Civil War Quarterly Fall 2014

Simply a Butchery: Grant at Cold Harbor

By Mike Phifer

“Lee’s army is really whipped,” declared Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to Maj. Gen. Henry Halleck on May 26, 1864. Read more

Civil War Quarterly Fall 2014

The History of Slavery in America Prior to the Civil War

By Rick Beard

For nearly two centuries, the “peculiar institution” of slavery dominated Southern social and economic life in America, infecting the nation’s politics with an unresolvable moral conflict that led finally to civil war. Read more