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.

America’s Civil War

HISTORIC LETTER

Brits in Blue and Gray • OVERDUE RECOGNITION FOR MANY ACROSS THE POND WHO SERVED

‘All Brave Men Could Do’ • BY THE END OF THE WAR, THE 76TH USCI LEFT NO DOUBT IT BELONGED

Medicine Bags • A SURGEON’S SADDLEBAGS HELD VITAL ANESTHETICS AND FIELD REMEDIES

Subscribe Now! • CHOOSE FROM NINE AWARD-WINNING

No Slow Trot • JOE HOOKER HAD HIS SHORTCOMINGS. BUT WHAT HE DID IN REVITALIZING HIS ARMY’S CAVALRY CORPS WAS MONUMENTAL

‘Concealed in the 92nd’ • NORTHERN COLONEL WIELDS THE POWER OF THE MILITARY TO ENFORCE EMANCIPATION

SUMMER OF DISCONTENT • As the war ended, Custer and his wife, Libbie, spent time in war-torn central Louisiana. It would be an alarming few months.

Country Comfort • One of the relaxing things the Custers were able to do while in central Louisiana was to tour the surrounding countryside on horseback. Notable sites in Alexandria included the Kent Plantation and St. Francis Xavier Cathedral. They would also take the ferry across the Red River to Pineville to visit the Confederate Forts Randolph and Buhlow as well as the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy which they called the Sherman Institute as Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman was its first president.

THE RECKONING AT YELLOW TAVERN • Behind George Custer’s lead, Sheridan makes good on his promise to “whip” J.E.B. Stuart

HOME FRONT HEROES PART 2 • Our continuing look at wartime civilians who never quite got the recognition they deserved

CONTRIBUTORS

Off to the Races • TREAD THE GROUND THAT HOSTED THE FIRST LAND BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR

Humble Roots

Scourge on All Fronts

COLONEL John Wesley Horner