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January

New Orleans on the Brink: How a City Mobilized for War—New Year's Day 1862

Secret Society vs. Lincoln: The Explosive Document Kansas Was Reading on New...

Maryland's Civil War Crossroads: When a Carrier Boy Pleaded for Peace (Jan....

DESERTERS & DRILLS: New Orleans Mobilizes as the Civil War Tightens Its Grip...

Escape, Hire, and Survive: Life in Wartime Memphis, January 1862

1862: When NYC Was Recruiting Soldiers While Ships Still Sailed to Liverpool

When NYC's Newspapers Turned into Recruiting Stations (1862)

Pope Was America's Great Hope (For 6 Months): A General's Premature Celebration...

A Starving Child at the Door: How One Worcester Family Chose Conscience Over a...

New Orleans at War: How a City Mobilized—January 1862

January 1862: The Union Holds Its Breath Before the Bloodiest Year Yet Begins

When States Went to War: Inside America's Legislatures in January 1862

Watch the USS Pensacola Run Past Rebel Guns—And Why Terrified Confederates...

Inside Occupied New Orleans: How a Civil War City Kept Advertising While...

Moses Beach Returns to Rule New York's Penny Press—The War for Readers Heats Up

Pennsylvania's War Bill: How One State Kept the Union Afloat in 1862

When a Civil War General Overhears Gossip: The Scandal That Wasn't (Worcester,...

Memphis, Jan. 1862: Buying Fruit Trees & Selling Slaves as the War Closes In

Union's First Real Victories: Garfield Routs Rebels in Kentucky, McClellan...

Union Victory in Kentucky + Secret Telegraph System Changing Modern Warfare...

Tobacco, Coal Oil, and the Art of War: How One Indiana Town Kept Selling While...

When Evansville Sold Swords & Wine: Life in a Civil War River Town (Jan. 1862)

She Married for Love, He Married for Duty: A Frontier Love Story from 1862

A Gold Rush Town Debates Slavery: Auburn's Brutal Choice, January 1862

Salt Wars & Soldier's Bounties: What New York's War-Time Advice Column Reveals...

A City at War With Itself: Inside the New York Sun's Surprisingly Cheerful Day...

Sleeping Cars & Oysters: How Iowa Thrived While America Fought (1862)

How a French Gentleman Fooled the Bank of France (Until Dinner Gave Him Away)

"Every Man Who Can Bear Arms": How the Desperate Confederacy Raced for Troops...

Occupied New Orleans, January 1862: Banks Collapse, Life Goes On—and the...

February

When America went to war, Worcester kept reading about French murders—and...

Inside Fort Henry: Herald Reveals Confederate Defenses Before Historic Battle...

A Soldier's View from Camp: How the Union Army Learned to Fight (Feb. 3, 1862)

February 1862: War Weariness Sets In—As Generals Throw Balls, Soldiers Freeze...

Days After New Orleans Falls: A City Scrambles to Mobilize (February 5, 1862)

"We care not whether he's Northern or Southern"—a radical wartime newspaper...

When Wedding Cakes Mattered More Than Battles: Life in Maryland, February 1862

Helena, Arkansas, February 1862: Before the Gunboats Came—A Town Still Buying...

A Fake Doctor Charged $100 (in 1862!) — Inside Civil War New York's Con Artists...

How a Worcester Newspaper Exposed a Famous Magician's Trick in 1862

Inside the Crescent City at War: Bounties, Deserters & the Last Days Before...

Napoleon's Hidden Warning: Why France Almost Joined the Confederacy in 1862

While the Civil War Raged, New York Paid $30,000 to See a 29-Inch Man Dance

Last Call: New Orleans' Final Militia Muster Before Federal Occupation (Feb....

Six Weeks Before the Fall: New Orleans Mobilizes for War (Feb. 15, 1862)

Inside the Rebel Fortress: The Day Union Spies Mapped Bowling Green's 40 Cannons

"We Have Crossed the Rubicon": Union Troops March to Victory as Lincoln...

Inside a Doomed City: How Memphis Sold Slaves While Union Armies Closed In...

New Orleans Braces for War: As Union Threatens, Confederacy Desperately...

Union Breakthrough in Tennessee: 6,000 Rebels Captured, North Celebrates First...

A Freezing Apple-Seller, Patriotic Concerts & Why Singer Sewing Machines Cost...

How Civil War News Got *Lightning Fast* in 1862—and Why Newspapers Fought for...

Nashville Falls: Confederate Collapse in the West & Jefferson Davis Calls Day...

Inside the Last Days of Confederate New Orleans: When the City Still Had Time...

Fort Donelson's Heroes & Desperate Men: How the Civil War Began Transforming...

Inside the Great Wall & the Darkly Funny War: What Worcester Readers Learned in...

A Lonely English Clerk, a Russian Countess, and an Invitation to the...

"Army Crackers and Old Bacon": How Democrats Used Lincoln's White House Ball to...

March

Inside the Confederate Economy: March 1862 Arkansas Shows a South Already...

Nashville Ablaze: The Moment the South Realized It Was Losing | March 1862

Evansville Pivots: How a Border Town's Factories Became War Profiteers (1862)

Emperors, Invasions & Secrets: March 1862 Reveals Europe's Daring Plot to Carve...

When a Soldier Cuts Off His Own Fingers: A Confederate Newspaper's Grim March...

The Prodigal Returns: A Drunk Son, $3,200 in Squandered Money & a Father's Cold...

Cure-All Promises & Iron Foundries: Inside a Civil War Town's Business Page...

How a Reluctant Poet Faked His Way Into Literary Immortality (and Paid 131...

IRON MEETS WOOD: Confederate Navy Scores Historic Victory as South Draws...

War Comes Home: How a Small-Town NH Newspaper Balanced Business as Usual With...

When Patent Medicine Cured Everything (and War Prices Made Cigars Cheap): March...

Want 10,000 Ladies & Desperately Need Soldiers: March 1862's Collision of War &...

Ironclad Revolution: When the CSS Merrimack Changed Naval Warfare Forever...

"A War for the Union, Not Emancipation"—How a Small Pennsylvania Paper Captured...

Martial Law in New Orleans: The Confederacy's Last Stand Before the Fall (March...

New Madrid Falls: The Day a Confederate Doctor Died Between a General's Legs...

New Orleans Goes Scorched Earth: The Day the South Decided to Burn Its Cotton...

Traitors and Grammar: How a Massachusetts Newspaper Explained the Civil War—and...

Escape by Turkey: How a Saw and Stolen Livestock Got Two Officers Past Federal...

Burnside's Bold Victory at Newbern: How a Union General Won (Before Becoming...

Maryland Bans Dissent as Confederate Ironclad Sinks Two Union Frigates (March...

While Soldiers March to War, New York Publishers Profit From Patriotism (March...

When Ohio Sold Stoves to the Army: Commerce & War on March 23, 1862

Gold Watches for $7.50 & War Bounties: What an Indiana Newspaper Reveals About...

Coal Oil Lamps and Runaway Notices: Life Under Union Occupation in Civil War...

A Secret Army Within: Newly Exposed Conspiracy to Sabotage the Union from Within

Honolulu 1862: When Paradise Was a Booming Trade Hub (and Had Tailor-Made Suits)

Gold Watches & Ghost Armies: New Orleans Under Union Occupation (April 1862)

1862: Civil War Rages While the Sun Runs Sentimental Tales—and a Mob Nearly...

March 1862: A Confederate Paper Defends Press Freedom While the South's...

Sherman Burns Jacksonville: When the Union Came South, Florida Learned the Cost...

April

One Year Into the Civil War: How Brooklyn Held Elections While America Bled

New Orleans at War: Inside the Final Weeks Before the Union Takeover (April 2,...

Should He Drain the Swamp? A Farmer's Dilemma From 1862—Plus the Surprising...

No War News Here: How an Indiana Town Advertised 'Business As Normal' in April...

Last Call for Confederate Volunteers: New Orleans' Final Recruitment Drive...

1862: While Shiloh Bled, Columbus Sold Wedding Cakes and Army Stoves

April 1862: How New York City Sold the Civil War—One Classified Ad at a Time

A Union Colonel Tells a Slaveholder to Get Lost—And Everyone's Watching (April...

While the Civil War Raged, New York's Help-Wanted Ads Boomed: What April 1862...

The Last Days of Normal: New Orleans Auctions Off Luxury and People, Weeks...

Worcester Booms While America Bleeds: What a 1862 Real Estate Page Reveals...

April 1862: A Satirist's Brutal Takedown of the Union Army's Chaotic Manassas...

1862: New York Asks the Hard Questions (Eviction? Desertion? Fake Wool?)

Found Dead in the Canal: What One Indiana Newspaper Reveals About Life (and...

The Day After Shiloh: How NYC Boomed While America's Deadliest Battle Shocked...

Shiloh's Shocking Toll: How Editors Underestimated the War's Bloodiest Day—and...

Inside McClellan's Yorktown: When Union Soldiers Sang While Shells Fell—April...

Maryland Paper Reports Death of Lee's Rival—and Why Yorktown Matters More Than...

What Killed More Women Than the Civil War? A Fashion Exposé from 1862 Minnesota

1862: A Confederate Editor Warns—Sacrifice Liberty to Fight for Liberty, and...

April 1862: While the Civil War Raged, Minnesota Settlers Fought to Grow Apples

Dead Infant in the Canal: A Wartime Town Tries Normal Business (April 1862)

April 1862: While Shiloh Burned, New Yorkers Rented Rooms and Bought Artificial...

When Kansas Published Delinquent Taxes Instead of War News: A Civil War...

The Pilgrims' Friend Built Connecticut: A 5-Generation Land Dynasty

April 1862: Union Armies Close the Vise—Richmond Under Siege From Four...

Memphis Under Siege: The Day a Confederate Captain Begged for Soldiers While...

The Fall of New Orleans: How the Union's Greatest Prize Changed the War

A Soldier's Stiletto & the First Cotton Shipment: Life in Wartime Washington,...

April 30, 1862: New Orleans Under Siege—Martial Law, Currency Collapse, and...

May

Scarlet Fever & $1.50 Wages: Life in Wartime New York, May 1862

Cedar Falls, 1862: How a Tiny Iowa Town Thrived While America Burned

Lincoln's Secret Strategy: A Border State Politician Reveals Why the President...

Civil War Era Columbus: Stoves, Oysters & Army Supplies—When America Fought...

Victory in the Shenandoah: Union Soldiers Report Rebels Fleeing Virginia (May...

The Final Days of Confederate New Orleans: A City Improvising Its Own Collapse...

May 1862: When the South Begged for Bullets While Selling Bonnets

"Beast Butler" Takes Control: How a Newspaper Became a Weapon of Occupation—New...

A Methodist Preacher-Turned-Guerrilla and 57 Burned Locomotives: War in the...

Summer Vacation or Deadly Service? How the Union Sold the Civil War to Young...

May 1862: Richmond's Desperate Gamble as the South Loses New Orleans and Its...

Recruiting Soldiers & Growing Cranberries: How Worcester Lived During the Civil...

Lincoln's Surprise Norfolk: The Question That Changed the War

May 1862: How Evansville Sold Sugar and Bonnets While the Civil War Raged

A Hawaiian Pastor's Radical Sermon on When Rebellion Is Justified (1862)

Evansville, Indiana, May 1862: Life Goes On (While the Civil War Rages)

When a Senator Accused a Colleague of Treason on the Senate Floor (May 1862)

Nine Enslaved Men Stole a Gunboat Under Fort Sumter's Guns—And Won It for the...

War Creeps Into Daily Life: How May 1862 New York Recruited Soldiers While...

Bullet-Proof Vests, Runaway Slaves, and McClellan's Stalled Invasion: Memphis...

Richmond Panics as McClellan's Army Closes In—Confederate Treasury Already...

May 1862: While the Civil War Raged, This Connecticut Town Advertised Oysters...

"We Will Hold These Defenses": Vicksburg's Defiant Stand as Grant's Army Closes...

Richmond Awaits: McClellan Stalls, Lincoln Defies His Generals on Slavery—May...

May 1862: When Ohio Mothers Read Browning's Plea—And Understood Every Word

How Methodist Preachers Outsmarted Frontier Rebels—and Other Tales from Wartime...

Banks in Retreat: How Jackson's 17,000 Men Panicked the North (May 1862)

Savage Satire from 1862: How One Columnist Mocked 'Spineless Northerners' Who...

"Feed Them at First-Class Hotels"? How One Iowa Paper Savaged Lincoln's...

The Secretary of War's Smoking Gun: How One Congressman Exposed $1.8 Million in...

Senator Wade's Fiery Defense of Confiscation: Can the Constitution Survive...

June

A Nashville Editor's Shocking Confession: How the South's True Believers...

Richmond Celebrates—While Betting on Washington in 3 Weeks | June 1862

A Woman Major, a Jailed Husband, and Why the Dutch Emancipation Matters: June...

Richmond Under Siege: Union Victory at Last—3,600 Rebels Captured (June 4, 1862)

A Prussian General's Mercy & a Confederate's Ruin: How Worcester Read the Civil...

Richmond Seems Doomed—But Rain May Have Saved the Rebellion (June 6, 1862)

How a Scottish Gamekeeper Became Japan's Interpreter to Napoleon III—Plus Civil...

50 Cents for Opera & $8/Month for War Wounds: Inside New York's Double Life in...

One Hour That Changed the War: Union Navy Destroys Rebel Fleet and Takes Memphis

Shenandoah Valley Retreat: How Vermont Cavalry Escaped Confederate Trap (June...

Richmond in Peril: McClellan's Army Battles Lee—and Barely Holds the Line (June...

A Woman's Bonnet Starts a War Within the War: New Orleans Under Butler, June...

1862 Iowa: While the Civil War Raged, One Small Town Was Obsessed With Fanning...

A General Hanged, Wounded Left in Rain: The Brutal Logistics of War (June 14,...

How Ohio's Railroads Kept America Moving During the Civil War (Plus: Victorian...

Corinth Captured But Victory Slips Away: Inside the Union's Most Frustrating...

Payroll Failures & Moral Collapse: Inside the Confederacy's June 1862 Crisis

The Hidden War Economy: Inside a Confederate Town's Desperate Hustle (June 1862)

Victory in the Valley: Eyewitness Report from Frémont's Triumph Over...

The South's Desperate Gamble: How the Confederacy Invented the Draft (and...

Richmond Within Reach: McClellan's Grand Offensive & the Railroad That Could...

Cannon Fire and Scalding Steam: How a River Victory Cost 125 Union Sailors...

Love, Duty & Redemption: How a Maine Newspaper Serialized Morality During the...

A Cavalry Rout in Indian Territory: The Civil War Victory Nobody Remembers—And...

A Maine Newspaper Catches Its Rival Red-Handed on the Constitution (June 25,...

Arkansas Under Siege: How Sharpshooters Turned the River into a Death Trap...

100 BARRELS OF WHISKEY & DESPERATE VALOR: Inside the Mud-Soaked Battle That...

Lincoln Quietly Recognizes Black Nations—While Congress Enshrines White-Only...

When Ohio Railroads Ruled: Inside Civil War-Era Columbus Commerce (1862)

Frémont Quits, Guerrillas Strike: Lincoln's War Reaches a Boiling Point (June...

July

McClellan's Escape: How 100,000 Union Soldiers Vanished Into the Virginia...

"75 More Young Men Wanted": How Worcester Answered the War's Desperate Call for...

A Secret Bridge, 70,000 Logs, and Why McClellan's Army Was About to Collapse...

July 4, 1862: A Newspaper's Cruel Joke About Emancipation—and Why It Matters

While the Civil War Raged, This Ohio Town Advertised Kerosene, Hotels & Better...

McClellan's Army Bloodied But Unbowed: The Seven Days that Changed the War

Richmond Saved: McClellan's Army Retreats to the James River in 100-Year-Old...

A Dashing Spy, a Burning Town, and a Stolen Telegraph: Inside the Jessie...

100 Years Ago: Desperate Fighting for Richmond—and One Small Maine Town's Quiet...

A Boston Banker's Poker Game, a Caned Senator, and the Day Northern Elites...

A Bridegroom's Journey, a Fallen Woman's Redemption—and War Creeping Into...

One-Armed General, Stolen Suit, and Maine's Desperate Search for Soldiers: July...

Escaped From Atlanta: Inside the South's Secret Food Crisis (July 1862)

Manchester, 1862: How a New Hampshire Newspaper Sold War, Teeth, and Patriotic...

Beast Butler Exiles a Woman to an Island: Richmond's July 1862 Reckoning

Inside a Crumbling Confederacy: July 1862 Memphis Begs for Cotton and Soldiers

Truce & Trenches: How Union & Confederate Doctors Dined Together While War...

July 1862: When Worcester's Young Men Got $38 to Fight (And Coal Got Really...

A Chaplain's Confession: What He Really Saw at Fort Donelson—Plus a California...

How Lincoln's War Taxes Changed America Forever—And Why Columbus Became the...

The Day Rebels Routed a Union Garrison—And Locals Cheered from Their Doorways

The Day Washington Counted Its Wounded: 3,000+ Soldiers in Hospital Beds (July...

July 1862: Ohio Towns Reject the Draft—But Can They Raise 600,000 Soldiers...

A Kansas Editor's Savage Joke: Why Border State 'Neutrality' Was a Lie (1862)

"Salt Horse and Skedaddling Rebels: A Connecticut Soldier's Letter from the...

1862: The Day America Invented Federal Taxes—And Gave Birth to the IRS

1862: A Boston Minister Drafted His Own Congregation Mid-Sermon—And 16 Men...

The Albany's Roster: How a 1,000-Name Manifest Told America About War—July 28,...

Kidnapped by a Mystery Woman in 1862 Paris: A Surgeon's Oath of Silence

Inside a Confederate Town as the War Closes In: What One Arkansas Newspaper...

July 1862 Honolulu: When Hawaii's Merchants Quietly Sided With the South

August

Lincoln's Secret Negotiation With Slaveholding States—A Last Chance for...

While the Civil War Rages: Worcester's Booming Furniture Business (Aug. 1862)

A Gunboat Named Terror Returns to New York With $1.6M in Captured Cargo—And a...

Desperate Orders: Inside the Confederacy's August 1862 Conscription Crisis—When...

Miraculous Escape: How the USS Queen Survived a Rebel Firestorm on the...

When a Small Arkansas Town Tried to Keep Living While the War Came Home (1862)

On the Brink at Vicksburg: How a Naval Commander's Caution Might Cost the Union...

August 1862: While the Civil War Raged, Connecticut Debated Tree Destruction...

Lincoln Calls for 300,000 Troops—And the North Finally Accepts the War Won't...

1862: America's First Draft Begins in 10 Days—Panicked New Yorkers Flood the...

What Worcester's Businesses Were Really Worried About in August 1862

"Execute on Sight": The Desperate Orders Behind Confederate Collapse in Summer...

August 1862: Arkansas Fights Back as Lincoln Names Military Governor—One...

When a General Freed 2,000 Slaves—And Iowa Cheered (August 1862)

An Eyewitness to Slaughter: How 7,000 Union Soldiers Held the Line Against the...

"To Arms!" — August 1862: When Ohio Newspapers Stopped Pretending the North...

A Memphis newspaper from 1862 reveals the secret debate that would change the...

100 Years Back: McClellan's Grand Army Quietly Retreats from Richmond—A Union...

How the U.S. Government Lost Track of 43,000 Horses (And $3.5 Million) — August...

A 18-Year-Old Soldier's Last Letter Home—And Why an 1862 Clergyman Thought...

Death Warrants & Desperation: Inside the Confederate Paper That Shows a Nation...

A Mother's Tears & a Soldier's Plea: Connecticut's Desperate Plea for Recruits,...

When Maryland Called 300,000 Men to War: A Priest's Poem & A Senator's...

Draft Panic: How One Newspaper Answered 'Can I Lose a Finger to Skip the War?'

Richmond Under Pressure: The Moment the South's Military Luck Began to Turn...

Italian Youth Storm Garibaldi's Cause While Washington Gambling Dens Bilk...

Arkansas Strips Church Bells for Cannons: How Total War Conquered the Homefront...

When Hawaii's Heir Fell Ill: The Constitutional Panic of August 1862

"Should Britain Back the South?" A Desperate Confederate Bid for Recognition,...

An Irish Rebel Tells America Its Civil War Is Unwinnable—From a California Gold...

August 1862: How Ohio's Newspapers Sold War, Stoves & Escape to Homesick...

September

Maine Towns Put Price Tags on Their Sons' Lives—How One State Raced to Fill War...

VICTORY AT MANASSAS: Lee Routs Pope as Richmond Rejoices—But Winter Looms

Arkansas at War: Elections, Dried Fruit Orders & Crumbling Currency—Sept. 3,...

Inside the USS Tuscarora: When a Union Warship Charmed Ireland (and Britain Got...

Maryland's Farms Turn to Chemistry as War Ravages Southern Agriculture (Sept....

Maryland Women Raised $357 to Save Union Soldiers—Here's What They Sent Them

Swindler Senator Busted: How Civil War Profiteer Stole $100K & Got Away With It

September 1862: The South's Treasury Admits the Unthinkable—and It's All in...

The Tax That Won the Civil War: October 1st Changes Everything (And the Feds...

"Shoot Them": Cleveland Demands Heads Roll After Union Rout—Sept. 10, 1862

"Twenty Million Americans" Demand Lincoln Abolish Slavery—His Answer Changes...

A Dwarf's Magic & Gold: How Worcester Escaped the War in Fairy Tales (Sept. 12,...

Lee's Army Marches North—Cincinnati Under Siege—Antietam Just Days Away

Lee Invades Maryland: A Confederate Newspaper Reports America's Turning Point...

Worcester Goes All-In: Five Recruiting Drives, Bounties, and a City Choosing...

Lee's Army "Shockingly Whipped": The North Celebrates Victory at South Mountain...

Blood on the Potomac: How Portland Mobilized While Antietam Raged (September...

A D.C. Newspaper Celebrates Confederate Victory—Just Miles from the Capitol...

Inside the Panic: A Sioux Agent's Desperate Defense as Minnesota Erupts & Lee...

Congress Just Abolished Flogging in the Navy—And Made Showing Up to Church...

Last Stand of the Rebels: Inside a Doomed Chattanooga Newspaper, September 1862

September 22, 1862: McClellan Pursues Lee, Kearney Mourned, Iron Ships Rule the...

Peace Rumors & Dying Generals: Worcester Faces Civil War Fatigue, September 1862

Inside a Desperate Confederacy: Elections, Conscription & the Machinery of War...

Bloodiest Day in American History: Inside the Battle That Changed Everything...

11,000 Surrendered at Harpers Ferry: A Union Correspondent's Eyewitness Account...

Wisconsin Democrats Declare War on Lincoln's War Powers (September 1862)

Bragg in Retreat, McClellan on the Move: The War Turns in Kentucky (Sept. 28,...

Lincoln's Bombshell: How the Confederate Press Covered Its Own Doom (Sept. 29,...

A Slave Mistress Begs Her Freedman for Bacon and Sugar—Cleveland Newspaper, 1862

October

Garibaldi Shot & Exiled: The Italian Hero Writes His Own Betrayal from a...

The Tax Machine Goes to War: How the North Built an Economic Empire While the...

"She played dead with three bullets in her chest": Frontier siege and survival...

Can the Union Finish What Maryland Started? A War at the Crossroads, October...

A Soldier's Widow Asks for Help: What October 1862 Readers Really Worried About

Western Victory at Corinth + Garibaldi's Army Offers 6,000 Troops to Fight for...

When a General From Germany Saved the Union—and a Rabbit Found Shelter in the...

Buchanan Sabotages the Union, Six Brothers Fight for It: October 1862 in Ohio

"Avoid the Shame of a Draft": How Worcester Faced War in October 1862—With...

A Dakota Maiden's Death Song: The Tragic Legend Connecticut Readers Read While...

Senator Sumner's Bombshell: How a Maine Newspaper Published the Speech That...

J.E.B. Stuart Rides Into Pennsylvania & Gets Away With It—October 12, 1862

Lee's Gamble in Maryland: Why a Confederate General Begged the Public to Trust...

CORINTH FALLS: Union Routs Rebels in Mississippi, Capturing Thousands and...

When America Split in Two: A Wartime Poem and a Treaty That Opened China (Oct....

"Frozen Potato Toes" and Other Excuses: How One Connecticut Town Dodged the...

When Worcester Learned the Civil War Would Never End: The Desperate October...

How J.E.B. Stuart Humiliated the Union—and Why It Didn't Matter (October 1862)

1862: While the Civil War Raged, Columbus Thrived as a Rail Hub Selling Fake...

Maine newspaper defends abolitionists—and claims slavery, not agitation,...

Conscription Orders & Missing Slaves: Inside the Confederate War Machine,...

How Buchanan's Traitors Lost the War: Senator Trumbull Names Names (Oct. 22,...

A Daring Abduction in Wartime Worcester: When Romance Ruled the Headlines (Oct....

35 Dead in Confederate Troop Train Disaster: How a Head-On Collision Near Duck...

October 25, 1862: How London Reacted to Lincoln's Emancipation...

October 1862: While the Civil War Raged, Columbus Sold Stoves, Snake Oil, and...

When Soldiers' Families Packed Care Boxes: A Davenport Wartime Tuesday (Oct 27,...

A Texan's Cry from Exile: The Speech That Shattered Northern Hopes for Easy...

A Union General Accused of Murdering His Own Men—and Lincoln Just Fired Him

Oct 30, 1862: McClellan Finally Moves as Baltimore Erupts Over Military Arrests

How Enslaved Women Powered the Confederate War Machine: October 1862 Economic...

November

The Ultimate Moral Test: A 1862 Essay That Dismantles Every Excuse for Slavery

How Southern Families Made Winter Coats From River Mud: November 1862

THE PIRATE ALABAMA IS COMING FOR NEW YORK: How a Confederate Raider Terrorized...

A Factory Town's Newspaper in War Time: November 1862 Manchester, New Hampshire

Desperate Harvest: How the Confederacy Fed Its Armies (and Why It Failed)

A Mosquito Tests Human Nature: Satire, Corruption & Slavery in the War's Second...

Union Cavalry Finally Beats Stuart—And Sterling Price Wants Out

When 803 fugitive slaves sparked a civil war: What the 1862 census really said

Republicans Sweep North & Missouri Shocks: Soldiers Vote for War, Emancipation...

Ohio Dispatch: Lincoln's Gamble—Will Angry Voters Kill Emancipation Before It's...

"The North is Turning Against Lincoln" — What Richmond's War Newsroom Feared...

A General's Iron Rule Defended: Why One New Orleans Paper Praised Butler's...

A Kentucky Woman Freed Her Slaves—And a Civil War Officer Spills Details on...

Maryland's Wartime Economy Unravels: How a Small-Town Newspaper Reveals the...

McClellan Ousted: Has Lincoln Finally Found His War-Winning General?

While the Civil War Raged, Ohio Built an Army—and Sold It Stoves | Nov. 16, 1862

"25 New Regiments": How the Union's Overwhelming Manpower Shift Became...

This 1862 Editorial Absolutely Eviscerates Lincoln's Generals—And Predicted...

When the South Almost Took California: A Civil War Plot That Almost Changed...

When Your Hometown Newspaper Became a Pension Broker: Iowa, 1862

Lost Keys & Lost Wars: What a Connecticut Wife Taught Her Pedantic Husband in...

The Democrat Who Loved Lincoln's War But Hated Lincoln's Methods—1862 Auburn...

Chattanooga, November 1862: When a Newspaper Shows How Wars Are Actually Fought...

The Day Burnside Demanded Fredericksburg's Surrender—and Got a Mayor's Letter...

November 1862: When Jefferson Davis Offered His Own Boots—And the Confederacy...

Loyalty Oaths Required: How the Civil War Turned Washington into a War Economy...

1862: When Worcester's Newspaper Made Fun of Failed Ironclad Tests (With an...

Lincoln's Secret Promise to the South: A Kentucky Governor's Bombshell Account...

Inside a Civil War Prison Camp: The Sutler's Shocking Letter from Ohio (1862)

Stoves for Soldiers & Mysterious Tropical Cures: What Ohio Was Selling in 1862

December

Stonewall in Full Retreat—But Burnside's About to Walk Into a Trap

Burnside's Gamble: 125,000 Rebels Fortify While Union Officers Desert and...

Lincoln Refused to Compromise: A Kentucky Governor's Bitter Account from...

War Machine Visible: How Washington's Classifieds Reveal Civil War Logistics...

A Willimantic Soldier's Account of Combat: 'Not a Battle, But Merely a...

Virginia Rebels Losing Faith: How Emancipation Turned Secessionists Into...

Grant's Army Sweeps Mississippi: Grenada Falls, and Seward's Diplomatic Gamble...

Richmond Bleeds: Dec. 1862 Shows Confederacy Losing Control on Every Front

The USS Cumberland's Last Stand—Told in Verse by Union Soldiers at a Wartime...

Inside the Naval Revolution: How the Union Built Three Ironclads in a Single...

Hawaii's Take on Lincoln's Shocking Firing of General McClellan (December 1862)

How the Civil War Became an Industrial Machine: The Day the Army Ordered 8,000...

Where Is General Banks Going? The Mystery That Had Lincoln's Army Guessing in...

When Baseball Mourned Its First Star—And Doctors Faced Justice for Abortion in...

When a Princess Spent a Fortune on Love—and Lost Everything to a Mob's Bullet

December 1862: A Vermont Preacher Argues God Is Correcting America, Not...

Confederate Currency Collapses: Watch Arkansas Quartermaster Desperately Sell...

Inside a Kansas Newspaper from Fredericksburg Week: Patriotic Poems, Political...

Vice President Stephens Denounces War Profiteers (Dec. 1862): When the...

Lincoln's Secret Meeting Revealed: A Kentucky Delegate's Haunting Account of...

Lincoln's Cabinet Explodes: How America Nearly Got a Military Dictator...

Fredericksburg's Horror: How a Confederate Victory Spelled Doom

December 23, 1862: A Confederate Soldier's View from the Brink of...

Christmas 1862 in Arkansas: Schools Open, Soldiers Conscripted, and War...

Lee's Fredericksburg Report: The Confederate General Explains His Stunning...

A War Democrat's Fury: When Congress Openly Attacked Lincoln Over Emancipation...

Lincoln Defies His Own Party—And Changes History in 5 Days (Dec. 27, 1862)

Jefferson Davis Orders General Butler Hanged: The Moment Civil War Became...

Goodbye 'Beast Butler,' Hello General Banks: How One Ceremony Reshaped Occupied...

Counterfeit Bonds, Oysters, & War: What Washington Was Actually Buying on...

35 Deserters Named and Shamed: Inside the Confederate Army's Unraveling...