America's Civil War Magazine
Historians and medical researchers usually hesitate to diagnose historical figures with disabilities and disorders post hoc, but contemporary understanding of human behavior can actually inform our analysis of various Civil War successes...
AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
Tellingly, after the Confederates’ hard-won victory at Chickamauga, Braxton Bragg’s major subordinates petitioned Davis to relieve him of his command. ...
AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
Trimmed, wavy hair was fashionable for white men in late antebellum America, so those with longer locks stood out. ...
AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
The Civil War, which cost roughly 750,000 lives, including more than 200,000 battlefield deaths, is America’s deadliest conflict. It could have been worse....
AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
A fight before Christmas in remote Middleburg, Tenn., gave Ulysses Grant Some solace in his failed first Vicksburg Campaign...
America's Civil War Magazine
In the February 23, 1864, issue of his newspaper, the Raleigh (N.C.) Standard, William Woods Holden announced that he was suspending publication. The Confederate Congress had just passed a law empowering the government to imprison people...
AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
President Abraham Lincoln was desperate to forge a political alliance necessary to save the Union—even if it meant embracing a rascal like Dan Sickles....
AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
At 4 p.m. on September 18, 1891, Oliver Cromwell Gould, son of 10th Maine Infantry veteran John Mead Gould, took a photograph of Antietam’s East Woods, where his father had witnessed momentous events 29 years earlier....
