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January

Jan. 1, 1864: Worcester Celebrates Emancipation's First Birthday as Union...

Lincoln Danced While Sherman Marched: How the Union Started 1864 as a War...

Worcester's War Debt Explodes: How One City Struggled to Fill Its Army Quota in...

Cotton Is No Longer King: How the Civil War Freed Britain from Slavery's Grip

1864 Begins: Can Lincoln Stop a French-Backed Mexican Monarchy? (Plus: Starving...

How Massachusetts Funded the Civil War—and Built MIT at the Same Time (1864)

A British Abolitionist Proves Slavery (Not Trade) Started the Civil War—With 40...

A Vermont Soldier Writes Home: 'The Johnnies Are Deserting'—Why January 1864...

How the USDA Failed Worcester's Gardeners in 1863—And What They Did About It

French Abolitionists Defend Lincoln: Why Europe's Intellectuals Backed the...

A Dying Spy's Last Message: The Scout Who Stole Confederate Secrets (And Paid...

Charleston Burning, Stuart's Raiders Strike—Inside the War on January 16, 1864

January 1864: Navy Challenges the World, Copperheads Fundraise for Whiskey, and...

Civil War Worcester: A City Votes on Water While Soldiers Fight Barefoot in the...

The Day the Confederacy Admitted It Was Losing Control—Rogue Soldiers, Fleeing...

Mrs. Lincoln's Secret: Inside the Massive Soldiers' Fair That Took Over...

Reconstruction Begins: How Lincoln's General Just Reorganized Louisiana—and...

When Pennsylvania Nearly Refused Union Currency: A Governor's Impossible Choice...

Starving for Victory: How Whiskey Profiteers Broke the Confederacy (Jan. 1864)

2,000 Dead in Chile, Blocked From Rescue: The Eyewitness Letter That Shattered...

When a Union General Trolled a Confederate with 20 Copies of Lincoln's...

Barefoot Boys & Ironclads: What Maine Learned the Year the War Refused to End

Inside a Civil War–Era Post Office: How the North Planned Mail Routes Through...

A Confederate Editor's Desperate Plea: 'Don't Destroy the South to Save It'

Longstreet's Siege & the Collapsing Confederacy: Why January 1864 Changed...

February

Inside New Orleans: How the Union Seized Control of the South's Churches & What...

February 1864: Richmond Admits Slavery Won't Save the Confederacy—Military...

A Confederate General Switches Sides—And His Wife's Response Stuns the North

BATTLEFIELD TELEGRAPH: War Erupts in Europe as Confederate Raiders Challenge...

The Confederate Journal That Got Its Editor Jailed—For Telling the Truth About...

February 1864: Forrest Stirring, Soldiers Freezing, and the North Already...

1,000 Head of Cattle Lost, Bridge Burned, Knoxville Threatened—East Tennessee...

Postmaster Confesses to Bank Murder: How Detectives Caught Him Red-Handed with...

Commerce Raider Burns Three Ships While Britain Prosecutes Its Own: A War...

A Maine Woman Reports From the Front: How Soldiers' Morale Soared in 1864

Jefferson Davis's Last Great Pep Talk: A President Desperate to Keep an Army...

Train robbers steal $30K near Harper's Ferry as Congress fights over soldier pay

A Soldier's Plea: Inside Richmond's War Offices in February 1864

Inside Richmond's War Room: How the Confederacy Planned Its Last Great Gamble...

Ale, Horses & Federal Banks: What a Maine Newspaper Reveals About War-Time...

The Prophet They Hated: Why New England Was Reading Theodore Parker's Life in...

Europe's Powder Keg Ignites: Prussians Storm Danish Fortresses as Britain Looks...

How Lincoln's Draft Law Made the Rich Buy Their Way Out of War—and Sparked a...

Lincoln's Party Turns Against Him: The 1864 Convention Call That Nearly Ended...

The Dannewerk Falls: How a Forgotten War Reshaped Europe—and American Shipping

A Connecticut Town's Secret: 200+ Relatives Scattered Across America (and One...

How a Secret Pentagon Map Nearly Broke U.S. Currency (And Why Portland Harbor...

Inside the Union War Plan: Seven Columns Close In on Atlanta (Feb. 28, 1864)

Trapped and Arrested: How a Union General's Florida Blunder Cost 1,500...

March

Vermont Congressman Morrill's Constitutional Bomb: Why the Civil War Made Him...

When a Wooden Leg Deflected a Bullet: The Untold Heroes of Florida's Bloodiest...

Cumberland, 1864: How a Border Town Kept Selling Homes While the War Raged

1864: Black Soldiers Slaughtered in Mississippi While Springfield's Factories...

A Union Colonel's Chilling Testimony: What He Witnessed Starving in Richmond's...

Grant Confirmed. Meade May Fall. North Carolina Burns: The War Turns Brutal...

Gold, Priests & Monopolies: What the Steamship *Ocean Queen* Reveals About...

Grant Takes Command: Lee's Army Escapes Meade's Grasp as Blockade Runners Slip...

"Send Ambassadors to Richmond"? A Massachusetts Congressman Savagely Destroys...

Paper Shortages & Panic: How a Confederate Newspaper Reported Its Own Side's...

Lee Met McClellan in Secret—And Now He's Setting the Record Straight (March...

Grant Takes Over, Refugees Flee, And One Chicago Bridge Changes Lives—March 1864

Real Estate Boom in Wartime Washington: Why Secretary Chase's House is for Sale...

Selling Condemned Horses & Real Estate Schemes: War Department Auctions Flood...

200,000 More Men Needed: Lincoln's Third Draft & Congress's Gold Gamble (March...

How Did Xerxes Feed 5 Million Soldiers? A Soldier Asks, and the Intelligencer...

The Springfield Cartridge Massacre: How a Single Explosion Killed the Dreams of...

Grant Takes Command: How the Union Finally Got Its Act Together (March 1864)

Rebel cavalry massing at Fredericksburg as Grant prepares spring assault—and...

Occupied Pulpits & War's End Game: How the Union Seized the South's Churches in...

Vermont at War: Poetry, Sacrifice, and Escape—Inside a March 1864 Newspaper's...

A Soldier's Brutal Truth From Florida: How the Union Lost at Olustee—and Why It...

Wartime Washington: When Real Estate Boomed & Cavalry Horses Were Auctioned as...

A Chief, a Fort, and a Desperate Race: Union Forces Score a Stunning Victory in...

Grant Takes Command: The Day the Union's War Machine Got Serious (and Balls...

A Homeless Soldier, a Grieving Farmer, and a Thanksgiving Miracle—On This Week...

A Desperate South Moves its Newspapers—and its Currency Crisis Deepens (March...

A One-Legged Colonel Returns to War: Worcester Honors Its Hero (1864)

Should We Win the Civil War With Swords or Souls? A Washington Paper's...

April

Women Sewing Shirts Worth $9.50 for 8 Cents—April 1864 Portland Press Exposes...

April 1864: Grant's armies mobilize, Illinois erupts in anti-war violence, and...

Snow and Steel: Grant Arrives at the Front as Vermont Prepares for Final Push...

Scared Senators & Soldiers' Votes: How Albany's Governors-in-Waiting Fumbled...

Condemned to Chains: How the Union Silenced Southern Ministers—April 1864

April 1864: Inside the Vicious Northern Civil War Politics That Nearly Lost...

"Free Forever!" Louisiana Votes to Abolish Slavery—But Owners Still Hunt Down...

A Lamb Within a Lamb: Inside April 1864's Strangest Medical Mystery (Plus Civil...

A Clever Ruse, Lincoln's War Aims, and How Cleveland Got Five Daily Mail...

Congress Moves to Expel Congressman for Saying War Must End (But Did the Same...

A Railroad War Over Eight Cents: The Epic 1864 Editorial That Predicted...

War Crimes in Ohio? Confederate Paper Accuses Union of Torture—April 1864

Murder at Sea: The Shot That Sparked a Diplomatic Showdown Between America and...

Inside a Confederate Prison: Officers' Harrowing 1864 Testimony From Yankee...

A Soldier's Conversion & a Swamp Fugitive's Freedom: Vermont's War Stories from...

Earthquake Panic in San Francisco: Half-Shaved Men, Englishmen Screaming for...

Reconstruction Begins: New Orleans Abolishes Slavery (While the War Still Rages)

While Grant's Armies Fought, Worcester Readers Debated Whether Humans Could...

How the 161st New York Stopped a Rout and Saved an Army—April 1864

April 1864: While Soldiers Died, Portland Debated Wallpaper & Temperance Tales

Bayonets at Dawn: How Union Troops Stabbed Their Own Supply Line Into Action

1864: When a Smallpox Escapee Met Grant's Secret War Plans

"God Defend the Right": Grant's Grand Gamble in Virginia Begins—But Disaster...

May

Inside the Union Army's Spring Offensive: How Chicago Fought Currency Chaos...

Congress Erupts: Should Black Soldiers Get Equal Pay? A Fight That Defines...

"We Can Afford This War": Vermont Congressman's Bold Bet on American Wealth...

A Soldier's Epic: Three Years of War Told by a Lieutenant From the Front Lines...

Abandoned: 40,000 Union Loyalists Left to the Confederacy as North Carolina...

Bloodbath on the Red River: How a Brutal 1864 Victory Nearly Broke the...

When the Civil War Was Happening, This Ohio Town Was Selling Clothes...

Victory! Grant Breaks Lee's Attack—And Won't Stop Pressing

General Banks Wept on the Battlefield: Inside the Civil War's Worst Military...

Grant Won't Back Down: Spotsylvania's Brutal Victory Signals the Confederacy's...

A Border Town's War: How Cumberland's Shopkeepers & Quartermasters Won the...

Grant Vows to Fight All Summer—The Moment America Believed It Could Win

Sherman Predicts Slavery's Return, and Egypt Proves Him Right (May 1864)

Atlanta, May 1864: Sherman's Advance, A Judge's Farewell, and the South's Last...

How Vermont Railroaders Ran the West While the Wilderness Burned: May 1864

Governor Vetoes His Own Pay Raise (1864): A Veto That Still Matters

Blood-Stained Flags & Shattered Limbs: How One N.J. Paper Captured the Civil...

A Connecticut Town's Hidden Stories: Skeleton Skirts, Suicide, and Twelve...

Grant vs. Lee at Spotsylvania: The Turning Point Battlefield Dispatches from...

"Fighting Joe Hooker Is Dead & Atlanta May Fall: What Confederate Papers Won't...

May 24, 1864: "The Final Struggle" Begins—Grant, Lee, and Sherman All in Motion

The Confederacy's Final Gamble: How Desperate War Orders Reveal a Dying Nation...

Congress Investigates the Fort Pillow Massacre: A Nation's Reckoning Begins...

A Soldier's Graphic Account of the Petersburg Offensive—Plus the Day the...

Illinois Paper Condemns War Profiteer: A Fiancée Breaks Her Engagement Over...

Inside Wartime Washington: The Auctions, Condemned Horses & Booming Real Estate...

June

Inside the Fog: A Surgeon's Eyewitness Account of the Battle That Nearly Broke...

Does Lincoln Deserve Credit for Abolition? A Civil War-Era Debate That Still...

Louisiana Votes to Abolish Slavery—A Connecticut Newspaper Reckons With War,...

Forty Soldiers Lost at Sea as Chaplain Heroically Swims for His Life—Plus the...

June 1864: Confederate Papers Declare Victory as Grant & Sherman Close In—A...

A Maine Minister's Fiery Rebuttal to Canadian Doubters—June 1864

Lee's Last Stand: Union Army Closes in on Richmond (June 1864)

A Pennsylvania Senator's Cry for Justice: How Rich Counties Were Buying...

Richmond Under Siege: Can Grant Finish What He Started? (June 11, 1864)

Congress Delays, Cold Harbor Gets Clever, and a Connecticut Wife Wins Freedom...

A Vermont Soldier's Desperate Account from Grant's Bloodiest Campaign—May 1864

Love Letters, Menageries & Civil War Politics: What Portland Read on June 15,...

A Connecticut town in 1864: War rages 300 miles away, but the milliners' stock...

Grant's Daring River Crossing: The Maneuver That Started the End of the War

Desperate Conscription & Shattered Regiments: A Confederate Newspaper's Final...

Petersburg Bloodbath: Why Richmond's Celebration Was Premature (June 20, 1864)

Springfield's Secret: 265,000 Muskets & Lincoln's Bold Move on Slavery (June...

Cotton Confiscation & Collapsed Currency: The Confederacy's Last Gasp in June...

While the Civil War Raged, Maine Was Selling Paradise: The Summer Resorts...

Confederate Editors Panic Over Lincoln's Renomination — June 1864

Petersburg Becomes the Crucible: Grant's Gamble to Strangle Richmond (June 25,...

Bloody Victory: Sherman's Men Storm Lost Mountain as Union Victory in Georgia...

A Desperate Draft, a Daring Counterattack: Inside the Civil War's Brutal Summer...

"Dust and Bullets at Cold Harbor": A Vermont Soldier's Raw Account from the...

June 1864: Grant's Hand on Lee's Throat—The Slow Strangling of Richmond

July

A Soldier's Farewell Letter (That Will Break Your Heart): July 1864's Most...

Grant Has Lee "by the Throat": How Union Cavalry Starved the South Into...

Independence Day 1864: Inside the Union's War Machine—and Wall Street's Golden...

Inside a Civil War Firesale: How the Union Auctioned Off Virginia (July 1864)

A Soldier's Bloodstained Greenbacks & the War Nobody Thought Lincoln Could Win...

The Alabama Goes Down: How a British Yacht's Daring Rescue of a Confederate...

The Alabama Goes Down: How a 62-Minute Battle Changed the Civil War at Sea

Rebels at the Gates: The North Holds its Breath as Early Raids Maryland (July...

Spies, Couriers & Cannonfire: Chicago Rallies While Sherman Chases Lee's...

War, Opera & Fury: Cleveland Seethes Over Escaped Rebel Captain Semmes (July...

The Rothschilds' Family Purge, the CSS Alabama's Final Battle, and Why Your...

Robert E. Lee's Furniture Was Just Put Up for Auction—And It Tells Everything...

"I don't like to acknowledge that we swear them over again": A Union general...

Lincoln's Capital Under Siege: How a Failed Confederate Raid Changed the War

Sherman Marches Into Marietta as the Rebel Invasion Collapses—The War's Turning...

Sherman Crosses into Atlanta's Front Yard—And Johnston Has Run Out of Mountains...

Panic in Richmond: Confederate Raiders Strike Maryland—and Richmond Admits...

Washington Besieged, Atlanta Threatened, Maine Raided: July 1864 Shows a...

Wall Street Speculators Blamed for Wartime Hunger: A Brutal 1864 Editorial

July 21, 1864: A Rebel's Last Gasp Before Atlanta Falls—Semmes Sinks, Sherman...

Horace Greeley's Humiliating Peace Trap: How the Confederacy Fooled Lincoln's...

Atlanta Falls, Greeley Furious, Lincoln's Peace Gamble Backfires (July 24, 1864)

Atlanta Trembles as Union Cavalry Crushes Hood's Army—McPherson Falls, But...

A Soldier's Blue Coat & the Tax Law That Built Modern America (July 1864)

Atlanta in Reach: Sherman Crushes Johnston as Union Victory Finally Seems Real

Grant Says 'Have Patience'—What He Told Lincoln's Governor About Winning the War

Inside Congress: B.F. Taylor Sketches Civil War's Most Dangerous Men (July 1864)

Atlanta Under Siege: Hood's Desperate Gamble Costs the Confederacy 10,000 Men...

Atlanta Under Fire: Sherman's Army Repels Hood's Last Great Assault (July 22,...

August

"Lay Me Down, Boys, and Save the Flag"—Lee Invades Pennsylvania (July 30, 1864)

The Crater: Inside the Failed Mining Assault That Nearly Broke the Union Army

Trapped in the Crater: The Union's Bloody Disaster at Petersburg—and Why It...

Atlanta Falling: How a General's Dinner Saved the Union Army from Disaster

Atlanta Burns & British Meddlers: Why America Said 'No Thank You' to...

Sherman's 200-Mile March: How Atlanta's Capture Changed the Civil War (and Cost...

Spies, Conspirators & Cannonfire: August 1864's Explosive Secrets Exposed

August 1864: Why One Massachusetts Congressman Said 'Never Surrender' to End...

Farragut's Impossible Victory Seals Mobile Bay—and Maybe Lincoln's Reelection

A 101-Year-Old Revolutionary: The Last Soldier of 1776 Just Died in Upstate New...

When Fish Skins Replaced Windows: Arctic Wisdom & Civil War Conscription in...

Texas Slave Ads Reveal Why the South Lost: An 1864 Editorial Exposes the...

August 1864: Farragut's Triumph at Mobile Bay—and Why Lincoln's Re-election...

Can a Nation Survive Massive Debt? Macaulay's Answer to a War-Torn America...

Sold! A Cure-All Bitters, Civil War-Era Spiritualism & Killer Goats in 1864...

Angels at the Convention: When Spiritualism Crashed Grant's War News (August...

The South's Desperate Gamble: How Atlanta's Siege Revealed the Confederacy Was...

40 Miles Away: How a Pennsylvania Town Learned Invasion Was Real (August 1864)

How Stone Age Bones & Civil War Politics Shared a Newspaper Page (Worcester,...

Lincoln's Desperate Plea to Soldiers: 'This Great Contest' Is About Democracy...

REVEALED: The Secret Plot to Start a Northwest Rebellion—and How Lincoln's...

Weapons Found in Indianapolis: Lincoln Faces Secret Army, Not Just Rebels (Aug....

"He Would Incite Them to Riot While He Purchases Safety"—Iowa Newspaper Exposes...

1864 Connecticut: While Sherman Closes In on Atlanta, a Small-Town Paper...

August 1864: Grant Tightens the Noose—Lee's Generals Fall at Petersburg

Victory at Mobile Bay + A Rebel Raider's Rampage: How August 1864 Became the...

Inside the Desperate Battle That Turned the War: Hancock's Stand at the Weldon...

Inside the Democratic Convention That Could Change the War: McClellan vs. the...

The Convention That Nearly Toppled Lincoln: Why Chicago Democrats' Secret Peace...

How Republicans Set a Trap for McClellan (And Why It Worked in 1864)

September

A Widow's Last Hogs, a Dead Boy-Soldier, and Why Corn Prices Crashed: Raleigh...

A Son's Last Choice: The Worthington Family and the Human Cost of Union Victory

The Noose Tightens: Farragut Takes Mobile, Sherman Nearly Encircles Atlanta...

Atlanta Burns, the Union Breathes: How One City Saved Lincoln's Election

Atlanta Falls—And Cleveland's Paper Accuses Democrats of Treason (September 5,...

Sherman Takes Atlanta: Worcester Paper Celebrates Victory (and Savagely Mocks...

Sherman Takes Atlanta, Morgan Dies, Lincoln's Reelection Swings Back Into...

Connecticut Goes All-In: The Militia Law That Turned a Small Town Into a War...

Last Gasp of the Confederacy: What Mississippi's War Department Charged for a...

McClellan's Fatal Mistake: How a General Destroyed His Own Party 160 Years Ago...

Rebels Are Betting Everything on McClellan—And the Chicago Tribune Is Furious...

McClellan's War Declaration Explodes the Peace Democrats—One Editor Chooses...

Atlanta Won, McClellan Lost: How Ohio's Newspapers Turned the Election on...

September 1864: How Democrats 'Started the War,' One Furious Newspaper Claims

Draft Called for Monday: Chicago Tribune's 1864 Election Panic—When the Army...

Atlanta Falls: Seward Exposes Confederate Spy Ring & Declares War is Winnable...

A Newspaper Questions Democracy Itself—In the Middle of the Civil War (And It...

The Day America Awarded Its First Medals of Honor—And Democrats Tried to Stop...

75,000 Copies & No Surrender: How Newspapers Fought the 1864 Election—Plus...

VICTORY IN THE VALLEY: Sheridan Crushes Early at Winchester, 2,500 Rebels...

A Nation Borrowing for Survival: Inside Lincoln's Treasury Plea of September...

Sheridan's Stunning Victory Ignites the North—And Sherman Justifies Total War

Generals Abandon Ship: How Lincoln's Own Party Nearly Lost Him the 1864 Election

Richmond's Last Hope Crumbles: Inside the Confederate Paper's Anguished Account...

"We'll Be In at the Death of the Rebellion": Chicago Erupts With Confidence as...

Little Mac Campaigns While the Confederacy Crumbles: Sept. 28, 1864

Maryland Abolishes Slavery—Four Months Before the Nation Does (1864)

Grant Tightens the Noose: Richmond Trembles as Union Armies Close In (Sept. 30,...

October

October 1864: Lincoln's Momentum Grows While the South Grasps for 30,000 Ghost...

October 1864: "Richmond at Last Fatally Menaced"—Sheridan's Valley Triumph...

October 1864: "The Rebels Are Broken"—But Chicago Fears an Invasion

Richmond Falls? Union Cavalry Routs Rebels as Sherman Advances and Price...

Shots Fired: Home Front Violence Erupts as Lincoln Fights for Reelection

Banking Panic in London as Grant Tightens the Noose at Petersburg

Boa Constrictor, Fallen Generals & Election-Year Politics: Oct. 7, 1864

October 1864: Grant's Petersburg Stalemate, Price Invades Missouri, and...

Grant Closes In on Richmond as British Banks Collapse—October 9, 1864

The South Admits Defeat: Inside the Collapse of Richmond, October 1864

October 1864: Sheridan Burns the Valley While Lincoln's Fate Hangs on Three...

Last Gasps of a Dying Government: Arkansas Holds Elections in Military Camps,...

Lincoln's Path to Victory Secured: North Votes to Fight On (Oct. 13, 1864)

October 1864: Pennsylvania Dems Sense Victory as Lincoln's War Grows...

October 15, 1864: Grant's Confidence, Mosby's Terror, and the Election That...

Three Weeks to Save the Union: How Chicago's Tribune Called the 1864 Election

The Richmond Whig's Last Stand: October 1864, When Confederate Editors Still...

A Wounded Soldier's Letter Home: How Civilians Saved Lives When the Government...

Sherman Has Hood in a Vise—And the Union Press Smells Victory (October 1864)

A Willimantic dentist's ad, a dead soldier buried in genealogy, and why Ether...

One Week Before the Election That Changed Everything: How Everett Saved Lincoln...

Sheridan's Breakthrough & Democracy on the Brink: October 1864's Election...

October 1864: Sheridan Captures 43 Cannons as Lincoln's Re-election Hangs in...

Missouri Burns: Price's Invasion Captures Glasgow as Confederacy Makes...

Cedar Creek Victory Seals the South's Fate—And Custer Gets His General's Stars

October 1864: Sherman Hunts Hood While Worcester Women Clothe the Freedmen

Election Fraud, Military Rout, & One General's Heroic Redemption: October 27,...

A Pennsylvania Newspaper Published Confederate Propaganda in 1864 — And Lincoln...

143 to 1: How Union Soldiers Saved Lincoln's Reelection—9 Days Out (Oct. 30,...

Election Week 1864: A Dying Confederacy, a Young General's Last Stand, and...

November

Lee's Last Stand Fails: Petersburg Assault Repulsed as Lincoln's Re-Election...

The $8,000 Horse & the Battle Grant Watched: How Union Forces Outflanked Lee's...

Factory Girls, Skeleton Skirts & Ether: Life in a Civil War Mill Town Nobody...

Senator Wade's Bombshell: "Quaker Guns" and Cowardice—The Speech That Could...

A Soldier's Vivid Account from Cedar Creek: How Sheridan Turned Retreat into...

The Day Before Lincoln's Presidency Hung in Balance—And Armed Rebels Arrived in...

ELECTION DAY 1864: Lincoln's Last Stand, Rebel Spies in Chicago, and a City on...

Lincoln Reelected, Sherman Burns Atlanta, and America Chooses Unconditional...

A Maryland Editor's Choice: When Love Met Duty in November 1864

1864: When Irish Nationalists, Lincoln's Critics, and Election Violence...

How a Union Officer Joked His Way Out of a Confederate Hanging (November 1864)

Lincoln's Crushing Victory: How America Chose War Over Peace (Nov. 13, 1864)

Election Victory, Confederate Collapse, and Sheridan's Triumphant Review—The...

November 1864: Rebels 'Squirm' as Sherman Advances, Confederate Leadership...

Sherman Marches South, Chicago Uncovers Rebel Conspiracy: November 16, 1864

A Forged Empire: How 8 Criminals Swindled Banks Across America for $300,000...

Should She Marry Him on $800 a Year? A Civil War–Era Debate That Still Stings

November 1864: Sherman's March Takes Shape—And a Lost Heiress Returns Home

A British Spy's Honest Take: Are Americans Actually Violent? (Spoiler: No—But...

Sherman Marches South & Gold Plummets: Election Edition (Nov. 23, 1864)

Thanksgiving 1864: While the 57th Regiment Bled, Europe Debated Beer and Madness

November 25, 1864: As Lee's Army Weakens, Washington Auctions War Horses &...

TERROR IN NEW YORK: The Night Eight Hotels Burned—A Confederate Plot Exposed

Sherman's Unstoppable March + Garibaldi's Fiery Endorsement: How the World...

Sherman's Unstoppable March: The Moment the South Realized It Had Lost

Sherman's Victory Echoes Silently: Why the Rebels Stopped Printing the News

Georgia in Panic: Confederate General Admits Sherman Can't Be Stopped (Nov. 30,...

December

Sherman 70 Miles from the Sea, Hood Beaten at Nashville—The Confederacy's Final...

Sherman's Endgame: What Confederate Generals Fear Most (Dec. 2, 1864)

Arkansas's Election Crisis, Rat Pies, and Why Bread Cost $10 a Loaf in 1864

Sherman Closes In on Savannah as the Confederacy 'Trembles in Its...

December 5, 1864: Sherman Closes In on Savannah—The South Trembles

Lincoln's Secret Plan: Tax-Free Bonds for Every American (December 1864)

Bloodbath at Franklin: Hood's Last Gamble Costs Him 10 Generals—And the War

How a Maine newspaper just destroyed Britain's right to complain about...

Sherman's Unstoppable March: How the South's Own States Started Jumping Ship...

Chicago's Near-Apocalypse: How a Prison Commander Saved the City—and What It...

Voting While Sherman Closes In: How Worcester Picked Its Leaders in the War's...

Grant's Final Squeeze: The Railroad Move That Doomed the Confederacy (Dec. 13,...

Sherman Closes In on Savannah: The War's Final Chapter Begins (Dec. 14, 1864)

Toxic Candy, Desperate Grizzlies & Grant's Rejected Job Application (Dec. 16,...

A Counterfeiter's Tobacco Problem & Other December 1864 New England Tales

Sherman Closing In, Hood's Army Shattered: The Confederacy Enters Its Final...

Hood's Army Shattered in Tennessee—Lincoln Calls for 300,000 More Troops (Dec....

100 Guns Fired for Thomas's Victory—The War's Turning Point Arrives in Cleveland

Sherman Wraps Up His Greatest Prize: Savannah Falls, Confederacy Crumbling...

SHERMAN MARCHES: Inside the Most Daring Campaign of the Civil War—With Fake...

Christmas 1864: Sherman at Savannah, Hood Routed, Richmond in Panic—The...

Christmas 1864: Lee Caves on Slavery, Hood Boasts Before Nashville Defeat,...

Hood's Army Routed: The Collapse of the Last Confederate Offensive (Worcester...

How Sherman's Army Ate Georgia Alive—A Vermont Paper's Front-Row Seat to Total...

The Last Port Falls: Sherman Marches North & Hood's Army Shattered—The...

While Lee Retreats, Washington's Elite Shop for Furs and Sleeping Cars—A...

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