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January

Emancipation Day 1863: When Freedom Arrived, Violence Followed

A General's Confession: What Burnside Told Congress About the Fredericksburg...

Lincoln Signs Away Virginia—and Wins a Bloody Battle in Tennessee (Jan. 4, 1863)

A Maryland Hospital Gazette From Deep in the War: Poetry, Payola, and the...

Arkansas Fights to Stay Civilized as War Closes In: What One 1863 Newspaper...

War, Railroads & Dental Extractions: What Indianapolis Read on the Day the...

An Old Chief Pointing West: What One Connecticut Newspaper Reveals About...

Inside Massachusetts' War Machine: How One State Mobilized 60,000 Soldiers in...

A Union Officer's Secret Letter Reveals the North Is Tearing Itself Apart (Jan....

Dying Colonel's Last Order + Why Lincoln's Generals Were Failing: Jan. 1863

How the North Planned to Remake the South (While the Confederacy Put a Bounty...

Pursued by Indians, Fire & Wolves: A Desperate 30-Mile Midnight Ride in 1863...

Two Weeks After Emancipation: How the North Turned on Lincoln (And Each Other)

How California's Gold Country Built Civilization While America Fought Its Civil...

7,000 Rebels Trapped: Union's First Flawless Victory—No Escape, Total Surrender

The Galveston Disaster: How Confederates Pulled Off Their Boldest Naval...

Inside the Crumbling Confederacy: When the South Started Conscripting...

A Tiny Iowa Newspaper Made a Bold Stand for Freedom—in January 1863

January 1863: While Delaware's Merchants Sold Nails, a Poet Prayed for...

1863: The Civil War Turns—Emancipation Divides the Union, and Soldiers Are...

FORT HINDMAN FALLS: Union Army-Navy Triumph Opens Path to Reclaim the...

The 109th Illinois Caught Red-Handed: How Grant Discovered a Regiment of...

Inside a Vermont Paper from 1863: Prince Albert's Funeral, Rothschild's Gold...

Iron-Clads Arrive: Union General Hunter Returns to Launch Aggressive Campaign...

January 1863: Lincoln Fires Another General as Union Army Implodes

Should Grief Be Fashionable? A Connecticut Town Debates Mourning in Wartime...

Rebel Secrets Exposed: Captured Dispatches Reveal Confederate Army Starving,...

February

What New York Asked About in 1863: Cotton Gins, Steamships, and Hand Cream...

"Sooner Under England Than The Union": How The South Answered Lincoln's...

A Poet's Fury: Inside the Confederate Home Front's Class War (Feb. 1863)

A Bullet Stopped by Love: How a Kansas Paper Used Revolutionary War Romance to...

A Maine Boy's Broken Leg and the Birth of Tort Law: How One 1863 Lawsuit...

Charleston's Shocking Naval Upset Shakes Union Blockade Strategy—Plus Why One...

One skater broke through the ice, froze half to death, and New York's winter...

Arrested & Deported in 30 Minutes: How Civil War Chicago Dealt With Dissenters

Desperate Measures: Inside the Collapsing Confederacy—Feb. 1863

Two Ships Lost, One Victory Claimed: How Chaos at Sea Exposed Cracks in the...

Daylight Raid: How One Union Ram Smashed Through "Impossible" Rebel Batteries...

A Venetian Thief, a Widow's Ruin, and a Lawyer's Clever Loophole—Plus...

Disease or Sin? How a Worcester Debate in 1863 Invented Modern Addiction...

Steamship Delivers War Secrets: How Hoop Skirts Became Contraband in Occupied...

A General's Fury: When Union Officers Turned on Northern 'Peace' Advocates—Feb....

Inside the Collapsing Confederacy: A Woman's Letter from Starving Virginia...

"They Cursed Over Soldiers' Graves": A Woman's Devastating Account of Sherman's...

Soldiers Threatening to Hang Copperheads at Home: How the Civil War Army Became...

Spies, Napoleon's Secret War, and Lincoln's Power Grab: What One Mississippi...

How Grant Planned to Strangle Vicksburg—and Why Canada's Trade Deal Nearly...

February 1863: While America Burns, New York Debates Hoop Skirts and Old Maids

Memphis, 1863: Confederate Congress Debates Seals While Vicksburg Burns

Britain Almost Recognized the Confederacy—Here's How Parliament Stopped It...

Inside Russia's Brutal Emancipation: While Lincoln Freed America's Slaves, a...

1863: Two Visions of When the Civil War Ends—And America's Bleak Choice

Connecticut, 1863: A Newspaper Caught Between Harsh Mothers and Harsher Truths...

February 1863: When the North Almost Quit the War—and Didn't

March

Union Generals Make Peace in South Carolina—And the First Black Troops Arrive...

Lincoln's Secret Weapon Against Britain: A Letter to Manchester's Starving...

Napoleon's Secret Messages & the Day the South Thought France Would Save Them...

How Lincoln's Government Invented Modern Banking (and Funded the Civil...

Panic Over the Draft, Ironclads Captured: What Lincoln's War Looks Like in...

A Soldier's Fury at Home-Front 'Traitors': Inside the 20th Maine's Defense of...

Life in Wartime Ohio: How Ashtabula Kept Commerce Running While America Tore...

Was Jesus a Sabbath Breaker? A Civil War-Era Newspaper's Most Hotly Debated...

A Woman and Child Burned Alive: The Detroit Riot That Exposed the North's...

Lincoln's Pardoned Soldier & a Radical Church: What Freedom Looked Like in...

A Rebel Victory on the Mississippi: How Converted Steamboats Captured a Union...

A General Refuses to Fight (Until Lincoln Frees the Slaves): The Cassius Clay...

Inside Grant's Vicksburg Swamp: A Fake Gunboat, A Flooded Army, and a Letter...

Congress Builds While America Burns: The $200K Dome (and What It Says About...

Packed to the Rafters: How New York Rallied (and Tore Itself Apart) Over the War

A 99-Year-Old Woman's Gift to Washington (And Her Message for 1863)

The South Blew Up Its Own Warship Over a Wooden Fake—And It Gets Worse

Inside the Collapse: How One Arkansas Paper Reported Martial Law While Selling...

1863: A Confederate Editor Warns of Despotism—From Within the South Itself

A Sleepwalking Miser, a Missing Fortune & a Detective's Dark Dream—Solved

Rebels Repulsed at Newbern: How 92nd New York Held Fort After Defiant 'I Don't...

Why Ohio's Democrats Defended Confederate Prisoners: A 1863 Legal Battle Over...

"Traitor! Put Him Out!" — How the North Turned on Its Own in 1863

The Day Rutherford B. Hayes Got Married (While Fighting the Civil War)

Cotton, Chaos & Martial Law: Inside Confederate Arkansas, March 1863

"They Will Surely Murder Us": When Black Soldiers First Landed in the Deep South

A Blockade Runner Burns Off the Carolina Coast: When the South's Supply Lines...

March 1863: The North Finally Moves—On Every Front at Once

Union Army Plots Water Warfare in Mississippi—Plus a White Man's 23-Year...

March 1863: Union Musters Massive War Machine for Charleston as Britain Teeters...

April

When the South Ran Out of Money: How a Small Arkansas Newspaper Captured the...

French Princes Who Fought for Lincoln Just Left America—Here's Their Secret War

Black Soldiers Under Fire: A Connecticut Soldier's Eyewitness Account from...

A Burning Ship, a Severed Leg, and One Admiral's Daring Gamble: Port Hudson,...

A Jeweler's Skull Crushed by a Hidden Club: The Sensational Princeton Murder...

Grant's Narrow Escape, Vicksburg Under Fire: Why This April 1863 Dispatch...

April 1863: Confederate Desperation Leaks Through—'No Foreign Help Is Coming'

Iron Clads Ready: Union Assembles Fearsome Fleet to Retake Charleston (April 8,...

Tomorrow's Iron Fleet Will Change Naval Warfare Forever—Inside the Numbers That...

April 1863: Union Tightens Noose—Richmond Riots, Charleston Bombardment, and...

When Six Tribes Came to Barnum's Museum: How Lincoln's Indian Delegates Amazed...

1863: Confederate Diplomat Exposes 'Shameless' British Betrayal

Inside Lincoln's War Machine: How Washington Bought 600 Iron Beams & 300...

A Soldier's Warning from Florida: 'We'd Rather Stay 10 Years Than Disgrace...

"We Hope They Enjoyed Themselves": A Soldier's Darkly Comic Letters from the...

Haunted Houses & Soldier Politics: What a 1863 NY Paper Reveals About Civil War...

Inside the Navy Yard That Built the War: Philadelphia's Ironclad Secrets (April...

700 French Ministers Just Declared War on the Confederacy—From Their Pulpits

Why Won't Confederate Guns Fire Back? A Vicksburg Mystery Unfolds (April 1863)

Vindication and Retreat: How Union Discipline Held While Confederates Cracked...

Stolen Confederate Letters Reveal: Starving Soldiers, $20,000 Weddings & a...

Grant's Gamble at Vicksburg: The Week the Union Finally Got Its Timing Right...

How Democrats & Republicans Fought Over War Spending (While America Burned):...

April 1863: One Illinois Town's Vicious War on Dissenters—and the Love Letter...

Lincoln Looks 'Thin and Careworn': A Vermont Soldier's Honest View from the...

Why Democrats Wanted to BAN Schools (1863) — Plus: Vicksburg Under Fire

Inside the Confederate War Room: April 1863—When Everything Started Falling...

May

From the Mayflower to the Battlefield: One Connecticut Family's 230-Year Legacy...

Inside Massachusetts's War Cabinet: How a Northern State United on Slavery's...

May 1863: Hooker's Master Plan to Trap Lee's Army (Plus: Ice Crushes Atlantic...

London Laughs at Lincoln's War—And British Ships Are Smuggling Quinine to the...

May 6, 1863: 'The Battle Still Unfinished' - Hooker's Army Fights for Its Life...

May 7, 1863: 'Certain Destruction' Awaits — Hooker's Bold Gambit Begins

Saint Paul Newspaper Accuses War Committee of Sabotaging McClellan's...

May 1863: Vicksburg Braces for Grant While the South's Cracks Begin to Show

A Prizefighter's Unwashed Hands & a Haunted House for Sale: What 1863 New York...

RICHMOND CAPTURED? Worcester reads the war's biggest rumor—and Grant's...

A Vermont Soldier Meets a Millionaire Ex-Slave in New Orleans—and Exposes the...

Chancellorsville's Bitter Cost + the Bizarre Will of a French Suicide: May 13,...

Two Tribune Reporters Lost in Vicksburg; Colored Troops Now Marching—May 14,...

How Connecticut's Secret Powder Mills Won the Revolution—and Why No One...

"Ar'nt I a Woman?": How Sojourner Truth's Lost Speech Returned to Haunt...

"Almost naked, barefoot on the prairie": A mother's desperate escape from the...

Grant's Mississippi Gamble Works—And the North Holds Its Breath (May 1863)

Grierson's Gamble: How 2,000 Union Cavalry Rode 600 Miles Through...

The 54th Massachusetts Marches to War—But a Wounded Soldier Begs Unnoticed in...

1863: When a U.S. Minister's Speech Nearly Stopped Britain from Backing the...

When Lincoln Arrested a Congressman for Speaking: The Vallandigham Affair...

Grant Wins Mississippi While Hooker Retreats in Virginia: The War Turns Two...

VICKSBURG FALLS: Grant Breaks the Confederacy's Grip on the Mississippi (May...

How a Small-Town Illinois Paper Weaponized Poetry Against War Dissenters (May...

As Grant Closes In on Vicksburg, Richmond Squeezes Every Last Dollar From Its...

The Day Lincoln Exiled His Enemy to the Confederacy (And They Didn't Want Him)

1863: When the North's Newspapers Turned on War Critics—and the Government...

Two Republicans Fight About Ditching Their Own Party (May 1863): When the Civil...

A Long-Lost Brother Revealed on a Columbus Street: How One Woman's Stalker...

June

A Union Spy's Secret Report from Inside the Confederacy—What He Found Will...

June 1863: The Day Arkansas Sold Substitutes and Hunted Deserters—Life Under...

A Tennessee Slaveholder Defends Emancipation: The War's Turning Point, Explained

The Union's Secret Weapon: How America Invented the Income Tax (and Why Rebels...

The Secret to Union Victory? Inside the Navy's Desperate Scramble for Steam...

1863: When Mobs Threatened Newspapers & Democrats Debated Losing the Union |...

How a British MP Nearly Won the War for the South (And Why He Failed)

Three Weeks Before Gettysburg: A Vermont Newspaper Escapes Into Poetry and...

Storming Vicksburg: A War Correspondent's Eyewitness Account from the Front...

Lincoln's Legal Shield: How a Prussian Scholar Protected Black Soldiers (and...

June 1863: Grant Tightens the Vise at Vicksburg—Plus a Cranky Genius Rants...

Pirates, Deserters & Black Soldiers: A Nation Tearing Itself Apart (June 14,...

A Woman Soldier, Carpetbaggers, and the South Under Siege: What One Southern...

Lee Invades the North: Lincoln Calls 100,000 Militia (Plus His Candid Take on...

"Negroes Preferred": The Brutal Economics of War—Inside a Confederate...

Robert Browning Backs the Union: A Poet's Wartime Letter from London (1863)

Lee's Victory at Winchester—But Can the South Hold It? A Raleigh Paper Grapples...

Lee Invades Pennsylvania: Union on High Alert as Confederates Occupy...

Black Soldiers Hold the Line as Lee Invades the North (June 1863)

Lee's Invasion Begins: Inside the North, Confederate Deserters Flee, and the...

Inside the Genius of Vicksburg: How a 'Lincoln Wagon' and Cotton Bales Won the...

Confederates Laugh at Northern 'Peace Sneaks' (And Reveal Their Real Strategy)...

EXCLUSIVE: Rebel Leaders Losing Their Grip—North Carolina Papers Turn on...

Watch Them March: A Black Regiment Parades Down Washington's Streets (June 27,...

Lee Invades Pennsylvania: 3,000 Citizens Grab Guns as Harrisburg Braces for...

GETTYSBURG LOOMING: Lee Invades North as Feds Tighten Noose on Vicksburg &...

Shock Dismissal: New General Takes Command of Army of the Potomac Hours Before...

July

From the Siege Lines: Last Dispatches Before Vicksburg Falls (July 1, 1863)

The Tide Has Turned: Lee Retreats, Mexico Falls to France, and Sojourner Truth...

Meet General Meade: The Unlikely Hero Taking Command as Lee Invades the North

GETTYSBURG VICTORY: Lee's Invasion Crushed, Union Holds Strong—July 4, 1863

UNION VICTORY AT GETTYSBURG: Lee Routed, 16,000 Prisoners, War's Turning Point...

Citizen Soldiers: How Portland's Ordinary People Chased Down a Confederate...

GETTYSBURG VICTORY CLAIMED (But Vicksburg Falls & Lee's Retreat Begins)—Inside...

Lee's Army Drowning in Mud: Gettysburg's Aftermath Means the War Has Turned

A Kansas Paper at War: Songs, Accusations, and a Trickster's Coin (July 1863)

Lee Trapped? Meade Poised to End the War—But the River's Rising (July 10, 1863)

Lee Trapped: How the North's Cavalry Stopped History's Greatest Escape (July...

Lee's Army Crumbles—Rebel Officers Admit 'the Confederacy Had Gone Up' | July...

Inside a Confederate Newspaper's Desperate Last Days: The South Knows It's...

The War Within the War: A Maine Newspaper's Fierce Debate Over Why the North is...

Money Collapsing, Men Drafted, Slaves Fleeing: One Arkansas Paper Captures the...

Vicksburg Falls: How One Iowa Town Celebrated the Turning Point of the Civil...

Gettysburg's Aftermath: A Confederate Editor's Quiet Admission That the South...

Lee Retreats, the Mississippi Falls, and the Confederacy Realizes It's Losing:...

Lee's Army in Retreat: How the North Finally Won—and Why New York Was About to...

War Turning Point: Morgan's Cavalry Shattered, Draft Law Enforced—July 1863...

New York City Burns: A Confederate Paper's Gleeful Coverage of America's...

The Day Grant Won the War: How Vicksburg's Fall Changed Everything (July 22,...

Ohio's Civil War Crucible: When Free Speech Met Martial Law (1863)

A Harvard Scholar's Last Letter Home: One Month After Gettysburg, Worcester...

Fort Wagner Falls: Black Soldiers' Courage & Lee's Narrow Escape—July 26, 1863

Lee Fires Back: Why the General Had to Publicly Rebut the Union's Gettysburg...

Colored Soldiers in the Fire: The 54th Massachusetts' Heroic Stand at Fort...

"God Grant His Patience": A Confederate Newspaper's Desperate Faith After...

How the Union Navy Quietly Strangled the Confederacy (and What It Looked Like...

North Carolina Under Siege: Inside the Confederacy's Darkest Hour (July 31,...

August

Union Forces Capture Confederate Colonel as War Surges Forward—July 1863...

Admiral Porter's Victory Report: How the Navy Cracked Vicksburg Wide Open

Children Torching Factories & Looting Davis's Library: America's Civil War...

Vermont's Heroes at Fort Wagner: Raw Combat Reporting from the Civil War's...

July 4th's Double Miracle: Vicksburg Falls & Lee Retreats on America's Birthday

How the Army Accidentally Invented Black Military Bureaucracy—and Why It...

Windham's Finest Hour: A Connecticut Soldier's Letter from the Cannons of Fort...

Officer's Letter: Confederate Army 'Playing Out' in Tennessee as Desertions...

August 1863: As Grant Wins at Vicksburg, Rebel Leaders Begin Their Escape (and...

A Battlefield Hero Returns Home: Col. Chamberlain's Remarkable August 1863...

"Beware the Wooden Horse": A prophetic warning about Reconstruction written two...

Auctioning the South: How One Arkansas Town Sold Land and Slavery in the Shadow...

How Slaveholders Silenced the South—And Why Free Speech Is About to Destroy Them

The Confederate Press War: When a Newspaper Dared Question Victory—August 1863

August 1863: Northern Press Smells Confederate Collapse—But Lee's Still...

Women, Gingerbread & Cavalry Charges—Inside Occupied New Orleans, August 1863

Inside the Confederacy's Desperate Race for Supplies—and the Small Victories...

Lee's Army is Collapsing From Within—And Ohio Vigilantes Know It (Aug. 18, 1863)

A Confederate's Confession: The South's Broken Promises (As Told by a North...

A Border Town's War: When Cumberland Sold Washington Prints and Processed...

Harvard's President Was Born in a Farmhouse—And His Mom's Genealogy Was Wrong...

August 1863: Lee Plans His Next Move—Plus, Enslaved People Escape Savannah &...

Fort Sumter Falls—But One Kansas Guerrilla Chief Just Burned a Whole City While...

Bombs, Torpedoes & Defiance: Inside the Union's Epic Siege of Fort Sumter

Charleston Under Fire: How the Civil War Turned on Sleeping Civilians (Aug 25,...

Boston Brags About Its Wealth While Portland Recaptures Escaped Rebels (August...

Under Fire at Fort Sumter: The Union's Relentless 4-Day Bombardment (Aug. 27,...

Burnt in Effigy: How Confederate Soldiers Secretly Rebelled Against Their Own...

Charleston Falls & Lawrence Burns: The War's Turning Point Becomes Brutally...

8,000 Illinois Patriots Demand Total Victory—and the Annihilation of Slavery...

Garibaldi Hails Lincoln as 'Emancipator' While Kansas Burns: August 31, 1863

September

A General's War Poem vs. a Soldier's Grim Reality: Sept. 1, 1863

1863: Northern Cities Rejoice as Charleston Burns—and a Boston Murder Shocks...

A traveler's eye on wartime America: John Morgan in prison, railroads replacing...

Democrats' Civil War Dilemma: Support the Union, Oppose Lincoln (Massachusetts,...

September 1863: Union Winning the War—But Losing the Peace at Home

Richmond's Anxious September: Conflicting War News, Kentucky's New Governor...

Inside the Secret Tech Race That Might End Charleston—And the Midnight...

50 Deserters a Night: The Confederacy Comes Apart (September 1863)

Fort Sumter Is Crumbling: A Confederate Paper Reports from a Shrinking South

Exclusive: What Ex-President Buchanan Really Said About the War (And Why It...

A Slave-Holding Texan Calls Slavery a 'Monstrous Crime'—Inside the North's...

Charleston Burns: Union Army Celebrates Victory Over Secession's Cradle (Sept....

Fort Wagner Falls: Union Breaks Into Charleston Harbor (and What Soldiers Found...

In Civil War Illinois, a Newspaper Chose Napoleonic Drama Over Casualty Lists

A 13-Year-Old Snuck Out to Dump Tea, Then Built Worcester Into a Business Empire

Fort Sumter's Assault: How the Union Tried to Storm the War's Most Symbolic...

Forrest Wounded But Pursues Rosecrans: A Confederate Paper's Last Moment of...

When the Civil War Seemed Distant: Inside a September 1863 Ohio Newspaper

Is Richmond Evacuating? France Poised to Back the Rebels—War Turns Anxiously in...

When War Democrats Turned on Peace Democrats: A Springfield Rally Changes...

When Worcester Obsessed Over Pears (1863): How a Farming Society Became...

Sam Houston Dies as Maryland Pivots to Emancipation—And Ohio's War Democrats...

Britain Seals the South's Fate: "Last Nail in the Rebel Coffin" (Sept. 24, 1863)

Brother-in-Law to Lincoln Killed in Battle — and 3 Other Confederate Generals...

Rosecrans Trapped in Georgia: How the Union Narrowly Escaped Annihilation at...

Chattanooga's "Decisive Battle" Looms as Grant Arrives at Vicksburg—Plus: Why...

September 1863: As Lee's Army Fights for Virginia, Memphis's Newspaper Flees...

Little Rock Falls: Union Army Captures Arkansas Capital—And Shows Remarkable...

October

Iowa Calls Up the 9th Cavalry: How a Tiny Newspaper Captured Wartime on the...

A Northern Spy Trapped in Mexico, a Doomed Submarine Crew, and Japan's...

October 1863: Bryant's Fire-and-Brimstone Case for Immediate Emancipation—No...

A Union Spy's Last Words on the Richmond Gallows—and the Desperate Wartime...

A 93-Year-Old Founding Father's Blessing: Why Quincy's Letter to Lincoln...

Georgia Soldiers Destroy Raleigh Newspaper—Inside the Mob That Silenced the...

Oct. 1863: How the Army of the Potomac Fell in Love With Lincoln—and Each Other

October 1863: Union Momentum Shifts—Railroads Repaired, Rebels Routed, and...

The Day America Held Its Breath: Ohio's 1863 Election, Colored Soldiers' Silent...

Inside the Union's Secret Signal Corps: How Vermont's Army Communicated in 1863

October 1863: Confederates Watch Union Artillery Arrive—And Know They Can't...

Secret Letter Reveals Britain INVENTED the Monroe Doctrine (Not Monroe)

Maryland's War Within the War: A Union Man's Tortured Defense of Slavery (1863)

Lincoln's Secret Love Letter to Shakespeare (And Why Britain Needed to Read It)

A General's Miracle Escape + Confederate Arsonists Caught: Cleveland Reads of...

Home Guards & Cotton Cards: How the Confederacy Armed the Desperate (Oct. 1863)

Fleeing South: Why the Memphis Daily Appeal Moved to Atlanta (and What That...

A Connecticut Town's Civil War Grief: One Soldier's Name in the Family Tree

90-Minute Miracle: How the 34th Massachusetts Saved Charlestown from...

Desperate Calls & Burning Ships: The Civil War Reaches a Breaking Point—October...

An Illiterate Mother's Desperate Hunt Through the Mountains to Find Her Wounded...

"He continued to give orders until he was unable to do so": A Massachusetts...

English Guns Are a Disaster—And Americans Know It (Plus: Gettysburg Gets a...

How Civil War Soldiers Got $100 Bounties (And Patent Medicine Companies Got...

Barefoot Rebels & Desperate Pleas: The Confederacy's Supply Crisis Exposed...

Union Breakthrough in Tennessee—And the Horrifying Truth About Confederate...

November

A Widow's 3-State Rescue & the Horrors Union Soldiers Found in Richmond Prisons

Richmond, Nov. 1863: A Duel, 50,000 Cavalry, and One City's Last Gasp

How to Rub a Fever Away: 1863 Maine's Wildest Medical Advice—Plus Lincoln's...

A 6,000-Pipe Masterpiece Rose in Boston While the Civil War Raged—Here's Why It...

Desperate Times: Confederate General Jails Journalist Over Routine War News...

Even Confederate Soldiers Wanted Peace: The 1863 Election That Shook the South

Hooker's Stunning Mountain Victory Breaks Chattanooga Siege—Union War Machine...

"Profiteers and Starvation: November 1863's Moral Reckoning"—When War Greed Met...

Vermont Fights Over Soldier Uniforms in the Middle of the Civil War (and It's...

A Chaplain's Testimony: The Hidden Horror of Libby Prison That Changed How the...

How a Governor Begged His State for 15,000 Soldiers—and Offered Them Wages...

Last Confederate General Watie Massing Forces in Indian Territory—Union...

Lincoln's "Well Done": The Two-Word Telegram That Rallied an Army (Nov. 14,...

November 1863: The Moment the South's Hopes for Foreign Aid Died (Plus: A...

Storm, Deserters & Quack Doctors: What the Nov. 16, 1863 Herald Reveals About...

Inside a Wartime Capital: How Washington Auctioned Horses, Sold Real Estate &...

Lord Palmerston's Secret Shame & the South's Starving Cities: Nov. 18, 1863

November 1863: A Small-Town Iowa Editor Demands Total War—And Won't Back Down

"No End to It": A Confederate Editor's Bleak November 1863 Reckoning

Inside the Tent: A Clergyman's Letter from Lee's Doorstep—November 1863

Burnside Under Siege, Guerrillas Terrorize the Mississippi: Chicago Holds Its...

How Union Soldiers Starved Tennessee While Fighting the Confederacy—A War...

When America's Greatest Preacher Silenced Confederate Sympathizers in London...

Coal, Sabotage, and Union Traitors: How Pennsylvania's Labor War Threatened to...

Gettysburg's Secret: What Lincoln Almost Didn't Say (And Seward's Stunning...

Pennsylvania Declares Draft Unconstitutional (But Lincoln Ignores It)—The...

Bragg's Army Routed at Chattanooga: Grant's Stunning Victory Opens the Road to...

The South Unraveling: Deserters, Conscription, and a Cavalry Recruit's...

Atlanta's Refugee Press Reports from the Shrinking South—And Prophesies the...

December

Grant's Hammer Falls: Chattanooga Victory Breaks the Confederacy—Plus Morgan's...

A Mother's Impossible Choice & a Mountain Too Steep to Climb: Civil War's...

A Portland Lawyer's $300 Moral Reckoning: Why This 1863 Letter Explains the...

Lost Son Returns in Confederate Gray: How One Ohio Newspaper Told America's...

Grant's Greatest Prize: How Chattanooga Broke the Confederacy Open (Dec. 5,...

John Brown's Secret Letter From the Gallows—Plus Why Lincoln Was About to Fire...

Congress Nearly Didn't Organize: The Clerk's Coup Attempt That Almost Rewrote...

December 1863: The South Still Selling Dreams While the War Slipped Away

The South's Hopes Die at Missionary Ridge—Captured Letters Reveal Despair...

A December 1863 Iowa Newspaper Reveals What Americans Actually Worried About...

Prize Grapes & Unionist Hopes: How Portland Lived While the Civil War Raged

Knoxville Victory + Illinois Silences War Critics: Grant's Momentum Shifts the...

How a Civil War Treasury Report Predicted America's Debt Crisis—and Why...

Napoleon Wants to Remake Europe—Britain Says 'Nice Try, But What's the Catch?'

Seized Warships, Patent Pills & Luxury Imports: Washington's Bustling Wartime...

Soldiers, Slaves & The Crumbling South: Inside the Confederacy's Last...

A Southern Editor Defies Lincoln—Then Gets Appointed to Carry Out His Plan

While the Civil War Raged, America Crowned Freedom on the Capitol Dome—and It...

A Civil War Soldier Shot the General's Pet Crow—And Had to Eat It | Dec. 20,...

A Soldier's Honest Confession: What Really Happened at Brandy Station (And a...

Four Hundred Rebel Raiders Exposed—Plus Commodore Vanderbilt's Golden Wedding |...

Christmas Eve 1863: How a Former Slave Became a Union Captain (And Confederate...

Christmas 1863: A Dying Confederacy Pins Hope on a Monster Gun and Widow's Mites

Just 8 Months After Lee Surrendered, Washington Was Already Selling Paris...

A Treasury Thief, a Murdered Widow & Rebel Armies on the Move: Chicago Tribune,...

The USS Dictator's Secret Weapon: One Man, One Gun, Total Naval Dominance

The South's Last Gamble: Should Slavery Itself Be Drafted? (Dec. 29, 1863)

December 30, 1863: Chief Justice Taney Dies as War Drags On—Contraband Crisis...

New Year's Eve 1863: The South Admits Its Cracks—Substitutes, Copper Mills, and...