New Books: Union Colonels and White House Souvenirs
Final Installment of Colonels In 2001, Roger D. Hunt embarked on an ambitious mission with the publication of his first volume of colonels in the U.S. army during the Civil
Category: Passing in Review
Forget What You Think You Know About the Surrender at Appomattox
By Bill Hendrick Three of my great-grandfathers and at least one great-great grandfather served in Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, but not one of them is on
New Books Highlight a Custer Staffer and Early’s Raid on D.C.
Custer’s Observant Staff Officer A trusted aide to a celebrated and controversial general. Death while leading a charge against the enemy. Letters left behind detail the complexities of staff work
New Books Highlight Gettysburg’s Horses and Mississippi Rifle Bayonets
The Appealing, Accurate Mississippi Rifle Tom Singelyn purchased his first Mississippi rifle from a collector-dealer in 1963. Thus began a lifetime fascination with the well-designed, highly accurate longarm that has
New Books Highlight a Maryland Colonel and Civil War Prison Camps
Walking in Colonel Mobley’s Boots New Civil War books with previously unpublished material are especially desirable. This is one of them. In Colonel Mobley: 7th Maryland Volunteer Infantry in the
Trilogy Is a Treasure of Rare Photographs and Artifacts
It is altogether fitting that a Frederick Douglass quote is prominently featured in this trilogy of Black lives spanning 175 years of photography. In his 1861 “Lecture on Pictures,” Douglass
Rangers and Photographs of a Hometown
A Compendium of Rangers The term Ranger conjures a vision of today’s highly trained and disciplined military forces capable of clandestine strikes deep into enemy territory. Students of the Civil
Timeless Colonels, Captain Brooks, and Hard Images
Timeless Colonels Among the Civil War’s most exclusive fraternities is Union soldiers who wore the spread-winged eagle on their shoulder straps: colonels. These individuals set the tone for the fighting
Uniforms of the Union Volunteers of 1861: The Mid-Atlantic States
The casual observer of Civil War portraiture likely understands that early war Confederate uniforms comprised a hodgepodge of styles. Author Ron Field’s new book, Uniforms of the Union Volunteers of
A Catalog of Zouave Mania
By Ron Field Zouave mania exploded across the country in 1860, following the tour of Elmer E. Ellsworth and his United States Zouave Cadets. Like phosphorus in a ship’s wake,
