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Summer 2020
Vol. 10, No. 2
In our Summer 2020 issue, we look at how the 54th Massachusetts Infantry performed heroically in the attack on Fort Wagner, and why northern newspapers argued otherwise. Plus, inside Lincoln’s secretive visit to Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia, in 1864, and learn how the Dartmouth Cavalry spent a summer in the saddle.
Features
Features
Mission to the James
Inside Abraham Lincoln’s secretive visit to Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia, in 1864.
Features
Fortunate Sons
Panic by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton meant dozens of New England college students spent the summer of 1862 learning to be cavalrymen.Salvo
Voices
Camp Sports
Firsthand quotes about the camp sports that kept soldiers occupied and entertained during the Civil War, from baseball to boxing.
Preservation
Joining Forces
As a result of a partnership, users of Ancestry.com and Fold3 now have access to American Battlefield Trust content.
Faces of War
Cadet to Boy Colonel
A look at Harry Burgwyn, a young Confederate who rose to the rank of colonel with the 26th North Carolina Infantry.
Figures
The Civil War’s Long Reach
Learn about dependent pensioners located in Europe—and the soldiers and sailors they lost during the American Civil War.
Cost of War
A Charleston Mercury Bulletin
An original Charleston Mercury broadside announcing South Carolina’s secession earned big at auction in 2009.
In Focus
A Deathly Calm
The placid façade of Main Street in the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, just a few days after the Battle of Antietam belies the conditions there: thousands of wounded soldiers...Columns
American Iliad
The Greatest Bards: Part 2
When I was 12 I found a mass market paperback of Bruce Catton’s A Stillness at Appomattox, and it yanked me so deep into the world of the Civil War...
Fighting Words
Skedaddle
To skedaddle is to make not just a chaotic but an almost comic retreat. It was first used at the beginning of the Civil War.Books & Authors
Books
The B&A Profile: Ralph Peters
A look at the life and career of author Ralph Peters, who discusses some of his novels on the Civil War.Odds & Ends
Editorial
Uncertain Times
Editorial commentary and reflections from the Summer 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor.
Dispatches
Summer 2020 | Dispatches
Reader questions and comments published in the Summer 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor.