http://www.soldierstudies.org/articles.xml Civil War Articles on SoldierStudies.org en-us Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:35:13 GMT Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:35:13 GMT webmaster@soldierstudies.org (SoldierStudies Webmaster) http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=28 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=28 The Eighth Regiment was organized at Camp Randall, Madison, and its muster into the United States service completed on the 13th of September, 1861, and on the 12th of October, it left the State for St. Louis. Arriving at St. Louis on the 14th of October, Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:24:46 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=23 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=23 The story of Jewish entrepreneur Samuel Isaac and his founding of the commission house of S. Isaac, Campbell & Co in London in the 1850s. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:13:24 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=22 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=22 According to historian Aaron Sheehan-Dean the study of the Civil War soldier is best achieved when focused on the “interconnections” of “motivation, experience, and effect.” Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:11:35 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=21 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=21 lucid account of the "Bloody Fourth". Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:39:56 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=20 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=20 A welcome addition to the literature on the United States Navy's role in the Civil War is Dr. Taaffee's Commanding Lincoln's Navy. This is a well-written overview of naval operations from the perspective of the leadership of the Union Navy and the problem Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:23:20 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=19 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=19 Louis Wigfall and James Seddon, along with Maryland's Governor Thomas Hicks, wanted Lincoln dead and the District of Columbia in Confederate hands; and finally, Otis Hillard, Cypriano Fellandini, and John Wilkes Booth, native Baltimorean, always in the ba Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:22:00 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=18 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=18 In Howard Bahr’s latest novel, The Judas Field, he continues his popular theme of a Confederate soldier retelling harrowing experiences of the American Civil War. Each of first two popular titles, The Black Flower and The Year of Jubilo, narrates a soldie Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:51:34 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=17 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=17 To this reviewer the title of Donald R. Jermann’s Fitz-John Porter, Scapegoat of Second Manassas: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the General Accused of Disobedience, implies the book is military biography. Mon, 25 May 2009 23:31:36 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=16 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=16 It is usually dangerous to tag “A Complete History” on to a subtitle of non-fiction. Such a boastful claim rarely delivers. However, John F. Schmutz’s The Battle of the Crater: A Complete History comes close to being the definitive account of this largely Mon, 25 May 2009 23:29:53 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=15 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=15 Butler, he saw as an incompetent political general serving solely for personal gain and covering up the incompetence of other officers. Williams he hated with a passion, describing him as an “imbecile, drunken, malignant, cowardly, traitorous blockhead” - Mon, 25 May 2009 19:49:37 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=14 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=14 The story of the fall of New Orleans in May of 1862 has been not much more of a Civil War footnote, overshadowed by the Vicksburg campaign occurring the following year – with the exception perhaps, of the attention given to General Benjamin “Beast” Butler Sun, 03 May 2009 01:05:16 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=12 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=12 Data on loss of Union soldiers, state to state, and type of death. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:10:00 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=11 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=11 Tactics is the military art of maneuvering troops on the field of battle to achieve victory in combat. 'Offensive tactics" seek success through attacking; "defensive tactics" aim at defeating enemy attacks. Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:56:08 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=10 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=10 Civil War Implications of Tactics By Dr. Ernest Butner Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:53:10 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=9 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=9 When the war began, the United States Army medical staff consisted of only the surgeon general, thirty surgeons, and eighty-three assistant surgeons. Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:46:25 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=8 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=8 At the close of the Revolutionary War, the United States government began administering a limited pension system to soldiers wounded during active military service or veterans and their widows pleading dire Poverty. Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:40:10 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=4 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=4 In early 1862, the Confederate Army of New Mexico invaded the New Mexico Territory in an attempt to secure the American West for the Confederacy, but nothing was gained but misery and suffering for the soldiers of the army. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:55:19 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=3 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=3 The American Civil War proved to be the most violent and catastrophic events in American History. Historians are only beginning to understand fully the horror of the Civil War battlefields. Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:21:32 GMT http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=2 http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=read_article&aid=2 In this delightful romp through Civil War generals’, politicians and modern historians reputations, Benson Bobrick marches to the front rank the life of General George H. Thomas. Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:50:37 GMT