Volume 4, No. 1
COVER: A soldier from Company H of a Vermont Regiment had his photograph taken, perhaps as a keepsake for his family. See story page 22 for more on photography during the Civil War. Photo courtesy Library of Congress.
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly, Editorial
The history of our civilization is largely the history of military campaigns. We are who we are and think what we think owing to the outcome of battles long ago—and not so long ago. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly, Soldiers
After George Washington, Major General Nathanael Greene was the best officer in the Continental Army. When Washington needed a general to rescue the desperate southern situation, he chose the already battle-hardened Quaker from Rhode Island—whose southern campaign was brilliant. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly, Valor
On the eve of Operation Overlord, members of the French Resistance cut dozens of major long-distance and underground cables the Germans had installed during their occupation of France—forcing them to use radios vulnerable to interception by Allied intelligence—just as they faced the largest amphibious assault in history. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly, Weapons
The year was ad 678, 46 years after the death of the prophet Mohammed. Now the Mohammedans, determined to bring the light of Islam to Arabia and beyond, were streaking across the whole of the Middle East like a comet. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly, Books
Ortiz’s War: The Allies’ Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France (Nicholas Reynolds and Katie Sanders, Harper Horizon, Nashville, TN, 304 pp., Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly, Simulation Gaming
Real-time strategy game Company of Heroes has been celebrating quite the milestone lately, with a full two decades under its belt. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly, Simulation Gaming
As bombs rain from the skies and your fellow soldiers both fight and fall to either side, for once it’s not up to you to take the fight back to the enemy. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly
A last line of defense in Italy was necessary, but for senior German commanders it was unthinkable that it could ever be contested by Allied forces. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly
Following the trade route between Alexandria and Istanbul, the heavily-laden merchantman hoped to run the straits between the islands dotting the sea off the coast of Anatolia. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly
On a humid October day in 1968, U.S. Army Spc. 4th Class Kenneth “Mim” Crowell Jr. walked along a line of M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) at Landing Zone (LZ) Bayonet in Chu Lai, South Vietnam. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly
After defeating the Confederates at Chattanooga, Union Gen. William T. Sherman, in May 1864, with an army of approximately 100,000 men, and using the Western and Atlantic Railroad as his line of supply, began his march to Atlanta. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly
The mid-afternoon stillness of the Pennsylvania wilderness was suddenly shattered by a crashing volley of musket fire. Read more
Early Spring 2014
Civil War Quarterly
Four British warships and a dozen gunboats entered the northern end of Lake Champlain in September 1814, sailing down to the generally peaceful Cumberland Bay, where they clashed with American vessels under the command of 30-year-old Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough. Read more
