Published: 10/28/11Are You Ready for Some (Civil War) Football?By: Terry JohnstonCategory: The Front Line Winslow Homer’s depiction of Union soldiers playing “Foot-Ball” in camp. Looks harmless enough… Image credit: Library of Congress.
Published: 10/27/11Teaching Slavery as the Cause of the Civil WarBy: Andrew L. SlapCategory: The Front Line “What caused the Civil War?” Historians have killed forests trying to answer this deceptively simple question. In a recent essay in The Journal of the Civil War Era, Frank Towers...
Published: 10/26/11GLATTHAAR: Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia (2011)By: Brian Craig MillerCategory: Book Reviews Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served Under Robert E. Lee by Joseph T. Glatthaar. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011....
Published: 10/26/11THOMAS: The Iron Way (2011)By: Elizabeth VaronCategory: Book Reviews The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America by William G. Thomas. Yale University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0300141076. $30.00. William G. Thomas’s The Iron Way is a...
Published: 10/25/11Respect My Heritage; You Can Stick YoursBy: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line Several news stories appeared in the media recently updating recent developments in a neighborhood dispute in South Carolina that’s been brewing for about year now. The brief recap is that...
Published: 10/24/11Voices From the Past: “An Inferior Force”By: Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line “Well, so far we seem to have applied a new maxim of war, always to meet the enemy with an inferior force at the point of attack.” —General George B....
Published: 10/21/11Ball’s Bluff RememberedBy: Terry JohnstonCategory: The Front Line One hundred fifty years ago today, on October 21, 1861, Union troops suffered a humiliating defeat in what would come to be known as the Battle of Ball’s Bluff. After...
Published: 10/20/11Progress and Change and PreservationBy: Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line A few Fridays ago I took a short tour of the Chantilly, or Ox Hill, Battlefield. Short, of course, because aside from a five-acre section preserved within a county park,...
Published: 10/19/11WOOD: Near Andersonville (2010)By: Robert BonnerCategory: Book Reviews Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil War by Peter H. Wood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 067053206. $18.95. Americans tend to imagine their Civil War through a montage of images....
Published: 10/19/11BYNUM: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010)By: Laura Hepp BradshawCategory: Book Reviews The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. $35.00. “Few histories,” Victoria...