Published: 10/14/19Lee’s War Horse: TravellerBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Of the several horses Robert E. Lee rode during the Civil War, the one he named Traveller was the object of his greatest affection. Lee, who purchased the grey gelding...
Published: 10/4/19Which Way Did They Go?By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Union soldiers find dummy defenders and wooden cannon after storming a Confederate trench in Julian Scott’s 1872 painting “Sold.” Both sides used such phony weapons—known as Quaker...
Published: 9/27/19A Hair-Raising Incident at ShilohBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War, published in 1895, contained a broad collection of sketches that had appeared during the...
Published: 9/23/19A Triple Bereavement at CairoBy: Mary LivermoreCategory: The Front Line Woman’s Work in the Civil War (1865) Nurse Mary Livermore Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, Mary Livermore, a 40-year-old native of Boston, volunteered to work for the...
Published: 9/20/19Rock of ChickamaugaBy: Mark GrimsleyCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Major General George H. Thomas, the “Rock of Chickamauga” In the American Iliad, the Civil War’s chief victors are well known: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and...
Published: 8/25/19Extra Voices: Clara Barton—The Angel of the BattlefieldBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Clara Barton In the Voices section of the Fall 2019 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by and about famed nurse Clara Barton (1821–1912),...
Published: 8/14/19Mutiny in the ArmyBy: William Thompson LuskCategory: The Front Line Harper’s Weekly The men of the 79th New York Infantry march through the streets of New York City en route to the front during the summer of 1861 On August...
Published: 7/26/19“My Little ‘Rebel’ Heart Was on Fire”By: Belle BoydCategory: The Front Line Tennessee State Library and Archives Belle Boyd In July 1861, only months after the outbreak of the Civil War, Belle Boyd—the 17-year-old daughter of a prosperous family in Martinsburg, Virginia...
Published: 7/26/19History as ImaginationBy: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Harriet Tubman, as she appeared in the late 1860s Anyone who has spent considerable time in research libraries or logging onto digital archives knows what it feels...
Published: 6/14/19Extra Dossier: J.E.B. StuartBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Major General J.E.B. Stuart We recently asked a panel of Civil War historians a series of questions about Major General James Ewell Brown “J.E.B.” Stuart—a way of...