America's Civil War

Published since 1987, America’s Civil War strives to deliver to our readers the best articles on the most formative and tumultuous period of American history — the Civil War. Noted authors present the many battles, personalities and fascinating stories of the period.

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America’s Civil War • Vol. 34, No. 5 November 2021

MORE ON FORREST AND HIS HORSES

Honoring the USCT • THE HANNIBAL GUARDS INTERPRET OVERLOOKED HISTORY

A Little Freehand

Civil War Veterans of Other Wars • Match the officer with the foreign force in which he also served.

True Tandem

BATTLE RATTLE

Well Traveled

CIVIL WAR ILLUSTRATED

Wings of an Angel • CLARA BARTON’S WORK AS A BATTLEFIELD NURSE CHANGED LIVES. HER QUEST TO FIND MISSING SOLDIERS WENT EVEN FURTHER

Double Duty • IRISHMAN JOSEPH O’KEEFFE SHONE IN BOTH THE PAPAL AND AMERICAN CIVIL WARS

Tainted Legacy • CLAIMS THAT EWELL, WRACKED BY INDECISION, COST THE CONFEDERATES AT GETTYSBURG ARE UNFOUNDED

TRUE TO THE CAUSE • 54th Massachusetts officer’s unpublished account provides a new look at the regiment’s heroic assault on Fort Wagner

THE GENERAL IN DEFEAT • In his first post-Appomattox interview, Robert E. Lee was frank about the war and what lay ahead for the South

HEART OF THE MATTER • Robert E. Lee revealed his true feelings about the Confederacy’s prospects in this letter to Jefferson Davis, sent just three days before he would be interviewed for The New York Herald.

House of Cards

HOME FRONT HEROES • 12 extraordinary civilians who impacted the Civil War

CONTRIBUTORS

TWO-FRONT WAR • General Charles Smith’s distinguished military career nearly unraveled in Paducah, Ky.—the “victim of a base conspiracy”

Kith & Kin • UNION AND CONFEDERATE 1ST MARYLANDERS BATTLED HERE WITH CONTROL OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY AT STAKE

A New Side of Lincoln

Transformed Lives

UNIT HISTORIES

Edward Augustus Wild