Civil War Times

Biographies, battles, eyewitness accounts & period photos of America’s greatest internal conflict. Civil War Times delivers the thrilling, extraordinary history of America’s most deadly internal struggle, from biographies to battle stories, eyewitness accounts to period photographs, plus travel guides, perceptive book reviews and more.

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SYMBOLS RENOUNCED

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THE WAR ON THE NET

WAR FRAME

FIRST MONDAYS

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WHERE WAS ‘LITTLE PHIL’? • FEW THINGS VEX HISTORIANS MORE THAN CONFLICTING TESTIMONY FROM WITNESSES TO THE SAME EVENT

TARGET ACQUIRED • DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE IS A BULLSEYE FOR OVERLOOKED CIVIL WAR HISTORY

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TODAY IN HISTORY JULY 17, 1918

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IN TALL CORN • SEPTEMBER 17, 1862, PUT A BLOODY TWIST ON AN AMERICAN SYMBOL

CORNFIELD MAELSTROM

UNFIT FOR COMMAND • Colonel William Christian had a track record of incompetence

LITTLE MAC ON THE MOVE • PRIMARY ACCOUNTS DISPEL GENERAL MCCLELLAN’S SUPPOSED INACTIVITY AT ANTIETAM

A NAME ON THE MAP • THE STORY OF AN EAST WOODS CASUALTY

‘LEE IS MARCHING TO OUR FLANK’ • UNION CAPTAIN FREDERICK VON FRITSCH HAD A HORRIBLE DAY AT CHANCELLORSVILLE

LEAVE THEM STANDING • CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS MUST REMAIN AT GETTYSBURG TO HELP INTERPRET THE CIVIL WAR’S CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

REGULATING VENUS • FACED WITH A RAMPANT PROSTITUTION CRISIS IN NASHVILLE, THE U.S. ARMY TRIED A BOLD SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

A JOHN NAMED TOM?

BRONZE BOMBER • JAMES RIFLES HELPED UPDATE SMOOTHBORE CANNONS

The Frontiersmen Who Couldn't Shoot Straight • The Army vs. the Pioneers 1815–1845

POLITICAL BATTLEFIELD

POP CULTURE WAR

AN IRISH INVITATION

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