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Rock of Chickamauga

American Iliad

In the American Iliad, the Civil War’s chief victors are well known: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and his partner in command, Major...

DAVIS: The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry (2019)

Book Reviews

George Armstrong Custer is a heroic yet tragic figure in the pantheon of America's military past...

MERTZ: Attack at Daylight and Whip Them (2019)

Book Reviews

Mertz and the Emerging Civil War Series have given us excellent history in guidebook format.

POWELL: Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah (2019)

Book Reviews

Powell adds nuance and depth to a well-studied campaign.

GALLAGHER & GALLMAN (eds.): Civil War Places (2019)

Book Reviews

The broad selection of scholars here...challenges readers to expand their own perspective on the conflict.

Extra Voices: The Angel of the Battlefield

Articles

In the Voices section of the Fall 2019 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by and about nurse Clara Barton. ...

TACKACH: Lincoln and the Natural Environment (2019)

Book Reviews

When Lincoln spoke about 'binding up the nation's wounds,' he almost certainly counted the landscape among them.

Winslow Homer's Civil War

Photo Essays

After the outbreak of the Civil War, 25-year-old artist Winslow Homer traveled to the front to sketch scenes of the conflict's...

Mutiny in the Army

In the First Person

On August 14, 1861, the sense of anger and disgruntlement that had been building among the men of the largely Scottish-American 79th New ...

SILKENAT: Raising the White Flag (2019)

Book Reviews

If surrender never quite 'defined' the war, this book makes clear that it unquestionably suffused it.

The B&A Q&A: Kevin M. Levin

The Bookshelf

In his latest book, "Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth" (to be published this fall by the University...

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BROOMALL: Private Confederacies (2019)

Book Reviews

[S]tands at the edge of a field of historical inquiry that is sure to gain greater currency among historians...

The American Civil War Museum: A Photo Tour

Photo Essays

Take a mini tour of the newly opened American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia.

Feeding the Troops

Photo Essays

"An army marches on its stomach." Variations of this statement have been attributed to great historical leaders, including Frederick the ...

"A Lady of Excellent Worth"

In the First Person

Nearly twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Union army veteran Melvin Grigsby traveled south in hopes of locating the local woman...

The Best Gettysburg Books

Articles

What are the five best books about the Battle of Gettysburg (nonfiction or fiction)? We asked six Civil War historians for their answers.

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....