Published: 11/17/17Extra Voices: Hunger PangsBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Battles and Leaders of the Civil War In the Voices section of the Winter 2017 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers...
Published: 11/10/17The Best Civil War Books of All TimeBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line For our latest newsstand-only special issue, The Civil War Almanac, we asked a panel of Civil War historians—J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C. Hulbert, James Marten, and Amy Murrell Taylor—for their...
Published: 11/3/17Then and Now: How Civil War-Era Doctors Responded to Their Own Opiate EpidemicBy: Jonathan S. JonesCategory: The Front Line USAHEC Nurse Annie Bell tends to wounded soldiers after the Battle of Nashville. Many injured troops, North and South, would become addicted to opiates. Hidden among the many headlines about...
Published: 10/20/17A Ball’s Bluff LetterBy: Caspar CrowninshieldCategory: The Front Line Massachusetts Historical Society Captain Caspar Crowinshield, 20th Massachusetts Infantry On October 21, 1861, Union forces crossed the Potomac River to attack what they thought was a Confederate camp near Leesburg,...
Published: 9/23/17Extra Voices: Sounds of WarBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Alfred R. Waud’s depiction of the Battle of Fredericksburg In the Voices department of our summer 2014 issue (Vol. 4, No. 2) we featured soldiers’ quotes that...
Published: 9/15/17The Search for Orville WheelockBy: Julia WheelockCategory: The Front Line The Boys in White Julia Wheelock One hundred fifty-five years ago this month, 28-year-old Michigan resident Julia Wheelcock learned that her brother, Orville, a soldier in the 8th Michigan Infantry,...
Published: 9/8/17Robert E. Lee, Confederate Memorials, and the Burden of the PastBy: Glenn W. LaFantasieCategory: The Front Line By Cville dog – Own work, Wikimedia Commons The Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park On August 13, a statue of Robert E. Lee took center stage in...
Published: 8/25/17The Civil War as a Home InvasionBy: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: The Front Line Spoiler Alert: This article, which appears in the Fall 2017 issue of The Civil War Monitor, will discuss major plot points in the 2017 film The Beguiled. The Beguiled may...
Published: 8/11/17A Bad Day on the MarchBy: Alfred Lewis CastlemanCategory: The Front Line Wisconsin Historical Society Surgeon Alfred Lewis Castleman, 5th Wisconsin Infantry After it was thwarted in its attempt to capture Richmond during the Peninsula Campaign in the summer of 1862, the...
Published: 8/4/17Gettysburg: The Army’s Living ClassroomBy: Clay MountcastleCategory: The Front Line Brigadier General (Ret.) John W. Mountcastle Cadets from West Point take in the view of the battlefield from Little Round Top during a Gettysburg staff ride. During any visit to...