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No Man Left Behind: A Union Soldier Risked it All To Save Wounded Comrades
Looking like 400 miles of bad road, I sit at a table outside the Sweet Shop Bakery in Shepherdstown, exhausted and achy but eager to walk the West Virginia town’s Civil War battlefield. On a...
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During the Civil War, Battlefield Dead Were Often Stripped of Anything of...
.image-13763963 { max-height: 100%; --left: 56.84%; --top: 60.71%; } On a misty Kentucky morning, Confederate Brig. Gen. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer’s body lay on the muddy ground surrounded by gawking...
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Civil War Soldiers Loved Their Coffee. So This Colonel Invented a Coffee...
Necessity is the mother of invention, as the saying goes, and many Civil War soldiers undoubtedly ranked coffee as a necessity—right there with shoes, tobacco, and bullets. That prompted one...
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A Famous Dog of the Civil War: The Very Good Boy Who Fought (and Fetched)...
.image-13764113 { max-height: 100%; --left: 59.06%; --top: 46.31%; } One of the more touching and little-known mascot stories of the Civil War is that of “Major,” described as a “large black...
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This Antietam Photo Has Been a Mystery for 40+ Years. We’ve Solved It (We...
.image-13764046 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, is often thought of as four separate groups of fighting: The Cornfield, Maj. Gen....
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This Antietam Photo Has Been a Mystery for 40+ Years. We’ve Solved It (We...
Colonel William Irwin’s 6th Corps brigade of Maj. Gen. William F. “Baldy” Smith’s 2nd Division was an experienced unit, whose regiments were mustered into service between May 9, 1861, and November 23,...
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This Antietam Photo Has Been a Mystery for Over 40 Years. We’ve Solved It (We...
.image-13764049 { max-height: 100%; --left: 60.98%; --top: 54.62%; } The location of the Antietam battlefield photo above had eluded researchers for years. Who took it and when, however, was well...
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McArthur’s Raid: Another Take
The January 2022 Military History article “McArthur’s Gamble,” by Bob Gordon, was excellent, as was the entire selection of articles in that issue. The McArthur article noted Sherman’s 1864 March to...
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How the Shotgun Became a Favorite Among Civil War Soldiers
.image-13786565 { max-height: 100%; --left: 32.50%; --top: 25.10%; } In the 1840s and 1850s, companies in Liege, Belgium, produced thousands of double-barreled percussion shotguns. These imported...
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A Toxic Mix of Anti-War and Anti-Abolitionist Sentiment Led to the North’s...
.image-13787360 { max-height: 100%; --left: 41.25%; --top: 26.76%; } The surging mass of armed men stopped the train full of Union recruits and herded the passengers out of their cars. The bold move...
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Caught Sleeping at the Wheel: How the Union Army Almost Nabbed Stonewall Jackson
.image-13790890 { max-height: 100%; --left: 45.38%; --top: 19.74%; } Sunday, June 8, 1862 dawned bright and cool in Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall”...
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The Texas Civil War Museum Lowers Its Flag
.image-13793335 { max-height: 100%; --left: 31.10%; --top: 51.03%; } The Texas Civil War Museum in Fort Worth, one of the country’s largest such facilities, will close its doors on December 30. After...
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Texas Civil War Museum to Remain Open
.image-13793335 { max-height: 100%; --left: 31.10%; --top: 51.03%; } Thanks to a resounding wave of recent public support, the Texas Civil War Museum’s board of directors has decided to keep the...
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The Sword That Spurred Ulysses Grant To Victory
.image-13794395 { max-height: 100%; --left: 33.19%; --top: 38.67%; } This elaborate sword was presented to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War on April 23, 1864 by the U.S. Sanitary...
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Deep Cut Into Dixie: Inside the Union Raid That Tore the Heart Out of...
.image-13781092 { max-height: 100%; --left: 56.46%; --top: 63.54%; } The arrival of Colonel Benjamin Grierson and his saddle-sore troopers in Union-occupied Baton Rouge, La., on May 2, 1863,...
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The Confederate Bee Brothers: Unforgettable Legacies For Very Converse Reasons
.image-13796016 { max-height: 100%; --left: 83.65%; --top: 34.17%; } When one hears the name of a Civil War general named Bee, the first reaction for most is the Confederate commander from South...
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‘Humanity Forbade Them to Starve’: Grant at Vicksburg
.image-13757214 { max-height: 100%; --left: 65.99%; --top: 62.60%; } In October 1862, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant took command of the Union Department of the Tennessee, establishing his headquarters in...
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Congress Changed the Way Lincoln Fought the Civil War
.image-13750277 { max-height: 100%; --left: 59.86%; --top: 52.35%; } On March 4, 1861, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives convened as the 37th Congress the day Abraham Lincoln was sworn in...
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The Lincoln Legacy: A Civil War Times Interview
.image-13797731 { max-height: 100%; --left: 54.25%; --top: 45.39%; } It is easy to forget that Abraham Lincoln was wildly unpopular during the Civil War among the Northern people, most of whom would...
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How the Union Failed to Successfully Blockade the South
.image-13750127 { max-height: 100%; --left: 31.54%; --top: 39.26%; } The Civil War was only four months old, but Union Navy officer Lewis H. West was quite sure the Federal blockade of Southern ports...
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