Published: 4/6/18Beyond the White Man’s IliadBy: Mark GrimsleyCategory: The Front Line CATNAP72 / ISTOCK A statue of Robert E. Lee sits atop the Virginia Monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The Confederate monument controversy that has exploded in recent months raises fundamental...
Published: 3/17/18St. Patrick’s Day in the ArmyBy: Josiah Marshall FavillCategory: The Front Line On March 17, 1863, Josiah Marshall Favill, a young lieutenant in the 57th New York Infantry, was one of many soldiers in the Army of the Potomac to observe the...
Published: 3/16/18Extra Voices: TobaccoBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress In the Voices section of the Spring 2018 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes from Union and Confederate troops about the use of...
Published: 3/9/18The Eisenhower Farm during the Battle of GettysburgBy: Dennis Edward FlakeCategory: The Front Line Wikipedia February 1959 White House portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower In the fall of 1950, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, signed a contract to purchase a...
Published: 2/23/18The West’s Missing WarBy: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line URSULA COYOTE/NETFLIX Jack O’Connell and Michelle Dockery in a scene from the Netflix miniseries Godless. As in previous depictions of the postwar West, the Civil War factors little into the...
Published: 2/2/18A Story from the TrenchesBy: John Gardner PerryCategory: The Front Line Letters from a Surgeon of the Civil War John Gardner Perry During the early days of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant’s attempt to capture Petersburg, Virginia, in the summer of...
Published: 1/19/18Close Calls at Beaver Dam CreekBy: Oliver Willcox NortonCategory: The Front Line Army Letters, 1861–1865 Oliver Willcox Norton as he appeared in 1863 Little over a week after he participated in the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek—the first of the Seven Days...
Published: 1/12/18Extra Voices: Dog Days of SummerBy: The Civi War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Union soldiers bask in the sweltering summer sun in camp In the Voices section of the Summer 2015 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person...
Published: 12/15/17Civil War Cabbage StewBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Cooking in the Union camp at City Point, Virginia Looking for a hearty meal to help fend off winter’s cold? Try this Civil War-era recipe for cabbage...
Published: 12/1/17The History SeekerBy: Jenny JohnstonCategory: The Front Line Jennifer Gleason Library of Virginia archivist Renee Savits In 2010, Renee Savits faced a dilemma. A career archivist, Savits had been with the Library of Virginia for 11 years, rising...