Campaigns & Commanders

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the July-August 2026 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the May-June 2026 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the March-April 2026 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the January-February 2026 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the November-December 2025 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the September-October 2025 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the July-August 2025 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the May-June 2025 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the March-April 2025 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the January-February 2025 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the November-December 2024 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the September-October 2024 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the July-August 2024 issue of Civil War News.

lament his failure to bring battle at Cassville. In time, his disillusionment with Hood, and the events of May 19, would fester and grow into a passio…

Civil War Times Illustrated—An By Stephen Davis Bruce Catton, Virgil Carringto Jones, Edwin C. Bearss—all are Civil War authors familiar to many enthu…

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the March 2024 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the February 2024 issue of Civil War News.

the Civil War Book Exchange, turns fift By Stephen Davis That’s right, we’re a halfhe year was 1974, the time century old. n… Civil War News was found…

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the December 2023 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the November 2023 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the October 2023 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the September 2023 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the August 2023 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the July 2023 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the June 2023 issue of Civil War News.

was promoted to brigadier genera in early June 1862, which led to brigade command in Virginia. A veteran of Malver Hill, Second Manassas and Sharpsbur…

Back to Normal—Annual Civil War Show a Success! DALTON, Ga.—The 28th Annual Chickamauga (Dalton) Civil War Show held February 4th and 5th at the Dalto…

I would have done justice to Yankee virtues, if they had had any, but since that infamous march of Sherman’s and their insolence in bringing negro sol…

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the February 2023 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the January 2023 issue of Civil War News.

Northern Engineers Prying Up Track Shadow dating is the practice of timing a photograph…

How the Charleston Mercury Gave St by Stephen Davis Newspapers, as the saying goes, write the first draft of history. Such was the case of the Charles…

York Underground RR Museum Dedi by Leon Reed Sculptor Gary Casteel, best known for Gettysburg’s James Longstreet statue, watc with pride as the govern…

Civil War Round Table, as well as the Douglas Southall Freeman Award of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the August 2022 issue of Civil War News.

for CWTI in February 1970, James I. Robertson remarked that so many Civil War books were coming out that the next one would be titled “Lincoln’ Wife’s…

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the June 2022 issue of Civil War News.

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the April 2022 issue of Civil War News.

and his eloquence. Dahlgren’s raid, for instance, “remains a blot even upon the page of this uncivilized warfare.” DeLeon is not above criticizing Con…

of their city, notably Robert N. Rosen and Richard W. Hatcher III. The historical text

40th Annual Central Virginia Military Antique Show HENRICO COUNTY, Virginia—The 40th annual Central Virginia Military Antique Show was held on Novembe…

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Col. Bushrod W. Frobel, assistan ee street battery.” In his diary hing in front of it. Federal tro

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the August 2021 issue of Civil War News.

first visit dy Angle on end in 1998 spent the h he beach at on the way York, we di of the bat ericksburg.…

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the April 2021 issue of Civil War News.

Civil War Artillery Book 392 page, full-color book, Civil War Artillery Projectiles – The Half Shell Book. For more information and how to order visit…

form of iron, was not a thing u known to metallurgy during the 19th century. However, stainles

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the December 2020 issue of Civil War News.

field of Civil War History Fellow of the Company of Military Historians Nevins–Freeman Award from the Civil War Round Table of Chicago in 1980…

Lincoln Forum to Host “Zoom Symposium” in November, Then Return to Gettysburg For In-Person Forum in May 2021…

fall was a trusting nature and l of business acumen. Additionally Grant held the traditional army…

We were ordered immediately to North Alabama, and I have not been able to hear from it since. price of making is One Hundred a

New 392 page, full-color book, Civil War Artillery Projectiles – The Half Shell Book. For more information and how to order visit the website…

In 1929, British military historian and theorist B.H. Liddell Hart published Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American. This groundbreaking work would be hi…

an important impact on you and your development as a Civil War historian.” Lightning Round (short answers with a one-sentence…

the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. Thus fa comprehensive, definitive listing has been ma of the photographer’s work. For this book we chosen a…

Lieutenant and Drill Master at a Georgia Camp of Instruction. He was already serving, but his official appointment date was July 29, 1862. He continue…

John W. Kuhl and David G. Ma tin, Stars Over New Jersey: Jersey’s Generals and Admira

Untouched by the Conflict: The Civil War Letters of Singleton Ashenfelter, Dickinson College. Edited by Jonathan W. White and Daniel Glenn. 35…

George N.The Barnard’s Atlantaphotographs Campaign of the Atlanta Campaign The American Civil War was the first war in used entrenchments, repeating r…

Joseph G. Bilby and William C. Goble, “Remember You are Jerseymen!”, Hightstown, NJ, Longstreet House, 1998. Being a Jerseyman, and being interested…

The North Georgia Relic Hunte MARIETTA, Ga.—The North Georgia Relic Hunters recently sponsored its 41st Annual Southeastern Civil War and Antique Gun …

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lion for the operation out of a “secret service” fund administered by Secretary of State Juda Benjamin to accomplish this task. After hearing Young…

tory, the Army of the Potomac’s “Great Retreat to Philadelphia,” and the fall of Washington. The

Critic's Corner by Stephen Davis, from the June 2019 issue of Civil War News.

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Dear Mother: Here we are twenty-five miles below Atlanta on the Macon R.R. and the Yankees have possession of the “Gate City.” On the night

issue of the National Tribune, ng, Ga. Mr. Clark kindly photog a Union veteran a generation a

easy to research your family tree that anyone with a computer can do it in the comfort of their own home. Kent said “Whether your ancestor fought for…

When an historical event is passing into legend, it helps t have a poem written about it. Thus we have Thomas Buchanan Read’s “Sheridan’s Ride,” based…

Steven E. Woodworth, Ph.D., Professor of History, Texas Christi University, Fort Worth, Texas.

I recently received some more material for my Civil War firear in the field information file fr my North Carolina correspondent and battlefield resear…

By Stephen Davis Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and John B. Hood had few things in common, but one of them was that both assumed army command at a…

Following the battle of Frank lin, Nov. 30, 1864, Confederate Gen. John B. Hood had few tactical options when Union Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield’s army…

Quick: what do Winston Churchill and Newt Gingrich have in common? Answer: Not much, but they both wrote an “alternative hist ry” about how Robert E. …

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“Stand to It and Give Them Them Hell”: Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863. By John…

Robert Sneden’s Map of Atlanta’s Co By Stephen Davis Students of the Atlanta Campaign have long bemoaned the scarcity of reliable maps covering the op…

By J. H. Segars We of the South have borne too long and too patiently the many mis representations concerning us, and we cannot afford to be patient l…

Indispensability is measured by distance of an item from one’s des In my case, the indispensable Nevins, Robertson and Wiley, eds., Ci War Books: A…

for Independence. Finally, Bushrod Frobel’s ar are remarkable because they are little known today. Sources: Bushrod Washington Frobel Compiled…

variously called it. On November 1 he also ordered Slocum to “make preliminary preparations for the absolute destruction

Service with the Signal Corps: The Civil War Memoir of Captain Louis R. Fortescue. Edited by J. Gregory Acken. Illustrated, photos, notes, index, 412…