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The Forgotten Senator: The Life and Character of Preston B. Plumb, by Johanna D. Wickman. Forward, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, photographs…

Maryland, on September 17, 1862, he later developed chronic bronchitis and dysentery. In 1862, he wrote this to his family from Moore Hospital:

time we will go back to the beginning, when the Florida was built and first took to the seas. This was no easy task. Getting the job done required…

T Confederate history is, unfortunately, being erased, covered up, hushed, closeted, and even rewritten in our current culture. In his time, Dr.…

Holding Charleston by the Bridle: Castle Pinckney and the Civil War. By W. Clifford Roberts, Jr. and Matthew A. M. Locke. Map, glossary…

the Confederates thought more highly of these imported arms than Union soldiers. Liège-Belgium was a center for manufacturing a variety of military…

n 2024, I devoted a column to a quiz, entitled “Testing Your General Knowledge.” I cited some data about the

They both wrote counterfactual narratives about Confederate victory in the American Civil War.

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is a single pot concoction consisting of field peas, bacon, and rice. It is usually served with greens and cornbread. Consuming the meal as described…

on Northern shipping in the North and South Atlantic and in the Caribbean, claiming 37 prizes during her 21 months at sea.1

lad’s education, which included a stint at VMI. With the Institute’s Corps of Cadets, he charged at New Market and received a lieutenant’s…

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An individual who came immediately to mind was one Carlo Camilius (Charles) DeRudio, a former Italian aristocrat and anarchist associated with a plot…

his wife Carol reside in Dunwoody, Ga. This small item is part of a huge supply of ordnance, sharing space with a vast collection of all sorts of…

Civil War with these words from Sherman in March 1864, just as he closes his second volume with them. Fort Sumter to Perryville (published in 1958)…

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during the Civil War as part of the normal rations were not the canned “pork and beans” known today. There were canned foods during the Civil War but…

Fredericksburg (December 11-13, 1862), Chancellorsville (May 1-3, 1863), the Mine Run Campaign (November 26-December 2, 1863), and the Wilderness and…

and the first part of the 19th, seven Northern states abolished slavery.1 The institution was not a significant part of these states’ economies, of…

he had left in February 1861 to become President of the newly formed Confederacy. Shelby Foote begins the second volume of his The Civil War with…

War in the Western Theater: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War. Edited by Sarah Kay Bierle and Chris…

are manufactured in Italy by two main manufacturers, D. Pedersoli and Armi Chiappa (Armi Sport), both experienced factory shutdowns related to the…

Battlefields Trust created this conference as a thank-you to all our resolute members and supporters back in 1997-98. The event has evolved from a…

widowed while he was relatively young. His third wife was a widow who outlived several of her children. One of Grandpa Stephen’s sons died young and…

Like you, probably, I grew up reading Mrs. Chesnut’s Diary from Dixie decades ago in a paperback reprint of the 1949 edition, as prepared by Ben Ames…