Published: 3/6/23“When the Boys Come Home”By: John HayCategory: The Front Line Harper’s Weekly Lincoln’s secretary John Hay In June 1864, Harper’s Weekly published the following poem by John Hay, one of two personal secretaries to President Abraham Lincoln. Hay, 25 at...
Published: 2/24/23The Books That Built Me: Joan WaughBy: Joan WaughCategory: The Front Line DIANA LUNDIN Joan Waugh “There is properly no history; only biography.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson Narrowing down a list of “books that built me” was surprisingly difficult. The books finally selected,...
Published: 2/10/23Civil War EmojisBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line The May 23, 1863, issue of Harper’s Weekly ran the following ad by E.P. Gleason, a New York-based manufacturer. The ad, which promoted Gleason’s “Kerosine Crater,” an attachment to be...
Published: 1/28/23The Books That Built Me: George RableBy: George C. RableCategory: The Front Line BRYAN HESTER Historian George C. Rable I was not one of those precocious Civil War enthusiasts who started reading Bruce Catton at the age of 10. Even when I was...
Published: 1/9/23Josephine Miller and Her StoveBy: Charles Carleton CoffinCategory: The Front Line Marching To Victory (1888) Josephine Miller Slyder New Hampshire-born journalist Charles Carleton Coffin accompanied Winfield Scott Hancock and his II Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Gettysburg...
Published: 12/12/22Emancipation’s TruthBy: Anthony J. Cade IICategory: The Front Line Apple TV+ Emancipation directed by Antoine Fuqua. Length: 2 hours, 12 minutes. Premiere: December 9, 2022. Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation could be one of this century’s great movies about self-emancipation. Not...
Published: 12/5/22Extra Voices: Army StragglersBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Hard Tack and Coffee (1887) A straggler on the move In the Voices section of our Winter 2022 issue we highlighted quotes about “straggling” soldiers in the Union and Confederate...
Published: 11/29/22The Best Civil War Books of 2022By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2022 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we’ve enlisted a handful of Civil War...
Published: 11/21/22Extra Dossier: George G. MeadeBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Major General George G. Meade For the Dossier section of our Fall 2022 issue, we asked a panel of Civil War historians a series of questions about...
Published: 11/18/22Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 5By: Gary W. GallagherCategory: The Front Line A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1876) Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg Four division commanders wrote letters that rival the best from anyone...