50FISH Dev Team
Published: 6/1/21
The Advance of the 50
Reflections on the service of First Lieutenant Alfred B. Seavey 15th New Hampshire Infantry, during the Vicksburg Campaign.
Published: 6/1/21
Fear
Firsthand Union and Confederate soldier quotes about the fear they and their comrades faced in battle.
Published: 6/1/21
Mississippi to Make Landmark Investment
American Battlefield Trust president David Duncan details recent preservation victories in Mississippi.
Published: 6/1/21
The Sultana Disaster
To this day, the tragic loss of the steamboat Sultana in 1865 remains the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.
Published: 6/1/21
Summer 2021 | Dispatches
Reader comments and questions published in the Summer 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor.
Published: 6/1/21
Roll, Alabama, Roll
Editorial thoughts and reflections published in the Summer 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor.
Published: 6/1/21
Sign of the Times
A bullet-riddled sign for William T. King’s Gettysburg tailor shop helps tell the story of the epic battle's impact on the small town.
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Published: 6/1/21
The Wilderness Myth
Understanding how and why the Wilderness of Spotsylvania earned its reputation as a uniquely hostile Civil War landscape.
Published: 6/1/21
Antietam’s Immortals
A photo shows the procession along Main Street in Sharpsburg, Maryland, preceding the dedication of Antietam National Cemetery.
Published: 6/1/21
The Best Books on Civil War Strategy
The literature on Civil War strategy offers a broader understanding of the challenges facing both sides and how they pursued military means to achieve policy ends.
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Published: 6/1/21
Band of Brothers
How the men of the 107th Ohio Infantry grappled with suffering and death, and remembering, after Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
Published: 6/1/21
A Pair of Inspector-Marked Civil War Brogans
Learn about an unknown Union soldier’s pair of shoes—known as brogans—that earned big at auction in 2008.
Published: 5/28/21
The Books that Built Me
Historian Steven H. Newton reflects on the books that helped inspire and shape his interest in the American Civil War.
Published: 5/24/21
The Death of Colonel Ellsworth
Read The New York Times' lengthy tribute to Elmer Ellsworth after the young Union colonel's death in 1861.
Published: 4/29/21
Essential Reading on the Coming of the Civil War
The literature on the coming of the Civil War is more than vast—it is overwhelming. Choosing just a handful of the thousands of books written on the subject—and the dozens...
Published: 4/19/21
Kissing and Kicking Ass
A look at how two long-used vulgarities took on new life during the Civil War.
Published: 4/16/21
War’s Early Days
Read South Carolina diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut's gripping account of the fall of Fort Sumter and its aftermath.
Published: 4/15/21
“The First Gun is Fired”
The story—and lyrics—of George Root's Apri 1861 song about Fort Sumter, "The First Gun is Fired: May God Protect the Right."