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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
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
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
Robert C. Cheeks |
Nothing But Glory Gained On a hot July afternoon, 12,000 Southern soldiers started across an airless valley toward bristling enemy lines a mile away. For a moment, time stood still. The fate of two nations hung in the balance. Then the shooting began. |
Military History Quarterly
Spring 2006
Stuart W. Sanders |
Robert Charles Tyler: Last Civil War Confederate General Slain in Combat Against impossible odds and following orders issued half a year earlier, Robert Charles Tyler became the last Confederate general slain in Civil War combat. |
America's Civil War
January 2007
Mike Haskew |
Battle of Chickamauga Overconfident and overextended, the Union Army of the Cumberland advanced into the deep woods of northwest Georgia. Waiting Confederates did not intend for them to leave. At Chickamauga Creek, the two sides collided. |
America's Civil War
Michael E. Haskew |
Union General William Rosecrans's attack on Confederate General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee American Civil War Union General William Rosecrans bided his time, waiting to attack Confederate General Braxton Bragg's Rebel army at Murfreesboro, 30 miles south of Nashville. |
America's Civil War
January 2008
Curtis D. Crockett |
The Union's Bloody Miscue at Spotsylvania's Muleshoe How Colonel Emory Upton's brilliant plan for limiting casualties devolved into the most primal combat of the war. |
America's Civil War
May 2006
Timothy B. Smith |
Battle of Shiloh: Shattering Myths Events that have been distorted or enhanced by veterans and early battlefield administrators have become part of the accepted story of the April 1862 battle -- until now. |
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
David A. Norris |
Bloody Day at Boteler's Ford Just two days after the Battle of Antietam, the deadliest day of the Civil War, the savage Battle of Shepherdstown made for a bloody little coda to the 1862 Maryland campaign. |
Civil War Times
August 2007
Marc Leepson |
At Washington's Gates: Jubal Early's Chance to Take the Capitol A Confederate army came within hours of capturing the Federal capital and dramatically altering the 1864 presidential election, the war and the ultimate fate of two American nations. |
America's Civil War
Bruce A. Trinque |
Hancock's 'Well-Conducted Fizzle' With Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia stubbornly clinging to Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant decided to cut its vital rail lines. To perform the surgery, he selected one of the North's proven heroes -- 'Hancock the Superb.' |
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
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
March 2008 |
Letters From Readers - March 2008 Gettysburg a high water mark.... Ancestor's Antietam legacy... Fort Pulaski and Lee... Correcting the Union offensive... The boy hero of Tennessee... Sharpsburg battle losses... Looking for Italian connections... |
America's Civil War
September 2007 |
Antietam Eyewitness Accounts Quotes from soldiers who experienced the carnage of the single bloodiest day in American history. |
America's Civil War
Gary W. Dolzall |
Enemies Front and Rear Union forces under George H. Thomas destroyed the Confederate Army of Tennessee at Nashville as Thomas endured his own battle of resolve with Ulysses S. Grant. |
America's Civil War
September 2007
John H. Nelson |
Battle of Antietam: Union Surgeons and Civilian Volunteers Help the Wounded Union surgeons and civilian volunteers struggled to cope with thousands of Antietam wounded in barns and barnyards, houses and churches, haystacks, pastures and flimsy tent |
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
March 2007
Richard F. Welch |
Burning High Bridge: The South's Last Hope The Army of Northern Virginia's final opportunity to escape Grant's net disappeared on the banks of the Appomattox -- along with the dream of a Confederate nation. |
Civil War Times
December 2003
Eric Ethier |
Who Was the Common Soldier of the Civil War? Here's what the statistics tell us. |
Civil War Times
May 2006
Maurice D'Aoust |
Hoodwinked During the Civl War: Union Military Deception Appearances could be misleading on the battlefields of the Civil War. |
America's Civil War
Michael Morgan |
Digging to Victory at Vicksburg To the armies at Vicksburg, picks, shovels and manual labor proved as valuable as bullets and bombshells. |
Civil War Times
May 2007 |
Letters From Readers These Honored Dead... Rewriting History With the 1st... Gallant Goat... The Lincoln-Davis Affair?... Correction... |
Civil War Times
September 2006 |
Letter Robert E. Lee's men reminded the Yankees on the ridges around Sharpsburg, Md., that size, supply and fortuitous discoveries of informative cigar wrappers don't always translate into victory on the battlefield. |
Salon.com
September 17, 2002
Katharine Whittemore |
"Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam 1862" by James M. McPherson The great historian James McPherson presents his account of Antietam, the savage Civil War battle that made the freeing of the slaves possible. |
