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

RETURN FIRE

ONLINE POLL

FORT WOOL: FOR THE BIRDS

WAR FRAME

ALOHA STATE SERVICE RECOGNIZED

TAKE A WALK THROUGH HISTORY

FIRST MONDAYS!

PRESERVATION REGISTER

WORTH A MOVE • REAL ESTATE WITH CIVIL WAR CONNECTIONS

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AFTERPARTY MESS

SHOULD POPE BE A PUNCHLINE? • FOR STARTERS, THERE IS SCANT EVIDENCE HE SAID THAT “HEADQUARTERS IN THE SADDLE” LINE

DIGGING CULP’S HILL • ARCHAEOLOGISTS CAN’T SWING A METAL DETECTOR WITHOUT GETTING A HIT

LOSING THE LOST CAUSE

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WHAT’S IN A NAME? • MANY BRIGADES DESERVED NICKNAMES

FIGHT FOR THE COLORS • THE 62ND PENNSYLVANIA ENDURED A HARROWING, AND OFTEN OVERLOOKED, STRUGGLE TO DEFEND ITS FLAGS IN GETTYSBURG’S WHEATFIELD

SWEITZER’S STORM FLAG

STEEL DEATH

MAN IN THE SHADOWS • JOHN RAWLINS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT UNION OFFICER YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF

FAMILY TIES

COMIC RELIEF

HIGH ESTEEM

‘EXPECT NO HELP’ • AFTER YEARS OF SPECULATION, MODERN CODE-BREAKERS TRANSLATED A VICKSBURG MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

IN GOD WE TRUST • GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN IS ACCUSED OF CHARACTER DEFECTS AND MENTAL ILLNESS FOR HIS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. BUT THOSE VIEWS WERE NOT UNIQUE

FAMILIAR, YET DISTANT • It was a very different age

CANISTER AND GRAPE • YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO GET HIT WITH EITHER

RUINED BY COMRADES

CAPTURE RICHMOND

CONFEDERATES AS POSTWAR PATRIOTS

IRON BEHEMOTHS

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NORTH STAR AT THEIR BACK

A UNIQUE NATION?

A WEE NIP FOR THOMAS