Civil War Times

Biographies, battles, eyewitness accounts & period photos of America’s greatest internal conflict. Civil War Times delivers the thrilling, extraordinary history of America’s most deadly internal struggle, from biographies to battle stories, eyewitness accounts to period photographs, plus travel guides, perceptive book reviews and more.

STUCK IN CYBERSPACE

DEAD MEN DO TELL TALES

LEE’S NAME STAYS

THE MISSION REMAINS THE SAME

THE WAR ON THE NET

ON WISCONSIN!

QUIZ

THREE WEEKS OLD

OF GRAVE INTEREST • AT PHILADELPHIA’S HISTORIC LAUREL HILL CEMETERY, RUSS DODGE FEEDS HIS CIVIL WAR OBSESSION

EVERY SKETCH TELLS A STORY • TWO TALENTED FIELD ARTISTS PRODUCED A TREASURE TROVE OF ACTION-PACKED SKETCHES

RECONSTRUCTION’S LOST CAUSE

WHAT AILED THEM • ONE COULDN’T LEAVE HIS HOME, ONE COULDN’T GET BACK

HUNTED DOWN AFTER GETTYSBURG • AN ILLITERATE NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIER PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR DESERTING THE CONFEDERATE STATE

DOWN EAST TO DOWN SOUTH • FOUR GREEN MAINE REGIMENTS FOUGHT AT THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN

TWO BRAVE BROTHERS

1,700 MILES OF MOURNERS • ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FUNERAL TRAIN TRAVELED ACROSS SEVEN STATES

MOURNING ATTIRE AND MEMORABILIA • President Lincoln’s sudden death abruptly interrupted the country’s sigh of relief at the Civil War’s end just days before, and quickly turned celebrants into mourners. His assassination was “an electric shock to my soul,” wrote one woman who had escaped from slavery. As a collective whole, the nation wept, and many citizens sought to express their sorrow with ornaments of grief such as mourning ribbons and badges. Others sought to commemorate the occasion with paraphernalia.

‘THE STENCH OF ROTTEN YANKS’ • AN INVALID GEORGIA TEENAGER KEPT A REMARKABLE, INSIGHTFUL DIARY ABOUT THE WAR…AND FRUIT

A CAPITAL DEFENSE

HARD, HOT, GRUELING WAR

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