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

While not commonly looked upon as part of the battlefield, the Eisenhower Farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, played a significant role during the second and third days of the fighting at Gettysburg.

Early's daring raid is a colorful tale of retribution, diversion, anxiety, and shrewd political calculation.

Sodergren finds that the soldiers in the Army of the Potomac welcomed the change of pace afforded by the Petersburg trenches.

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

Forrest might say that Scales, while not getting there first, certainly got there with the most....

Often, the fate of separatist movements is decided not on the field of battle, but in the marble courts of diplomacy.

New studies of guerrilla conflict during the conflict only reinforce the indivisible relationship between slavery and the Civil War.

During the early days of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's attempt to capture Petersburg, Virginia, in the summer of 1864, 24-year-old Harvard-educated Union surgeon John Gardner Perry wrote a letter in which he recorded the following incident involving a brave, but reckless, young lieutenant. 

While Fremont's fame up to 1856 outsized his actual exploits, he emerged in the tremors of Bleeding Kansas as a novel figure in American politics.

Powell's efforts to dig below the surface of Chickamauga have produced a thorough and readable examination of the aftermath of a critical Civil War battle.

Little over a week after he participated in the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek—the first of the Seven Days Battles fought outside Richmond during General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign—Private Oliver Willcox Norton of the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry wrote home about his experiences ... and marvelled at how he was able to escape without serious injury.

Hess' latest foray plunges the reader into the critical but woefully under appreciated world of Civil War logistics....

In the Voices section of the Summer 2015 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes from Union and Confederate soldiers about the intense heat and discomfort that accomapied summer campaigning. Unfortunately, we didn't have room to include all that we found. Below are those that didn't make the cut. 

Hunt...offers an important, welcomed addition to the Gettysburg scholarship.

Graham Peck's first book tackles big issues and delves into contested terrain....

The letters between Elodie and Nathaniel tell us much about courtship in the South.

...an excellent tactical study of one of the Atlanta Campaign's most significant engagements.

With the winter season nearly upon us, we thought it the perfect time to compile Civil War scenes—in photos and sketches—that invoke the chilly temperatures and inclement weather to come. Bundle up ... and enjoy.