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Published: 9/1/22
Smoking War
Read about the allure and significance of smoking and tobacco use among Civil War soldiers, from cigars to snuff.
Published: 6/1/22
The Framing of Fitz John Porter
After a crushing defeat at Second Bull Run, Union leaders looked for someone to blame. They soon found their man in Fitz John Porter.
Published: 6/1/22
My Enemy, My Friend
A look at how romanticized tales of fraternization between Union and Confederate soldiers were used to promote postwar reconciliation.
Published: 6/1/22
A Solemn Duty
Comrades’ letters to the faraway families of Civil War soldiers killed in battle or by disease offered details and heartfelt condolences.
Published: 12/1/21
Dear Mr. President
How African Americans used their history, delivered in letters and White House visits, to press Abraham Lincoln for rights and opportunities.
Published: 12/1/21
A Confederate Concession
How the Confederate government came to officially recognize freeborn black Union soldiers and sailors as legitimate combatants.
Published: 12/1/21
The Villain of Sherman’s March
By the time of the incident at Ebenezer Creek, Jefferson C. Davis was already notorious for killing fellow Union general William “Bull” Nelson.
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Published: 6/21/21
Rebel Menace
Tracking the long, destructive journey—and swift demise—of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama
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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.
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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
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Published: 3/7/21
An Unholy Alliance
Read about the cloak-and-dagger relationship between detective Allan Pinkerton and Army of the Potomac Commander George B. McClellan.
Published: 3/7/21
Rebel Armada
Read how a number of WWII Liberty Ships came to be named after Confederates.
Published: 3/7/21
Who’s Buried in Calhoun’s Tomb?
Read the unusual tale of John C. Calhoun’s final resting place, the site of one of the country’s earliest struggles over Civil War memory.
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Published: 12/1/20
The “Notorious” Lieutenant Davidson
Hunter Davidson forged a successful Civil War career as a Confederate torpedo expert—one he promoted in the decades after the war.
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Published: 12/1/20
An Artist in the Ranks
An in-depth look at the Civil War Illustrations of Adolph Metzner, who served in the 32nd Indiana Infantry during the conflict.
Published: 12/1/20
Monumental Decisions
Across the country, Confederate monuments and symbols are coming down. We enlisted a panel of top historians to help make sense of it all.
Published: 9/1/20
Counterfeit Confederates
As the notion of sectional reconciliation spread in the decades after the Civil War, impostors showed up with invented wartime histories.
Published: 9/1/20
The Hero of Franklin
How quick thinking by Colonel Emerson Opdycke helped save the day for Union forces at the Battle of Franklin.