wert to Receive Atlanta Round Table’s Harwell Award The Atlanta Civil War Round Table is pleased to announce that Jeffry D. Wert has been selected to recei…
Events — June 2023
plus costume competitions and historical lectures. The largest Civil War live-fire event in the country. Free admission, large sutler area, and food service. For…
Sherman’s March
fell out of fashion; by 1900, he was superseded by artists who favored authenticity and realism and was replaced by such luminary American illustrators as N. C. W…
Military Plans vs. Civilian Elections
Banks suggested that “the only speedy and certain method” to implement the Ten Percent Plan would be to hold a special election for state officials under the curr…
Faces of the Civil War
and instructor who remains a member of the Society of Civil War Historians, Historians of the Civil War Western Theater, and the Georgia Association of Historians…
Civil War Impressionists Association Claims Rocking Horse a Winner
By Bob Ruegsegger In 2022, the Civil War Impressionists Association made a highly favorable impression at Jamestown Settlement’s annual Military Through the Ages…
William Gregg and Essays on Domestic Industry
must be, of course, a longer time, and the curing of oily meat, such as pork, is more difficult than that of beef, venison, or mutton. To cure meat in the sun han…
The Atlanta Appeal Justifies Fort Pillow
announced their intentions: Lincoln’s hireling minions would deprive us of the privilege of expressing at all times our earnest God-speed to the progress of South…
Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865
Journal homepage. Researchers wishing to mine the records of the Confederate Congress may do so by visiting the Library of Congress archives at https://memory.loc…
Execution of Sioux Indians
Execution of Sioux Indians The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goals. Ev…
Events Section — April 2023
Sponsored by Col. W. P. Rogers Camp SCV #321, The 14th Annual Corinth Militaria Show will be held at 2800 South Harper Rd. in Corinth. Vendors will have all kinds…
Back to Normal—Annual Civil War Show a Success!
Back to Normal—Annual Civil War Show a Success! DALTON, Ga.—The 28th Annual Chickamauga (Dalton) Civil War Show held February 4th and 5th at the Dalton Convention…
Winslow Homer “The Sharpshooter”
Winslow Homer “The Sharpshooter” The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goa…
Soap
a meat packing industry before the Civil War. As a result of being located in Ohio, Proctor & Gamble became a major Federal supplier of soap and candles during th…
Mathew Brady Accused of Insider Trading While Visiting Grant in Virginia
On Oct. 31, 1864, Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana scrawled his signature, “C.A. Dana” on the outside of a highly sensitive three-page letter that would…
Leading the Way!
Leading the Way! Make history in Goldsboro this spring. “They led the way,” is the title for the newest Civil War Trails sign in North Carolina which was recently…
Aquia Landing and the RF&P Railroad
by Paul T. Scott Today, Stafford County, Va., has a serene waterfront park again known as Aquia Landing after having been named Aqua Po in a 1960 naming contest.…
A Mortifying Affair
A Mortifying Affair “The time is at hand when, if an attempt can be made to capture the enemy’s forces at New Berne, it should be done. I can, now spare troops fo…
A Feisty Red-head Has Her Say
Georgia (“Little Washington,” as they call it), when Sherman’s Yankee hordes swept across Georgia in their march to the sea. Judge Garnett Andrews’ estate, “Haywo…
USS Casco – A Spar Torpedo Boat of the Potomac Flotilla
by Joan Wenner, J.D. The USS Casco, first of particular class of twenty 1175ton light draft monitors was built at Boston. When launched in May 1864, it was found…
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey Historical Publications
publications listed have a ‘Related Charts’ box. Click on this box to open a new page containing maps and charts accompanying the report, for example, this Cedar…
Emerging Civil War — February 2023
Christmas will have passed and the Hanukah lights will have been extinguished. The fat, lazy week between Christmas and the New Year will be unspooling, hopefully…
Thousands gather for Remembrance Day
by Leon Reed GETTYSBURG, Pa.—Living in Gettysburg can be confusing in November. Some people talk about “Dedication Day;” others talk about “Remembrance Day,” ofte…
Publisher’s Note
In the current world of supply chain issues and prices going through the roof at every turn, we are diligently looking at ways to keep our costs down while contin…
No Confidence
Louis T. Wigfall. The Johnston family stayed in Wigfall’s Richmond home during his convalescence. The Confederacy did not have any political parties to structure…
Lincoln Forum’s 27th Gathering
by Leon Reed More than 350 Abraham Lincoln scholars and aficionados gathered at Gettysburg’s Wyndham Hotel on November 16-18 for the Lincoln Forum’s 27th annual s…
Coquettish Confederate Spy Celebrated as the Siren of the Shenandoah Valley
by Bob Ruegsegger Maria Isabella Boyd was born to a prosperous family with strong Southern ties in Martinsburg, Va., a part of the Old Dominion strategically situ…
Close to Home
the Sabbath School who fell. Twenty-four names are inscribed here, names of men who prayed together in this single Methodist Church. Other surfaces list the other…
41st Annual Central Virginia Military Antique Show
HENRICO COUNTY, Va.— The 41st annual Central Virginia Military Antique Show was held on November 12, at the Richmond Raceway Complex. Formerly called the “Capital…
35th Annual Franklin Civil War Show
FRANKLIN, Tenn.—The 2022 Civil War show season came to a close at 3 p.m. on December 4th as the 35th annual Middle Tennessee Civil War Show ended. It was a great…
USS Iron Age Search for Clone CSS Tacony
by Joan Wenner, J.D. Historians note that the Confederate Navy demonstrated very well how an inferior naval force could hold off a vastly superior one. One exampl…
Philadelphia’s Cooper Volunteer Saloon Revisited
meaning and the print maker or artist’s goals. A year ago, this past August we featured a lithograph produced by artist James Queen and published by Thomas Sincla…
Deo Vindice
Deo Vindice When I interviewed Scott Thompson for last month’s column, I saw, among the numerous items decorating his office walls, an image of the Great Seal of…
Confederate Uprising on the SS Maple Leaf
by Joe Wilson Fifty Confederate officers marched out of a Union prison in New Orleans on June 2, 1863, and boarded the SS Cahawba waiting in the harbor. A jovial…
Confederate Fort Names Change proposal
Confederate Fort Names Change proposal On May 24 the commission to consider renaming installations currently named after Confederates released its initial report.…
Chronicling America Maps and Visualizations
In previous installments of this column, researchers have read about various Civil Warera newspapers now digitized and available via different websites. One of th…
1863–1864 Saw Russian Squadrons and Fancy Balls in America
1863–1864 Saw Russian Squadrons and Fancy Balls in America by Ivan Agyeyev and Yuriy Kirpichoff The American Civil War broke out 160 years ago. The Russians were…
“Grant and Twain: The Men and the Memoirs” Plays in Quincy, Illinois
“Grant and Twain: The Men and the Memoirs” Plays in Quincy, Illinois By Professor Earnest Veritas Special Correspondent to the -Western TheaterThe 300 people in t…
Prang and Company: Sheridan’s Ride October 19, 1864
Prang and Company: Sheridan’s Ride October 19, 1864 The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and most importa…
Hurricane Dorian
This issue was finished early due to hurricane Dorian. The coasts of Florida to South Carolina were under a hurricane watch and were ordered to evacuate. I apolog…
Emerging Civil War Presents Annual Awards
Emerging Civil War Presents Annual Awards Emerging Civil War presented its 2019 ECW Awards at its annual Symposium earlier this month in Spotsylvania, Virginia. A…
California Beer
California Beer In 1864, during Sherman’s “March to the Sea,” his invading army lived on the bounty of the farmlands they marched across. For every story of subsi…