Roundtable Articles Grant Advances from the Big Black River and Assaults Vicksburg – May 18 to 22, 1863June 3, 2021Grant Attacks Pemberton at Champion Hill and Advances to the Big Black RiverMarch 28, 2021A Review of Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War by James M. McPhersonMarch 19, 2021Lee’s Daughters, Part 6February 17, 2021Lee’s Daughters, Part 5February 17, 2021Lee’s Daughters, Part 4February 17, 2021Lee’s Daughters, Part 3February 17, 2021Lee’s Daughters, Part 2February 17, 2021Lee’s Daughters, Part 1February 17, 2021Grant Defeats Johnston at Jackson, Mississippi and Turns toward PembertonFebruary 15, 2021The Decisive Battle of the Civil War: Another Nomination – Part 4February 1, 2021The Decisive Battle of the Civil War: Another Nomination – Part 3February 1, 2021The Decisive Battle of the Civil War: Another Nomination – Part 2February 1, 2021The Decisive Battle of the Civil War: Another Nomination – Part 1February 1, 2021A Review of April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay WinikJanuary 23, 2021A Review of Tarnished Eagles: The Courts-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels by Thomas P. LowryJanuary 21, 2021A Review of How Few Remain: A Novel of the Second War Between the States by Harry TurtledoveJanuary 20, 2021A Review of The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer by Douglas C. JonesJanuary 20, 2021A Review of The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War by Thomas B. BuellJanuary 19, 2021A Review of Justice in Blue and Gray by Stephen C. NeffJanuary 19, 2021George H. Thomas Gets What’s Coming to Him — A Review of Master of War: The Life of General George H. ThomasJanuary 19, 2021A Review of The West Point History of the Civil WarJanuary 18, 2021A Review of How Robert E Lee Lost The Civil War by Edward H. Bonekemper IIIJanuary 18, 2021A Review of The Spymistress by Jennifer ChiaveriniJanuary 18, 2021A Review of The Battle of Roanoke Island by Michael P. ZatargaJanuary 17, 2021A Review of Valley of the Shadow by Ralph PetersJanuary 17, 2021A Review of The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs by Robert O’Harrow, Jr.January 16, 2021A Review of Civil War Monuments of Ohio by Harold A. GeorgeJanuary 16, 2021A Review of “Behind Bayonets”: The Civil War in Northern Ohio by David D. Van Tassel and John VachaJanuary 15, 2021The Best Book Ever Written About the Civil War: The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraJanuary 15, 2021Reviews of Gods and Generals and of Brass Pounders: The Young Telegraphers of the Civil WarJanuary 15, 2021A Review of Days of Defiance by Maury KleinJanuary 13, 2021History Briefs 2007-2008January 10, 2021History Briefs: 2008-2009 – Civil War Words in the Election Year of 1864January 4, 2021History Briefs: 2009-2010December 29, 2020Grant’s Troops Cross the Mississippi and Movement toward JacksonDecember 28, 2020History Briefs: 2010-2011December 24, 2020No Horse of MineDecember 23, 2020New Civil War Database Goes OnlineDecember 23, 2020A Report from the Field: The 18th Annual Sarasota Civil War SymposiumDecember 21, 2020A Visit to the National Civil War MuseumDecember 20, 2020Visiting the New Lincoln Library and MuseumDecember 20, 2020The Changes at GettysburgDecember 20, 2020Gettysburg Field Trip – September 2008December 20, 2020Report: Friends of the Hunley Oyster Roast, October 23, 2009December 19, 2020A Visit to the H.L. Hunley and a Dose of Southern CultureDecember 19, 2020The Bower: A Surprising FindDecember 18, 2020On the Set of the Movie Gods and GeneralsDecember 17, 2020Jon Thompson Poetry Prize WinnersDecember 16, 2020The Lee Burneson Middle School 2007 Civil War BallDecember 16, 2020The (Secret) Life and Letters of General George Gordon MeadeDecember 16, 2020Wade Park ManorDecember 8, 2020Sheridan’s ButterflyDecember 7, 2020Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, TN, Part 6December 7, 2020Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, TN, Part 5December 5, 2020Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, TN, Part 4December 5, 2020Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, TN, Part 3December 4, 2020Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, TN, Part 2December 2, 2020Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, TN, Part 1November 30, 2020Grant’s Combined Arms Generalship at Vicksburg – Part IINovember 14, 2020Grant’s Combined Arms Generalship at Vicksburg – Part IOctober 17, 2020Grant’s Winter of 1862-3: Three Attempts at VicksburgOctober 17, 2020The Great Debate of 2008July 7, 2020The Great Debate of 2008: Opening RemarksJuly 7, 2020A Captain-Less Raft Floating On a Sea of ProblemsJuly 7, 2020The Myth of a Weak ConfederacyJuly 7, 2020Follow the MoneyJuly 7, 2020‘Too Small for a Republic…Too Large for a Lunatic Asylum’July 7, 2020The Second Shot Heard ‘Round the WorldJuly 7, 2020Taking “The Gettysburg Test”July 6, 2020Hysteria, Democracy and TerrorismJuly 4, 2020The Surratt Pardon: History That Never WasJuly 4, 2020Churchill and the Civil WarJuly 4, 2020Blue and Gray on the Silver ScreenJuly 3, 2020Remembering 9/11July 3, 2020Gettysburg 2013July 2, 2020Child of the 60sJuly 1, 2020So Long, Farewell…June 30, 2020When Legend Becomes FactJune 30, 2020Cleveland’s Civil War Roundtable Takes an Excursion into FictionJune 30, 2020A Rebuttal to “Shelby Foote Was Wrong!”June 30, 2020Shelby Foote Was Wrong!June 30, 2020The April 1861 MadnessJune 29, 2020Cleveland Civil War Roundtable: 1956 – 2006June 29, 2020Cleveland Civil War Roundtable 60th AnniversaryJune 28, 2020The Confederate Battle Flag, Personal License Plates, and LitigationJune 28, 2020The Campaign Against the Confederate Battle FlagJune 27, 2020Jefferson Davis Monuments Being Removed?June 26, 2020The Sharpshooter and His WeaponJune 26, 2020Civil War RoadsJune 26, 2020Mule-Drawn Wagon TrainsJune 26, 2020Railroads in the Civil WarJune 26, 2020Technology in the Civil War: COLD STEEL!June 25, 2020The U. S. Navy and the Naval Battles of Charleston, 1863June 25, 2020Sailing Aboard the Monitor: Reviews of Two Books about the USS MonitorJune 23, 2020Today’s Navy and the Civil WarJune 21, 2020The Life and Death of H.L. HunleyJune 21, 2020Charleston 1861: The Other Star-Spangled BannerJune 21, 2020Tactical DefeatJune 21, 2020Breaks in the StormJune 21, 2020The ZouavesJune 20, 2020West Point in the Civil WarJune 20, 2020Sherman’s Little Known Failure: The 36th StateJune 19, 2020Grant vs. LeeJune 19, 2020“We Shall Make the Fight!”June 19, 2020The Battles of NashvilleJune 19, 2020The Battle of OlusteeJune 18, 2020Bragg vs. Rosecrans at Stones River, Murfreesboro, TennesseeJune 17, 2020Fort Ward: Bastion Against the SouthJune 17, 2020Governors IslandJune 16, 2020The Deadliest EnemyJune 16, 2020Letters from the FrontJune 16, 2020Grierson’s RaidJune 15, 2020The Battle of Cedar CreekJune 15, 2020The 51st Ohio Volunteer InfantryJune 14, 2020Silent Witnesses to the Civil War, Part 3: Lakeside, Maple Ridge, Coe Ridge, and Chestnut Grove CemeteriesJune 14, 2020Silent Witnesses to the Civil War, Part 2: Rockport Pioneer CemeteryJune 14, 2020Silent Witnesses to the Civil War, Part 1: Evergreen CemeteryJune 14, 2020Well DoneJune 13, 2020Whatever Happened to Camp Cleveland?June 13, 2020Cleveland Fights the Civil WarJune 13, 2020Three Ohio Civil War Veterans Who Became PresidentJune 13, 2020Ohio’s Civil War Generals: Some Lesser KnownJune 13, 2020The 8th Ohio Volunteer InfantryJune 12, 2020Peter Diemer & Curtis Phillips: The Last Civil War Veterans From Cuyahoga CountyJune 12, 2020A Monument to Service: The Cuyahoga County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ MonumentJune 11, 2020Base Ball on Johnson’s IslandJune 11, 2020“Beyond the Battlefield”: An Ohio History Connection SymposiumJune 11, 2020U.S. Grant Boyhood Home RededicatedJune 11, 2020Ulysses S. Grant in Georgetown, Ohio – The Indispensable Man’s Boyhood HomeJune 11, 2020Hickenlooper’s Ohio Artillery Anchors the Hornet’s Nest at ShilohJune 11, 2020Andrew Johnson: A Tough Man for Tough TimesJune 9, 2020Conscripts in the Civil WarJune 9, 2020How the South Could Have Won the WarJune 9, 2020The Case for UnionJune 9, 2020The Vigilantes of Montana RevisitedJune 8, 2020Gold, Greed, and a Vacuum of LawJune 8, 2020The Vigilantes of MontanaJune 8, 2020The Illusion of “The Lost Cause”June 7, 2020Ex Parte Milligan AnniversaryJune 7, 2020The Contested Centennial Presidential Election of 1876June 7, 2020Jefferson C. Davis and the Ebenezer Creek ControversyJune 7, 2020Civil War PhotographyJune 6, 2020The Irish in the Civil WarJune 6, 2020Did the Institution of Slavery Cause the Civil War?June 5, 2020The Constitution Caused the Civil WarJune 5, 2020The War that Never Was: Britain, the U.S. and the Trent AffairJune 5, 2020George Washington: Hero of the Confederacy?June 5, 2020Five Hundred Dead and a Hoax that Lives OnJune 4, 2020Where is Lincoln Memorial University? What Was One of Lincoln’s Biggest Tactical Errors of the Civil War? What’s the Connection Between The Two?June 4, 2020Lincoln and the Black Hawk WarJune 4, 2020Lincoln and ClevelandJune 3, 2020The Proclamation That Saved a NationJune 3, 2020Lincoln’s Assassination: Three RiddlesJune 2, 2020Johnson’s IslandJune 1, 2020Lincoln Visits ClevelandJune 1, 2020James McPherson Speaks On LincolnJune 1, 2020Mr. Lincoln at 200June 1, 2020Booth in the Confederate Secret ServiceJune 1, 2020Lincoln and HistoryJune 1, 2020On Inconvenient Truth and Convenient FictionJune 1, 2020The Fox and the Hedgehog: The Hampton Roads ConferenceJune 1, 2020Abraham Lincoln and the Case of the Altered AlmanacMay 31, 2020“The Prince of Rails”: Robert Todd LincolnMay 31, 2020Abraham Lincoln: There’s Nothing Trivial About HimMay 31, 2020I Escaped with John Wilkes BoothMay 31, 2020Lincoln at GettysburgMay 30, 2020Notes On the 2012 Lincoln ForumMay 29, 2020The Lincoln Forum – 2010May 29, 2020The Lincoln Forum – 2009May 28, 2020The Lincoln Forum – 2008May 27, 2020Three Days in Gettysburg with Lincoln: The Lincoln Forum – 2007May 26, 2020The Essential Lincoln BookshelfMay 26, 2020The Lincoln Legacy: The Man and His PresidencyMay 26, 2020Lincoln’s Suspension of Habeas CorpusMay 26, 2020Jesse James – The Last Rebel of the Civil War?May 23, 2020Wounded Lion: U.S. Grant’s Last CampaignMay 22, 2020Balthasar Best and the American DreamMay 22, 2020Andersonville’s “Clerk of the Dead”May 22, 2020An Ancestor at ShilohMay 22, 2020Officer Profiles: Short Biographical Sketches of Civil War OfficersMay 22, 2020The Peter Principle and George B. McClellanMay 21, 2020The Most Effective Political GeneralMay 21, 2020The Most Overrated GeneralMay 21, 2020Ulysses Grant: Dual Personality?May 21, 2020Was Jefferson Davis the Reason the Confederacy Lost the War?May 20, 2020The Civil War’s #1 Pain in the Butt: The Life of William G. “Parson” BrownlowMay 20, 2020John C. Breckinridge – He Should Have Been HangedMay 20, 2020The Angry Abolitionist – William Lloyd GarrisonMay 20, 2020An Uncivil War: General George G. Meade & the Pennsylvania Reserves in Northern Virginia, October 9 to December 6, 1861May 20, 2020The Underground Railroad in OhioMay 19, 2020What was Happening during the Civil War on or about Lincoln’s February 12th Birthday?May 19, 2020The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou: Grant’s First Attempt to Vanquish VicksburgMay 18, 2020The Second Battle of Corinth and the Start of the Vicksburg CampaignMay 18, 2020“The Civil War Was Won in the West” – or so they sayMay 18, 2020The Rock of ChickamaugaMay 17, 2020Giuseppe Garibaldi, General in Chief, U.S. Army?May 17, 2020William H. Seward and Civil War DiplomacyMay 17, 2020Intrepid Mariners: John Winslow of the USS Kearsarge & Raphael Semmes of the CSS AlabamaMay 16, 2020A Brief Sketch of the Life and Death of Lt. Simeon W. CummingsMay 16, 2020George CrookMay 16, 2020Jacob Dolson CoxMay 16, 2020The Sword Was Mightier Than the PenMay 16, 2020Family Reminiscences of the ConfederacyMay 16, 2020Making a Covenant with Death: Slavery and the Constitutional ConventionMay 15, 2020The Barlow-Gordon Controversy: Rest In PeaceMay 14, 2020John and Fanny – A Love StoryMay 13, 2020Francis and Arabella – A Love StoryMay 13, 2020Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Scholar, Citizen, SoldierMay 13, 2020Lovejoy of IllinoisMay 12, 2020A Report On: American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War “Belle of the North” By John OllerMay 11, 2020Scenes from The Fighting McCooksMay 11, 2020Andersonville’s Whirlpool of DeathMay 11, 2020The Great Battle of GettysburgMay 10, 2020“The Rebels Are Upon Us”May 10, 2020When Miles Met DavisMay 9, 2020Blood in the Streets: The New York City Draft RiotsMay 9, 2020The Madness of Mary LincolnMay 8, 2020In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane JohnsonMay 8, 2020Why Grant Won and Lee LostMay 8, 2020Lincoln and Grant: The Westerners Who Won the Civil WarMay 8, 2020Blood, Tears, and GloryMay 7, 2020Decisive Battles of the Civil War? NoneMay 7, 2020Fort Pillow and Ball’s Bluff: A ResponseMay 7, 2020My Thoughts Be BloodyMay 7, 2020Confederate Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln – Part 4May 7, 2020Confederate Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln – Part 3May 7, 2020Confederate Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln – Part 2May 7, 2020Confederate Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln – Part 1May 7, 2020On Trees and Forests: Correcting History’s View of J. Wilkes BoothMay 4, 2020The Search for the Lost Confederate GoldMay 1, 2020Famous Last WordsApril 29, 2020The Pemberton Who SucceededApril 29, 2020Man, Not MythApril 28, 2020Preston Brooks’ Caning CollaboratorApril 28, 2020Europe’s Artistic Ambassador to the Post-Civil War United StatesApril 27, 2020Compassionate ConfederateApril 26, 2020All Her HopesApril 25, 2020General Slocum and the General SlocumApril 25, 2020Forgotten HeroesApril 25, 2020The Rising of the Sun and of GodsApril 24, 2020Dear to DemocracyApril 24, 2020The Highest Ranking Officer in the Confederate ArmyApril 24, 2020The Other Star-Spangled BannerApril 23, 2020The Social Network of Civil War DeadApril 23, 2020Two Lost CausesApril 22, 2020A Musical Historical FirstApril 22, 2020The Only Man to Beat Robert E. Lee in an Even FightApril 21, 2020Well-Known Obscure PlacesApril 21, 2020Robert E. Lee’s Invasion of OhioApril 21, 2020Rosie the Riveter and the Bloodiest Day in American Military HistoryApril 21, 2020The Day Rosie the Riveter DiedApril 20, 2020The Last U.S. President Who Was a SlaveholderApril 20, 2020Adversaries under the Same FlagApril 20, 2020John C. Calhoun’s Other TombApril 20, 2020The Other Gettysburg OratorApril 20, 2020The Major General Who Wasn’tApril 20, 2020The First Confederate Invasion of OhioApril 20, 2020The First, and Second, Battles of SelmaApril 19, 2020A Doubly Exemplary Singular Civil War AccomplishmentApril 19, 2020One War at a Time, Again: The Chesapeake AffairApril 18, 2020The Other Thirteenth Amendment(s)April 18, 2020The Decisive Battle of the Civil War: An Unlikely NominationApril 18, 2020On to Richmond!April 18, 2020The Fabricated Letter of Robert E. LeeApril 17, 2020The Civil War, Chapter 17, Verses 1-51April 17, 2020Repositioning History’s DemarcationsApril 17, 2020The Medical “Rebellion” within the Union ArmyApril 16, 2020The Best Confederate General from the Buckeye StateApril 16, 2020Erin’s Spartans in GrayApril 16, 2020The Slave Who Captained the Ship to His FreedomApril 16, 2020Whose Maryland?April 15, 2020Some Other South Carolina Rebels Who Fought for SecessionApril 15, 2020Six Degrees of Simon Bolivar BucknerApril 15, 2020A Civil War Greek TragedyApril 14, 2020A Civil War First, or NotApril 14, 2020The Southbound Underground RailroadApril 14, 2020“The Rest of the Story”April 14, 2020Destiny PersonifiedApril 13, 2020Rosa Parks’ Historical RhymeApril 13, 2020A Hanukkah Gift for All AmericansApril 13, 2020The Union Army’s NBA RegimentApril 13, 2020The First First LadyApril 12, 2020Abraham Lincoln’s Little-Known Important LegacyApril 9, 2020Marching Home to the Beat of a Purloined MelodyApril 8, 2020A Life Flavored with Sweet Vanilla and Bitter InjusticeApril 7, 2020Two Wars at a Time: The War within the Civil WarApril 7, 2020It’s a Wonderful ConnectionApril 6, 2020The Enemy Within: The Confederate Invasion of the White HouseApril 6, 2020What I did on my Summer VacationApril 6, 2020The History That the Victors Chose Not to WriteApril 5, 2020America, Love it or Leave itApril 3, 2020The First Memorial DayMarch 31, 2020Sealed with a KissMarch 31, 2020The Man Whose Torpedoes Farragut DamnedMarch 30, 2020The Chief Chemist of the ConfederacyMarch 30, 2020Like Father, Like Son…or NotMarch 30, 2020The Most Fulfilling Kind of ImmortalityMarch 29, 2020A Review of Pickett’s Charge: A New Look at Gettysburg’s Final Attack by Phillip Thomas TuckerJanuary 27, 2020Some Thoughts on the Removal of Southern Civil War-Related SymbolsJanuary 27, 2020Civil War TravelogueJanuary 27, 2020Wilson’s 1865 RaidNovember 19, 2019Jubal Early: Lee’s Bad Old ManSeptember 1, 2017
