Civil War

<p><span class="deck"> Branded a traitor by the government he once served, John C. Breckinridge ran a perilous race for freedom rather than risk capture by the North</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> WAR WAS DAYS AWAY, A UNION STRONGHOLD WAS THREATENED, AND THROUGH A FOG OF RUMOR, DOUBT, CONTRADICTORY ORDERS, AND OUTRIGHT LIES THE ARMY AND NAVY SET OUT TO HELP</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Union desperately needed an extraordinary warship to counter the ironclad the Confederates were building</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Would the great fighter come over for the Union? Italian freedom and lead troops Lincoln hoped so</span> </span></p>

<p>It was called “the most extraordinary and astounding adventure of the Civil War”</p>

<p><span class="deck">THE WAY I SEE IT</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A newly discovered Union diary shows that Sherman’s march was about as Ruthless as Southerners have always said it was</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">At the Gettysburg reunion fifty years after the battle, it was no longer </span><span class="body"><span class="body">blue and gray. Now it was all gray.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A Union seaman’s nightmarish memories of shot, shell, and shoal waters in Grant’s Mississippi River campaign, 1862–63</span> </span></p>

<p>A Story Of The Great Civil War From Bull Run To Appomattox</p>

<p><span class="deck"> PRESIDENT LINCOLN MOVES AT LAST<br />
Influence of “Advanced Republicans” Seen as Crucial to the Outcome<br />
THE UNION UNITED STILL<br />
THE PRESIDENT’S TACT &amp; COURAGE<br />
HE WAITED ON THE PROPER HOUR<br />
JUBILATION AMONG THE BLACKS<br />
They Stand Ready to Defend With Arms the Rights Thus Gained<br />
NEW LIGHT SHED ON THE PARTICULARS OF THE GREAT DRAMA </span></p>

<p>She was “one of the most active and most reliable of the many secret woman agents of the Confederacy.”</p>

<p><span class="deck">When old James E. Taylor exercised his powers of near-total recall to set down memories of the Shenandoah campaign, he left us a unique record of a very new, very hazardous profession </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the struggle to take Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the winter of 1864–65</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> AN INTERVIEW WITH C. VANN WOODWARD</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Hundredth Anniversary of the American Red Cross</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A haunting portfolio of newly discovered Civil War photographs</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Far from home and in the face of every kind of privation, the Civil War soldier did his best to re-create the world he left behind him</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Henry Ware Lawton</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How Juliette “Daisy” Low, an unwanted child, a miserable wife, a lonely widow, finally found happiness as the founder of the Girl Scouts of America</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Original documents tell the story of a Civil War steamboat captains sorrowful cruise with the most destructive cargo of all</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Charles Hopkins </span></span>received the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at the battle of Gaines’ Mill, but his toughest fight was <span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">trying to survive at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp. He left this never-before-published record.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Most surveys of American painting begin in New England in the eighteenth century, move westward to the Rockies in the nineteenth, and return to New York in the twentieth. Now we’ll have to redraw the map</span> . </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Whatever you were taught or thought you knew about the post-Civil War era is probably wrong in the light of recent study</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> All this Florida boy wanted to do was rejoin his regiment. Instead they drafted him into the Confederate secret service.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">How our wartime experience conquered a wide range of problems from hemorrhagic shock to yellow fever</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Civil War ignited the basic conflict between a free press and the need for military security. By war’s end, the hard-won compromises between soldiers and journalists may not have provided all the answers, but they had raised all the modern questions.</span></p>

<p>On the eve of the Civil War, a Mississippi plantation owner and Philadelphia architect set out to build a massive octagonal mansion in Natchez.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Oliver Wendell Holmes was wounded three times in some of the worst fighting of the Civil War. But, for him, the most terrible battles were the ones he had missed.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Extraordinary correspondence, never published before, takes us inside the mind of a military genius. Here is William Tecumseh Sherman in the heat of action inventing modern warfare, grieving the death of his little boy, struggling to hold Kentucky with levies, rolling invincibly across Georgia, and—always—battling the newspapermen whose stories, he believes, are killing his soldiers.</span></p>

<p>The United States had promised black soldiers that they would be paid as much as whites. Sergeant Walker believed that promise.</p>

<p><span class="deck">In the republic’s direst hour, he took command. In the black days after Bull Run, he won West Virginia for the Union. He raised a magnificent army and led it forth to meet his “cautious &amp; weak” opponent, Robert E. Lee. Why hasn’t history been kinder to George B. McClellan?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The more fiercely the Confederacy fought for its independence, the more bitterly divided it became. To fully understand the vast changes which the war unleashed on the country, you must first understand the plight of the Southerners who <span class="typestyle"> didn’t</span> want secession. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The bloodiest day’s fighting in our nation’s history took place on ground that has hardly changed since 1862. Antietam today offers a unique chance to grasp what a great Civil War battle was actually like.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In September 1862, the<em> New York <span class="typestyle"> Tribune</span></em> ran a masterly account of the Battle of Antietam. Here were no vague claims of “Great and Glorious Victory” or “Great Slaughter of the Rebels.” Instead, the paper offered six columns of accurate, forceful prose, and got it to the readers less than 36 hours after the fight. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The storm broke over their small town and changed their lives forever.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Lee. Grant. Jackson. Sherman. Thomas. Yes, George Henry Thomas belongs in that company. The trouble is that he and Grant never really got along.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">More than the Revolution, more than the Constitutional Convention, it was the crucial test of the American nation. The author of <em><span class="typestyle"> Battle Cry of Freedom</span></em>, the most successful recent book on the subject, explains why the issues that fired the Civil War are as urgent in 1990 as they were in 1861. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">During three days in May 1863, the Confederate leader took astonishing risks to win one of the most skillfully conducted battles in history. But the cost turned out to be too steep.</span></p>