(Part 2 of 4). In 1883, Clarence Clough Buel, the Assistant Editor of The Century Magazine, proposed a series of articles which would present differing points of view on the Civil War. Buel’s plan included the eventual publication of the articles in book form. In 1887 and 1888, the four volume work was first published. […]
A listing of the April 2011 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Pvt. Sinnary Bohner – 27th Michigan Sharpshooters National Civil War Museum – 10th Anniversary 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg March 2011 Posts Schwalm Library & Research Room Opens for […]
Christopher Gist, an immigrant from England around 1682, settled in the Baltimore area of Maryland in 1891. His marriage to Edith Cromwell had connected him to one of the prominent lines of English descent, that of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector. The son of this marriage, Richard Gist (1684-1741), was the father of western explorer […]
Press Release from St. Martin’s Press: Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War. Andrew F. Smith This coming April marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. Historian and Food Studies professor Andrew Smith approaches the topic of the Civil War with a rare and fascinating theory: The real […]
The Seven Days Battles, occurring from 25 June 1862 to 1 Jul 1862, resulted in a retreat of Union forces away from the Confederate capital of Richmond and down the Virginia peninsula. The Union Army was headed by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and the Confederate Army by Gen. Robert E. Lee. Battles took place […]
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