The Journal of the Civil War Era is published by UNC Press in association with the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. It publishes the most creative new work on the many issues raised by slavery, the sectional crisis, war, emancipation, Reconstruction, and memory of the country’...
–Lead Belly“Scottsboro Boys” How can you understand a problem if you are not allowed to name it? How can you fight injusticeif you are forbidden from learning its history and connection to the present moment? These questions are at the heart of awell-financedwar against a simple term –...
The contested state of Missouri was the site of the United States’ longest civil conflict, stretching from 1854 well into the mid-1870’s. While the state’s experience with violence began with pro-slavery militancy in Kansas, Missouri’s long “Inside War” (its infamous guerrilla conflict) ...
Westward the Texans: The Civil War Journal of Pvt. William R. Howell (review) as insignificant, but Jerry Don Thompson in Westward the Texans: The Civil War Journal ofPrivate William Randolph Howell asserts that the New Mexico campaign of 1861-62 "was undeniably one of the most important of...
Published here for the first time, the Civil War combat memoir of Col. James Taylor Holmes of the 52nd Ohio Volunteers presents a richly detailed first-hand account of the June 1864 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Written in 1915, Holmes’ insightful narrative, with original hand-drawn diagrams, ...
Leafing through the pages of the American Political Science Review, a reader might be forgiven for thinking he had stumbled upon an engineering journal, so thick are the pages with abstruse mathematics. Many political scientists have had the same reaction themselves. Indeed, there's now a civil ...
14.Mary Elizabeth Massey,Bonnet brigades (The Impact of the Civil War)(1966), p. 84. 15.In the last ten years, articles about Civil War women soldiers have appeared in such diverse publications as Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, Southern Studies , and The Civil War ...
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Richmond. Virginia where the Confederate government housed Yankee prisoners. Last year I was surprised while glancing through a newspaper at the Library of Congress. I noticed what seemed to be an advertisement for Libby. The paper was published 28 years after the war ended. How could that be?
Kershaw’s command slept that night on the heights above Bull Run. The next day was a dreary drizzly day. Being allowed to wander at will over the battle-field [pg 9] we had our first opportunities of seeing something of the horrors of war. Of course the men and officers of our comma...