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Day Five: Shiloh
Part twelve in a series The swhrrrr of cicadas rises and falls like the heartbeat of the battlefield. I stand on the edge of Shiloh’s peach orchard, gazing through the trees at nothing in particular in the far distance. There’s a line of cannon over there, but I’m not really looking at them, specifically. Not […]
Read more...Fame at Shiloh
I think of her standing there, right arm outstretched, pen in hand, the tip not quite daring to touch the granite obelisk. Her left hand hangs back behind her, her fingers poised daintily, helping her balance. She is “Fame,” twelve and a half feet tall and bronze, and she has inscribed the name of Iowa […]
Read more...Shiloh’s 150th
With the 150th anniversary of Shiloh coming up, we thought you might want to check out the great slate of events the park is planning. Click here for more details.
Read more...Book Review: The Folly and the Madness: The Civil War Letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry
The Folly and the Madness: The Civil War Letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry. Edited by Thomas W. Cutrer. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2023. Softcover, 264 pp. $39.00. Reviewed by David A. Powell The vast primary source literature of the American Civil War is not so crowded of a […]
Read more...Looking Back at the End of Blue & Gray
Recently, both Civil War Times and America’s Civil War folded. For many, the death of Civil War Times was a hard blow, since the magazine had been in the business for a long time. America’s Civil War was personally, a bigger one. It was the first magazine I was gifted in the 1990s, and I […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 4/8-4/14/24
In your opinion…what would have happened if Confederate General Albert S. Johnston had not died at Shiloh in April 1862?
Read more...National Park Service Historic Weapons Programs
Many of our readers enjoy the rifle and cannon demonstrations seen in National Parks. Have you ever wondered how Park Rangers manage this program? Recently I attended Historic Weapons Certification, an intense, two-week training held every few years for Park Rangers. The program began in the 1970s with the coming of the nation’s Bicentennial, and […]
Read more...War in the Western Theater
The Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series: War in the Western Theater: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War Savas Beatie, 2024 ISBN: 978-1-61121-596-0 eISBN: 978-1-954547-13-1 Specs: 10 maps, 100 images, 312 pp. Click here to order *** About the Book Often relegated to a backseat by action in the […]
Read more...Civil War Monuments and Memory
The Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series: Civil War Monuments and Memory: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War Savas Beatie, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-61121-633-2 Specs: 6 maps, 94 images, 336 pp. Click here to order *** About the Book In the century and a half since the war, Americans have […]
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