Published: 12/16/22The Holiday Season During WarBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays How did Americans observe Christmas and the New Year during the Civil War? Illustrated newspapers, like Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s, published many illustrations throughout the conflict that showed readers how their fellow countrymen marked...
Published: 12/14/22REDD: Hidden History of Civil War Florida (2022)By: Angela ZombekCategory: Book Reviews Hidden History of Civil War Florida by Robert Redd. The History Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467150873. $21.99. Volumes have been written about major Civil War battles, military and political leaders, and...
Published: 12/12/22Emancipation’s TruthBy: Anthony J. Cade IICategory: The Front Line Apple TV+ Emancipation directed by Antoine Fuqua. Length: 2 hours, 12 minutes. Premiere: December 9, 2022. Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation could be one of this century’s great movies about self-emancipation. Not...
Published: 12/7/22PASLEY & HAMMOND (eds.): A Fire Bell in the Past (2021)By: Josh WaddellCategory: Book Reviews A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume I: Western Slavery, National Impasse edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond. University of Missouri Press, 2021. Cloth,...
Published: 12/5/22Extra Voices: Army StragglersBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Hard Tack and Coffee (1887) A straggler on the move In the Voices section of our Winter 2022 issue we highlighted quotes about “straggling” soldiers in the Union and Confederate...
Published: 11/30/22TURLEY: The Gospel of Freedom (2022)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad by Alicestyne Turley. University Press of Kentucky, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813195476. $40.00. Black Evangelical churches in Kentucky formed “an organized ‘underground’...
Published: 11/29/22The Best Civil War Books of 2022By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2022 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we’ve enlisted a handful of Civil War...
Published: 11/23/22GREEN, JR.: The Nashville and Decatur Railroad in the Civil War (2022)By: Scott Mingus, Sr.Category: Book Reviews The Nashville and Decatur Railroad in the Civil War: History of an Embattled Railroad by Walter R. Green Jr. McFarland, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1476688527. $39.95. The Civil War was the first...
Published: 11/21/22Extra Dossier: George G. MeadeBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Major General George G. Meade For the Dossier section of our Fall 2022 issue, we asked a panel of Civil War historians a series of questions about...
Published: 11/18/22Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 5By: Gary W. GallagherCategory: The Front Line A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1876) Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg Four division commanders wrote letters that rival the best from anyone...