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Civil War Times
July 2007
Michael Dreese |
Fighting and Dying for the Colors at Gettysburg Beyond their practical value on Civil War battlefields, regimental flags and other banners embodied the pride, honor and bravery of the soldiers who willingly gave their lives to defend them.   |
America's Civil War
September 2006
Gerald J. Smith |
44th Georgia Regiment Volunteers in the American Civil War The hard-fighting 44th Georgia suffered some of the heaviest losses of any regiment in the Civil War. |
America's Civil War
Todd S. Berkoff |
Bloody Baptism for the Black Hats John Gibbon's mostly green Midwestern troops found themselves in quite a scrape as the sun set on August 28, 1862. His Black Hat Brigade would never forget their baptism of fire at Brawner's Farm. |
America's Civil War
January 2007
Gordon Berg |
Battle of Chickamauga and Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps In 1863, Gordon Granger's rookie Reserve Corps saved the Army of the Cumberland from impending destruction. |
America's Civil War
Robert Collins Suhr |
Little Phil Sheridan Wins His Spurs At an obscure railroad station in northern Mississippi, an equally obscure Union cavalry colonel faced a personal and professional moment of truth. His name was Phil Sheridan, and his coolness and dash clearly marked him for bigger things. |
Civil War Times
September 2006
Ted Alexander |
Battle of Antietam: Two Great American Armies Engage in Combat The opposing armies at Antietam were two very different forces commanded by two very different men. |
America's Civil War
Al Hemingway |
Day One at Chancellorsville New Union commander 'Fighting Joe' Hooker planned to encircle Robert E. Lee at the Virginia crossroads hamlet of Chancellorsville. The plan seemed to be working perfectly, until... |
Civil War Times
June 2007
Gordon Berg |
American Indian Sharpshooters at the Battle of the Crater In 1864, American Indian sharpshooters fought gallantly beside their black and white comrades in blue in the chaos of the Crater. |
America's Civil War
January 12, 2005
Michael C. Hardy |
April 2, 1865: 'A Day of Carnage and Blood' Sixth Corps Yankees stumbled out of their earthworks and toward the muddy pits of the Army of Northern Virginia. It was the beginning of the end. |
Civil War Times
Maurice G. D'Aoust |
Unraveling the Myths of Burnside Bridge Ambrose Burnside failed to deliver a crippling blow to the Army of Northern Virginia at Antietam -- considered by some historians as the most important conflict of the Civil War -- and then he tried to cover it up. |
America's Civil War
James B. Ronan II |
Union Regulars Brigade Desperate Stand at Chickamauga Civil War Brigadier General John King's disciplined brigade of Union Regulars found itself tested as never before at Chickamauga. For two bloody days, the Regulars dashed from one endangered spot to another, seeking to save their army from annihilation. |
America's Civil War
September 2007 |
Antietam Eyewitness Accounts Quotes from soldiers who experienced the carnage of the single bloodiest day in American history. |
Civil War Times
Virginia Kepler |
Buckeyes Make a Stand 'My God, We Thought You Had a Division Here!' The 21st Ohio Infantry's unique repeating weaponry was its salvation -- and nearly its undoing -- at Chickamauga. |
Civil War Times
Thomas T. Taylor |
Eyewitness to the Battle of Atlanta Among the blue-clad soldiers moving against Atlanta in late July 1864 was Major Thomas T. Taylor of Georgetown, Ohio. In these passages from the letter he wrote to his wife, Netta, he described what he saw, experienced, and did during the Battle of Atlanta. |
America's Civil War
January 2006
William Marvel |
Controversial Crossing on Burnside's Bridge Should General Ambrose Burnside have ordered his men to wade Antietam Creek? The author undertook a personal odyssey to find out. |
