Camp Life in the Civil War
This entry is part 2 of 20 in the series A Soldier's LifeThe American Civil War like many wars was one of sporadic combat interspersed with periods of stultifying boredom. Armies spent large parts of...
View ArticleTraining the Civil War Soldier
This entry is part 3 of 20 in the series A Soldier's LifeThe antebellum United States Army numbered no more than 16,000 officers and men. The army was organised into ten regiments of infantry, four of...
View ArticlePhotographing the Civil War
This entry is part 7 of 20 in the series A Soldier's LifeThe American Civil War was the first American war to be extensively photographed. Not only were the soldiers photographed in studio environments...
View ArticleMinistering to the Troops
This entry is part 8 of 20 in the series A Soldier's LifeReligion was an important part of American’s lives in the Civil War Era. Every city and town had churches and synagogues that ministered to the...
View ArticleDeath in the American Civil War
The American Civil War reins the deadliest war in American history. New findings argue that somewhere in the neighborhood of 750,000 soldiers died during the war with an unknown number of civilian...
View ArticleAmbrose Gwinnett Bierce
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Union Civil War LiteratureAmbrose Gwinnett Bierce was a writer, journalist and editorialist. But before his writing career he was a soldier in the Union Army for...
View ArticleWhat came before Fort Sumter
This entry is part 1 of 18 in the series The Roots of the Civil WarFor many the firing on Fort Sumter was the cause of the American Civil War. But before Confederate artillery fired on Fort Sumter on...
View ArticleAntietam: 152 Years Later
This is a post that I wrote two years ago on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. It bears repeating to inform people about the horrific price that America paid during the...
View ArticleAn Epitaph for the Southern Railroads
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Railroads of the Civil War By the end of the American Civil War the Southern railroad system was all but destroyed. Where there was once 9,500 miles of track...
View ArticleChristmas During the American Civil War
Christmas celebrations were by their very nature subdued in many parts of the North and the South. The year of 1862 had seen a series of grim and bloody battles, with Shiloh, the Peninsula Campaign,...
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