In our Summer 2021 issue we showcased highlights from Matt Oswalt’s collection of photographs of men and women posed with miniature flags and secession cockades. Here, we shine a light
By John F. Messner The steamer Ad-Vance slipped out into the Atlantic from Cape Fear on the night of Sept. 9, 1864, and made its way towards a line of
By Charles T. Joyce, featuring images from the author’s collection The courage and sacrifice by two undersized brigades of U.S. Regular infantry during the second day at Gettysburg evoke an
By Ronald S. Coddington, featuring an image from the Mike Werner Collection Women packed into the Church of the Puritans in New York City on the morning of May 14,
By David B. Holcomb Lafayette Curry Baker was a scoundrel, a striving, uneducated bully who never lacked for self-confidence or hesitated to tell a lie. Yet, he rose to become
The Civil War has followed Paul Hoza through his life, from world travels with his family to service in the New York National Guard’s famed 69th Infantry, to today as
By Frank Graves Early war images of enlisted men with revolvers tucked into their waist belts are fairly common. These weapons were privately purchased or perhaps given as gifts from
By Adam Ochs Fleischer In this installment, we examine a painted backdrop that does not have a military theme. Before the Civil War, landscape painting as a genre dominated American
By Scott Valentine Fate had been unkind to the 6th New Hampshire Infantry during the 1864 Overland Campaign. In The Wilderness on May 6, it suffered 48 casualties. By the
Erskine Mason Camp is pictured here in 1861 at the start of an eventful 15-year military career. A witty conversationalist born in Sackets Harbor, N.Y., his father, Elisha, served in
