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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
126th NY Infantry at Harpers Ferry — First Confederate Regiment from Santa Rosa to Chickamauga — Long road to Bentonville — Book reviews — complete list of contents and index for Volume One.
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In this recently unearthed memoir, Civil War veteran James Howard Lowell offers a firsthand account of his brutal journey west on a wagon train attacked by Indian Dog Soldiers. The Boston Yank staggers snow blind through a Laramie Plains blizzard to reach Salt Lake City, where he meets Brigham Young. In Montana, he joins an old forty-niner to work a mining claim, practices "tomahawk jurisprudence" in Fort Benton and builds a mackinaw to head downriver...
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The American Civil War left indelible marks on the country. In the century and a half since the war, Americans have remembered the war in different ways. Veterans placed monuments to commemorate their deeds on the battlefield. In doing so, they often set in stone and bronze specific images in specific places that may have conflicted with the factual historical record. Erecting monuments and memorials became a way to commemorate the past, but they...
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
Chattanooga Revisited — Missionary Ridge — US Regulars at Chickamauga — Cleburne and Tunnel Hill — 2nd Georgia Sharpshooters — Camp Thomas, 1898.
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
Fire Zouaves at First Bull Run—1st VA Infantry (US) in WV—Guibor's Missouri Battery—Ship Island and War in the Gulf—interview with John Hennessey
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
Gray's Louisiana Brigade — Union Naval Expedition — Beard and the Consolidated Crescent Regiment — Campaign Letters — Touring the Red River Campaign.
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
1st Battalion, 13th US Infantry — 22nd Iowa Infantry at the railroad — Command failure, Confederate loss — Brief history of the archival holdings of Vicksburg NMP
8) A Journal of the American Civil War: Charleston: Battles and Seacoast Operations in South Carolina
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
Amphibious Operations — Wild's African Brigade in the Siege — Prelude to Secessionville — Dahlgren's Marine Battalions — Interview with author William C. Davis
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The largest land battle on the North American continent has maintained an unshakable grip on the American imagination. Building on momentum from a string of victories that stretched back into the summer of 1862, Robert E. Lee launched his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia on an invasion of the North meant to shake Union resolve and fundamentally shift the dynamic of the war. His counterpart with the Federal Army of the Potomac, George Meade, elevated...
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Edited by Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon, two of the most prominent nineteenth-century American historians in the nation, New Perspectives on the Union War provides a more nuanced understanding of what "Union" meant in the Civil War North by exploring how various groups of northerners conceived of the term. The essays in this volume demonstrate that while there was a broad consensus that the war was fought, or should be fought, for the cause of...
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
35th Battalion VA Cavalry — Reed and Bigelow's Battery —1st WV Cavalry — Twice lost 8th LA battle flag — Major Nevin and the 93rd PA Infantry — Reunion in 1887 of Philadelphia Brigade and Pickett's Division.
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
Notable titles of 1994 — Buckner's unpublished report of the Kentucky Campaign — author Mark Bradley talks about the Battle of Bentonville
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
Collection of The Museum of the Confederacy — 14th TN Infantry as seen by a sergeant — 40th GA Infantry as seen by a major — the Washington Artillery.
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
A German volunteer—McLaws' aide-de-camp—79th NY Highlanders—Burnside's Bridge—118th PA at Shepherdstown—civilians of Sharpsburg—the Lost Order and the press
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
26th Wisconsin Infantry in the Carolinas — 1st USCT — Battle of Town Creek — Stoneman's Carolinas Raid — interview with Craig Symonds — Unpublished Confederates' reports from Bentonville
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
Death of General Cobb — Irish Brigade on Mayre's Heights — Assault of the PA Reserves — 20th Massachusetts and the street fight — Stonewall Jackson's artillery
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The American Civil War left indelible marks on America's imagination, collectively and as individuals.
In the century and a half since the war, musicians have written songs, writers have crafted histories and literature, and filmmakers recreated scenes from the battlefield. Beyond popular media, the battle rages on during sporting events where Civil War-inspired mascots carry on old traditions. The war erupts on tabletops and computer screens as...
18) Fallen Leaders
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“Fallen Leaders: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War” recounts the fall of some of the most famous, infamous, and underappreciated commanders from both the North and South.
The Civil War took as many as 720,000 lives and maimed hundreds of thousands more. The fallen included outstanding leaders on both sides, from a U.S. president all the way down the ranks to beloved regimental commanders. Abraham...
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The Civil War was primarily a land conflict, but it was not only that.
"Nor must Uncle Sam's web-feet be forgotten," wrote Abraham Lincoln. "At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks."
From the Arctic Circle to the Caribbean, swift Rebel raiders decimated Union...
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This edited collection of Civil War correspondence between Col. Thomas Cahill and his wife, Margaret, offers a rare glimpse into the symbiotic relationship between soldiers and their home communities. In the only substantial extant collection of letters from an Irish American woman on the northern home front, Margaret's pivotal role as a go-between in the financial affairs of men in the regiment and their wives is made evident, as is the broader interplay...
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