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Category: Civil War Research

  • George McClellan: An Essay, Part 2

    Editor’s Note: This is the second post in a three-part essay on George B. McClellan.  If you haven’t read Part 1, do so now! Next, CSA Major General John B. Magruder does an outstanding job convincing everyone that Pinkerton’s estimates are correct.  Historians dismiss Magruder’s work as poor performance by McClellan.  However, using entrenchments, bugle […]

  • George McClellan: An Essay, Part 1

    Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a three-part essay on George B. McClellan. McClellan has come down to us as a poor general, a vain man with possibly Pro Southern leanings.  An Illustration of the contradictions in the man is in his running as the Democratic candidate for President in 1864.  A platform […]

  • Civil War Tokens

    You can buy a lot of expensive gold and silver coins at American Precious Metals Exchange, but you can also buy Civil War tokens of various of various kinds. Their web site explains that: … economic pressures were felt as early as 1862 when the phenomenon known as Gresham’s Law took effect and the public […]

  • Blowin’ In The Wind at Petersburg

    As a followup to my previous post on Bob Dylan, the Times blog has posted some thoughts on what he might have been reading. They put in a quote from a Times correspondent comparing Northern and Southern forces in mid-1864 (not 1863 as stated). The rolls of company after company exhibit not a single name […]

  • Bull of the West Wood

    Thanks to Brett for his pointer to Jim Buchanan’s Walking in the West Woods. And thanks to Jim for the pointer to Gen. Sumner’s papers at the Archives and for publishing his post-battle letter. Sumner’s letter would seem to support those of us who criticize his performance in the West Wood by showing pretty conclusively […]

  • The Trent Crisis of 1861-2 and Author Phil Myers

    I recently came across a very interesting Civil War forum topic on the Trent Affair and possible British military intervention  in the Civil War.  One of the main forum users, 67th Tigers, takes the position that British civilians overwhelmingly wanted war and goes on to present detailed British war plans both in the thread and […]

  • Short Takes

    Footnote.com has added the Compiled Service Records of Union soldiers from Kentucky. Additional Union records for the following: * Civil War Soldiers – Union – AR * Civil War Soldiers – Union – Colored Troops 8th-13th Infantry * Civil War Soldiers – Union – MS * Civil War Soldiers – Union – UT * Civil […]