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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Civil War Times • WINTER 2024 / VOL. 63, NO. 1

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FIRST MONDAYS

A NEW EXPOSURE

DIGGING DEEP

WAR FRAME

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

THE LEGEND OF ROBERT SMALLS

USNS HARRIET TUBMAN

PREAERVATION REGISTER

A NEW SALUTE: IN MEMORIAM

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ON THE FRONTIER

ENVELOPES WITH A MESSAGE • PATRIOTIC MESSAGES ENLIVENED UNION LETTERS

TRAILING A KILLER • “IDDA HANGED HIM, TOO,” INSISTS DISTANT RELATIVE OF FAMED CONFEDERATE GUERRILLA

TODAY IN HISTORY MAY 13, 1865

ANOTHER NAPOLEONIC WAR

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A NEW HARVEST • FIFTEEN YEARS. WHERE DOES THE TIME GO?

LEFT ON THE FIELD • UNRAVELING THE STORY OF A SOMBER GETTYSBURG PHOTOGRAPH

GARDNER AND HIS ASSISTANTS

GRANT’S BEST GUNNER • SAM DEGOLYER’S MICHIGAN BATTERY FOUGHT MASTERFULLY DURING THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN

‘WEARY OF SO MUCH SUFFERING’ • LETTERS FROM THE SHERIDAN FIELD HOSPITAL

LINCOLN’S FOREIGN LEGION • THE PRESIDENT WELCOMED IMMIGRANTS INTO THE U.S. RANKS, AND WORKED TO ESTABLISH POLICIES TO PROTECT THE FOREIGN BORN

SHARPS’ BREECHLOADER • THIS DEADLY WEAPON WAS FAVORED BY SHARPSHOOTERS AND CAVALRYMEN ALIKE

INDESTRUCTIBLE FORTITUDE

ELEVEN SESSIONS, ELEVEN STATES

ESSAYS ON GRANT

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CONFEDERATE STAGING GROUND

SYNOPSIS OF MAYHEM

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