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Complete List of Military ‘Items’ Named for Confederacy Is More Than 750 Long
A congressionally mandated commission spent the past year traveling to military installations, meeting with interested groups and sifting through thousands of recommendations as part of an effort to...
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At Fort Sumter, This Bizarre, Floating Contraption Helped Start the Civil War
Recommended for you At 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861, on James Island in Charleston Harbor, Confederate Lieutenant Henry Farley pulled the lanyard of a siege mortar. A solid thump rocked the ground as a...
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The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer: The Confederate Propaganda Machine
.image-13781793 { max-height: 100%; --left: 60.03%; --top: 55.69%; } Two weeks into the Civil War, students of the Atlanta Female Institute put on a program that included a faux bombardment of Fort...
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‘To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth’ Book Review
One of few notable naval clashes of the American Civil War, the June 19, 1864, Battle of Cherbourg, pitted two modest sail/steam powered sloops-of-war against each other off coastal France. The...
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The Confederacy Rejected Him — So He Became a Union Hero Instead
.image-13782476 { max-height: 100%; --left: 52.29%; --top: 32.53%; } Herman H. Heath was not, of course, the only Civil War general to flirt with the idea of serving the Confederacy before siding with...
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A Confederate Love Affair: Was This the Most Romantic Couple of the Civil War?
.image-13785782 { max-height: 100%; --left: 57.20%; --top: 38.05%; } William C. “Jack” Davis Civil War historian William C. “Jack” Davis, retired professor of American History at Virginia Tech in...
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How the Shotgun Became a Favorite Among Civil War Soldiers
.image-13786565 { max-height: 100%; --left: 32.50%; --top: 25.10%; } In the 1840s and 1850s, companies in Liege, Belgium, produced thousands of double-barreled percussion shotguns. These imported...
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Turmoil in Richmond: Joe Johnston, Jefferson Davis Command Alliance Was...
.image-13789234 { max-height: 100%; --left: 56.00%; --top: 59.92%; } An underlying factor in the Confederacy’s eventual loss of the Civil War was President Jefferson Davis’ often-shaky ties with his...
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Famed Confederate Diarist’s Home Up For Sale for $950,000
There are hundreds of published primary sources of soldiers, civilians, and politicians, but the massive diary kept by South Carolinian Mary Chesnut (1823-1886), published as Mary Chesnut’s Civil War...
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A Strong-willed Texan Scout Joined the Confederacy at 15. But That Was Just...
.image-13790100 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.35%; --top: 22.26%; } A son of the South, Henry Woodson Strong wore many hats as a young adult in northeast Texas, where he raised hogs and later sheep...
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A Confederate Artist’s Intimate Look at the Southern War Effort
.image-13789604 { max-height: 100%; --left: 29.33%; --top: 43.13%; } If you are familiar with Francis Trevelyan Miller’s Photographic History of the Civil War, you’re aware that wartime photographs...
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Although Too Late to Change the Civil War, This Rebel Victory Gave Florida a...
.image-13789580 { max-height: 100%; --left: 46.34%; --top: 32.92%; } It probably seems easy to downplay Florida’s contributions to the Civil War. After all, the state fielded only about 15,000...
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Caught Sleeping at the Wheel: How the Union Army Almost Nabbed Stonewall Jackson
.image-13790890 { max-height: 100%; --left: 45.38%; --top: 19.74%; } Sunday, June 8, 1862 dawned bright and cool in Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall”...
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Cannon Fire and Cotton Candy: The 125th Anniversary Reenactment of Gettysburg
.image-13790491 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } Immediately following the repulse of Pickett’s Charge at the Gettysburg reenactment in 1988, an eerie quiet fell over the field....
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The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, by Mark Twain
.image-13791608 { max-height: 100%; --left: 52.43%; --top: 29.11%; } In the summer of 1861, Mark Twain went to war as a soldier for the Confederacy, riding a small yellow mule carrying a valise, a...
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Helicopters During the Civil War? Almost
Warships with powerful cannons patrol the waters just off Mobile Bay. It is the summer of 1864, and Union sailors are bristling for a fight, ready to take on any vessel tempted to run the blockade in...
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The Confederate “Congress of States”
The Confederate Congress met in 11 sessions from February 1861 to March 1865. The last seven volumes of the Southern Historical Society Papers, published intermittently from 1923 to 1959, reprinted...
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These Civil War Warriors Fought with the Pen, and Not the Sword
.image-13794314 { max-height: 100%; --left: 58.62%; --top: 21.65%; } About one-fifth of military-age White men in the South perished during the war—a chilling statistic that reinforces the argument...
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The Sword That Spurred Ulysses Grant To Victory
.image-13794395 { max-height: 100%; --left: 33.19%; --top: 38.67%; } This elaborate sword was presented to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War on April 23, 1864 by the U.S. Sanitary...
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This British Colonel Traveled with Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg. He’d Already...
Arthur James Lyon Fremantle left Great Britain aboard a ship on March 2, 1863, headed for the northern border of Mexico. After a long voyage, the young British army officer finally arrived on April 1...
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