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Category: Civil War News

  • Mr. Lincoln’s Forts reissue & signing

    Frank Cooling and Wally Owen’s book on the ring of forts around Washington has been reissued. At $75 for the hardback the price is steep but it’s the definitive reference work on the 68 forts that protected the capitol during the war. If you’re DC area on the evening of Nov. 14 (between 6-8pm) you […]

  • Civil War Books Available in UNC’s Fall Sale 2009

    UNC Press is offering many Civil War books for 50% off in their Fall Sale 2009 event, running through November 20, 2009.  Please head over and purchase some books.  UNC Press is one of the very best Civil War book publishers among University presses.  I have learned quite a bit from their catalogue of Civil […]

  • Last Shots of the War

    One of our local columnists, Rob Neufeld, pens a short item on the last shots of the war, which were supposedly fired right here in Western NC. What caught my eye is that they were fired by sharpshooters under the command of Lt. Robert Conley of Company F, Thomas Legion on May 6, 1865. On […]

  • The Becker Collection

    Another most amazing Civil War resource has recently become available at Boston College—The Becker Archive, an extensive collection of the original drawings of the special artists working for Frank Leslie’s Weekly. There’s a long article about in Boston College magazine. It is … an extraordinary cache of previously undocumented eyewitness depictions from the second half […]

  • Short Takes

    When you’re firing that nifty new replica cannon you built, try not to drop a round shot through your neighbor’s medicine cabinet as it tends to strain neighborly relations. Video here. And speaking of big guns, there’s always that double- barreled Confederate cannon, which can still be viewed at Athens, GA. A young Yankee soldier, […]

  • Fort Sanders Sorority

    Well, sort of. Some of the Confederate trenches near Fort Sanders have been unearthed while constructing a new building at University of Tennessee. Fire pits and ruts from cannon wheels are still visible in places. Archaeologists also uncovered soldier’s belt buckles, ammunition, pottery, and firing mechanisms for the cannons. But the most significant find is […]

  • Wilderness Walmart OK’d

    Bad news. Looks like the Wilderness Walmart will go in after all. ORANGE, Va. – Local officials early Tuesday approved a Walmart Supercenter near one of the nation’s most important Civil War battlefields, a proposal that had stirred opposition by preservationists and hundreds of historians. The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to grant […]