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Grant's Cruel Summer

Vol. 8, No. 1

In June and July 1864, the Union's top soldier tried to defeat Robert E. Lee and capture Petersburg, Virginia. It didn't go so well.

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RHEA: On to Petersburg (2017)

Book Reviews

Fortunately, this classic campaign has a chronicler worthy of its singular importance to the Union's ultimate victory.

The Best Civil War Books of 2017

Articles

The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2017 issue contained our annual roundup of the year's best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted...

POWELL: Battle Above the Clouds (2017)

Book Reviews

Ulysses Grant famously described the Battle of Lookout Mountain as "all poetry."

BELCHER: The Cavalries at Stones River (2017)

Book Reviews

...an excellent addition to both western theater cavalry studies and the specifics of the battle of Stones River.

Beyond the White Man's Iliad

American Iliad

The Confederate monument controversy that has exploded in recent months raises fundamental questions about the American Iliad. The removal...

FRAKER: Looking for Lincoln in Illinois (2017)

Book Reviews

This is a delightful journey along the highways and byways of the circuit traveled by lawyer Lincoln...

CHERNOW: Grant (2017)

Book Reviews

...[I]f [Grant's] presidential ranking continues to rise, there is little question that Ron Chernow's exhaustive research and accessible...

KEATING: The Greatest Trials I Ever Had (2017)

Book Reviews

Students of the war looking for insights into the connections between camp and home front will find the Cahills' letters to be quite...

St. Patrick's Day in the Army

In the First Person

On March 17, 1863, Josiah Marshall Favill, a young lieutenant in the 57th New York Infantry, was one of many soldiers in the Army of the ...

Extra Voices: Tobacco

Articles

In the Voices section of the Spring 2018 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes from Union and Confederate...

AYERS: The Thin Light of Freedom (2017)

Book Reviews

Hindsight, Ayers understands, is often the enemy of understanding.

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AYERS: The Thin Light of Freedom (2017)

Book Reviews

Hindsight, Ayers understands, is often the enemy of understanding.

The Eisenhower Farm during the Battle of Gettysburg

Articles

While not commonly looked upon as part of the battlefield, the Eisenhower Farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, played a significant role during...

The West's Missing War

Stereoscope

Why is the Civil War mostly absent in one of our most beloved film and television genres?

The Best Civil War Books of All Time

Analysis

For our latest newsstand-only special issue, The Civil War Almanac, we asked a panel of Civil War historians--J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C....

The Water War

Photo Essays

Vastly smaller than the forces that fought the Civil War on land, the Union and Confederate navies have long been overlooked by history,...

Fantasizing Lee as a Civil Rights Pioneer

Analysis

There's a tale widely told these days about how Robert E. Lee, soon after the war, reached out in Christian fellowship to a black worshiper...