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May 2026 CVBT History Wire – It Becomes My Painful Duty to Inform You: Condolence Letters & Obituaries from Civil War Soldiers in Central Virginia – Part II

by Tim Talbott

Posted on May 16, 2026

A Community of Freedpeople in Civil War Wisconsin

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on May 7, 2026

March 2026 CVBT History Wire – She Was A Courageous Woman: Women in Civil War Central Virginia

by Tim Talbott

Posted on March 21, 2026

“Only Patriots―or Traitors”: Douglas, Logan, and the Secession Crisis in Southern Illinois

by M. A. Kleen

Posted on March 9, 2026

Dusty Bookshelf Review – “A Government of Our Own”: The Making of the Confederacy, by William C. Davis

by Max Longley

Posted on February 24, 2026

When the Circus Came to Occupied Alexandria

by Madeline Feierstein

Posted on February 5, 2026

Justice Deferred: Lincoln, Stanton, and the Fate of the Coles County Fifteen

by M. A. Kleen

Posted on January 14, 2026

Losing Four Sons: The Lassell Family of New York

by Madeline Feierstein

Posted on December 13, 2025

Book Review: Fighting With the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War

by Max Longley

Posted on December 2, 2025