‘Little Phil’ and ‘Old Jube’ get serious. For the footsore soldiers of the First […]
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The USS Monitor- To Rise Again
Last summer two teams of divers and researchers dived on the wreck of the […]
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Guerrilla War on the High Seas
Confederate privateers and commerce raiders made life risky for Union shippers. At 5 p.m. […]
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Lee’s Last Hurrah
Five years after the war, the beloved former general set out on a sentimental […]
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The White Oak Museum Displays the Fruits of Decades of Relic Hunting
One man’s trash…
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Everything You Need to Know About Artillery
The Author: John Gibbon, the first commander of the famous “Iron Brigade” of Midwestern […]
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Do the Numbers Add up for ‘Marse Robert’?
Robert E. Lee has occupied a remarkable position in the American memory of the […]
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The Civil War Today: February 2010
Antietam Unknowns Honored in New York and Tennessee Two recently located unidentified soldiers were […]
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Book Review: Stanton / Lincoln’s War Secretary
Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary By Walter Stahr Simon & Schuster 2017, $35 Lincoln’s most […]
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The NVA’s Plan for a Great Escape
A North Vietnamese Army battalion was ordered to free captured Viet Cong so they could join the fight during Tet, but U.S. gunships and the 173rd Airborne had other plans for the intruders