Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly, Editorial
How William T. Sherman Was Saved From Certain Death
By Roy Morris Jr.Union General William T. Sherman, not the easiest man to please, always held Colonel Benjamin Grierson in high regard. Read more
Civil War Quarterly
Early Winter 2015
COVER: An unidentified young Union cavalryman photographed with his Colt Model 1855 pistols, and cavalry saber. See story page 80. Library of Congress
Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly
Grant Takes D.C.
By Arnold BlumbergOn March 8, 1864, a rainy Tuesday, President and Mrs. Lincoln held a reception at the White House in Washington. Read more
Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly
The Battle of Kernstown: Stonewall’s Victorious Defeat
By Lawrence WeberSunday morning, March 23, 1862, was sunny and warm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Confederate general Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, a devout Christian, did not like to fight on the Lord’s Day. Read more
Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly
Battle of New Market Heights
By David NorrisReports of a massive enemy force crossing the James River to assail the paper-thin Confederate lines defending Richmond reached Lt. Read more
Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly
The Trent Affair: When the Union and Great Britain Nearly Went to War
By Mark SimmonsIn November 1861, word swept through London that an American warship, James Adger, in port at Southampton, was planning to put to sea and intercept a British ship bringing Confederate emissaries to Europe. Read more
Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly
A Murderous Order at Culp’s Hill
By Joshua SheperdAlthough Union Colonel Silas Colgrove had previously led his men through some of the most horrific fighting in the eastern theater of the Civil War, the order he received on the morning of July 3, 1863, in the woods near Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg, was the most unnerving he had ever received. Read more
Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly
Final Attack at the Battle of Stones River
By Jim HeenehanLate in the morning of January 2, 1863, Confederate Maj. Gen. John Breckinridge gazed through the brush at newly arrived Union infantry occupying a partially wooded hill to his front near Murfreesboro, Tenn. Read more
Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly
Bound For Glory: Poet-General William H. Lytle
By Roy Morris JR.Seemingly from birth, William Haines Lytle was bound for glory. As the last surviving male offspring of one of Cincinnati’s leading pioneer families, Lytle was the prototypical golden boy. Read more
Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly
Grierson’s Raid: Wrecking the Railroad With the Butternut Guerrillas
By Mike PhiferUnion Colonel Benjamin Grierson stuck his left foot into the stirrup and swung up into the saddle. Orders were quickly given, and soon a column of 1,700 blue-jacketed troopers of Grierson’s 1st Brigade, along with a battery of artillery, trampled southeast from La Grange, Tennessee, in the early dawn of April 17, 1863. Read more
Early Winter 2015
Civil War Quarterly
Admiral David Farragut and the Battle of Mobile Bay
By Pedro GarciaOn the night of August 4, 1864, in the cabin of his flagship the USS Hartford, Admiral Farragut read his Bible, arriving at ultimate assurance that God was on his side. Read more
