Eric A. Campbell began working for the National Park Service at Gettysburg in 1987. […]
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Collateral Damage: ‘Squire’ Bottom Founds a Confederate Cemetery
On the morning of October 8, 1862, Union Major General Don Carlos Buell’s Army […]
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Blue and Gray: How Lee’s ‘Old War-Horse’ Gained a New Following
Two dramatic scenes stand out in James Longstreet’s Confederate career. The first occurred on […]
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CWT Today- June 2011
Flora Stuart’s Battle Flag Finds a New Home The battle flag that Flora Stuart, […]
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Not A Very Merry Christmas
Life for American troops on the frontline in Italy in late December 1943 brought anything but yuletide cheer
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Time Travel: In the Nazis’ Alpine Fortress
Travel writer Heidi Fuller-love explores the juxtaposition of Obersalzburg’s alpine beauty and the German town’s Nazi past
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Footlocker: Undersea Mystery
In August 1945, Seaman First Class Louis C. Reynolds collected this Japanese garment off the surrendered sub I-14. Does its insignia reveal the name of the original owner?
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Insight: Gary Gallagher on the War in the West
To read Gary Gallagher’s columns about the Civil War in the West that have […]
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Insight: A Conflict Apart
Brutal battles between the U.S. Army and Indians were not considered part of the […]
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Fire for Effect: A Man of No Seasons-Walther von Seydlitz
Wehrmacht leader Walther von Seydlitz marched to the beat of his own drum—a trait that, oddly enough, would earn him no friends.