A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

To sum up, Hess’ Civil War Infantry Tactics is an insightful, readable book. One gets a clear idea about how the American Civil War armies of both the Confederacy and the Union marched to the ...

Penn State Professor’s New Book Traces Weather’s Role in the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign. ... “For the first time ever that system has been applied to the Civil War — and we did it,” Nese said.

(This is the second of two columns focusing on the surrender of York to the Confederates in late-June 1863 – a pivotal moment in York County’s story. Civil War historian Scott Mingus served as ...

Scott L. Mingus Sr., of York, who has written several other books about the Civil War, has published “Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863 ...

A rain delay played an essential role in The Battle of Jackson, which was fought 162 years ago today in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.

Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War Michael Vorenberg’s book shines as a meticulously researched and artistically written examination of how ...

Books of Interest Fred Grant at Vicksburg: A Boy’s Memoir at His Father’s Side During the American Civil War Putin's Sledgehammer: ... The Forging of Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863.

Some key American institutions at the outbreak of the Civil War were astonishingly primitive and Antietam revealed just how bad. Pre-Civil War, for example, most graduates of the U.S. Military Academy ...

Anders, the teenage protagonist of Dennard Dayle’s impressive debut, the Civil War novel “How to Dodge a Cannonball,” is an idealist, a dreamer, an optimist. And also, a goddamn fool.