Civil War Magazines

• Battle of Corinth
  The strategic railroad town of Corinth was a key target for Confederate armies hoping to march north in support of General Braxton Bragg’s invasion of Kentucky. By Robert Collins Suhr

• Battle for Kentucky - America’s Civil War
  It had been almost one month since Confederate General Braxton Bragg had pulled off an organizational masterpiece–four weeks since the first troop trains had rumbled into Chattanooga, Tennessee, completing an improbable 800-mile odyssey. By James W. Flanagan

West Versus East
By Steven E. Woodworth
Gettysburg and the Eastern theater have gotten most of the publicity, but the Western theater is where the Union defeated the Confederacy and won the Civil War..

How the Union Won the West
Exclusive two-page map of the vast Western theater.

Grenade!: The Little-Known Weapon of the Civil War
By Joseph G. Bilby
Whether improvised or manufactured, explosives tossed by hand proved effective for soldiers and sailors in close combat.

Blockade in Name Only
By Jack K. Trammell
The Union’s weak wartime blockade was a source of constant embarrassment for the Lincoln administration.

In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee
A dozen fights raged across the beautiful landscapes of central Virginia in the Overland campaign of 1864.

Abraham Lincoln Slept Here
By Nicholas Wineriter
What’s a tired chief executive to do when he’s stuck in Washington’s saunalike heat?

America’s Bloodiest Day
George McClellan’s lucky find of Robert E. Lee’s Special Orders No. 191 led to a fight near Antietam Creek on what became the bloodiest day in American history—September 17, 1862.

Battle of Antietam: Union Surgeons and Civilian Volunteers Help the Wounded
By John H. Nelson
Thousands of men were wounded during the Battle of Antietam. For the injured, more misery awaited in makeshift field hospitals.

Faces of the Federal Wounded
Photographs sent to loved ones captured soldiers in their prime—before Antietam’s fury took its grisly toll.

Sculpting a Scapegoat
By William Marvel
George McClellan and his apologists spent years repeating half-truths and outright lies to cast Ambrose Burnside as a bungler for not quickly capturing Antietam’s Rohrbach Bridge.

‘Damage Done to My Farm’
By Mannie Gentile
William Roulette’s farm was smack dab in the middle of mayhem on September 17, 1862, and his handwritten list chronicles his awful losses.

‘Young Man, Before 12 O’Clock Tomorrow You Die’
By Steven Meserve
William Ormsby died before a firing squad of Union comrades. Among his fatal mistakes: riding drunk with Mosby’s men.

Annihilation of a Regiment
By J. David Petruzzi
The 6th U.S. Cavalry was out for a bit of glory near Gettysburg, but the Confederate Laurel Brigade had other ideas for the bold Yankees.

Monumental Memories
A series of rare Gettysburg photographs from the Adams County Historical Society.

Load the Hopper and Turn the Crank - Rapid-Fire Guns of the Civil War
By Joseph G. Bilby
Coffee Mills, Requa Batteries and Gatling Guns, though imperfect, were the world’s first field-tested machine guns.

The Fishook That Caught a Rebel Army
The Army of the Potomac’s defensive line at Gettysburg resisted numerous Confederate attacks.

King of the Hill
By David W. Palmer
“Pap” Greene dug in his men, fought like hell and saved the Union right at Gettysburg.

So Much for Comrades in Arms
By Eric A. Campbell
Confederate General “Rans” Wright put poison in his pen and wrote a controversial letter that accused fellow officers of failing to do their duty at Gettysburg.

The Mystery of Private Edwin Jemison
By Alexandra Filipowski & Hugh T. Harrington
This vulnerable young private’s face has long been an icon of the Civil War. For years he was misidentified and the manner of his death remained unknown.

New York Divided
New York City, a bastion of Northern capitalism, had strong commercial and economic links to the Plantation South.

Left Behind at Chancellorsville
By Eric J. Mink
“Stonewall” Jackson’s left arm lies a-mouldering in its own grave, with its own grave marker.

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By Mark Grimsley
How would things have been different if Ulysses S. Grant had been killed in 1864?

A Question of Cowardice
By Dennis W. Brandt
Battle and disease posed the greatest threats to Civil War soldiers, but errors by the military justice system also caused casualties.

William H. Carney: 54th Massachusetts Soldier and First Black U.S. Medal of Honor Recipient
William H. Carney’s grit at Fort Wagner earned him the distinction of being the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor.
By Thomas M. Hammond

Lincoln’s Fleeting Hope for an Early End to the War
By Tom Wheeler and Trevor K. Plante
A newly discovered note penned by Abraham Lincoln after the Union victory at Gettysburg reveals his expectation that his generals will quickly vanquish the fleeing Rebels.

The Union’s Bloody Miscue at Spotsylvania’s Muleshoe
By Curtis D. Crockett
Colonel Emory Upton’s clever battering ram assault on Confederate lines backfired and led to some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

Gettysburg Picnic Truce
By Gerard A. Patterson
Chicken, hams and pies had a way of making conva- lescent Yankees and Rebels feel kindly toward each other—as long as one side didn’t hog all the goodies.

The Unfulfilled Promise of Robert E. Lee’s Favorite Officer
By Robert K. Krick
Henry Heth’s military career got a great jump-start thanks to backing from influential friends.

Fort Obsolete
Union rifled artillery turned castle-like masonry garrisons into instant historic relics.

Avenging Angel
By Tonia J. Smith
Nobody knew how old Abby House was, but Rebels all the way up to Jefferson Davis knew better than to mess with the woman everyone called Aunt Abby.

My 15 Minutes Out of the Attic
By Robert Lee Hodge
From the cover of Confederates in the Attic to a “Primetime Live” television feature, a reenactor discovered the fleeting nature of fame.

The Magic of New Old Photographs
Claude Levet takes reenactors back 145 years by using wet-plate collodion photography, just as Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner and Timothy O’Sullivan did.

Runaway Slave on the Wisconsin-Canada Line
By Tobin Beck and Lance Herdegen
Carolyn Quarlls fled from St. Louis on July 4, 1842, traveling to Canada with aid from a new network of people dedicated to helping slaves find freedom.

Daniel Sickles: An Unlikely Union General
By Christopher Ryan Oates
Bouncing from success to ruin and back again through an endless series of scandals that included murder, Daniel Sickles rebuilt his reputation by raising troops for the Union.

Robert E. Lee Takes Center Stage
By Tom Boeche
Bold moves by new Confederate commander Robert E. Lee convinced his Union adversary, George McClellan, to give up plans for a siege of Richmond.

Watch That Finger! Raise Those Arms! Make Your Point!
By Allen C. Guelzo
The debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln showcased their differences in oratorical style as much as political substance.