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.

TODAY IN HISTORY MAY 13, 1865

Cannon Fire and Cotton Candy

America’s Civil War • Vol. 36, No. 3 Autumn 2023

‘UNION’ MAN OR NOT?

Draw Sabers! • COMMEMORATING THE 160TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRANDY STATION

Pocket Punch

Zouaves in Action

Farewell Pending for Texas Museum

CONVERSATION PIECE A Ray of Sun

Violence App Out

Unto the Breach • GALLANT CHARGE BY RHODE ISLAND CANNONEERS HELPS BREAK THE CONFEDERATE LINES AT PETERSBURG IN APRIL 1865

Amber Vision • TINTED GLASSES SHIELDED SOLDIERS’ SENSITIVE EYES AFTER INJURY

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‘A Hot Place’ • THOUGH THE MEN ARE NAMELESS, THEIR STRUGGLES UNSPOKEN, THE HORROR IN THIS WARTIME PHOTOGRAPH ENDURES

‘Burning Zeal’ • AS CIVIL WAR LOOMS, ANTI-ABOLITIONISTS AND AN ABOLITIONIST NEWSPAPER LOCK HORNS TO MARK THE TRUE POWER OF THE PRESS

BLOODIED ROAD TO GLORY • It didn’t take long for Wheat’s Tigers’ opening gambit at First Manassas to turn to legend

A Coffee Legacy

IN ALL ITS SPLENDOR • Culpeper, Va., would play host to several major armies. Two Grand Reviews and an epic clash on its fertile fields set the stage for Gettysburg

NORTHERN EXPOSURE • Eastport, Maine’s important Civil War contributions find a renewed focus

Hidden Gold Mine

‘OUR TROOPS HAVE NOT BEEN IDLE’ • With no Gettysburg or Chickamauga on hand, Oregon Cavalry tried to ‘chastise’ the Paiute

Falls Church, Va. On Storied Ground • TRANSFORMED FROM COLONIAL TOWN TO A POPULAR D.C. SUBURB, THESE STREETS HOLD HANDFULS OF HISTORY

What Mac Did Right

Plucking the Bloom of Youth

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COLONEL Ambrose Stevens