Published: 1/18/22Essential Reading on the Peninsula CampaignBy: Glenn David BrasherCategory: The Front Line anne s.k. brown military collection George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac on the move during the Peninsula Campaign In the spring and early summer of 1862, Union general George B....
Published: 1/13/22Word-clouding the Emancipation ProclamationBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation—which declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free”—went into effect. Below are...
Published: 1/12/22GALLMAN: The Cacophony of Politics (2021)By: Daniel W. CroftsCategory: The Front Line The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman. University of Virginia Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8139-4656-6. $35.00. When Roy Franklin Nichols penned the...
Published: 1/4/22Seeing the ElephantBy: Tracy L. BarnettCategory: The Front Line Union soldier Francis M. Ingram “did not enjoy the 6 of April as well as I hav enjoyed some Sundays.”[2] On the banks of the Tennessee River, the “Rebel tide...
Published: 12/28/21Benjamin F. Butler and Military EmancipationBy: Andrew S. BledsoeCategory: The Front Line National Archives Major General Benjamin F. Butler What if? This is the eternal question that so often confounds students of Civil War military history, and leads to groundless flights of...
Published: 12/17/21Extra Voices: War’s Grisly TollBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Battles and Leaders of the Civil War In the Voices section of the Winter 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about...
Published: 12/6/21The Best Civil War Books of 2021By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2021 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we’ve enlisted a handful of Civil War...
Published: 11/30/21Prison TalesBy: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Andersonville Prison in 1864 Looking to learn more about Civil War prisons and prisoners of war? We asked historian Brian Matthew Jordan to suggest a handful of...
Published: 11/4/21Gettysburg Photo Mystery Solved?By: Patrick BrennanCategory: The Front Line With the help of an Artificial Intelligence-based, computerized color identifier and cutting-edge software that created a 3D rendering of McPherson Ridge in 1868, a group of Civil War detectives have...
Published: 10/25/21The Best Civil War NovelsBy: Craig A. WarrenCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress No event in American history has inspired more imaginative writing than the Civil War. Authors have made the struggle the subject of thousands of rhymes, songs, poems,...