Published: 7/30/20Eyewitness to the CraterBy: William J. PegramCategory: The Front Line Virginia Historical Society Confederate officer William Pegram After weeks of preparation, Union forces detonated a mine under the Confederate lines outside Petersburg, Virginia, on July 30, 1864. Union infantry then...
Published: 7/30/20The Best Books About Robert E. LeeBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Bruce Catton When I was 12 I found a mass market paperback of Bruce Catton’s A Stillness at Appomattox, and it yanked me so deep into the...
Published: 7/25/20An Infernal MachineBy: Harper's WeeklyCategory: The Front Line In the July 27, 1861, issue of Harper’s Weekly, the editors published a small story about an “infernal machine” recently removed from the Potomac River near where the sloop-of-war USS...
Published: 7/10/20The Greatest Bards: Part 2By: Mark GrimsleyCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Bruce Catton When I was 12 I found a mass market paperback of Bruce Catton’s A Stillness at Appomattox, and it yanked me so deep into the...
Published: 7/2/20Agenda: July 2020 EventsBy: Zethyn McKinley, The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress The view from Little Round Top on the Gettysburg battlefield. Looking for a Civil War event—virtual or in person—to attend in July? Below are some very good...
Published: 6/15/20Extra Voices: Camp SportsBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Union prisoners play a game of baseball while in confinement at Salisbury, North Carolina. In the Voices section of the Summer 2020 issue of The Civil War...
Published: 6/12/20History’s “Grant” ConsideredBy: Brooks D. SimpsonCategory: The Front Line History.com Long anticipated and much ballyhooed, History Channel’s May 2020 release of Grant, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Grant’s most recent biographer, Ron Chernow, as executive producers (no Lin-Manuel Miranda here),...
Published: 5/29/20The Best Books About Ulysses S. GrantBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line We recently asked a number of top Civil War historians to let us know their favorite books about Ulysses S. Grant. The results are below. The books are ranked in...
Published: 5/22/20The Rable Method—Time and AgainBy: Glenn David Brasher and G. Ward HubbsCategory: The Front Line Bryan Hester, The University of Alabama Historian George C. Rable Few scholars have produced as many groundbreaking works as Civil War historian George C. Rable. Since his retirement from teaching...
Published: 5/18/20The Greatest Bards: Part 1By: Mark GrimsleyCategory: The Front Line Alamy Author Shelby Foote Asked to name the writer whose work had the greatest influence on their early love for the Civil War, most lay students of the conflict would...