A quarterly magazine featuring originally researched & richly illustrated articles on all aspects of America's greatest conflict.
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Happy Halloween! Here's hoping it's a safe and fun day for you and yours. Shown here: A postwar Harper's Weekly illustration depicts two children positioning a recently lit jack-o'-lantern as others look on.
In 1867, Harper's New Monthly Magazine published a short account of a spooky prank gone wrong during the Civil War. Read it here: tinyurl.com/2x7ar2py.
In the latest episode of our "Civil War Breakthroughs" podcast, historian Melanie Kiechle discusses how the fear of “bad air” guided the daily decisions and medical practices of Civil War soldiers and physicians. Sponsored by @SUVCW. Listen here: tinyurl.com/ywvc92xj
“Why Lincoln: Preserving an American Legacy,” edited by Jonathan W. White, “packs a considerable punch that will repay any reader interested in Lincoln’s life or legacy,” writes Brian Matthew Jordan. Read more about it here: tinyurl.com/37em83nd
In 1862, med student Charles Stubbs wrote a letter to "The Medical and Surgical Reporter" in which he offered suggestions for military surgeons—both established and, like himself, future—on how to deal with the challenges treating war wounds. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4ajnyu4b
"Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign" by Patrick Kelly-Fischer and Phillip S. Greenwalt "truly excels in its characterizations of the key players involved in the New Mexico Campaign," writes Matthew P. Harrington. Read more here: tinyurl.com/fzchc27b
In the latest episode of our "Civil War Breakthroughs" podcast, historian Sarah Handley-Cousins discusses the presence and treatment of the “invisible wounds” suffered by Civil War soldiers. Sponsored by @SUVCW. Listen here: tinyurl.com/ykw37tbc
Union forces were routed at the Battle of Ball's Bluff #otd in 1861. Among the Union casualties was Col. Edward Baker, the only U.S. Senator ever killed in battle. Read an eyewitness account of the fighting here: tinyurl.com/33yu2x2r
Daniel Sickles was born #otd in 1819. While not a West Point graduate, he rose to the rank of major general and commanded a corps in the Army of the Potomac during the war, his controversial actions at Gettysburg eventually earning him the Medal of Honor. He died in 1914 at 94.
In the latest installment of his "Science and War" digital history column, Scott Hippensteel examines geology's role in the endurance of "witness" trees on Civil War battlefields. Read it here: tinyurl.com/3x7d9s3k
John Brown launched his raid on Harpers Ferry #otd in 1859, his goal to obtain weapons from the federal armory in town to arm a successful slave insurrection throughout the region. A company of Marines commanded by Robert E. Lee forced Brown's surrender two days later.
View images associated with Brown and his fateful raid here: tinyurl.com/mw74y2ka
In the latest episode of our "Civil War Breakthroughs" podcast, historian Judith Giesberg discusses the impact the United States Sanitary Commission had in its efforts to support healthy practices in the Union army. Sponsored by @SUVCW. Listen here: tinyurl.com/5n6v6r9m
"Mercy in Disaster: Abby Hopper Gibbons’s Journals and Letters from Four Years of Civil War Nursing," ed. by Angela G. Schear, shows how "female nurses operated in an environment that was foreign and sometimes inhospitable to them," writes Brittany Gregory.tinyurl.com/4ey537y7
In the wake of the violent military draft protests that gripped New York in July 1863, the Philadelphia-based newspaper The North American highlighted a different—and “sometimes amusing”—kind of draft resistance occurring in that city. Read it here: tinyurl.com/yvtepk7v
Robert E. Lee died #otd in 1870 at his home on the campus of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, where he served as college president. The former commander of the Army of Northern Virginia had suffered a massive stroke two weeks earlier. He was 63.
In the latest episode of our "Civil War Breakthroughs" podcast, historian Jane Schultz discusses the motivations and experiences of the women who volunteered as nurses during the Civil War. Sponsored by @SUVCW. Listen here: tinyurl.com/bdth8wsf
"This Great Contest Afloat: The Civil War on the Seas, Coastline, Rivers, and Oceans" by Neil P. Chatelain "will whet the curiosity of the reader—and hopefully inspire more work on the war’s naval theater," writes Melissa Kenfield. Read more here: tinyurl.com/5y3jttf4
In the latest installment of his "Tales From The Road" digital column, John Banks spends a day with Gettysburg icon Dean Shultz, the "Keeper of Lost Avenue." Read it here: tinyurl.com/7ttndph8
The Second Battle of Corinth—a Union victory—concluded #otd in 1862. Confederate forces suffered heavy losses in their assaults on the Union defenses that ringed the city, especially Battery Robinett, where the fighting was hand-to-hand.
