Articles
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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
Published: 6/1/21
Ephraim Cutler Dawes at Shiloh
Read how Union officer Ephraim Cutler Dawes, a 21-year-old college graduate with no military experience, helped avert disaster at Shiloh.
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.
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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: 4/19/21
Kissing and Kicking Ass
A look at how two long-used vulgarities took on new life during the Civil War.
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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
Saved by the Good Book
Little could Union soldier Walter Jones have imagined that the Bible meant to save his soul would twice save his flesh from potentially grievous injury.
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.
Published: 3/7/21
The Spy and the General
Editorial reflections on the cover story of The Civil War Monitor's Spring 2021 issue's cover story.
Published: 3/7/21
Spring 2021 | Dispatches
Read the letters to the editor from the Dispatches section of the Spring 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor.
Published: 3/7/21
United States Sanitary Commission at Gettysburg
Facts and figures about the U.S. Sanitary Commission's work at Gettysburg after the epic battle, one of its largest relief efforts of the war.
Published: 12/28/20
Goodbye to All That
In his final "American Iliad" column, southern-born historian Mark Grimsley reflects on his tangle of loyalties.