Civil War Articles
 Gentle
Warrior: Charles Russell Lowell, Jr.
by Thomas Parson
No one who was there would ever forget the sight. Two brigades of
Union cavalry, nine regiments, stretched out in columns of fours,
riding from right to left across the length of the Federal line.
There was a lull in the fighting at Cedar Creek allowing the
troopers to ride the entire front, unchallenged by the attacking
Confederates....
Anesthetics
in Field and General Hospitals Of the Confederate States of America
by Michael Koznarsky
Anesthetics, chiefly chloroform, ether and opium/opium derivatives,
were widely used during surgery and for pain relief during the
American Civil War. Standard medical practices of both the United
States and Confederate States called for the use of these
anesthetics.
Gilmor's
Ride Around Baltimore
by Gary Baker
On June 9, 1864, Confederate General Jubal Early defeated an ad-hoc
Union army under the command of General Lew Wallace at Monocacy
Junction, east of Frederick, Maryland. After his victory, Early
moved against Washington, D.C., and ever since historians have
focused on Early's demonstration in front of Washington's defenses.
The
Committee on the Conduct of the War: Investigators or Villains?
by Patricia Caldwell
When we think about the political aspects of the Civil War what most
quickly comes to mind are situations such as the secession crisis,
the 1860 election, Lincoln's administration and Jefferson Davis and
the Confederate government.
Felix
Zollicoffer and the "Zollie Tree"
by Richard B. Lewis
One of the early martyrs of the Confederacy was Felix Kirk
Zollicoffer. Zollicoffer's military career was short and relatively
obscure - and one wonders if he would earn more than a passing
glance from historians were it not for his bizarre surname (and if
that was not enough, his wife's middle name was Pocahontas).
Rough
Ride On Red River
by Laurie Chambliss
No doubt it seemed like a good idea at the time. Vicksburg had been
taken last summer. "The Father of the Waters flows unvexed to the
sea," Lincoln has said. This was better as poetry than as military
analysis, however, as there were still active Confederate forces on
both sides of the lower Mississippi in this spring of 1864.
Brotherhood
in Battle: Masons in the Civil War
by Jimmy Stevens
The Alabama artillery lieutenant frowned and twisted his broad
shoulders as he sagged against the muddy wooden wheel of a caisson.
He rested the back of his head between two of the spokes, closed his
hazel eyes and blew out a long hard sigh. He was dog tired.
Double
Bridges
by Dean Lambert
During the Civil War, the most noted Union offensive into Louisiana
was the Red River Campaign of 1864. This Union invasion into central
and northwest Louisiana brought fame to several small settlements
that were located on or near the Red River.
The
11th Corps at Gettysburg
National Tribune (1869)
The writer of this little article does not claim for it absolute
correctness in the minutest details, it being penned mostly from
memory, but endeavors to bring before all comrades of the Army of
the Potomac, especially the First Corps, a comprehensive sketch of
the fighting of the two divisions of the Eleventh Corps
...
August
Willich in the Civil War: Heart of a Communist/Mind of a Prussian
by Mike Quigley
He was also referred to as "The Reddest of the Red" and at a meeting
at a Cincinnati German Workers Union Hall in the uproar on the
execution of John Brown, August Willich exclaimed to his listeners,
" Whet your sabers and nerve your arms for the day of retribution
when Slavery and Democracy will be crushed in a common grave."
Robert
Small and "The Planter"
by Laurie Chambliss
Actually, this story, like many we tell, starts with a group of
naked men. It was Monday, May 13th, 1862, on one of the many little
islands which both fill and make up Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina. What is called the Coosaw River runs more salt than fresh,
but on a hot Carolina spring afternoon, it looked extremely
appealing to members of the 8th Michigan Infantry.
Jane
Claudia Johnson: Heroine of the 1st Maryland Volunteer Infantry,
C.S.A.
by Gary Baker
The end of America's Ante-bellum era came with a resounding crash on
April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces in Charleston, South
Carolina, opened fire on Fort Sumter. For many Americans,
Northerners and Southerners alike, whose loyalties were torn between
their state and their country, economics and morality, family ties
and political beliefs, the bombardment brought an abrupt end to
their indecision.
Hunterstown:
North Cavalry Field of Gettysburg
By Troy Harmon, National Park Ranger and Historian
Hunterstown Cavalry Battlefield, also known as North Cavalry Field,
is a National Shrine waiting to be fully appreciated and brought
into the fold of sacred places visited regularly by patrons of
Gettysburg National Military Park. Fields and barns to either side
of the Hunterstown road...
Pittsburgh's
Bloodiest Day
By Lawrence J. Spinnenweber Jr.
On the morning of September 19, 1862, the New York Tribune printed
the first report of the battle that had been fought two days earlier
along Maryland's Antietam Creek. Within hours every Northern city
buzzed with talk of the war's bloodiest day. Every city, that is,
except Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The
Mother of the Union Army: The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke
by Laurie Chambliss
Going to church can occasionally be a life-changing experience.
Sunday, May 26, 1861 was one such church-going experience, for Mary
Ann Bickerdyke of Galesburg, Illinois. It changed her life utterly
for the next four years--and saved the lives of more Union and
Confederate soldiers than will ever be known.
The
Jekyll and Hyde Myth Of Nathan Bedford Forrest
By R.L. Richardson
A few miles near Tuscumbia, Alabama, the Confederate Army marched
along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Private Phillip D.
Stephenson, loader of piece No. 4, 5th Washington Artillery, Army of
Tennessee, had fallen behind.
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