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.

Civil War Times • APRIL 2021 / VOL. 60, NO. 2

RETURN FIRE

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‘OLD BRAINS’ AND ‘GRANNY LEE’ • CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS OFTEN GAVE THEIR GENERALS POINTED NICKNAMES

RELICS AND GRAVES • YOU DON’T HAVE TO LOOK FAR TO FIND TRACES OF PATRICK CLEBURNE IN TENNESSEE

PRESERVING AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCES

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A CONTINUOUS RUMBLE • THE CIVIL WAR IMPACTS OUR EVERY DAY

WEEK OF WAR • A HANDFUL OF CRITICAL DECISIONS ALTERED THE COURSE OF THE 1862 SEVEN DAYS CAMPAIGN

THE WIDOW’S SECRET • A MISSOURI WOMAN SACRIFICED MUCH OF HER OWN LIFE TO HELP AN AGED UNION VETERAN

A PLACE OF THEIR OWN • AS CIVIL WAR VETERANS STRUGGLED TO REENTER SOCIETY, SOME FORMED THEIR OWN UNIQUE COMMUNITIES

THE OTHER GETTYSBURG • The Civil War still impacts this small Dakota town

‘ESCAPE WAS HOPELESS’ • A STONEWALL BRIGADE CAPTAIN RECOUNTS THE SAVAGE JULY 3, 1863, FIGHT FOR CULP’S HILL AT GETTYSBURG

SENT TO FORT McHENRY

HASTE MAKES WASTE • THE GARDNER CARTRIDGE WAS EXPEDIENT TO MANUFACTURE, BUT PROVED FRAGILE

ALL ABOUT THE MONEY

LONE STAR STRUGGLE

HOOD’S FUTILE END

OF STATUES AND MEANING

SQUARING OFF IN MISSISSIPPI

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