The Summer 2024 Issue
In February, I attended the South Boston Civil War and Military Show in South Boston. It’s a wonderful venue featuring collectors from Virginia and North Carolina, as well as area
In February, I attended the South Boston Civil War and Military Show in South Boston. It’s a wonderful venue featuring collectors from Virginia and North Carolina, as well as area
The sheer volume of surviving writings by those citizen and professional soldiers who experienced the Civil War firsthand is immense. Accounts in diaries, letters, periodicals and books stand as a
Bad news flooded Northern newspapers in 1861. Secession. Fort Sumter. Riots in Baltimore and St. Louis. Lost battles at Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff. Death snuffing out young lives. News
By Paul Russinoff and Jim Quinlan, with images from the Elizabeth Traynor Collection A few days after the fall of Fort Sumter, Cadet Edward Willoughby “Will” Anderson stood before his
By Richard M. Milstead, PhD Enoch Whittemore, Jr., advanced to first sergeant on Feb. 4, 1864. A member of Company I of the 5th Maine Infantry, he had received several
By Scott Valentine Seeking to relieve pressure on the Army of Northern Virginia besieged at Richmond and Petersburg in the summer of 1864, Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered a diversion