Dan Masters' Civil War Chronicles

In an effort to make it easier to navigate my Civil War blog posts, here's a guide to the various accounts I've posted since 2017 that breaks down the posts by unit, battle, or subject:

Dedication of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Perrysburg, Ohio in 1901. 

Top Posts of 2023

Top Posts of 2022

Civil War Center Podcasts with Andrew Lucien

The War in the West- Background

Battle of Belmont

Battle of Stones River

Department No. 2 Podcasts with Derrick Lindow and Darryl Smith

Stones River Part 1: Spotify Link  YouTube Link

Stones River Part 2: Spotify Link YouTube Link

Stones River Part 3: Spotify Link YouTube Link

Diary Discoveries Podcast

Castle Thunder Prison Survivor: A Civil War Story featuring story of Gillis McBane, 73rd Indiana, captured at Stones River

Civil War Roundtable Congress

Echoes of Battle: Annals of Ohio's Soldiers in the Civil War

Civil War Talk

Presentation on Hell by the Acre 

4th Alabama Infantry

Fighting with General Bee: The 4th Alabama at Manassas

5th Alabama Infantry

Charging in Dashing Style: With the 5th Alabama at Chancellorsville

6th Alabama Infantry

Blue and Gray View of Seven Pines: The 6th Alabama on the Attack

Maryland was Ripe for Action: The 6th Alabama Crosses the Potomac

12th Alabama Infantry

Blowing His Own Horn: Chancellorsville as Explained by the 12th Alabama

15th Alabama Infantry

Grant the Great will soon be no more: An Alabamian at Wilderness and Spotsylvania Courthouse

16th Alabama Infantry

A Tale of Two Colonels: A Blue & Gray View of Mill Springs

19th Alabama Infantry

A Deadly Crossfire of Artillery: The 19th Alabama at Stones River

A Victory Complete: A Rebel Surgeon at Chickamauga

20th Alabama Infantry

Escaping Champion's Hill with Stephen D. Lee's Brigade

22nd Alabama Infantry

Cook & Brother of New Orleans 

Pen Portrait of Camp Yancey in December 1861

35th Alabama Infantry

Capturing the Lady Richardson at Corinth

36th Alabama Infantry

Mauled at Resaca: Eight Fatal Minutes for the 36th Alabama

39th Alabama Infantry

Marching to Kentucky with the 39th Alabama

41st Alabama Infantry

An Alabamian's Memories of Breckinridge's Charge and a Chance Meeting with General Lee

42nd Alabama Infantry

Within a Square of the Tishomingo Hotel: At Corinth with the 42nd Alabama 

Charging Battery Robinett: An Alabama Soldier Recalls the Vicious Fighting at Corinth

50th Alabama Infantry

All the Glory of Whipping Rosy

58th Alabama Infantry

This Dreadful Carnage: A Word from the 58th Alabama

Hilliard's Legion

Repossessing the Gibraltar of America: The Confederates Retake Cumberland Gap

Semple's Alabama Battery

Saving the Army at Perryville

51st Alabama Partisan Rangers

Riding With Wheeler Through Sequatchie Valley

1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles

Galloway's Travels: An Arkansas Rebel's Journey Through the North

3rd Arkansas Infantry

Holding the Flank at Greenbrier with the 3rd Arkansas

6th Arkansas Infantry

With the Intrepidity of Veterans: The 6th Arkansas at Shiloh

39th Arkansas Infantry

With the Arkansas Conscripts at Prairie Grove

Wiggins' Arkansas Battery

Just a Forage Requisition

Woodruff's Arkansas Battery

Totten's Nemesis: Woodruff's Arkansas Battery at Wilson's Creek

Army of the Cumberland

Rosy's Heavy Metal: Artillery of the Army of the Cumberland

Army of Tennessee

Madness Rules the Hour: Southern Press Reaction to Joe Johnston's Removal in July 1864

11th Army Corps

Just Before the Battle: Marching to Gettysburg with the 11th Corps

Answering Infamous Falsehoods: General Schimmelfennig's Chancellorsville Protest

20th Army Corps

Song of the 20th Corps

Hooker's Finest Hour: With the 20th Corps at Peach Tree Creek

1st Colorado Volunteer Infantry

Squirrel Hunting the Rebels at Glorieta Pass

4th Confederate Infantry

Gloomy Final Days of Island No. 10

7th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry

Firing the Mortars on Fort Pulaski

11th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
In the Shadow of Burnside's Bridge: Philo Pearce at the Battle of Antietam

Philo Pearce, the 11th Connecticut, and the Origins of the Blog

14th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry

Fredericksburg on the Other Leg: A Blue and Gray View of Pickett's Charge

1st Connecticut Volunteer Cavalry

Chasing Ashby: A Connecticut Trooper Recalls the Fight at Harrisonburg

Chasing Stonewall: A Connecticut Cavalryman Campaigns with Fremont

C.S.S. Louisiana

Opposing Viewpoints: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Varuna

1st Delaware Volunteer Infantry

Seemed as if a Million Bees were in the Air: Saving the Colors at Antietam

2nd Delaware Volunteer Infantry

One of the "Crazy Delawares" Captured at Chancellorsville

Meeting the Flower of the Southern Army: The 2nd Delaware at Antietam

Robertson's Florida Battery

Comanche versus the Professor: The Artillery Duel Along the Franklin Pike

2nd Georgia Infantry

Waiting for the Great Fight: Before Seven Pines with the 2nd Georgia

3rd Georgia Infantry

A Georgian Recalls the Chicamacomico Races

10th Georgia Infantry

At the Closing Scene of the Bloody Drama: With the 10th Georgia at Malvern Hill

18th Georgia Infantry

Leaving the Ground Strewn in Red: The 18th Georgia at Second Manassas

In the Miller Cornfield with the 18th Georgia

47th Georgia Infantry
A Rebel View of Chickamauga: Benjamin Williams of the 47th Georgia

55th Georgia Infantry

Turning Rebel: Recruiting Galvanized Yankees in the winter of 1864-65

3rd Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters

The Purloined Letter: A Georgian Officer on the Gettysburg Campaign

Cherokee Light Artillery

Mystery Letter from the Cherokee Light Artillery at Resaca

1st Georgia Cavalry

The Fight for Big Hill: The 1st Georgia Cavalry Opens the Kentucky Campaign

Phillips Georgia Legion

A Fighting Chaplain at South Mountain

7th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

The ground seemed to boil under my feet: Taking Fort Donelson with the 7th Illinois

8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

At Last a Chance for Action: Taking Fort Henry

10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

First Shot of the Civil War in the Western Theater

Taking New Madrid: A View from the 10th Illinois

11th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

War in Earnest: The 11th Illinois and the Taking of Fort Donelson

12th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

From Low Ebb to Loud Huzzahs: The 12th Illinois at Shiloh

13th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Flags of Chickasaw Bayou

14th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Talking Smack with the Johnnies at Vicksburg

15th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Dreaming of Powder, Musket Balls, and Bloodshed: the 15th Illinois at Shiloh

Talking Smack with the Johnnies at Vicksburg

Vermont and Vicksburg

17th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

His Grave is Marked by the Lid of a Cartridge Box: A Death at Vicksburg

19th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Who'll Save the Left? The 19th Illinois and the Fight of January 2nd

20th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

To Drink the Delight of Battle: A Soldier's Death in the 20th Illinois

21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Getting Bitten by the Bait: The 21st Illinois at Stones River

The Desperate Day Before Us: the 21st Illinois at Chickamauga

Salvation Close at Hand: Federal Prisoners Exchanged at Wilmington

22nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Standing Up to the Work: A Federal Captain's View of Belmont

Surrounded by a Wall of Fire: With Sheridan's Division at Stones River

24th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Those Damned Dutchmen Fight Like Bulldogs: With the 24th Illinois at Perryville

26th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Battling a Defiant Bravery: With the 15th Corps at Ezra Church

27th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

The Killing End of the Business: the 27th Illinois at Belmont

33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Working for Vicksburg: A Voice from the 33rd Illinois

A Dark Spot in Memory: The Second Storming of Vicksburg

36th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

The Pea Ridge Pards

Vignettes of the Battle of Franklin

41st Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Worse Scared Than Hurt: A 41st Illinoisan Survives Shiloh

42nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry

All in Our Favor: A Federal Officer in the Midst of the Tullahoma Campaign

44th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Onward to Chattanooga is the Cry: With Sheridan's Provost Guard at Stones River

49th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Our Whole Line Seemed to be on Fire: McClernand's Failed Assault at Fort Donelson

50th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Last Chance Defenders of Shiloh

House to House Fighting in Corinth with the 50th Illinois

55th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

The Informal Truce: Trading Coffee and Sugar After Ezra Church

59th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
A Buckeye at Pea Ridge

61st Illinois Volunteer Infantry
The Desperate Unceasing Battle: the 61st Illinois at Shiloh

64th Illinois Volunteer Infantry "Yates' Sharpshooters"

Among the Buzzing, Screaming Little Demons: Professor Dunn at Corinth

66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry "Western Sharpshooters"

The Western Sharpshooters at Fort Donelson

73rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry

The Iron Game at Peach Tree Creek

79th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

The Horrors of War on All Hands: The "Fighting Parson" of the 79th Illinois Recalls Franklin

83rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry

The 83rd Illinois' Finest Hour: Holding Dover Against Wheeler and Forrest

84th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

A nice little game of balls played over our heads: With the 84th Illinois at Stones River

88th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

On the March in Earnest and Full of Fight: An Illinois Bugler Marches to Murfreesboro

A Most Terrific Roar: With the 88th Illinois at Chickamauga

94th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Fighting in the Ranks of the Quinine Brigade

95th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

A Whistling Hail of Death: The First Assault on Vicksburg with the 95th Illinois

Wiped Out at Guntown: A Private's View of Brice's Crossroads

An Awful Gauntlet: Vignettes of Brice's Crossroads

The Moonlight Assault of Spanish Fort

96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

An Ugly Scene at Rossville Before Chickamauga

100th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

The Boy Yankee in Butternut: Edward Savage's Adventure with Morgan's Troopers

104th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Colonel A.B. Moore Explains the Hartsville Disgrace

Blue Times: The 104th Illinois After Hartsville

A Perfect Storm of Bullets: The 104th Illinois and the Taking of Missionary Ridge

Vignettes of Sherman's March to the Sea

107th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

From Time to Eternity: Behind the Lines at Kennesaw

Vignettes of the Battle of Franklin

108th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

An Awful Gauntlet: Vignettes of Brice's Crossroads

111th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

A Bitter Pill on Kennesaw Mountain

113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

An Awful Gauntlet: Vignettes of Brice's Crossroads

114th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Victims of an Inglorious Disaster: A Yankee's Vivid Account of Brice's Crossroads- Pt. 1

My Last Shot at the Confederacy: A Yankee's Vivid Account of Brice's Crossroads- Pt. 2 

The Worst Managed Affair of the War: An Illinois Sergeant on the Debacle at Brice's Crossroads

115th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Saving the Army: The 115th Illinois on Horseshoe Ridge

122nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Surrounded by "That Devil Forrest" at Parker's Crossroads

123rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry

A Little Chicanery on the Part of Colonel Hall: The 123rd Illinois at Vaught's Hill

145th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Disgraced! or how to lose your shoulder straps

4th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
Grant's Bodyguard: An Illinois Trooper at Fort Donelson

8th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry

Scrapping with the Rebs at Martinsburg

Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
Horrors of War: A Chicago Gunner at Shiloh

Losing Our Battery: At the railroad cut at Atlanta

Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
A Dutchman at Belmont

Chicago Board of Trade Battery

Saving the Army at Stones River: Chicago Board of Trade Battery

7th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

A Hoosier at Port Republic

8th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

The Hour Had Come: The 8th Indiana at Pea Ridge

A Hoosier at Port Gibson

10th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Trembling in Our Very Boots: A Hoosier Describes Mill Springs

13th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Hades Opened Wide: Taking Battery Wagner with the 13th Indiana

15th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Driving the Rebs to Murfreesboro with the 15th Indiana

16th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Escaping with the Colors: The 16th Indiana and the Fight for Richmond 

Go in on your own hook, boys: With the 16th Indiana at Vicksburg

17th Indiana Mounted Infantry

Blowing Away the Chaff: Clearing the Incompetents from the 17th Indiana

A Private Lambasts Buell's Campaign

Colonel Wilder Discusses Chickamauga

Wilder's Last Ride: On Wilson's Raid with the 17th Indiana

19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

A Baptism at Groveton: The Fight at Brawner's Farm with the 19th Indiana

24th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Determined to Conquer or Die: With the 24th Indiana at Champion Hill

25th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Tried in the Furnace: A Hoosier at Shiloh

29th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

I Want to See a Battle: A Hoosier at Shiloh

Fearfully Grand: The 29th Indiana Survives Chickamauga

30th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

I Could Not Ride Without Stepping on the Bodies: A Hoosier Colonel at Shiloh

32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry

A Galvanized Yankee Executed at Tullahoma

33rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Like a Reed Before the Whirlwind: With Baird's Division at Chickamauga

34th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

With George Morgan's Foot Cavalry: Taking and Losing Cumberland Gap

36th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Saving Grant's Army: The 36th Indiana and the March to Shiloh

First In, By God! A Hoosier Describes the Final Days of the Siege of Corinth

On Campaign with the 36th Indiana at Stones River

37th Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Deposing the Tyrant of Bacon Creek
Sacking Athens and the Battle of Hewey's Bridge: an account of the 37th Indiana Infantry

Where Wounds and Death Held High Carnival: The 37th Indiana and Chickamauga

38th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Frank Scribner at Chickamauga

39th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Honor Fearfully Won: A Stones River Story of the 39th Indiana

40th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Making a Pepperbox of His Coat: Carrying the Colors of the 40th Indiana

44th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

A Brotherhood of Khaki and Blue 

Kept Step to the Music of Cannons: Captain Merrill Leads His Hoosiers in Fort Donelson

51st Indiana Volunteer Infantry

The Night Attack at Harker's Crossing

58th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

In the Center at Chickamauga

65th Indiana Mounted Infantry

Liberating Knoxville: Burnside brings East Tennesssee Back Into the Union

67th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Among the Hoosier Greenhorns at Munfordville

69th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Bonebrake's Redemption: Richmond to Chickasaw Bayou with the 69th Indiana

71st Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Disaster for the 71st Indiana at "the Richmond Races"

72nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry

How Wilder's Brigade Got Their Lightning 

Waxing Poetic About Chickamauga: Lines from the Lightning Brigade

73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Gobbled Up on Streight's Raid

Diary Discoveries Podcast: Castle Thunder Prison Survivor: A Civil War Story featuring diary of Gillis McBane, 73rd Indiana, captured at Stones River

74th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Taking the Southern Course: The 74th Indiana and Tullahoma

All for our dear country: the 74th Indiana and Chickamauga

75th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

The River of Death with the 75th Indiana

80th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

The Solemn Realities of War: A Hoosier Greenhorn Sees the Elephant at Perryville 

A Victim of General Judah's Ambitions: With the 80th Indiana at Resaca

81st Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Hooping, Yelling, and Rushing Around Like Madmen: An Indianan Captured on Wheeler's Ride

85th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

We Went for Wool and were Shorn Ourselves: A Hoosier Colonel Explains the Debacle at Thompson's Station

86th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Woodard's Night Ride at Stones River

Mighty Tempest of War: The First Day of Chickamauga with the 86th Indiana

93rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry

A Hoosier Escapes Brice's Crossroads

129th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Among Hovey's Babies at Resaca

Firm as an Iron Pillar: A Hoosier Describes the Battle of Franklin

4th Indiana Battery

Reminders of the 4th Indiana Battery's Fight Along the Wilkinson Pike

22nd Indiana Battery

Hold the Bridge at All Hazards: The Last Stand on the Duck River at Columbia

26th Indiana Battery

A Hoosier Gunner at Cross Keys

Co. H, 7th Iowa in Corinth, Mississippi in 1862

2nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry
Buckeyes Among Hawkeyes: Ohioans at Fort Donelson with the 2nd Iowa

Escaping the Hornet's Nest at Shiloh

3rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Defending the Peach Orchard: An Iowan at Shiloh

Boys, Remember Iowa! The 3rd Iowa at Hatchie Bridge

A Soldierly Submission: Amputating a Leg After Hatchie Bridge

A Roundtrip Ticket to Andersonville

5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry

With Sickles Dyed in Purple Gore: The 5th Iowa at Iuka

7th Iowa Volunteer Infantry

The Tug of War: A Hawkeye Captain at Corinth

9th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
Frederick S. Washburn of the 9th Iowa and Pea Ridge

14th Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Captured in the Hornet's Nest at Shiloh

31st Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Marching to Vicksburg with the 31st Iowa

Exhausting Pemberton's Peas: The Siege of Vicksburg 

The Gods Are Smiling on Us: The Surrender of Vicksburg 

Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion: An Iowan on Lookout Mountain

2nd Iowa Volunteer Cavalry

With the 2nd Iowa Cavalry on Grierson's Raid

2nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S.

The Sterner Realities of a Soldier's Life: Charles W. Evers of the 2nd Kentucky at Shiloh

4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S.
The Odyssey of Zollicoffer's Body

4th Kentucky Infantry, C.S.A.

With the Orphan Brigade at Chickamauga

Harvest Time at Resaca with the Orphan Brigade

9th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S.

Harry Townsend's Hat and the Wild Retreat at Chickamauga

15th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S.

Swallowed by the Cedars: A Day with the 15th Kentucky

16th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry

Ambushed at Ivy Mountain

18th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S.

The Chances of War: Captured Federal Surgeons After Chickamauga

2nd Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A.

The continued roar of a million lions: With Morgan's Horsemen at Shiloh

3rd Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A.

Clubbed Gun Against Bayonet: The Fatal Charge at Tupelo

1st Special Battalion, Louisiana Volunteers
"Wheat's Tigers"
The Galvanized Yankee of Steubenville, Ohio

1st Louisiana Regular Infantry

A Galvanized Yankee Executed at Tullahoma

I Hope Bragg Will Break Us Up: Defeat and Discouragement in the 1st Louisiana

Last Fight for the Round Forest at Stones River

3rd Louisiana Infantry

Fighting of a Most Desperate Character: The 3rd Louisiana at Iuka

3rd Battalion, Louisiana Infantry 

Up to my elbows in blood: A Louisiana Surgeon Amidst the Seven Days

9th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent) 

Broken Bayonets and Blood: An Officer's Account of Milliken's Bend

11th Louisiana Infantry

The Pelicans Save the Guns at Belmont

11th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent)

Raising the Fighting Standard at Milliken's Bend

16th Louisiana Infantry

Becoming the Quietest Man in the Regiment: A Louisianan Remembers Shiloh

Grandest Charge of Them All: Adams Brigade Charges the Round Forest at Stones River

Crescent Regiment, Louisiana Volunteers

Capturing the Hornet's Nest with the Kid Glove Regiment at Shiloh

Madison Light Artillery

Yankee Preacher, Rebel Lawyer: The Intersecting Lives of Granville and George Moody

5th Company, Washington Light Artillery (Louisiana)

Noble Sons of New Orleans: A Washington Light Artilleryman Survives Shiloh

6th Maine Volunteer Infantry

A Tornado of Shot and Shell: Storming Marye's Heights at Second Fredericksburg

10th Maine Volunteer Infantry

A Squirrel Hunt on a Large Scale: The 10th Maine at Antietam

20th Maine Volunteer Infantry

A Day of Laurels: The 20th Maine at Gettysburg

Purnell Legion (Maryland)

I Would Give Another Horse for Such a Victory: Adjutant Bogardus at Antietam

15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Among the Wounded at Antietam

21st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

We Felt a Little Streaked: At Burnside's Bridge with the 21st Massachusetts

25th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Waist Deep in Mud and Water: The 25th Massachusetts at the Battle of Roanoke Island

33rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

A Perfect Hailstorm of Lead: The 33rd Massachusetts and Resaca

34th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

The Purple Heart of Hell: The 34th Massachusetts at New Market

38th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Sufferings Inconceivable: The Horrors of Port Hudson

49th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

He Tumbled Over Beautifully: Sharpshooting at Port Hudson

54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
A Buckeye with the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
Sergeant Major John H. Wilson of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers
One Thousand Sable Heroes Martialed for the Defense of Their Country

A Noble Experiment: Buckeyes in the 54th Massachusetts Depart for War

Our Men Fought Like Heroes: A 54th Massachusetts Officer at Battery Wagner

The Flag Never Touched the Ground: William Carney at Battery Wagner

55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Why We Fight: A Voice from the 55th Massachusetts

2nd Massachusetts Light Artillery

A Massachusetts Gunner at Baton Rouge

1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry

Louder than the Bolts of Heaven: With the 1st Michigan at Gaines Mill

A Promise Kept After Gaines Mill

3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry

With Kearny's Division at Second Bull Run: Voice from the 3rd Michigan Infantry

4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

On the Left at Malvern Hill with the 4th Michigan

5th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

The 5th Michigan and McClellan's Great Skedaddle

6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

Hell Under the Short Ribs: The 6th Michigan at Baton Rouge

8th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

The Sorrows of an Ill-Spent Day: A Wolverine at Secessionville

9th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

When Forrest Came to Dinner: The Federal Defeat at Murfreesboro

12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

Two Buckshot in My Side and a Musket Ball in My Arm

13th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

The Chances of War: Captured Federal Surgeons After Chickamauga

16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

Lost on Little Round Top

18th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

Scrapping with Hood at Decatur

21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry

Chaos Behind the Lines: A Non-Combatant's View of Stones River

Battery B, 1st Michigan Light Artillery

We have suffered everything but death: Travails of a Shiloh P.O.W.

1st Michigan Volunteer Cavalry

This Most Inglorious Retreat: The 1st Michigan Evacuates the Shenandoah Valley

4th Michigan Cavalry

Things Began to Assume a Serious Aspect: A 4th Michigan Cavalryman Recalls the Horrors of the Nashville Pike

1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics

A Gallant Defense: The 1st Michigan Engineers and the Fight for LaVergne

1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

Marching to Antietam: On Campaign with the 1st Minnesota

Tight Spot in the West Woods

Storming Fredericksburg with the 1st Minnesota

No More Gallant Deed in History: The 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg

The Air was Literally Full of Iron: The 1st Minnesota and Pickett's Charge

2nd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
Nip and Tuck with the 2nd Minnesota at Mill Springs

A Tale of Two Colonels: A Blue & Gray View of Mill Springs

A Librarian's First Battle: At Mill Springs with the 2nd Minnesota 

A Fight for Corn: Eight Medals of Honor Awarded at Nolensville

3rd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

When Forrest Came to Dinner: The Federal Defeat at Murfreesboro

4th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

Some Hideous Dream: The 4th Minnesota at Iuka

7th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

The Cannons are Now Silent: The Field of Death at Tupelo

The "Glory" Business: The 7th Minnesota at Nashville

9th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

An Awful Gauntlet: Vignettes of Brice's Crossroads

3rd Mississippi Infantry 

Vignettes of the Battle of Franklin

10th Mississippi Infantry

A Continuous Line of Fire: A Mississippian Recalls the Assault on Munfordville

11th Mississippi Infantry

With the 11th Mississippi at Seven Pines

14th Mississippi Infantry

Left at the Landing: A Confederate View of Fort Donelson

15th Mississippi Infantry

Failure at Fishing Creek: A Mississippi Tiger's Take on Mill Springs

16th Mississippi Infantry

With the Jasper Greys at Gaines Mill

20th Mississippi Infantry

Left at the Landing: A Confederate View of Fort Donelson

22nd Mississippi Infantry

Capturing the Lady Richardson at Corinth

24th Mississippi Infantry

A Mississippian Under "Shot Pouch" Walker at Chickamauga

37th Mississippi Infantry

With the 37th Mississippi at Peach Tree Creek

40th Mississippi Infantry

Vermont and Vicksburg

Contending with Western Men: A Mississippian Recounts Iuka

44th Mississippi Infantry

Lost in the blaze, thunder, and frenzy of battle: With the Blythe's at Shiloh

Old Blucher Thompson Charges the Round Forest at Stones River

A Battlefield Promise Kept: A Mississippian Returns the Battle Flag of the 2nd Missouri

45th Mississippi Infantry

The Triune Slobberknocker

1st Battalion, Mississippi Sharpshooters

The Sublime Horror of the Occasion: Memories of a Rebel Officer at Corinth

1st Mississippi Cavalry

The Noxubee Cavalry Takes a Battery at Shiloh

Jeff Davis Legion

Riding Around McClellan's Army with the Jeff Davis Legion

Stanford's Mississippi Battery

Marching to Georgia Southern Style

A Mississippi Gunner at Perryville

14th Mississippi Battalion, Light Artillery
Masters of the Field: A Confederate Artilleryman at Chickasaw Bayou

2nd Missouri Volunteer Infantry 

A Battlefield Promise Kept: A Mississippian Returns the Battle Flag of the 2nd Missouri

6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry

A Fredericksburg in the West: A Witness to the Chickasaw Bayou Fight

8th Missouri Volunteer Infantry

Talking Smack with the Johnnies at Vicksburg

Storming Vicksburg: Earning a Medal of Honor in the Forlorn Hope

One of Sherman's Gophers on the March to Chattanooga

Ready for Breakfast or a Fight: The 8th Missouri and the Fight for Tunnel Hill

13th Missouri Volunteer Infantry

Fate of Battle: Martin Beem and the Battle of Shiloh

A Sad Duty, Indeed: A Federal Captain Writes After Shiloh

"It will not be very long till the matter will be brought to a close" A Buckeye's Last Letter Home

15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry
Lost from the O.R. Volume II: The 15th Missouri at the Battle of Stones River

18th Missouri Volunteer Infantry

The Dead of Pittsburg Landing

29th Missouri Volunteer Infantry

Flags of Chickasaw Bayou

31st Missouri Volunteer Infantry

Flags of Chickasaw Bayou

Battery C, 1st Missouri Light Artillery

Talking Smack with the Johnnies at Vicksburg

3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry

More in the Wind Than We Bargained For: The Seven Days with the 3rd New Jersey

7th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry

Strong Men Fainted in the Ranks at the Sight: At Williamsburg with the 7th New Jersey

14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry

Taking a Bullet and Finding a Wife at Monocacy

3rd New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry

A Halloween Tale

New York Infantry Regiments

Arming the Empire State: Arms Issues to New York Infantry Regiments in 1861

5th New York Volunteer Infantry (Duryee's Zouaves)

Like Grass Before the Scythe: Duryee's Zouaves at Second Bull Run

8th New York Volunteer Infantry

A Rain of Cannonballs: The 8th New York at Second Bull Run

9th New York Volunteer Infantry (Hawkins' Zouaves)

A Yell of Defiance: With Hawkins' Zouaves at Antietam

11th New York Volunteer Infantry (Ellsworth's Zouaves)

A Very Unmilitary Movement: With Ellsworth's Zouaves at First Bull Run

44th New York Volunteer Infantry

We Were Not Defeated: A Fifth Corps Clerk Describes Chancellorsville

48th New York Volunteer Infantry

Following Glory: Two New Yorkers Recall the Charge on Battery Wagner

54th New York Volunteer Infantry

Disgraced! or how to lose your shoulder straps

63rd New York Volunteer Infantry

Uncoffined and Unsung: An Irish Brigade Schoolteacher Survives the Hell of Antietam

77th New York Volunteer Infantry

Mystic Chords of Memory: Opequon, Saratoga, and the 77th New York

87th New York Volunteer Infantry

An act of practical Christianity

94th New York Volunteer Infantry

Stunned at Gettysburg: Colonel Root Remembers the Fight of July 1st

100th New York Volunteer Infantry

Blue and Gray View of Seven Pines: With Casey's Division on May 31, 1862

Following Glory: Two New Yorkers Recall the Charge on Battery Wagner

107th New York Volunteer Infantry

Grass Before the Mower: A New York Officer in the Midst of Chancellorsville

114th New York Volunteer Infantry

All the Demonism of a Battle: A New Yorker at Third Winchester

123rd New York Volunteer Infantry

Bummers and Paper Collar Boys

126th New York Volunteer Infantry
Stopping Pickett's Charge: the 126th New York at Gettysburg

134th New York Volunteer Infantry

Never Imagined Such a Rain of Bullets: The 134th New York and the Brickyard Fight at Gettysburg

136th New York Volunteer Infantry

Died on the Fourth of July: A Soldier's End at Gettysburg

In the Night Fight at Wauhatchie with the 136th New York

149th New York Volunteer Infantry

The Flag Capturing Machine: The 149th New York and the Chattanooga Campaign

The Yankee Rump Session of the Georgia Legislature

150th New York Volunteer Infantry

With an Empire State Tenderfoot at Gettysburg

Dog Trotting Into Atlanta with the 150th New York

154th New York Volunteer Infantry
Used Up at Gettysburg: the 154th New York

Standing as Firm as Pyramids: Account of a New Yorker Captured in the Brickyard

The Crescent on the Move: The 154th New York and Its Introduction to the Western Theater

Building the Cracker Line: A New Yorker in eastern Tennessee

Storming Rocky Face Ridge with the 154th New York

157th New York Volunteer Infantry

"Company C, Fall In!" A primer in forming companies and regiments into line

A Chaotic Retreat Through Gettysburg

161st New York Volunteer Infantry
A New Yorker at Port Hudson

Knocking at Port Hudson's Door: Ducking Shells with the 161st New York

12th New York Cavalry

Traced to the Curse of Intoxication: A Wartime Execution

11th Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery

With the Havelock Battery at Gettysburg

18th Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery

A Diary of the Voyage of Banks' Expedition to Louisiana

8th New York Heavy Artillery

Struck Down at Cold Harbor: In Action with the 8th New York Heavy Artillery

2nd North Carolina State Troops

Our Army is Almost Invincible: The Maryland Campaign with the 2nd North Carolina

Losing a Quarter of the Division: The 2nd North Carolina at South Mountain

The Storm of Blood That is Sure to Reign: At Antietam with the 2nd North Carolina

Branch's Artillery (North Carolina)

The Earth Seemed to Rock Beneath Me: A Blue and Gray View of the Crater

Ohio Infantry Regiments

Arming the Buckeyes: Longarms of the Ohio Infantry Regiments

Arming the Buckeyes Pt. 2: Longarms of Ohio's Infantry Regiments

Arming Sherman's Buckeyes at Paducah

Ohio at Antietam with Dan Welch

Buckeye Generals of the Confederacy

The Buckeye Diaspora After Gettysburg 

Globules of Adipose Pomposity: Top 11 Worst Buckeye Colonels of the Civil War 

Rising Eagles, Rising Buckeyes: Top 10 Ohio Civil War Colonels 

Fallen Eagles, Fallen Buckeyes: Ohio's Colonels Killed During the Civil War 

1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
At First Bull Run with the 1st O.V.M.
Shiloh as Viewed from the Ranks of the 1st Ohio Infantry
With the 1st Ohio at Missionary Ridge
Damning Wartime Knoxville

2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Saving Major McCook: William Surles at Perryville

Capturing the Flags: The 2nd Ohio Infantry at Stones River
Prelude to an Awful Finale: A Buckeye Sergeant at Chickamauga

3rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

He Died Like a True Soldier: A Tale of Perryville 

Last Fight for the Round Forest at Stones River

4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Knocking on the Front Door of Rich Mountain with the 4th Ohio

Slaughtered at Fredericksburg: A Voice from the 4th Ohio

5th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

With Infernal Fury: The 5th Ohio is Blooded at Kernstown

The Legend of Scotty: John Gray of the 5th Ohio

Hector Tyndale at Antietam

6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Mournful Intelligence: A Guthrie Gray Writes After Chickamauga

The Enemy Certainly Used Us Very Hard: The 6th Ohio and Chickamauga

7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
4th of July in western Virginia
The "Bloody Seventh Ohio" at Cross Lanes

The 7th Ohio and the Battle for Port Republic
After Port Republic: Shields' Men March to Alexandria
The 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Antietam

Hector Tyndale at Antietam

The Glory of Dumfries Has Parted: A Scrap with Jeb Stuart

Its Glory Seemed to Have Parted: The 7th Ohio at Ringgold
Guarding the Arch-Traitor

8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The Wailing Sound Dies But Slowly in my Ears (Antietam)
How did Colonel Tew's sword end up in Norwalk? (Antietam)
Taking the Sunken Road: The 8th Ohio at Antietam
Defending the Sunken Road

Vanquished without Disgrace: The 8th Ohio and the Charge Against Marye's Heights

Sawyer's Flag Collection: The 8th Ohio and Pickett's Charge

11th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Scrapping at Hawk's Nest with the 11th Ohio

Great Expectations Dashed: The Kanawha Division Meets the Army of the Potomac at Manassas Station

Last Words: On the Eve of Antietam with Colonel Augustus Coleman, 11th Ohio Infantry

Nearing the Shores of Eternity: A Chaplain Among the Dying of Antietam 

Fight for God and Humanity: Chaplain Lyle Sends the 11th Ohio into battle at Chickamauga

12th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Going Zouave on the Rebs with the 12th Ohio at Scarey Creek 

We Just Rolled Them: With the 12th Ohio on South Mountain

13th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The 13th Ohio and the School of the Soldier

The Peculiar Rumbling of Battle: Andrew Neff at Shiloh

Stones River Letters: Robert Wolfkill of the 13th Ohio

14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Ferocious for a Fight: The Philippi Races and the 14th O.V.I.

Washington's Gold Watch in Civil War Tennessee
Defending the 14th Ohio Infantry Flag at Chickamauga

Stout Enough Hearts for the Fray: A Buckeye Describes Chickamauga
Hot, Bloody, and Glorious: The 14th Ohio at Jonesboro

15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Holding Poor Josey's Head in My Lap: Losing a Brother at Shiloh

The Doubtful Day: Sam Pettit of the 15th Ohio at Stones River 

Scenes to Melt the Stoutest Heart: A Teamster at Stones River

General August Willich and Advance Firing

Twilight was Lurid with the Fire of Battle: Sergeant Richey Captures a Confederate Major

16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
With George Morgan's Foot Cavalry: Taking and Losing Cumberland Gap

Death on the Bayou: The 16th Ohio at Chickasaw Bluffs

17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
With the 17th Ohio at Camp Wildcat
On Corn Bread and Christmas Dinners
Jim Stinchcomb in the Business at Chickamauga

The Chances of War: Captured Federal Surgeons After Chickamauga

Our Gallant Boys Bleaching in the Sun: A Buckeye Returns to Chickamauga

18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Armor of God: The Union Blues of Marietta Go to War

Among the Somber Cedars: Lancelot Scott at Stones River
To Defy Death Itself: Lancelot Scott at Stones River Part II

Negley's Division Escapes the Beartrap at Davis' Crossroads

19th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Until Victory is Ours: The Bullet Magnet of the 41st Ohio Survives Chickamauga

Proving Their Mettle to Rosecrans: Rich Mountain and the 19th Ohio

Time for the 19th to try its grit: The 19th Ohio at Stones River

I Miss My Chum: Losing Major Edwards of the 19th Ohio at Shiloh

With a Gun in One Hand and a Rail in the Other: The 19th Ohio at Pickett's Mill

20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Buckeye Remembers the Fuss on the Raymond Road

This Hard Life Has Told Heavily on the Men: Victory at Vicksburg

Fighting on Both Sides of the Works: The 20th Ohio and the Battle of Atlanta

Billy Had No Enemies: The Death of Captain William D. Neal 

21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry

The 21st Ohio Infantry in Song and Verse

Mark Wood: Medal of Honor Recipient of the 21st Ohio Infantry
Captured at Chickamauga with the 21st Ohio Infantry

Escape of Henry H. Alban of the 21st Ohio Infantry

Off to War with the 21st Ohio Infantry in September 1861
Give 'Em Hell by the Acre: The 21st Ohio Earns Its Laurels at Stones River

Vining's Station and the End of Captain Daniel Lewis

The Final Minutes on Horseshoe Ridge

The Heavy Work is Done: Mustering Out the 21st Ohio

Buckeye Rapid-Fire: The 21st Ohio and the Colt's Revolving Rifles

Revisiting Snodgrass Hill: Memories of a 21st Ohio Officer

Finding Uncle Fred in Kalkaska, Michigan 

On Swept the Tide of Battle: A Buckeye in Miller's Counterattack at Stones River

Private Sidney Brewster, Co. C, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry

22nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (also known as 13th Missouri)

Fate of Battle: Martin Beem and the Battle of Shiloh

A Sad Duty, Indeed: A Federal Captain Writes After Shiloh

"It will not be very long till the matter will be brought to a close" A Buckeye's Last Letter Home

23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
A Tight Spot for the 23rd Ohio at Giles Courthouse

Cold Steel Did Great Execution: With the 23rd Ohio at Fox's Gap

With Hayes at Fox's Gap

Raiding with Crook: A 23rd Ohio Private Remembers Cloyd's Mountain

24th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Born Into the Union Again: A Buckeye View of the Occupation of Nashville

Thirty-Three Holes in the Colors: The 24th Ohio at Stones River

25th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The 25th Ohio and the Camp Alleghany Skedaddle
'My God, what a scene it was!' On the right flank at Chancellorsville

Our Once Proud and Splendid 25th Ohio (Gettysburg)

Riding with Barlow: Edward C. Culp at the Battle of Gettysburg

The 25th Ohio Gets Stung at Honey Hill

26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Bumping Into Bragg's Rearguard at Munfordville

The LaVergne Skirmish: Captain John H. James of the 26th Ohio
Holding the Nashville Pike: Captain John H. James of the 26th Ohio at Stones River

Glory and Honor Stamped on the Stump of My Leg: A Voice from the 26th Ohio

It is the Fate of War: The 26th Ohio at Chickamauga

Awful Scenes of Carnage: A Buckeye Recalls Franklin

27th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Brigham's War: Letters from the 27th Ohio Infantry
 Part I, Part II, Part III

Licked Up by Fire: Marching Through Georgia with General Fuller

Saving the Day at Parker's Crossroads

29th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Theron Winship of the 29th Ohio at the Battle of Port Republic

They Pitched Into Us Pretty Strong: A Buckeye Prisoner Recalls Port Republic

The 29th Fights While There is a Man Left: The Blood Demonstration at Dug Gap

With His Mother's Likeness in His Bosom Pin

30th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Dodging the Rebel Plug-Uglies at Antietam with the 30th Ohio

The Forlorn Hope at Vicksburg (William Campbell)

31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
No Victory for Us: Graphic Account of the Aftermath of Perryville

Ditching the Cards: The 31st Ohio Marches Toward Stones River
A Sad Commentary on Glorious War: The Horrors of Perryville

Into the Wilderness of Pines: Opening Day on the Left at Chickamauga

Traced to the Curse of Intoxication: A Wartime Execution

Bearing the Colors at Missionary Ridge 

32nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The Squirrel Game at the Battle of Camp Allegheny
A Glorious Conclusion: The Surrender of Vicksburg
Never in Such a Tight Place: The Battle of Atlanta

William McLain: On the Subject of Surrendering

33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Stealing a Locomotive: An Andrews' Raider Tells His Tale

Travails of the Silent Raider

I saw my blood flowing freely: Colonel Moore of the 33rd Ohio Describes Perryville

Severest Ordeal of My Life: A Buckeye Colonel Remembers Chickamauga

34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry "1st Ohio Zouaves"

Buckeye Zouaves: The "Damned Red Tops" and the Fight for Princeton Court House

A Gentlemanly Sort of War: The Piatt Zouaves Survive Princeton

A Flag Bearer's End: With the 34th Ohio in the Shenandoah Valley

35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Under Most Trying Circumstances: With the 35th Ohio at Chickamauga

How Kenesaw Mountain Landis Got His Unusual Name

A Determined and Plucky Set of Men: The 35th Ohio and Mission Ridge

36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Victory Gloriously and Promptly Won: The 36th Ohio at Lewisburg

Arresting a Panic at Chickamauga: A Voice from the 36th Ohio

37th Ohio Volunteer Infantry "Third German"

The Drummer Boy of Missionary Ridge

With a Dutch Sharpshooter at the Battle of Atlanta

38th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
A "Yankee" Trick Played on the 38th Ohio

Amid a Very Hell of Carnage: Charging Jonesboro with the 38th Ohio

39th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Interview with Brad Quinlin and the story of Pierre Starr, 39th Ohio Infantry

The Highest Quality of Courage: George Gear at Atlanta

40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The Galvanized Yankee of Steubenville, Ohio

Run-In with a Rake: The 40th Fights at First Franklin

The Only Union Town in Tennessee: The Reserve Corps Visits Shelbyville

41st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Summoning Hell's Half Acre: The 41st Ohio in the Round Forest

Meeting "Old Rosey": General Rosecrans Reviews His New Command

Chatting Up the Enemy: An Afternoon Among the Rebels 

Dispatches from Poe's Tavern: The Army of the Cumberland on the Cusp of the Chickamauga Campaign 

Until Victory is Ours: The Bullet Magnet of the 41st Ohio Survives Chickamauga

42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

The Tazewell Scrap: A Voice from the 42nd Ohio

There Goes My Brigade to Hell: the 42nd Ohio at Chickasaw Bayou

43rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
"Our Kirby" Colonel Joseph L. Kirby Smith and the 43rd Ohio Infantry at the Battle of Corinth

We Glory in It: Outgunning the Rebels at Resaca

44th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

The 44th Ohio and the Fight for Lewisburg

45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Marching to Georgia with the 45th Ohio 

46th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
"Crank" Worthington's Boys at Shiloh

Guarding Vicksburg's Back Door with the 46th Ohio

47th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Most Bloody and Foolhardy Charge: A Buckeye Recalls the First Crack at Vicksburg
Bummers and Paper Collar Boys

Taking Passage on the Hay Bale Line: Running the Gauntlet at Vicksburg

Private Robert M. Burnard, Co. A, 47th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

48th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The Prisoner Who Never Surrendered: The Adventure of John J. Geer, 48th Ohio Infantry

Arming Sherman's Buckeyes at Paducah

Indomitable Pluck: The 48th Ohio at Pittsburg Landing

The Dead of Pittsburg Landing

Buckland's Picnic Excursion Before Shiloh

49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Inside the Crime of Pickett's Mills: Voices from the 49th Ohio
Lead is a Terrible Reformer: The 49th Ohio at Shiloh
Yelling Like Fiends Incarnate: The Opening Moments of Stones River 
An Artillery Drill in Kentucky
The Odyssey of Zollicoffer's Body

Avenging Chickamauga: The 49th Ohio Storms Missionary Ridge

General August Willich and Advance Firing

Prepared for the Sudden Call: A Buckeye's Final Letter Before Pickett's Mill

Finding Grandpa Saul

50th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Sad Duty After Perryville

Life Behind Breastworks: Skirmishing During the Atlanta Campaign with the 50th Ohio

Pandemonium Reigned Supreme: A Buckeye Captured at Franklin

51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Campaigning with the "old tub of guts" William Nelson

Fighting For Forage: The Scrap at Dobson's Ferry, Tennessee

John H. Purvis at the Battle of Stones River
Back to Chickamauga with John Purvis of the 51st O.V.I.

Through this Dismal Region: The 51st Ohio Marches Toward Atlanta

52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Beautiful Fight: The McCook-Prentice Duel on the Road to Stones River

53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Arming Sherman's Buckeyes at Paducah

The 53rd Ohio and the Shame of Shiloh

54th Ohio Volunteer Infantry "2nd Ohio Zouaves"
'My boys from Cleveland, for God's sake do your duty!' The 54th Ohio at Shiloh

Arming Sherman's Buckeyes at Paducah

The Ground was Slippery with Blood: The 54th Ohio Tries for Vicksburg

55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
55th Ohio at Second Bull Run
Memorial Day for Captain Franklin J. Sauter, Co. B, 55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

The Nicest Fight I Ever Saw: The 55th Ohio and Peach Tree Creek

Through the Carolinas with the 55th Ohio

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Saying Goodbye to a Brother

Worse Than Madness for Us: The 56th Ohio at Sabine Crossroads

57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Arming Sherman's Buckeyes at Paducah

"May God save us from any more such days" Lieutenant Adams of the 57th Ohio Describes Shiloh

Amongst the ambulance drivers at Arkansas Post
"Gentlemen, this is serious business."A 57th Ohio Captain Recalls Kennesaw

Running the Gauntlet: the 57th Ohio at the Battle of Atlanta

58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry "Fourth German"
Captain Kaufman's Captured Diary: A Relic of Chickasaw Bayou

Flags of Chickasaw Bayou

59th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

We Led a Precariously Amphibian Life: A Mid-Summer's March with the 59th Ohio

60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Heman's Last Letter: Final Words from a Private in the 60th Ohio

A National Disgrace: The 60th Ohio and the Surrender of Harper's Ferry

61st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Hard Times for the Sutler in western Virginia
Standing Like Pillars of Adamant: The 61st Ohio at Freeman's Ford
Not German Poltroons: The 61st Ohio Explains Chancellorsville

Just Before the Battle: Marching to Gettysburg with the 11th Corps

62nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Another Such Engagement Would Not Be Desirable: The 62nd Ohio and Battery Wagner

63rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

The 63rd Ohio and the Struggle for Battery Robinett

64th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The Fatal Gap: A View from Wood's Division at Chickamauga

Paying Our Road Tax: Building a Road Through Hall's Gap

More Scared Than Hurt: A Buckeye Describes the Narrow Escape at Spring Hill

Vignettes of the Battle of Franklin

William Keesy and the Battle of Nashville

65th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Knapsack Compression: Wilbur Hinman recalls the first step of becoming a veteran

All the Fury of Demons: The 65th Ohio at Stones River

Meeting "Old Rosey": General Rosecrans Reviews His New Command

Paying Our Road Tax: Building a Road Through Hall's Gap

Breaking the Macon & Western Railroad

Winged at the Outset: Wilbur Hinman's Experiences at Chickamauga

Life in the Hell Hole

66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Atop the Coaling: The 66th Ohio at Port Republic

Giving Tone and Character to the Army: A Buckeye at Cedar Mountain

Hector Tyndale at Antietam

The Glory of Dumfries Has Parted: A Scrap with Jeb Stuart
Maverick's Journal of the Chancellorsville Campaign
A Buckeye at Appomattox: Joseph C. Brand Distributed Rations to Lee's Army

Holding Culp's Hill: The 66th Ohio at Gettysburg

Joining Rosecrans' Army: The 11th and 12th Corps Travel West in September 1863

67th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
67th Ohio History Page

Jeff Parsons of the 67th Ohio at the First Battle of Kernstown

The 67th Ohio Commemorates First Winchester 57 years later
Veterans' Medal from the 67th Ohio

Storming Fort Wagner with the 67th Ohio

68th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

The Indignant Old Eagle: Bearing the Colors at Hatchie Bridge

Losing the Colonel: The 68th Ohio at Champion Hill

Bearing the Stars and Stripes at Vicksburg

In Front of Atlanta with the 68th Ohio

69th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Beastly Drunk: The Dismissal of Colonel William B. Cassilly, 69th Ohio Infantry

Rich and Racy Crumbs: A Sampling of battlefield souvenirs from Stones River

It Was Deucedly Hot Here: A Buckeye on Missionary Ridge

70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Arming Sherman's Buckeyes at Paducah

Buckland's Picnic Excursion Before Shiloh

Taking Fort McAllister with the 70th Ohio

 

71st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Arming Sherman's Buckeyes at Paducah

'I Lay me down to sleep and he to die' The 71st Ohio Infantry at Shiloh

Getting our Grub and Kicking Up Our Heels Around Camp: A Delayed Word from the 71st Ohio

Judge Williams Remembers Shiloh

72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The Ohio River Highway

Arming Sherman's Buckeyes at Paducah

Buckland's Picnic Excursion Before Shiloh
General Buckland Explains the Battle of Shiloh
72nd Ohio Flag Captured at the Battle of Shiloh
John M. Lemmon and the Battle of Shiloh
You May Glory in Us Now (Chester Buckland)
Honoring Lieutenant Colonel Leroy Crockett, 72nd Ohio Infantry
72nd Ohio at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads
Skinned out for Memphis like Tam O'Shanter with the Devil after him (Brice's Crossroads)

An Awful Gauntlet: Vignettes of Brice's Crossroads

Turning Rebel: Recruiting Galvanized Yankees in the winter of 1864-65

My Dearest Nellie: Last Letter from Lt. Col. Leroy Crockett, 72nd O.V.I.

Jesus Will Take Me Home: Lt. Col. Canfield's Final Days 

73rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
First Shots at McDowell with the 73rd Ohio 

Just Before the Battle: Marching to Gettysburg with the 11th Corps

Our Boys Fell Thick on the Crest of the Hill: Stumbling Through Resaca with the 73rd Ohio

74th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Meeting "Old Rosey": General Rosecrans Reviews His New Command

Facing the Iron Hail: The 74th Ohio at Stones River

Yankee Preacher, Rebel Lawyer: The Intersecting Lives of Granville and George Moody

75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Battling Jackson's Legions at McDowell

Rashness to Remain Longer: With McLean's Buckeyes at Chinn Ridge

A Dearly Bought Victory to Us: Colonel Harris and the 75th Ohio at Gettysburg

Hobbled on Barlow's Knoll

A Most Severe Campaign: The 75th Ohio at the Battle of Gainesville Florida

76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Taking Fort Hindman with the 76th Ohio

No Valor Could Have Rescued Them: The 76th Ohio Loses Its Regimental Colors at Ringgold Gap

To Falter Would Disgrace the Name of the Old 76th Ohio: A Buckeye Survives Taylor's Ridge

77th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Arming Sherman's Buckeyes at Paducah

Bloody, Battle-Stained, and Miserable: A Wounded Buckeye Recalls Shiloh

Gobbled by Forrest at Fallen Timbers

78th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Soldierly Submission: Amputating a Leg After Hatchie Bridge

On the Federal left flank at Kennesaw Mountain

Saved By a Pin: Remembering Atlanta from Inside a Prison Pen

A Brevet Hoss: Molly the Cow and the Grand Review

79th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Among the Provost Guards at Peach Tree Creek 

Our boys went in with a yell: At Peach Tree Creek with the 79th Ohio

80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Buckeye Remembers Scenes of Horror After the Battle of Corinth

81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Cary Lockhart Nelson of the 81st Ohio at Shiloh

82nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The Delano Morey Medal of Honor Story

Dirty, ragged, hungry, footsore: a view of Fremont's army from a lieutenant in the 82nd Ohio
Butchered at Bull Run: Milroy's Blundering Costs the 82nd Ohio Its Commander
All That a Soldier Can Give: Stowel Burnham at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
Alfred E. Lee of the 82nd Ohio at Gettysburg

Back from the Dead: Captain Alfred E. Lee's Return Home After Gettysburg

General James S. Robinson of the 82nd Ohio at Gettysburg
Opening the Cracker Line- Battle of Wauhatchie with Alfred E. Lee

Battling the Butternuts at Kolb's Farm

Army of the Potomac-style Fighting at Resaca

Hooker's Finest Hour: With the 20th Corps at Peach Tree Creek

The Yankee Rump Session of the Georgia Legislature

83rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Breaking the Clouds of Gloom: The 83rd Ohio at Arkansas Post

A Devil of a Rattle: With the Stretcher Bearers at Champion Hill

88th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Most Irksome Duty: Guarding the Rebels at Camp Chase with the 88th Ohio

89th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Atop Snodgrass Hill: The Second Day at Chickamauga with the 89th Ohio

Last Stand of the 89th Ohio- Battle of Chickamauga (Project Past Video) 

90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Hog Stealing with the 90th Ohio

The 90th Ohio Sees the Elephant at Stones River

91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Witnessing History: A Buckeye and Sheridan's Ride at Cedar Creek

92nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

"If Anybody's Boys Go Out, Mine Go" Turchin's Escape at Chickamauga

93rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Sheep Before Destroying Wolves: Wounded at Stones River with the 93rd Ohio

Bullet Dodging at New Hope Church with the 93rd Ohio

94th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

The 94th Ohio Remembers Perryville

Dr. Shellenberger Visits Stones River 30 Years Later

95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
95th Ohio at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky Part I
95th Ohio at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky Part II

An Awful Gauntlet: Vignettes of Brice's Crossroads
"To Fight All the Time" The 95th Ohio on A.J. Smith's Mississippi Raid

96th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Grapes and Catawba Wine on the Ohio: The 96th Ohio Defends Cincinnati

Talking Smack with the Johnnies at Vicksburg 

Spades are Trumps: The 96th Ohio and the Siege of Vicksburg

97th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Marching Into Chattanooga with the 97th Ohio

98th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Losing Colonel Webster: The 98th Ohio at Perryville

99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Wonderful Conflict of Arms: Skedaddling with the 99th Ohio at Stones River

A Carnival of Death: A Federal Officer's View of the Battle of Nashville

100th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Chronicle of the 100th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Brisk Fight with the Johnnies: The 100th Ohio at Limestone Station

Cribbed, Cabined, and Confined: A Buckeye Escapes Andersonville

A View from Behind the Bars: A Buckeye at Libby Prison

At the Center of Hell: The 100th Ohio at Franklin

101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Charles Barney Dennis at Stones River: Part I, II, III, IV, and V

From Chickamauga to Libby Prison: The Journey of Major Bedan B. McDonald

102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Scrapping with Hood at Decatur

103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Staff Officer with the 23rd Corps Remembers Resaca

Life in the Hell Hole

104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Cut to the Quick: The 104th Ohio Proves Itself at Utoy Creek

105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Civil War Seattle podcast with Richard Heisler: Perryville and the 105th Ohio

A Peculiarly Unfortunate Affair: Bull Nelson's Not-So-Grand Review

A Sad Commentary on Glorious War: The Horrors of Perryville

Thumping Morgan at Vaught's Hill

107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Dearest Anna: A Buckeye Surgeon's Final Words to His Wife

Among the Flying Dutchmen at Chancellorsville

Just Before the Battle: Marching to Gettysburg with the 11th Corps

Forgotten Heroism at the End of the War in South Carolina

110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Three Hard Days in June: The 110th Ohio at Second Winchester

We Buried 110 Men in that Half Acre: A Buckeye Remembers Spotsylvania Courthouse

Buckeyes Along the Monocacy

111th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Taking Wilmington with the 23rd Corps

113th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Killed at Kennesaw: Death of Lieutenant Dungan of the 113th Ohio

115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Battling for the Blockhouses with the 115th Ohio

118th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

A Buckeye Surgeon Recalls the Dark Passage Through Spring Hill

A Buckeye Surgeon Behind the Lines at Franklin

History of the 118th Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Interview with author Mike Klinger

120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Storming the Ramparts of Arkansas Post with the 120th Ohio

Disaster at Snaggy Point with the 120th Ohio

121st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
"Wipe Out Perryville!" The 121st Ohio's Redemption at Chickamauga

The Golden Moment was Gone: The Doomed Assault on the Dead Angle at Kennesaw

122nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Disaster at Second Winchester with the 122nd Ohio

Buckeyes Along the Monocacy

123rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
A Hard Way of Serving the Lord: Colonel Wilson at Libby Prison

Bloody Homecoming: Winchester and New Market with the 123rd Ohio

125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Becoming Tigers: The 125th Ohio and the Struggle of Horseshoe Ridge

With One of Opdycke's Tigers at Kennesaw

Awful to the Extreme: Voice from the 125th Ohio at Franklin

126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Enough to worry the patience of a Wooden Man: The 126th Ohio at Mine Run

Buckeyes Along the Monocacy 

More Than New Recruits in the Diggins: Fighting Early at Monocacy

Storming Petersburg with the 126th Ohio

127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry/ 5th U.S. Colored Troops

Victory or Death: The 5th U.S. Colored Troops Receives its Colors

Taking Fort Fisher with the 5th U.S. Colored Troops

144th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The 144th and 149th Ohio at the Battle of Monocacy
Lost from the O.R.: The Berryville Wagon Raid

149th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

We had to run but saved the army: With the Ohio National Guardsmen at Monocacy

171st Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Damned Green Yanks: The 171st Ohio at Keller's Bridge, Kentucky

183rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
10 Days to Franklin: The 183rd Ohio Goes to War

189th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Watchful Waiting: With the 189th Ohio in Northern Alabama in 1865

1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
1st Ohio Cavalry at the Battle of Stones River

Charging by Fours with the 1st Ohio Cavalry at Kernstown 

Escorting the Rock of Chickamauga

Losing Our Star of Hope: The Death of Colonel Minor Milliken at Stones River 

3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
With the Stigma of a Paroled Prisoner: A 3rd Ohio Cavalryman Remembers Ashland

A Hard Charge at 112 Degrees (Lovejoy Station)

Cutting Our Way Out at Lovejoy Station

6th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry

Buckeye Sabers: At Aldie with the 6th Ohio Cavalry

9th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry

They Are Planting Another One: The Death of Adjutant Hamilton of the 9th Ohio Cavalry

10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
With the 10th Ohio Cavalry on the Atlanta Campaign: William Wallace Hill

Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
An Artillery Drill in Kentucky
Mr. Cotter Gets Gobbled at Perryville
Compelled to Submit with what Grace We Could: An Ohio artilleryman captured at Chickamauga 

Battery D, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

Guns of Ivy Mountain

Battery E, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
Comanche versus the Professor: The Artillery Duel Along the Franklin Pike

Receipt in Full in Red Ink: Captain Warren P. Edgarton at Stones River
Captured Entire: The Loss of Battery E, 1st Ohio Light Artillery at Stones River

An Intimate View of Battery E's Demise

Battery G, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
The Saga of Battery G: A Desperate Escape from the Slaughter Pen at Stones River
Wiards of Ohio

We Wish to Settle This by Fighting: On the Road to Chickamauga with Battery G

Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery-
The Ohio River Highway
Never Saw a More Magnificent Sight: A Forgotten Skirmish at Strasburg, Virginia
Among the Guns at Chancellorsville
Monclova Resident killed in action at Port Republic in 1862

The Iron Storm was Howling: With the Artillery Reserve at Gettysburg

Saving the Right: An Ohio Gunner Remembers Chancellorsville

Battery I, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
Harlan Bradford at the Battle of Cross Keys

A Few Rounds of Canister: Bowling with Dilger at Chancellorsville

The Legend of Leatherbreeches: Hubert Dilger in the Atlanta Campaign

Battery K, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

A Bloody Half Hour: With Battery K at Gettysburg

1st Ohio Battery

The Ups and Downs of the God-Forsaken Region: A Buckeye gunner in western Virginia

6th Ohio Battery

Fighting with Axes, Picks, and Sponges with the 6th Ohio Battery

11th Ohio Battery
Music of the Spheres: The 11th Ohio Battery at the Battle of Iuka

The 11th Ohio Battery's Blood-Stained Ledger: Shadows of Iuka

Back from the Dead: The 11th Ohio Battery at Corinth

12th Ohio Battery
Wiards of Ohio

14th Ohio Battery
'Give it to 'em boys! You're cutting them all to hell!' The 14th Ohio Battery at Shiloh
Wiards of Ohio

Our Guns Were Burning Hot: The 14th Ohio Battery at Atlanta

17th Ohio Battery

A Gunner's Life at Chickasaw Bayou with the 17th Ohio Battery

18th Ohio Battery

Right Side Up and Ready for Another Brush: With the 18th Ohio Battery After Chickamauga

25th Ohio Battery

Taking Little Rock: A Voice from the 25th Ohio Battery

Williams' Ohio Battery
A Scary Affair at Scary Creek

23rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Buckeyes at the Battle of Fair Oaks

27th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Storming Rocky Face Ridge with the 154th New York

28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Hector Tyndale at Antietam

53rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Our Men Were Cut Down Like Grass: With the 53rd Pennsylvania at Marye's Heights

62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Never Saw a City More Thoroughly Sacked: A Pennsylvanian at Fredericksburg

At Gettysburg with the 62nd Pennsylvania

63rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Captain Reid of the 63rd Pennsylvania at Fair Oaks

71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Watching a Battle: Behind the Lines with the 71st Pennsylvania at Seven Pines

76th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Keystone Zouaves)

New Years on the Islands: Festivities of the Keystone Zouaves

77th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Colonel Housum's Coat and the Opening of the Battle of Stones River

Liberty Gap as Seen by the 77th Pennsylvania

78th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Lost from the O.R. Part 3: Colonel William Sirwell's Report of the 78th Pennsylvania at Stones River

Bullets Were Flying Rather Fast: The 78th Pennsylvania and Pickett's Mill 

79th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Come my dear husband, this is no place for us: A Perryville Story

88th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Fate Decreed Otherwise: A Pennsylvanian Captured at Gettysburg

102nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Buckeyes at the Battle of Fair Oaks

119th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Gulping Down the Disaster: The 119th Pennsylvania at Salem Church

133rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Francis Flanagan's Fredericksburg Redemption

139th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

With the 139th Pennsylvania at Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church

150th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

The Earth Seemed to Rock Beneath Me: A Blue and Gray View of the Crater

7th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry

I'll Drive Them Into the Duck River: The Sabre Regiment Takes Shelbyville

11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry

Witnessing History: A Cavalryman's View of the Clash of Ironclads

15th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry

The Triune Slobberknocker

Wilkinson Crossroads with the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry

Independent Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery

Fighting for Hearth and Home: Knap's Battery at Gettysburg

1st South Carolina (Provisional Army)

With the 1st South Carolina at Gettysburg

18th South Carolina Infantry

A Cloud of Dust, Smoke, Timbers and Men 

13th Tennessee Volunteers

Our Maiden Fight: The 13th Tennessee at Belmont

Vignettes of the Battle of Franklin

16th Tennessee Volunteers
Assaulting the Round Forest: A Confederate Viewpoint 

18th Tennessee Volunteers

"If the Rebel Wants to Die, Let Him Go." A Tennessean Left for Dead at Stones River

19th Tennessee Volunteers

Perfectly Intoxicated with Excitement: The 19th Tennessee in the Bell Cotton Field

A Band of Gypsies: The 19th Tennessee and the Fight for the Slaughter Pen

Vignettes of the Battle of Franklin

20th Tennessee Volunteers

The 20th Tennessee at Shiloh

Like Gods for Their Altars: With Preston's Brigade at Stones River

26th Tennessee Volunteers

We Fight for Home and Country: Letter from the 26th Tennessee

30th Tennessee Volunteers

Dueling with the Gunboats: With the Confederate Gunners at Fort Donelson

154th (Senior) Tennessee Infantry

Men dropping like slaughtered beeves: Corporal Law of the 154th Tennessee Recalls Shiloh

The Old 154th Can't Be Whipped: A Confederate View of the Battle of Richmond

1st Tennessee Cavalry

Defending the Confederate Cavalry on the Atlanta Campaign

4th Tennessee Cavalry

Stopping Streight's Raid: A Confederate View of the Ill-Fated Expedition

18th/19th Tennessee Cavalry

Most Complete Stampede I Ever Witnessed: A Tennessean at Brice's Crossroads

20th Tennessee Cavalry

Gunned Down at Guntown

1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery

Escape from the Island: An Arkansas Yankee and the Surrender of Island No. 10

Carnes' Tennessee Light Artillery Battery

With Cheatham's Division at Chickamauga

Battery E, Tennessee Light Artillery (U.S.)

Billy Patterson: Monarch of Artillery

1st Texas Infantry
One of the 17 2/3 %: A Texan Survives Antietam

4th Texas Infantry

In Longstreet's Attack at Second Manassas: An account from the 4th Texas

5th Texas Infantry

Carrying the Colors of the 5th Texas at Gaines Mill

9th Texas Infantry

A Frenzied Charge Into the Cedars: Stones River with the 9th Texas

8th Texas Cavalry
Capturing a Dutch General: The 8th Texas Cavalry at Stones River

11th Texas Cavalry

Like Autumn Leaves Playing Before a Tornado: A Texan at Stones River

25th Texas Cavalry

Pouring Peas on a Rawhide: A Texan Remembers Chickamauga

Ector's Texas Cavalry Brigade

Confederate Vanguard: Ector's Texans Open the Battle of Stones River

10th U.S. Infantry

Soldiering on the Plains During the Civil War

12th U.S. Infantry

With the Regulars at Chancellorsville

15th U.S. Infantry
Among the Regulars at Stones River

The Bugler Checked the Rout: William J. Carson at Chickamauga

18th U.S. Infantry

The Cost of Gallantry: A Voice from the 18th U.S.

A Necessary Sacrifice to Save the Army: A Regular Recalls Stones River

19th U.S. Infantry

Retrieving Major Carpenter: Joseph R. Prentice Earns His Medal of Honor at Stones River

5th U.S. Colored Troops

Victory or Death: The 5th U.S. Colored Troops Receives its Colors

Taking Fort Fisher with the 5th U.S. Colored Troops

27th U.S. Colored Troops
God Alone Knows the Degree of Their Misery: An Ohio Officer at the Crater

28th U.S. Colored Troops
Beyond the Bounds of Our Days: Garland White and the Taking of Richmond in April 1865

59th U.S. Colored Troops
'Remember Fort Pillow!' The 59th U.S. Colored Troops at Brice's Crossroads

86th U.S. Colored Troops
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Fleas: A Hoosier in Florida, 1864

Battery H, 5th U.S. Light Artillery
Among Terrill's Gunners at Shiloh

With the Regular Artillery at Stones River
"Pork & Beans" Writes of Stones River and the Regular Brigade
Overrun at Chickamauga: "Pork & Beans" of the Regular Artillery

U.S. Marine Corps

A Marine Among the Secesh in Norfolk

1st U.S. Sharpshooters (Berdan's)
On the Peninsula with Berdan's Sharpshooters

A Sharpshooter at Williamsburg

The Great Skedaddle: With Berdan's Sharpshooters During the Seven Days

2nd U.S. Sharpshooters

Coming Out with a Whole Hide: A Sharpshooter Describes the Wilderness

6th Vermont Volunteer Infantry

To Die or Conquer: The 6th Vermont at Second Fredericksburg

17th Virginia Infantry

Catching the Pitch of the Minies: The 17th Virginia at Sharpsburg

18th Virginia Infantry

Fredericksburg on the Other Leg: A Blue and Gray View of Pickett's Charge Part II

27th Virginia Infantry

Fighting is Becoming Quite Fashionable in Jackson's Army: With the Stonewall Brigade at Port Republic

33rd Virginia Infantry

The Greatest Move of the War: A Virginian Remembers Chancellorsville

54th Virginia Infantry

The Final Minutes on Horseshoe Ridge

Rockbridge Artillery (Virginia)

A Virginia Cannoneer Remembers Port Republic

Western Federals

Sunbrowned and War-Worn Stalwarts: A Character Study of Western Federals

4th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry

A Situation Not to Be Endured: The 4th West Virginia at Cool Spring

Battery C, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery

A Scene of Terrible Carnage: An Artilleryman Musician's View of Second Bull Run

1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
With the 1st Wisconsin at Chaplin Hills

When the lightning flashed... (Stones River)

Perryville All Knocked in the Shade: At Chickamauga with the 1st Wisconsin

2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

How the Iron Brigade was Wrought: Gainesville Through Antietam with the 2nd Wisconsin

Such is the misfortune of a soldier: The 2nd Wisconsin at Gettysburg

6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

I Don't Thirst for More Fight: An Iron Brigade Sergeant Remembers Gainesville and Second Bull Run

A Mixed Up Mess of Confusion: At South Mountain with the 6th Wisconsin 

With the Iron Brigade at Chancellorsville

7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Seven Bullet Holes in His Hide: A Wisconsin Iron Brigader at South Mountain

Iron Brigade Casualties: A Father and Son Struck Down at Gettysburg

8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Losing Iuka, Taking Iuka: Adventures of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry

Old Abe: The Magnificent War Eagle of the 8th Wisconsin

10th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Riding with Scribner: An Orderly's View of Chickamauga

14th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Remembering Shiloh with the 14th Wisconsin

The Sublime Horror of the Occasion: Memories of a Rebel Officer at Corinth

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Anxious for the Engagement: The 15th Wisconsin is Jilted at Perryville

Capturing the Gun at Knob Gap with the 15th Wisconsin

McKee's Last Missive: The 15th Wisconsin and Knob Gap

Our Hearts are Filled with Sorrow: The Death of Colonel Hans C. Heg 

Hiding from the Rebels in the Attic: Captain Grinager at Murfreesboro

16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

A Helter-Skelter Sort of Fight: A Wisconsin Greenhorn at Shiloh

A Dose of Lead in the Breadbasket: the 16th Wisconsin at Atlanta

18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Outright Murder: The 18th Wisconsin at Shiloh

21st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Murdered by Buell: A Wisconsin Soldier on Perryville

23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

"I'm shot, my God, I'm shot!" A Melancholy Event on the Way to Chickasaw Bayou

24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Perfectly Appalled: Arthur MacArthur Escapes Death at Stones River

His True Qualities were Appreciated by All Who Knew Him: The Death of Lieutenant Christian Nix at Stones River

Everything was Confusion: With the 24th Wisconsin at Chickamauga

26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

A Wisconsin Prisoner of War at Gettysburg

37th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Retiring the colors of the 37th Wisconsin

1st Wisconsin Battery

Among the Phony Brave at Arkansas Post

3rd Wisconsin Battery

I Ought to Have Died: Captain Lu Drury Survives a Ghastly Chest Wound 

Sustaining the Honor of Old Wisconsin: The Badger Bull Dogs Bark Bragg Out of Kentucky

2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry

Crossing Swords with General Meade's Secesh Sister

4th Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry

It Was Death to Stir: the 4th Wisconsin's Fatal Charge at Port Hudson

5th Wisconsin Battery
My God! Leave me here George and save the battery! (Stones River)

U.S.S. Arizona
Clearing the Mississippi with the U.S.S. Arizona

U.S.S. Cairo

With the Cairo at Plum Point Bend

Losing the Cairo: A Yankee Pilot Recalls the Yazoo Disaster

U.S.S. Cincinnati
Captured Flags at the Naval Battle of Memphis

U.S.S. Kennebec

Vicksburg is Still in Command of the Rebels: The U.S. Navy Takes a Crack at Vicksburg

U.S.S. Lexington

A Riverfront View of Shiloh

Sending Our Respects in the Form of a Broadside: The Lexington Saves Fort Donelson

U.S.S. Minnesota

Stuck Fast at the Clash of Ironclads

U.S.S. Monitor

Perfectly Black with Smoke and Powder: A Lieutenant's View of the Clash of Ironclads

U.S.S. Oneida

Damning the Torpedoes in Mobile Bay

U.S.S. Pittsburgh

Four Feet of Water in the Hold: The U.S.S. Pittsburgh Gets Blasted at Fort Donelson

U.S.S. Samson

Fleeing the Arkansas at Vicksburg

U.S.S. Tuscumbia

Pummeled at Grand Gulf

U.S.S. Varuna

Opposing Viewpoints: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Varuna

Aiken

They Are Planting Another One: The Death of Adjutant Hamilton of the 9th Ohio Cavalry

Aldie

Buckeye Sabers: At Aldie with the 6th Ohio Cavalry

Ammunition Manufacture

Bullets for the Union: Manufacturing Small Arms Ammunition During the Civil War

Sherlock Holmes and an Afternoon with the Bullets

Andersonville

Cribbed, Cabined, and Confined: A Buckeye Escapes Andersonville (100th OVI)

Turning Rebel: Recruiting Galvanized Yankees in the winter of 1864-65

A Roundtrip Ticket to Andersonville (3rd Iowa)

Andrews' Raid (April 1862)

Mark Wood: Medal of Honor Recipient of the 21st Ohio Infantry

Stealing a Locomotive: An Andrews' Raider Tells His Tale

Travails of the Silent Raider

Antietam

The 7th Ohio Infantry at the Battle of Antietam

"The wailing sound dies but slowly in my ears" (8th OVI)
How did Colonel Tew's sword end up in Norwalk? (8th OVI)
Taking the Sunken Road: The 8th Ohio at Antietam
Defending the Sunken Road

Hector Tyndale at Antietam

Elizabeth Piper and the Battle of Antietam
"Our neighborhood is one vast graveyard" A account of the carnage of Antietam (Dr. Augustin A. Biggs)
In the Shadow of Burnside Bridge: Philo Pearce at the Battle of Antietam (11th Connecticut)
One of the 17 2/3 %: A Texan Survives Antietam

How the Iron Brigade Was Wrought: Gainesville Through Antietam with the 2nd Wisconsin

Dodging the Rebel Plug-Uglies at Antietam with the 30th Ohio

Marching to Antietam: On Campaign with the 1st Minnesota

Tight Spot in the West Woods (1st Minnesota)

Ohio at Antietam with Dan Welch

The Storm of Blood That is Sure to Reign: At Antietam with the 2nd North Carolina

In the Miller Cornfield with the 18th Georgia

Among the Wounded at Antietam (15th Massachusetts)

A Squirrel Hunt on a Large Scale: The 10th Maine at Antietam

We Felt a Little Streaked: At Burnside's Bridge with the 21st Massachusetts

Uncoffined and Unsung: An Irish Brigade Schoolteacher Survives the Hell of Antietam (63rd NY)

Catching the Pitch of the Minies: The 17th Virginia at Sharpsburg 

Nearing the Shores of Eternity: A Chaplain Among the Dying at Antietam (11th Ohio)

Meeting the Flower of the Southern Army: The 2nd Delaware at Antietam

Seemed as if a Million Bees were in the Air: Saving the Colors at Antietam (1st Delaware)

Visiting Antietam's Hospitals  

I Would Give Another Horse for Such a Victory: Adjutant Bogardus at Antietam

A Yell of Defiance: With Hawkins' Zouaves at Antietam

Appomattox

A Buckeye at Appomattox: Joseph C. Brand Distributed Rations to Lee's Army

Arkansas Post/Fort Hindman
Amongst the ambulance drivers at Arkansas Post (57th Ohio)

Storming the Ramparts of Arkansas Post with the 120th Ohio

The Surrender of Arkansas Post

Breaking the Clouds of Gloom: The 83rd Ohio at Arkansas Post

Taking Fort Hindman with the 76th Ohio

Among the Phony Brave at Arkansas Post (1st Wisconsin Battery)

Army of the Cumberland

The Quintessential Army of the Cumberland Regiment

Army of Tennessee

Braxton Bragg and the Tupelo Revival

Ashland

With the Stigma of a Paroled Prisoner: A 3rd Ohio Cavalryman Remembers Ashland

Sack of Athens, Alabama

Sacking Athens and the Battle of Hewey's Bridge: an account from the 37th Indiana

Atlanta
Never in Such a Tight Place: The Battle of Atlanta (32nd OVI)

William McLain: On the Subject of Surrendering

Losing Our Battery: At the railroad cut at Atlanta (Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery)

Killing McPherson

With a Dutch Sharpshooter at the Battle of Atlanta (37th OVI)

A Dose of Lead in the Breadbasket: the 16th Wisconsin at Atlanta

Running the Gauntlet: the 57th Ohio at the Battle of Atlanta

The Highest Quality of Courage: George Gear at Atlanta (39th OVI)

Defending the Confederate Cavalry on the Atlanta Campaign

Vignettes of Sherman's March to the Sea

Our Guns Were Burning Hot: The 14th Ohio Battery at Atlanta

In Front of Atlanta with the 68th Ohio

Dog Trotting Into Atlanta with the 150th New York 

Fighting on Both Sides of the Works: The 20th Ohio and the Battle of Atlanta

Saved By a Pin: Remembering Atlanta from Inside a Prison Pen (78th Ohio)

Atlanta Campaign

Moving Upon the Tender Places of the Confederacy: General Hazen on the Atlanta Campaign

Through this Dismal Region: The 51st Ohio Marches Towards Atlanta

Life Behind Breastworks: Skirmishing During the Atlanta Campaign with the 50th Ohio

Prepared for the Sudden Call: A Buckeye's Final Letter Before Pickett's Mill (49th Ohio)

The Legend of Leatherbreeches: Hubert Dilger in the Atlanta Campaign

Life in the Hell Hole

Marching to Georgia with the 45th Ohio 

Grilling D.P.: An Interview with Dave Powell 

Averasboro

Through the Carolinas with the 55th Ohio

Balloon Corps

Aerial Reconnaissance, Telegraphy, and the Battle of Fair Oaks

Banks' Expedition to Louisiana

A Diary of Banks' Expedition to Louisiana (18th N.Y. Battery)

General Francis C. Barlow

Riding with Barlow: Edward C. Culp at the Battle of Gettysburg

Baton Rouge

Hell Under the Short Ribs: The 6th Michigan at Baton Rouge

A Massachusetts Gunner at Baton Rouge

Bayou Fourche

Taking Little Rock: A Voice from the 25th Ohio Battery

Belmont
Civil War Center Podcast with Andrew Lucien: Battle of Belmont

A Dutchman at Belmont (1st Illinois Light Artillery)

Standing Up to the Work: A Captain's View of Belmont (22nd Illinois)

The Killing End of the Business: the 27th Illinois at Belmont

Our Maiden Fight: The 13th Tennessee at Belmont

The Pelicans Save the Guns at Belmont

Bentonville

Through the Carolinas with the 55th Ohio

Berryville Wagon Raid
Lost from the O.R.: The Berryville Wagon Raid (144th OVI)

General Braxton Bragg

Braxton Bragg and the Tupelo Revival

Brice's Crossroads

"Skinned out for Memphis like Tam O'Shanter with the devil after him" General Sturgis, the 72nd Ohio, and the Guntown Disaster

The 72nd Ohio at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads 

"Remember Fort Pillow!" The 59th U.S. Colored Troops at Brice's Crossroads

Wiped Out at Guntown: A Private's View of Brice's Crossroads (95th Illinois)

Most Complete Stampede I Ever Witnessed: A Tennessean at Brice's Crossroads (18th Tennessee Cavalry)

An Awful Gauntlet: Vignettes of Brice's Crossroads

The Yankees are Buried Shallow: A Civilian's View of Brice's Crossroads

Gunned Down at Guntown (20th Tennessee Cavalry)

Victims of an Inglorious Disaster: A Yankee's Vivid Account of Brice's Crossroads- Pt. 1

My Last Shot at the Confederacy: A Yankee's Vivid Account of Brice's Crossroads- Pt. 2

The Worst Managed Affair of the War: An Illinois Sergeant on the Debacle at Brice's Crossroads (114th Illinois) 

A Hoosier Escapes Brice's Crossroads

General Don Carlos Buell

Just Another Manic Monday: Don Carlos Buell and September 29, 1862

General Benjamin Butler

Ben Butler's Botched Money Grab: A Tale of Civil War New Orleans

First Bull Run

At First Bull Run with the First O.V.M. 
The Galvanized Yankee of Steubenville, Ohio (Wheat's Battalion)

A Rebel Surgeon at First Bull Run

Fighting with General Bee: The 4th Alabama at Manassas

A Very Unmilitary Movement: With Ellsworth's Zouaves at First Bull Run (11th New York)

Second Bull Run

55th Ohio at Second Bull Run

Butchered at Bull Run: Milroy's Blundering Costs the 82nd Ohio Its Commander

How the Iron Brigade Was Wrought: Gainesville Through Antietam with the 2nd Wisconsin

A Scene of Terrible Carnage: An Artillery Musician's View of Second Bull Run

A Rain of Cannonballs: The 8th New York at Second Bull Run

In Longstreet's Attack at Second Manassas: An account from the 4th Texas

Like Grass Before the Scythe: Duryee's Zouaves at Second Bull Run

With Kearny's Division at Second Bull Run: Voice from the 3rd Michigan Infantry

Leaving the Ground Strewn in Red: The 18th Georgia at Second Manassas

A Chat with Stonewall

Rashness to Remain Longer: With McLean's Buckeyes at Chinn Ridge

I Don't Thirst for More Fight: An Iron Brigade Sergeant Remembers Gainesville and Second Bull Run (6th Wisconsin)

An act of practical Christianity (87th New York)

Bull Run Bridge

Great Expectations Dashed: The Kanawha Division Meets the Army of the Potomac at Manassas Station (11th Ohio)

Bullets

Sherlock Holmes and an Afternoon with the Bullets

Cairo

First Shot of the Civil War in the Western Theater

Camp Allegheny
The 25th Ohio and the Camp Allegheny Skedaddle
The Squirrel Games at the Battle of Camp Allegheny (32nd OVI)

Camp Chase

A Most Irksome Duty: Guarding Rebels at Camp Chase with the 88th Ohio

Camp Life

Pen Portrait of Camp Yancey in December 1861

Camp Nevin
An Artillery Drill in Kentucky

Camp Wildcat
With the 17th Ohio at Camp Wildcat

Caperton's Ferry

Crossing the Tennessee: The Army of the Cumberland Invades Georgia

Carnifex Ferry

The 13th Ohio and the School of the Soldier

An Eyewitness at Carnifex Ferry

Carolinas Campaign

Through the Carolinas with the 55th Ohio

Cedar Creek

Witnessing History: A Buckeye and Sheridan's Ride at Cedar Creek

Cedar Mountain

Giving Tone and Character to the Army: A Buckeye at Cedar Mountain

The Legend of Scotty: John Gray of the 5th Ohio

Chambersburg

Give the Devil All He Wants: The 1862 Rebel Raid on Chambersburg

Champion Hill
Saying Goodbye to a Brother (56th Ohio)

Losing the Colonel: the 68th Ohio at Champion Hill

Our Army was Thoroughly Beaten: An English Rebel Remembers Champion Hill

A Devil of a Rattle: With the Stretcher Bearers at Champion Hill (83rd Ohio)

Determined to Conquer or Die: With the 24th Indiana at Champion Hill

Escaping Champion's Hill with Stephen D. Lee's Brigade (20th Alabama) 

Chancellorsville

A Conversation with Stonewall Jackson (Capt William D. Wilkins)

"My God, what a scene it was!" On the Right Flank at Chancellorsville (25th OVI)

Memorial Day for Captain Franklin J. Sauter, Co. B, 55th Ohio Infantry
Not German Poltroons: The 61st Ohio Explains Chancellorsville

Maverick's Journal of the Chancellorsville Campaign (66th OVI)

Among the guns at Chancellorsville (Battery H, 1st OVLA)
All That a Soldier Can Give: Stowel Burnham at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (82nd OVI)

With the Iron Brigade at Chancellorsville (6th Wisc.)

Dearest Anna: A Buckeye Surgeon's Final Words to His Wife (107th Ohio)

The Greatest Move of the War: A Virginian Remembers Chancellorsville (33rd Virginia)

A Few Rounds of Canister: Bowling with Dilger at Chancellorsville

One of the "Crazy Delawares" Captured at Chancellorsville (2nd Delaware)

Among the Flying Dutchmen at Chancellorsville (107th Ohio)

Gulping Down the Disaster: The 119th Pennsylvania at Salem Church

Grass Before the Mower: A New York Officer in the Midst of Chancellorsville (107th N.Y.)

To Die or Conquer: The 6th Vermont at Second Fredericksburg

With the Regulars at Chancellorsville (12th U.S.)

We Were Not Defeated: A Fifth Corps Clerk Describes Chancellorsville (44th N.Y.)

Blowing His Own Horn: Chancellorsville as Explained by the 12th Alabama

Saving the Right: An Ohio Gunner Remembers Chancellorsville

Carrying Jackson Off the Field at Chancellorsville

With the 139th Pennsylvania at Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church

Answering Infamous Falsehoods: General Schimmelfennig's Chancellorsville Protest

Charging in Dashing Style: With the 5th Alabama at Chancellorsville

Chattanooga

Marching to Georgia Southern Style (Stanford's Mississippi Battery)

Marching Into Chattanooga with the 97th Ohio

Right Side Up and Ready for Another Brush: With the 18th Ohio Battery After Chickamauga

Building the Cracker Line: A New Yorker in eastern Tennessee

One of Sherman's Gophers on the March to Chattanooga (8th Missouri)

Ready for Breakfast or a Fight: The 8th Missouri and the Fight for Tunnel Hill

Chicamacomico

A Georgian Recalls the Chicamacomico Races

Federal guns in Brotherton's Field at Chickamauga

Chickamauga

Battle of Chickamauga Page

Federal Arms in the Chickamauga Campaign

Dispatches from Poe's Tavern: The Army of the Cumberland on the Cusp of the Chickamauga Campaign 

Defending the 14th Ohio Flag at Chickamauga

Jim Stinchcomb in the Business at Chickamauga (17th OVI)

Captured at Chickamauga with the 21st Ohio Infantry

Back to Chickamauga with John Purvis of the 51st Ohio Infantry

"Wipe Out Perryville!" The 121st Ohio's Redemption at Chickamauga
The Fatal Gap: A View from Wood's Division at Chickamauga (64th Ohio)
Compelled to Submit with what Grace We Could: an Ohio artilleryman captured at Chickamauga (Battery A, 1st OVLA)
A Rebel View of Chickamauga: Benjamin S. Williams of the 47th Georgia
Overrun at Chickamauga: "Pork & Beans" of the Regular Artillery (Battery H, 5th U.S.)
Prelude to an Awful Finale: A Buckeye Sergeant at Chickamauga (2nd Ohio Infantry)
Chickamauga Vignettes
The Galvanized Yankee of Steubenville, Ohio (40th Ohio)

Mighty Tempest of War: The First Day of Chickamauga with the 86th Indiana

Harry Townsend's Hat and the Wild Retreat at Chickamauga (9th Kentucky)

Atop Snodgrass Hill: The Second Day at Chickamauga with the 89th Ohio

The Chances of War: Captured Federal Surgeons After Chickamauga

All for our dear country: The 74th Indiana and Chickamauga

Fearfully Grand: The 29th Indiana Survives Chickamauga

Colonel Wilder Discusses Chickamauga

"If Anybody's Boys Go Out, Mine Go." Turchin's Escape at Chickamauga (92nd Ohio)

Severest Ordeal of My Life: A Buckeye Colonel Remembers Chickamauga (33rd Ohio)

Frank Scribner at Chickamauga (38th Indiana)

The Desperate Day Before Us: the 21st Illinois at Chickamauga

Stout Enough Hearts for the Fray: A Buckeye Describes Chickamauga

Pouring Peas on a Rawhide: A Texan Remembers Chickamauga

With Cheatham's Division at Chickamauga

Until Victory is Ours: The Bullet Magnet of the 41st Ohio Survives Chickamauga

Escorting the Rock of Chickamauga

This Dreadful Carnage: A Word from the 58th Alabama

The Final Minutes on Horseshoe Ridge

Joining Rosecrans' Army: The 11th and 12th Corps Travel West in September 1863

Under Most Trying Circumstances: With the 35th Ohio at Chickamauga

From Chickamauga to Libby: The Journal of Major Bedan B. McDonald, 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Arresting a Panic at Chickamauga: A Voice from the 36th Ohio

Little Dreamed Horrors of War: A Civilian's View of Chickamauga

Becoming Tigers: The 125th Ohio and the Struggle of Horseshoe Ridge

Crossing the Tennessee: The Army of the Cumberland Invades Georgia

Buckeye Rapid-Fire: The 21st Ohio and the Colt's Revolving Rifles

It is the Fate of War: The 26th Ohio at Chickamauga

Right Side Up and Ready for Another Brush: With the 18th Ohio Battery After Chickamauga

The Crescent on the Move: The 154th New York and Its Introduction to the Western Theater

Mournful Intelligence: A Guthrie Gray Writes After Chickamauga

The Enemy Certainly Used Us Very Hard: The 6th Ohio and Chickamauga

With the Orphan Brigade at Chickamauga (4th Kentucky)

A Mississippian Under "Shot Pouch" Walker at Chickamauga (24th Mississippi)

In the Center at Chickamauga (58th Indiana)

A Most Terrific Roar: With the 88th Illinois at Chickamauga

Into the Wilderness of Pines: Opening Day on the Left at Chickamauga (31st Ohio)

Saving the Army: The 115th Illinois on Horseshoe Ridge

Not His Fault: Leonidas Polk Explains September 20th 

Revisiting Snodgrass Hill: Memories of a 21st Ohio Officer

Our Hearts are Filled with Sorrow: The Death of Colonel Hans C. Heg

Everything was Confusion: With the 24th Wisconsin at Chickamauga

Perryville All Knocked in the Shade: At Chickamauga with the 1st Wisconsin

Riding with Scribner: An Orderly's View of Chickamauga (10th Wisconsin)

Like a Reed Before the Whirlwind: With Baird's Division at Chickamauga

The River of Death with the 75th Indiana

Our Gallant Boys Bleaching in the Sun: A Buckeye Returns to Chickamauga (17th Ohio)

Barbecued Ribs and the Pipe of Peace: The 1889 Blue-Gray Reunion at Chickamauga

All the Glory of Whipping Rosy (50th Alabama)

A Victory Complete: A Rebel Surgeon at Chickamauga (19th Alabama)

A Battlefield Promise Kept: A Mississippian Returns the Battle Flag of the 2nd Missouri (and 44th Mississippi)

Where Wounds and Death Held High Carnival: The 37th Indiana and Chickamauga

We Wish to Settle This by Fighting: On the Road to Chickamauga with Battery G

Fight for God and Humanity: Chaplain Lyle Sends the 11th Ohio into battle at Chickamauga

Winged at the Outset: Wilbur Hinman's Experiences at Chickamauga (65th Ohio)

How Kenesaw Mountain Landis Got His Unusual Name (35th Ohio)

Twilight was Lurid with the Fire of Battle: Sergeant Richey Captures a Confederate Major (15th Ohio)

I Ought to Have Died: Captain Lu Drury Survives a Ghastly Chest Wound (3rd Wisconsin Battery)

The Bugler Checked the Rout: William J. Carson at Chickamauga (15th U.S.)

Waxing Poetic About Chickamauga: Lines from the Lightning Brigade

An Ugly Scene at Rossville Before Chickamauga

Chickasaw Bluffs/Chickasaw Bayou
Death on the Bayou: The 16th Ohio at Chickasaw Bluffs
Captain Kaufman's Captured Diary: A Relic of Chickasaw Bayou
Masters of the Field: A Confederate Artilleryman at Chickasaw Bayou

Flags of Chickasaw Bayou

There Goes My Brigade to Hell: the 42nd Ohio at Chickasaw Bayou

Bonebrake's Redemption: Richmond to Chickasaw Bayou with the 69th Indiana

"I'm shot, my God, I'm shot!" A Melancholy Event on the Way to Chickasaw Bayou

A Gunner's Life at Chickasaw Bayou with the 17th Ohio Battery

A Fredericksburg in the West: A Witness to the Chickasaw Bayou Fight (6th Missouri)

Christmas

On Corn Bread and Christmas Dinners

Christmas Day 1862: Another Day on the Front Lines of the Civil War

Cincinnati

Making Game of the Butternut Gentry: Squirrel Hunters at Cincinnati

Grapes and Catawba Wine on the Ohio: The 96th Ohio Defends Cincinnati

Lambs Saved from the Slaughter: Memoir of a Cincinnati Emergency Defense Volunteer

The Civil War Center

The Clay Assumes a Darker Hue: A Sojourn After Perryville

Civil War Reenacting

A memoir of Civil War Reenacting

General Patrick R. Cleburne

Remembering "Old Pat" Cleburne

Cloyd's Mountain
Raiding with Crook: A 23rd Ohio Private Remembers Cloyd's Mountain

Cold Harbor

Struck Down at Cold Harbor: In Action with the 8th New York Heavy Artillery

Colt Revolving Rifles

Buckeye Rapid-Fire: The 21st Ohio and the Colt's Revolving Rifles

Columbia

Hold the Bridge at All Hazards: The Last Stand on the Duck River at Columbia (22nd Indiana Battery)

Company Names

What's in a Name? Company Monikers at Stones River

Confederate Generals

Buckeye Generals of the Confederacy

Confederate Newspapers

Exploring Confederate Newspapers

Confederate Uniforms

Dressing the Rebels: How to Dye Butternut Jeans Cloth

A Hard Looking Set of Men and Boys: The North Meets the Fort Donelson Prisoners

Cook & Brother Rifle Manufacturing

Cook & Brother of New Orleans

Cool Spring

A Situation Not to Be Endured: The 4th West Virginia at Cool Spring

Corinth (May 1862)

First In, By God! A Hoosier Describes the Final Days of the Siege of Corinth (36th Indiana)

Corinth (October 1862)

Brigham's War: Letters from the 27th Ohio Infantry, Part III
Interview with Brad Quinlin and the story of Pierre Starr, 39th Ohio Infantry

"Our Kirby" Colonel Joseph L. Kirby Smith and the 43rd Ohio at the Battle of Corinth

The Tug of War: A Hawkeye Captain at Corinth

A Buckeye Remembers Scenes of Horror After the Battle of Corinth (80th Ohio)

Back from the Dead: The 11th Ohio Battery at Corinth

The 63rd Ohio and the Struggle for Battery Robinett

Capturing the Lady Richardson at Corinth

Up to Time and Up to Contract: A Missourian Recalls Corinth

Within a Square of the Tishomingo Hotel: At Corinth with the 42nd Alabama

House to House Fighting at Corinth with the 50th Illinois

The Sublime Horror of the Occasion: Memories of a Rebel Officer at Corinth

Charging Battery Robinett: An Alabama Soldier Recalls the Vicious Fighting at Corinth

Among the Buzzing, Screaming Little Demons: Professor Dunn at Corinth

Corps Badges

Corps Badges of Sherman's Army

The Crater
"God Alone Knows the Degree of Their Misery" An Ohio Officer at the Crater (27th USCT)
The Earth Seemed to Rock Beneath Me: A Blue and Gray View of the Crater

A Cloud of Dust, Smoke, Timbers, and Men (18th South Carolina)

Retiring the colors of the 37th Wisconsin

Lt. Col. Leroy Crockett, 72nd OVI

Honoring Lieutenant Colonel Leroy Crockett

Cross Keys

Dirty, ragged, hungry, and footsore: a view of Fremont's army from a lieutenant in the 82nd Ohio

Harlan Bradford at the Battle of Cross Keys (Battery I, 1st OVLA)

Heman's Last Letter: Final Words from a Private in the 60th Ohio

Chasing Stonewall: A Connecticut Cavalryman Campaigns with Fremont (1st CT Cavalry)

A Hoosier Gunner at Cross Keys (26th Indiana Battery)

Cross Lanes
The "Bloody Seventh Ohio" at Cross Lanes

Cumberland Gap

With George Morgan's Foot Cavalry: Taking and Losing Cumberland Gap

Repossessing the Gibraltar of America: The Confederates Retake Cumberland Gap

Jefferson Davis
Guarding the Arch-Traitor

Surely the Bottom Had Fallen Out: Escorting President Davis in the Final Days of the Confederacy

Davis or Hatchie Bridge

The Indignant Old Eagle: Bearing the Colors at Hatchie Bridge (68th Ohio)

A Soldierly Submission: Amputating a Leg After Hatchie Bridge

Boys, Remember Iowa! The 3rd Iowa at Hatchie Bridge

Davis' Crossroads/Dug Gap

Negley's Division Escapes the Beartrap at Davis' Crossroads

Decatur

Scrapping with Hood at Decatur (18th Michigan)

Deserters

Getting out of the Scrape: Rebel Deserters in the Atlanta Campaign

Dingle's Mill

Forgotten Heroism at the End of the War in South Carolina (107th OVI)

Dobson's Ferry

Fighting for Forage: The Scrap at Dobson's Ferry, Tennessee (51st OVI)

Dover, Tennessee

Sending Our Respects in the Form of a Broadside: The Lexington Saves Fort Donelson

The 83rd Illinois' Finest Hour: Holding Dover Against Wheeler and Forrest

Dug Gap (May 8, 1864)

The 29th Fights While There is a Man Left: The Blood Demonstration at Dug Gap

With His Mother's Likeness in His Bosom Pin

Dumfries

The Glory of Dumfries Has Parted: A Scrap with Jeb Stuart

Echoes of Battle

Volume 1: Philippi to Perryville

Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Fort Sanders

Election of 1860

Rallying under the Banner of Lincoln and Hamlin: A Buckeye Witnesses the 1860 Chicago Convention

Emerging Civil War Blog

William McLain: On the Subject of Surrendering

Damned Green Yanks: The 171st Ohio at Keller's Bridge, Kentucky

Give the Devil All He Wants: The 1862 Rebel Raid on Chambersburg (with Scott Mingus)

A Hoosier at Port Gibson

Our Army Was Thoroughly Beaten: An English Rebel Remembers Champion Hill

All in Our Favor: A Federal Officer in the Midst of the Tullahoma Campaign

Francis Flanagan's Fredericksburg Redemption (133rd Pennsylvania)

His Eye was Dark, Calm, and Thoughtful: A Pen Portrait of General John B. Gordon 

Miracle at the Three-Mile Marker Now a Lake at Stones River

Enfield Rifle Muskets

The Vaunted Enfield Rifle Musket

Executions

A Galvanized Yankee Executed at Tullahoma

Traced to the Curse of Intoxication: A Wartime Execution

Ezra Church

Battling a Defiant Bravery: With the 15th Corps at Ezra Church (26th Illinois)

The Informal Truce: Trading Coffee and Sugar After Ezra Church (55th Illinois)

Fair Oaks/Seven Pines

Captain Reid of the 63rd Pennsylvania at Fair Oaks 

Buckeyes at the Battle of Fair Oaks

Watching a Battle: Behind the Lines with the 71st Pennsylvania at Seven Pines

Aerial Reconnaissance, Telegraphy, and the Battle of Fair Oaks

With the 11th Mississippi at Seven Pines

Waiting for the Great Fight: Before Seven Pines with the 2nd Georgia

Blue and Gray View of Seven Pines: The 6th Alabama on the Attack

Blue and Gray View of Seven Pines: With Casey's Division on May 31, 1862

Fallen Timbers

Gobbled by Forrest at Fallen Timbers (77th Ohio)

Flag Presentations

Victory or Death: The 5th U.S. Colored Troops Receives its Colors

Federal Gunboat Raid on Florence, Alabama

Two Yankee Gunboats at Our Landing! The Federal gunboat raid on Florence, Alabama in February 1862

Food

On Cornbread and Christmas Dinners in 1861 Kentucky

Rations for 50? Recipes courtesy of the Headquarters of the Army of the Cumberland

Just a Forage Requisition

Nathan Bedford Forrest

An Interview with Forrest in May 1864

Fort Anderson

Taking Wilmington with the 23rd Corps (111th OVI)

Fort Donelson

Buckeyes Among Hawkeyes: Ohioans at Fort Donelson with the 2nd Iowa

Grant's Bodyguard: An Illinois Trooper at Fort Donelson (4th Illinois Cavalry)

Our Whole Line Seemed to be on Fire: McClernand's Failed Assault at Fort Donelson (49th Illinois)

To Drink the Delight of Battle: A Soldier's Death in the 20th Illinois

A Hard Looking Set of Men and Boys: the North meets the Fort Donelson Prisoners

Left at the Landing: A Confederate View of Fort Donelson

The Western Sharpshooters at Fort Donelson

Four Feet of Water in the Hold: The U.S.S. Pittsburgh Gets Blasted at Fort Donelson

Dueling with the Gunboats: With the Confederate Gunners at Fort Donelson

War in Earnest: The 11th Illinois and the Taking of Fort Donelson 

The ground seemed to boil under my feet: Taking Fort Donelson with the 7th Illinois

Kept Step to the Music of Cannons: Captain Merrill Leads His Hoosiers in Fort Donelson (44th Indiana)

Fort Fisher

Taking Fort Fisher with the 5th U.S. Colored Troops

Fort Henry

At Last a Chance for Action: Taking Fort Henry (8th Illinois)

Forts Jackson & St. Philip

Opposing Viewpoints: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Varuna

Fort Kearny

Soldiering on the Plains During the Civil War

Fort McAllister

Taking Fort McAllister with the 70th Ohio

Fort Pillow

Blackest Deed of the War: A Woman's Impressions of the Fort Pillow Massacre

Fort Pulaski

Firing the Mortars on Fort Pulaski (7th Connecticut)

Fort Wagner

One Thousand Sable Heroes martialed for the defense of their country (54th Massachusetts)

Willing to Whip His Weight in Wildcats: The Addison White Story Part I

A Buckeye with the 54th Massachusetts Infantry 

Sergeant Major John H. Wilson of the 54th Massachusetts 

Storming Fort Wagner with the 67th Ohio

Hades Opened Wide: Taking Battery Wagner with the 13th Indiana

Our Men Fought Like Heroes: A 54th Massachusetts Officer at Battery Wagner

Another Such Engagement Would Not Be Desirable: The 62nd Ohio and Battery Wagner

The Flag Never Touched the Ground: William Carney at Battery Wagner

At the Center of a Circle of Fire: A Confederate View of the Fight for Battery Wagner

Following Glory: Two New Yorkers Recall the Charge on Battery Wagner

Fourth of July

Fourth of July in western Virginia (7th OVI)
Wrapped in Gloom and Fearful Forebodings: The Not-So-Glorious Fourth of 1862

A Glorious Conclusion: The Surrender of Vicksburg (32nd OVI)

First Franklin

Run-In with a Rake: The 40th Fights at First Franklin

Second Franklin
10 Days to Franklin: The 183rd Ohio Goes to War

A Buckeye Surgeon Behind the Lines at Franklin (118th OVI)

Awful Scenes of Carnage: A Buckeye Recalls Franklin (26th OVI)

Awful to the Extreme: Voice from the 125th Ohio at Franklin

At the Center of Hell: The 100th Ohio at Franklin 

Fighting with Axes, Picks, and Sponges with the 6th Ohio Battery

Pandemonium Reigned Supreme: A Buckeye Captured at Franklin

Vignettes of the Battle of Franklin

Firm as an Iron Pillar: A Hoosier Describes the Battle of Franklin (129th Indiana)

The Horrors of War on All Hands: The "Fighting Parson" of the 79th Illinois Recalls Franklin

Hold the Bridge at All Hazards: The Last Stand on the Duck River at Columbia (22nd Indiana Battery)

Fraternization

Chatting Up the Enemy: An Afternoon Among the Rebels

The Informal Truce: Trading Coffee and Sugar After Ezra Church

Fredericksburg (1862)

Slaughtered at Fredericksburg: A Voice from the 4th Ohio

Vanquished without Disgrace: The 8th Ohio and the Charge Against Marye's Heights

Storming Fredericksburg with the 1st Minnesota

Francis Flanagan's Fredericksburg Redemption (133rd Pennsylvania)

Our Men Were Cut Down Like Grass: With the 53rd Pennsylvania at Marye's Heights

Never Saw a City More Thoroughly Sacked: A Pennsylvanian at Fredericksburg

It was a Strange Scene: The Truce at Fredericksburg 

Fredericksburg (1863)

To Die or Conquer: The 6th Vermont at Second Fredericksburg

A Tornado of Shot and Shell: Storming Marye's Heights at Second Fredericksburg (6th Maine)

With the 139th Pennsylvania at Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church

Freeman's Ford

Standing like pillars of adamant: the 61st Ohio Infantry at Freeman's Ford

General John W. Fuller

Licked Up By Fire: Marching Through Georgia with General Fuller

Fulton County (Ohio) Historical Museum

Fulton County Historical Museum

Gaines Mill

With the Jasper Greys at Gaines Mill (16th Mississippi)

The Great Skedaddle: With Berdan's Sharpshooters During the Seven Days

Louder than the Bolts of Heaven: With the 1st Michigan at Gaines Mill

A Promise Kept After Gaines Mill (1st Michigan)

More in the Wind Than We Bargained For: The Seven Days with the 3rd New Jersey

Carrying the Colors of the 5th Texas at Gaines Mill

Gainesville (Florida)

A Most Severe Campaign: The 75th Ohio at the Battle of Gainesville Florida

Gainesville (Va.)/Groveton/Brawner's Farm

How the Iron Brigade Was Wrought: Gainesville Through Antietam with the 2nd Wisconsin

A Baptism at Groveton: The Fight at Brawner's Farm with the 19th Indiana

I Don't Thirst for More Fight: An Iron Brigade Sergeant Remembers Gainesville and Second Bull Run

Gallatin

Tunnel-Busting: Morgan's Cavalry Closes Big South Tunnel

1st Minnesota charging at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

Gettysburg

Alfred E. Lee of the 82nd Ohio at Gettysburg
All That a Soldier Can Give: Stowel Burnham at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

General James S. Robinson of the 82nd Ohio at Gettysburg
Stopping Pickett's Charge: The 126th New York at Gettysburg
Used Up at Gettysburg: the 154th New York

The Purloined Letter: A Georgian Officer on the Gettysburg Campaign (3rd Georgia Sharpshooters)

A Bloody Half Hour: With Battery K at Gettysburg

Sawyer's Flag Collection: The 8th Ohio and Pickett's Charge

Such is the misfortune of a soldier: the 2nd Wisconsin at Gettysburg

Hobbled on Barlow's Knoll (75th OVI)

Travails of a Wounded Brigadier: Charles K. Graham's Gettysburg Experiences

Holding Culp's Hill: The 66th Ohio at Gettysburg

Lost on Little Round Top (16th Michigan)

Our Once Splendid and Proud 25th Ohio

The Iron Storm was Howling: With the Artillery Reserve at Gettysburg

A Day of Laurels: The 20th Maine at Gettysburg

The Buckeye Diaspora After Gettysburg

Just Before the Battle: Marching to Gettysburg with the 11th Corps

Riding with Barlow: Edward C. Culp at the Battle of Gettysburg

Never Imagined Such a Rain of Bullets: The 134th New York and the Brickyard Fight at Gettysburg

Died on the Fourth of July: A Soldier's End at Gettysburg

A Chaotic Retreat Through Gettysburg (157th New York)

Standing as Firm as Pyramids: Account of a New Yorker Captured in the Brickyard

Iron Brigade Casualties: A Father and Son Struck Down at Gettysburg

With the Havelock Battery at Gettysburg

With an Empire State Tenderfoot at Gettysburg

A Dearly Bought Victory to Us: Colonel Harris and the 75th Ohio at Gettysburg

Dedicating the Gettysburg National Cemetery

On Soil Enriched with their Blood: The Aftermath of Gettysburg

A Wisconsin Prisoner of War at Gettysburg (26th Wisconsin)

Fighting for Hearth and Home: Knap's Battery at Gettysburg (Battery E, PA Lt. Artillery)

With the 1st South Carolina at Gettysburg

No More Gallant Deed in History: The 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg

The Air was Literally Full of Iron: The 1st Minnesota and Pickett's Charge

Fredericksburg on the Other Leg: A Blue and Gray View of Pickett's Charge Pt. 1 (14th CT)

Fredericksburg on the Other Leg: A Blue and Gray View of Pickett's Charge Pt. II (18th VA)

Fate Decreed Otherwise: A Pennsylvanian Captured at Gettysburg (88th PA)

Back from the Dead: Captain Alfred E. Lee's Return Home After Gettysburg

At Gettysburg with the 62nd Pennsylvania

Stunned at Gettysburg: Colonel Root Remembers the Fight of July 1st (94th N.Y.)

Giles Courthouse

A Tight Spot for the 23rd Ohio at Giles Courthouse

Glorieta Pass

Squirrel Hunting the Rebels at Glorieta Pass

Good's Farm (Harrisonburg)

Chasing Ashby: A Connecticut Trooper Recalls the Fight at Harrisonburg

General John B. Gordon

His Eye was Dark, Calm, and Thoughtful: A Pen Portrait of General John B. Gordon

General Charles K. Graham

Travails of a Wounded Brigadier: Charles K. Graham's Gettysburg Experiences

Grand Gulf

Pummeled at Grand Gulf

Greenbrier

Holding the Flank at Greenbrier with the 3rd Arkansas

Grierson's Raid

With the 2nd Iowa Cavalry on Grierson's Raid

Hall's Gap, Kentucky

Paying Our Road Tax: Building a Road Through Hall's Gap

Halloween

A Halloween Tale: Ichabod Crane, Washington Irving, and the Civil War 

The Wizard of Oz and the Civil War 

Hampton Roads

Witnessing History: A Cavalryman's View of the Clash of Ironclads

Perfectly Black with Smoke and Powder: A Lieutenant's View of the Clash of Ironclads

Stuck Fast at the Clash of Ironclads

Hardin County (Ohio) Historical Museum

Hardin County Historical Museum

Harper's Ferry
Heaven and Earth Seemed to be Collapsing: Under Fire at Harper's Ferry

William McLain: On the Subject of Surrendering

A National Disgrace: The 60th Ohio and the Surrender of Harper's Ferry

Hartsville

Colonel A.B. Moore Explains the Hartsville Disgrace

Blue Times: The 104th Illinois After Hartsville

Hatchie or Davis' Bridge

The Indignant Old Eagle: Bearing the Colors at Hatchie Bridge (68th Ohio)

A Soldierly Submission: Amputating a Leg After Hatchie Bridge

Boys, Remember Iowa! The 3rd Iowa at Hatchie Bridge

Hawk's Nest

Scrapping at Hawk's Nest with the 11th Ohio

General William B. Hazen

Moving Upon the Tender Places of the Confederacy: General Hazen on the Atlanta Campaign

Colonel Hans C. Heg

Our Hearts are Filled with Sorrow: The Death of Colonel Hans C. Heg

Holly Springs

A Yankee Sutler's View of Van Dorn's Holly Springs Raid

Honey Hill

The 25th Ohio Gets Stung at Honey Hill

General John Bell Hood

Madness Rules the Hour: Southern Press Reaction to Joe Johnston's Removal in July 1864

Occupation of Huntsville, Alabama

Watchful Waiting: With the 189th Ohio in Northern Alabama in 1865

General Stephen A. Hurlbut

We Generals Must Take Our Chances with the Boys: With General Hurlbut at Shiloh

Iron Brigade

How the Iron Brigade Was Wrought: Gainesville Through Antietam with the 2nd Wisconsin

I Don't Thirst for More Fight: An Iron Brigade Sergeant Remembers Gainesville and Second Bull Run (6th Wisconsin)

With the Iron Brigade at Chancellorsville (6th Wisconsin)

Such is the misfortune of a soldier: the 2nd Wisconsin at Gettysburg

Iron Brigade Casualties: A Father and Son Struck Down at Gettysburg

Island No. 10

Escape from the Island: An Arkansas Yankee and the Surrender of Island No. 10

Gloomy Final Days of Island No. 10

Iuka

Music of the Spheres: The 11th Ohio Battery at the Battle of Iuka

The 11th Ohio Battery's Blood-Stained Ledger: The Shadows of Iuka
Brigham's War: Letters from the 27th Ohio Infantry, Pt. III

Some Hideous Dream: The 4th Minnesota at Iuka

With Sickles Dyed in Purple Gore: The 5th Iowa at Iuka

Fighting of a Most Desperate Character: The 3rd Louisiana at Iuka

Contending with Western Men: A Mississippian Recounts Iuka (40th Mississippi)

Losing Iuka, Taking Iuka: Adventures of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry

Ivy Mountain

Guns of Ivy Mountain (Battery D, 1st OVLA)

Ambushed at Ivy Mountain (16th Kentucky)

General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

A Chat with Stonewall

Pen Portrait of Stonewall Jackson

General Joseph E. Johnston

Madness Rules the Hour: Southern Press Reaction to Joe Johnston's Removal in July 1864

Jonesboro
Hot, Bloody, and Glorious: The 14th Ohio at Jonesboro
Jonesboro Revisited: Why Did Este's Assault Succeed?

Amid a Very Hell of Carnage: Charging Jonesboro with the 38th Ohio

A Most Estimable and Devoted Lady: The Indomitable "Mother George"

Breaking the Macon & Western Railroad (65th Ohio)

Keller's Bridge

Damned Green Yanks: The 171st Ohio at Keller's Bridge, Kentucky

Kennesaw Mountain
Killed at Kennesaw: Death of Lieutenant Dungan of the 113th Ohio
"Gentlemen, this is serious business." A 57th Ohio Captain Recalls Kennesaw

On the Federal left flank at Kennesaw Mountain (78th OVI)

From Time to Eternity: Behind the Lines at Kennesaw (107th Illinois)

They paid dearly for their whistle today: Rebel Views of Kennesaw Mountain

With One of Opdycke's Tigers at Kennesaw (125th OVI)

A Bitter Pill on Kennesaw Mountain (111th Illinois)

Billy Had No Enemies: The Death of Captain William D. Neal (20th OVI)

The Golden Moment was Gone: The Doomed Assault on the Dead Angle at Kennesaw (121st OVI)

How Kenesaw Mountain Landis Got His Unusual Name (35th Ohio)

Kentucky Campaign (1862)

A Private Lambasts Buell's Campaign (17th Indiana)

Just Another Manic Monday: Don Carlos Buell and September 29, 1862

Sustaining the Honor of Old Wisconsin: The Badger Bull Dogs Bark Bragg Out of Kentucky

We have brothers been of yore: Singing Kentucky into the Confederacy

The Fight for Big Hill: The 1st Georgia Cavalry Opens the Kentucky Campaign 

Louisville Under Martial Law: A Civilian Remembers the Opening of the Kentucky Campaign 

Marching to Kentucky with the 39th Alabama

First Kernstown

Jeff Parsons of the 67th Ohio at the First Battle of Kernstown

The 67th Ohio Commemorates First Kernstown 57 years later

With Infernal Fury: The 5th Ohio is Blooded at Kernstown

Charging by Fours with the 1st Ohio at Kernstown

Knapsacks

Knapsack Compression: Wilbur Hinman recalls the first step of becoming a veteran

Knoxville

Liberating Knoxville: Burnside Brings East Tennessee back into the Union

Damning Wartime Knoxville

Kolb's Farm

Battling the Butternuts at Kolb's Farm (82nd OVI)

Knob Gap

Capturing the Gun at Knob Gap with the 15th Wisconsin

Charles Barney Dennis at Stones River Part 1 (101st Ohio)

McKee's Last Missive: The 15th Wisconsin and Knob Gap

General Mortimer D. Leggett

A Brevet Hoss: Molly the Cow and the Grand Review

Lewisburg

A Victory Promptly and Gloriously Won: The 36th Ohio at Lewisburg

The 44th Ohio and the Fight for Lewisburg

Libby Prison
A Hard Way of Serving the Lord: Colonel Wilson at Libby Prison (123rd OVI)

Liberty Gap

Liberty Gap as Seen by the 77th Pennsylvania

General August Willich and Advance Firing

Wilder's Lightning Brigade

Colonel Wilder Discusses Chickamauga

How Wilder's Brigade Got Their Lightning 

Wilder's Last Ride: On Wilson's Raid with the 17th Indiana

Waxing Poetic About Chickamauga: Lines from the Lightning Brigade

Limestone Station
Brisk Fight with the Johnnies: The 100th Ohio at Limestone Station

Derrick Lindow

We Shall Conquer or Die: Interview with Author Derrick Lindow

Lookout Mountain

The Flag Capturing Machine: The 149th New York and the Chattanooga Campaign

Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion: An Iowan on Lookout Mountain (31st Iowa)

Lorenz Rifles

A Different Vista on the Civil War

Lovejoy Station

A Hard Charge at 112 Degrees (3rd OVC)

Cutting Our Way Out at Lovejoy Station (3rd OVC)

Malvern Hill

On the Left at Malvern Hill with the 4th Michigan

At the Closing Scene of the Bloody Drama: With the 10th Georgia at Malvern Hill

March to the Sea

Licked Up By Fire: Marching Through Georgia with General Fuller

Vignettes of Sherman's March to the Sea

The Yankee Rump Session of the Georgia Legislature

Martinsburg

Scrapping with the Rebs at Martinsburg

Maryland Campaign

Our Army is Almost Invincible: The Maryland Campaign and the 2nd North Carolina

Maryland was Ripe for Action: The 6th Alabama Crosses the Potomac 

General Alexander McDowell McCook

Revenge of the Tribe of Dan: A Look at Alexander McCook's Captured Correspondence

General McCook Discovers Governor Johnson at Shiloh

McDowell
First Shots at McDowell with the 73rd Ohio 

Battling Jackson's Legions at McDowell (75th Ohio)

The Delano Morey Medal of Honor Story (82nd Ohio)

General James B. McPherson

Killing McPherson

Our Hearts Were Almost Rent Asunder: The Burial of General McPherson

General George G. Meade

Crossing Swords with General Meade's Secesh Sister

Memphis
Captured Flags at the Naval Battle of Memphis

Mill Springs/Logan's Crossroads/Fishing Creek
Nip and Tuck with the 2nd Minnesota at Mill Springs
The Odyssey of Zollicoffer's Body

Trembling in Our Very Boots: A Hoosier Describes Mill Springs (10th Indiana)

A Tale of Two Colonels: A Blue & Gray View of Mill Springs

A Librarian's First Battle: At Mill Springs with the 2nd Minnesota

Failure at Fishing Creek: A Mississippi Tiger's Take on Mill Springs (15th Mississippi)

Milliken's Bend

Broken Bayonets and Blood: An Officer's Account of Milliken's Bend (9th Louisiana A.D.)

Raising the Fighting Standard at Milliken's Bend (11th Louisiana A.D.)

Mine Run

Enough to try the patience of a Wooden Man: The 126th Ohio at Mine Run

Missionary Ridge
With the 1st Ohio at Missionary Ridge

Matters Looked Terrible: A Confederate atop Missionary Ridge

Avenging Chickamauga: The 49th Ohio Storms Missionary Ridge

A Perfect Storm of Bullets: The 104th Illinois and the Taking of Missionary Ridge

The Drummer Boy of Missionary Ridge (37th Ohio)

A Determined and Plucky Set of Men: The 35th Ohio and Missionary Ridge

It Was Deucedly Hot Here: A Buckeye on Missionary Ridge (69th Ohio)

Bearing the Colors at Missionary Ridge (31st Ohio)

Mobile Bay

Damning the Torpedoes in Mobile Bay

Monocacy

The 144th and 149th Ohio Infantry at the Battle of Monocacy

Buckeyes Along the Monocacy

Taking a Bullet and Finding a Wife (14th New Jersey)

We had to run but we saved the army: With the Ohio National Guardsmen at Monocacy (149th Ohio)

More Than New Recruits in the Diggins: Fighting Early at Monocacy (126th Ohio)

General Daniel Morgan (Revolutionary War)

Mystic Chords of Memory: Opequon, Saratoga, and the 77th New York

General John Hunt Morgan

Tunnel-Busting: Morgan's Cavalry Closes Big South Tunnel

Mud March

Undone by the Mud: Vignettes of the Mud March

Mules
The Common, Ordinary, Extraordinary Army Mule

Munfordville

Bumping Into Bragg's Rearguard at Munfordville (26th Ohio)

Among the Hoosier Greenhorns at Munfordville (67th Indiana)

A Continuous Line of Fire: A Mississippian Recalls the Assault on Munfordville

Murfreesboro

When Forrest Came to Dinner: The Federal Defeat at Murfreesboro

Dirt Fishing at Murfreesboro

Nashville

Born Into the Union Again: A Buckeye View of the Occupation of Nashville

The "Glory" Business: The 7th Minnesota at Nashville

William Keesy and the Battle of Nashville

A Carnival of Death: A Federal Officer's View of the Battle of Nashville (99th Ohio)

Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad

Battling for the Blockhouses with the 115th Ohio

General William "Bull" Nelson

Campaigning with the "old tub of guts" William Nelson

The Bull on the Battlefield

New Madrid and Island No. 10
Brigham's War: Letters from the 27th Ohio Infantry, Pt. II

Taking New Madrid: A View from the 10th Illinois

New Market

Bloody Homecoming: Winchester and New Market with the 123rd Ohio

The Purple Heart of Hell: The 34th Massachusetts at New Market

New Orleans

Ben Butler's Botched Money Grab: A Tale of Civil War New Orleans

Newspaper Indexes

Copperhead County: Holmes County Ohio Newspapers in the Civil War

Indexing the Gallipolis Journal

Indexing the Urbana Citizen-Gazette
Indexing the Woodsfield Spirit of Democracy

Indexing the Marysville Tribune

New Years

New Years on the Islands: Festivities of the Keystone Zouaves

Nolensville

A Fight for Corn: Eight Medals of Honor Awarded at Nolensville

Norfolk

A Marine Among the Secesh in Norfolk

Nurses
Women of Shiloh

A Most Estimable and Devoted Lady: The Indomitable "Mother George"

Ohio Infantry Regiments

Arming the Buckeyes: Longarms of the Ohio Infantry Regiments

Ohio River
The Ohio River Highway

Opequon/Third Winchester

Mystic Chords of Memory: Opequon, Saratoga, and the 77th New York

All the Demonism of a Battle: A New Yorker at Third Winchester (114th N.Y.)

Paducah, Kentucky

Among the Shiloh Wounded at Paducah

Parker's Crossroads

Surrounded by "That Devil Forrest" at Parker's Crossroads (122nd Illinois)

Saving the Day at Parker's Crossroads (27th Ohio)

Pea Ridge

The Pea Ridge Pards (36th Illinois)

A Buckeye at Pea Ridge (59th Illinois)
Frederick S. Washburn of the 9th Iowa at Pea Ridge

The Hour Had Come: The 8th Indiana at Pea Ridge

Peach Tree Creek

The Iron Game at Peach Tree Creek (73rd Illinois)

With the 37th Mississippi at Peach Tree Creek

Among the Provost Guards at Peach Tree Creek (79th Ohio)

Hooker's Finest Hour: With the 20th Corps at Peach Tree Creek (82nd Ohio)

The Nicest Fight I Ever Saw: The 55th Ohio and Peach Tree Creek

Our boys went in with a yell: At Peach Tree Creek with the 79th Ohio

Peninsula Campaign

On the Peninsula with Berdan's Sharpshooters 

Pensacola

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Fleas: A Hoosier in Florida, 1864

Perryville

Civil War Seattle podcast with Richard Heisler: Perryville and the 105th Ohio

Mr. Cotter Gets Gobbled at Perryville
A Sad Commentary on Glorious War: The Horrors of Perryville

The Saga of General William R. Terrill's Sword

With the 1st Wisconsin at Chaplin Hills

He Died Like a True Soldier: A Tale of Perryville (3rd Ohio)

I saw my blood flowing freely: Colonel Moore of the 33rd Ohio Describes Perryville

A Sad Duty After Perryville (50th Ohio)

No Victory for Us: Graphic Account of the Aftermath of Perryville (31st Ohio)

The Solemn Realities of War: A Hoosier Greenhorn Sees the Elephant at Perryville (80th Indiana)

Revenge of the Tribe of Dan: A Look at Alexander McCook's Captured Correspondence

A Mississippi Gunner at Perryville

Losing Colonel Webster: The 98th Ohio at Perryville

The Clay Assumes a Darker Hue: A Sojourn After Perryville

Anxious for the Engagement: The 15th Wisconsin is Jilted at Perryville

Saving the Army at Perryville (Semple's Battery)

Saving Major McCook: William Surles at Perryville (2nd Ohio)

Come my dear husband, this is no place for us: A Perryville Story (79th Pennsylvania)

The 94th Ohio Remembers Perryville

Murdered by Buell: A Wisconsin Soldier on Perryville (21st Wisconsin)

Those Damned Dutchmen Fight Like Bulldogs: With the 24th Illinois at Perryville

Petersburg

An Alabamian's Memories of Breckinridge's Charge and a Chance Meeting with General Lee

Storming Petersburg with the 126th Ohio

Retiring the colors of the 37th Wisconsin

Philippi

Ferocious for a Fight: The Philippi Races and the 14th O.V.I.

Pickett's Mill

Inside the Crime of Pickett's Mill: Voices from the 49th Ohio
Bullet Dodging at New Hope Church with the 93rd Ohio

With a Gun in One Hand and a Rail in the Other: The 19th Ohio at Pickett's Mill

Bullets Were Flying Rather Fast: The 78th Pennsylvania and Pickett's Mill

Finding Grandpa Saul (49th Ohio) 

Plum Point Bend

With the Cairo at Plum Point Bend

Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk

Not His Fault: Leonidas Polk Explains September 20th

Port Gibson

A Hoosier at Port Gibson (8th Indiana)

Port Hudson
Clearing the Mississippi with the U.S.S. Arizona
A New Yorker at Port Hudson (161st New York)

He Tumbled Over Beautifully: Sharpshooting at Port Hudson (49th Massachusetts)

The Surrender of Port Hudson

It Was Death to Stir: the 4th Wisconsin's Fatal Charge at Port Hudson

Knocking at Port Hudson's Door: Ducking Shells with the 161st New York

Sufferings Inconceivable: The Horrors of Port Hudson (38th Massachusetts)

Port Republic

After Port Republic: Shields' men march to Alexandria

Theron Winship of the 29th Ohio at the Battle of Port Republic

Atop the Coaling: the 66th Ohio at Port Republic 
Monclova Resident killed at Port Republic in 1862 (Battery H, 1st OVLA)

The Legend of Scotty: John Gray of the 5th Ohio

A Virginia Cannoneer Remembers Port Republic

The 7th Ohio and the Battle for Port Republic

Fighting is Becoming Quite Fashionable in Jackson's Army: With the Stonewall Brigade at Port Republic (27th Virginia)

They Pitched Into us Pretty Strong: A Buckeye Prisoner Recalls Port Republic (29th Ohio) A Hoosier at Port Republic  (7th Indiana)

Prairie Grove

With the Arkansas Conscripts at Prairie Grove (39th Arkansas)

Princeton Court House

Buckeye Zouaves: The "Damned Red Tops" and the Fight for Princeton Court House

A Gentlemanly Sort of War: The Piatt Zouaves Survive Princeton

Prisoner of War Experience

Honor Fearfully Won: A Stones River Story of the 39th Indiana

A Hard Way of Serving the Lord: Colonel Wilson at Libby Prison (123rd OVI)

Stealing a Locomotive: An Andrews' Raider Tells His Tale

Captured at Chickamauga with the 21st Ohio Infantry

Compelled to Submit with what Grace We Could: an Ohio artilleryman captured at Chickamauga

The Chances of War: Captured Federal Surgeons After Chickamauga

Mr. Cotter Gets Gobbled at Perryville

The Prisoner Who Never Surrendered: The Adventure of John J. Geer, 48th Ohio Infantry

Captured Entire: The Loss of Battery E, 1st Ohio Light Artillery at Stones River

Galloway's Travels: An Arkansas Rebel's Journey Through the North

A Most Irksome Duty: Guarding Rebels at Camp Chase with the 88th Ohio

A Hard Looking Set of Men and Boys: the North Meets the Fort Donelson Prisoners

A View from Behind the Bars: A Buckeye at Libby Prison (100th OVI)

Captured in the Hornet's Nest at Shiloh (14th Iowa)

With the Stigma of a Paroled Prisoner: A 3rd Ohio Cavalryman Remembers Ashland

From Chickamauga to Libby Prison: The Journey of Major Bedan B. McDonald, 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Turning Rebel: Recruiting Galvanized Yankees in the winter of 1864-65

A Chaotic Retreat Through Gettysburg

Hooping, Yelling, and Rushing Around Like Madmen: An Indianan Captured During Wheeler's Ride (81st Indiana)

Pandemonium Reigned Supreme: A Buckeye Captured at Franklin

A Roundtrip Ticket to Andersonville (3rd Iowa)

The Boy Yankee in Butternut: Edward Savage's Adventure with Morgan's Troopers (100th Illinois)

Salvation Close at Hand: Federal Prisoners Exchanged at Wilmington (21st Illinois)

Yankee Preacher, Rebel Lawyer: The Intersecting Lives of Granville and George Moody

We have suffered everything but death: Travails of a Shiloh P.O.W. (Battery B, 1st Michigan Light Artillery) 

They Pitched Into Us Pretty Strong: A Buckeye Prisoner Recalls Port Republic

Raymond

A Buckeye Remembers the Fuss on the Raymond Road (20th OVI)

Resaca

A Staff Officer with the 23rd Corps Remembers Resaca

Mauled at Resaca: Eight Fatal Minutes for the 36th Alabama

Army of the Potomac-style Fighting at Resaca (82nd Ohio)

Among Hovey's Babies at Resaca

We Glory in It: Outgunning the Rebels at Resaca (43rd OVI)

Harvest Time at Resaca with the Orphan Brigade (4th Kentucky)

Our Boys Fell Thick on the Crest of the Hill: Stumbling Through Resaca with the 73rd Ohio

A Perfect Hailstorm of Lead: The 33rd Massachusetts and Resaca

Mystery Letter from the Cherokee Light Artillery at Resaca 

A Victim of General Judah's Ambitions: With the 80th Indiana at Resaca

Richmond (Kentucky)

95th Ohio at the Battle of Richmond Part I

95th Ohio at the Battle of Richmond Part II

Disaster for the 71st Indiana at "the Richmond Races"

The Old 154th Can't Be Whipped: A Confederate View of the Battle of Richmond

Bonebrake's Redemption: Richmond to Chickasaw Bayou with the 69th Indiana

The Bull on the Battlefield

Escaping with the Colors: The 16th Indiana and the Fight for Richmond

Richmond (Virginia)
Beyond the Bounds of Our Days: Garland White and the Taking of Richmond in April 1865

Rich Mountain (Virginia)

Proving Their Mettle to Rosecrans: Rich Mountain and the 19th Ohio

Knocking on the Front Door of Rich Mountain with the 4th Ohio

Ringgold (Taylor's Ridge)

Its Glory Seemed to Have Parted: The 7th Ohio at Ringgold

No Valor Could Have Rescued Them: The 76th Ohio Loses Its Regimental Colors at Ringgold Gap

To Falter Would Disgrace the Name of the Old 76th Ohio: A Buckeye Survives Taylor's Ridge

Roanoke Island

Waist Deep in Mud and Water: The 25th Massachusetts at the Battle of Roanoke Island

Rocky Face Ridge

Storming Rocky Face Ridge with the 154th New York

General William S. Rosecrans

Meeting "Old Rosey": General Rosecrans Reviews His New Command

The Funeral of William S. Rosecrans

Saving the Army at Stones River: Chicago Board of Trade Battery

Rowena Blankenship, Ohio Poet
The Horrors of Sixty-Two: Rowena Blankenship and New Year's Eve 1863

Sabine Crossroads

Worse Than Madness for Us: The 56th Ohio at Sabine Crossroads

Salem Church

Gulping Down the Disaster: The 119th Pennsylvania at Salem Church

With the 139th Pennsylvania at Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church

Scarey Creek

A Scary Affair at Scary Creek (Williams' Independent Battery)

Going Zouave on the Rebs at Scarey Creek with the 12th Ohio

General Alexander Schimmelfennig

Answering Infamous Falsehoods: General Schimmelfennig's Chancellorsville Protest

Secessionville

The Sorrows of an Ill-Spent Day: A Wolverine at Secessionville

Sequatchie Valley Raid

Riding With Wheeler Through Sequatchie Valley

Seven Days

The Great Skedaddle: With Berdan's Sharpshooters During the Seven Days

On the Left at Malvern Hill with the 4th Michigan

A Promise Kept After Gaines Mill 

More in the Wind Than We Bargained For: The Seven Days with the 3rd New Jersey

The 5th Michigan and McClellan's Great Skedaddle

Up to my elbows in blood: A Louisiana Surgeon Amidst the Seven Days

At the Closing Scene of the Bloody Drama: With the 10th Georgia at Malvern Hill

Seven Pines- see Fair Oaks

Shelbyville

I'll Drive Them Into the Duck River: The Sabre Regiment Takes Shelbyville

The Only Union Town in Tennessee: The Reserve Corps Visits Shelbyville

Shenandoah Valley Campaign (1864)

Dead Horses and Soldiers' Graves were a Common Sight: A Wisconsin Soldier in the Shenandoah

General Philip Sheridan

Witnessing History: A Buckeye and Sheridan's Ride at Cedar Creek

The 3rd Iowa Defends the Peach Orchard at Shiloh

Shiloh

Battle of Shiloh Page

General Buckland Explains the Battle of Shiloh (72nd OVI)

Charles Edward Bliven of the Army Telegraph Corps at Shiloh

Shiloh as Viewed from the ranks of the 1st Ohio Infantry
"Crank" Worthington's Boys at Shiloh (46th Ohio)

The Prisoner Who Never Surrendered: The Adventure of John J. Geer, 48th Ohio Infantry
Lead is a Terrible Reformer: The 49th Ohio at Shiloh

"My boys from Cleveland, for God's sake do your duty!" The 54th Ohio Infantry at Shiloh
"May God save us from any more such days" Lieutenant Adams of the 57th Ohio Describes Shiloh

"I lay me down to sleep and he to die." The 71st Ohio Infantry at Shiloh

John M. Lemmon and the Battle of Shiloh (72nd Ohio)
You May Glory in Us Now (72nd Ohio)

72nd Ohio Flag Captured at the Battle of Shiloh

Cary Lockhart Nelson of the 81st Ohio at Shiloh

"Give it to 'em boys! You're cutting them all to hell!" The 14th Ohio Battery at Shiloh
The Magnolia Mission: Dr. John D. O'Connor Visits Shiloh
The Peculiar Rumbling of Battle: Andrew Neff at Shiloh (13th OVI)
Horrors of War: A Chicago Gunner at Shiloh (Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery)
The Desperate Unceasing Battle: the 61st Illinois at Shiloh
Women of Shiloh

Noble Sons of New Orleans: A Washington Light Artilleryman Survives Shiloh

Capturing the Hornet's Nest with the Kid Glove Regiment at Shiloh

Dreaming of Powder, Musket Balls, and Bloodshed: the 15th Illinois at Shiloh

Tried in the Furnace: A Hoosier at Shiloh (25th Indiana)

Fate of Battle: Martin Beem and the Battle of Shiloh (13th Missouri)

With the Intrepidity of Veterans: The 6th Arkansas at Shiloh

Surprised at Shiloh? Hell no said Sherman

Life Before Shiloh: Vignettes of Camp Life at Pittsburg Landing

Bloody, Battle-Stained, and Miserable: A Wounded Buckeye Recalls Shiloh (77th Ohio)

The continued roar of a million lions: With Morgan's Horsemen at Shiloh

A Sad Duty, Indeed: A Federal Captain Writes After Shiloh (13th Missouri)

"It will not be very long till the matter if brought to a close" A Buckeye's Last Letter (13th Missouri)

A Riverfront View of Shiloh (U.S.S. Lexington)

Last Chance Defenders of Shiloh (50th Illinois)

Among the Shiloh Wounded at Paducah

The 53rd Ohio and the Shame of Shiloh

Escaping the Hornet's Nest at Shiloh (2nd Iowa)

Gobbled by Forrest at Fallen Timbers (77th Ohio)

Captured in the Hornet's Nest at Shiloh (14th Iowa)

Remembering Shiloh with the 14th Wisconsin

The 20th Tennessee at Shiloh

Among Terrill's Gunners at Shiloh

The Sterner Realities of a Soldier's Life: Charles W. Evers of the 2nd Kentucky at Shiloh

A Harvest of Blood: Exploring the Field After Shiloh

Indomitable Pluck: The 48th Ohio at Pittsburg Landing

A Helter-Skelter Sort of Fight: A Wisconsin Greenhorn at Shiloh (16th Wisconsin)

Becoming the Quietest Man in the Regiment: A Louisianan Remembers Shiloh

The Dead of Pittsburg Landing

Buckland's Picnic Excursion Before Shiloh

Holding Poor Josey's Head in My Lap: Losing a Brother at Shiloh (15th Ohio)

Defending the Peach Orchard: An Iowan at Shiloh (3rd Iowa)

I Miss My Chum: Losing Major Edwards of the 19th Ohio at Shiloh

The Noxubee Cavalry Takes a Battery at Shiloh (1st Mississippi)

I Could Not Ride Without Steeping on the Bodies: A Hoosier Colonel at Shiloh (30th Indiana)

Perfectly Intoxicated with Excitement: The 19th Tennessee in the Bell Cotton Field

We Generals Must Take Our Chance with the Boys: With General Hurlbut at Shiloh

Outright Murder: The 18th Wisconsin at Shiloh

Men dropping like slaughtered beeves: Corporal Law of the 154th Tennessee Recalls Shiloh

Saving Grant's Army: The 36th Indiana and the March to Shiloh

Straw Already Threshed: Sherman on Shiloh

Lost in the blaze, thunder, and frenzy of battle: With the Blythe's at Shiloh

We have suffered everything but death: Travails of a Shiloh P.O.W. (Battery B, 1st Michigan Light Artillery) 

From Low Ebb to Loud Huzzahs: The 12th Illinois at Shiloh 

Worse Scared Than Hurt: A 41st Illinoisan Survives Shiloh

I Want to See a Battle: A Hoosier at Shiloh

General McCook Discovers Governor Johnson at Shiloh

Judge Williams Remembers Shiloh (71st Ohio)

Two Buckshot in My Side and a Musket Ball in My Arm (12th Michigan)

Jesus Will Take Me Home: Lt. Col. Canfield's Final Days  (72nd Ohio) 

General Joshua W. Sill

Death of a General: The Final Days of General Joshua W. Sill 

Memorial Day Tribute to General Joshua W. Sill

Snaggy Point

Disaster at Snaggy Point with the 120th Ohio

South Mountain

Last Words: On the eve of Antietam with Colonel Augustus Coleman, 11th Ohio Infantry

How the Iron Brigade Was Wrought: Gainesville Through Antietam with the 2nd Wisconsin

Losing a Quarter of the Division: The 2nd North Carolina at South Mountain

Cold Steel Did Great Execution: With the 23rd Ohio at Fox's Gap

Seven Bullet Holes in His Hide: A Wisconsin Iron Brigader at South Mountain

With Hayes at Fox's Gap (23rd Ohio)

A Fighting Chaplain at South Mountain (Phillips Georgia Legion)

We Just Rolled Them: With the 12th Ohio on South Mountain

A Mixed Up Mess of Confusion: At South Mountain with the 6th Wisconsin 

Spanish Fort

The Moonlight Assault of Spanish Fort

Spotsylvania Courthouse

We Buried 110 Men in that Half Acre: A Buckeye Remembers Spotsylvania Courthouse

Grant the Great will soon be no more: An Alabamian at Wilderness and Spotsylvania Courthouse (15th Alabama) 

Springfield

Fighting in the Ranks of the Quinine Brigade

Springfield Rifle Muskets

Arming the Union: Federal Contract Model 1861 Springfield Rifle Muskets

Spring Hill

A Buckeye Surgeon Recalls the Dark Passage Through Spring Hill (118th Ohio)

More Scared Than Hurt: A Buckeye Describes the Narrow Escape at Spring Hill

Hold the Bridge at All Hazards: The Last Stand on the Duck River at Columbia (22nd Indiana Battery)

Squirrel Hunters

Making Game of the Butternut Gentry: Squirrel Hunters at Cincinnati

Stones River

Civil War Center Podcast with Andrew Lucien: Battle of Stones River

Dept. No. 2 Podcasts Stones River Part 1: Spotify Link  YouTube Link

Stones River Part 2: Spotify Link YouTube Link

Stones River Part 3: Spotify Link YouTube Link

Diary Discoveries Podcast: Castle Thunder Prison Survivor: A Civil War Story featuring diary of Gillis McBane, 73rd Indiana, captured at Stones River

Stones River Campaign Page

A Golden Preservation Opportunity at Stones River

Federal Arms in the Stones River Campaign 

Medals of Honor at Stones River

I Shall Drive Them to the Wall: Rosecrans' Decision to March on Murfreesboro

The LaVergne Skirmish: Captain John H. James of the 26th Ohio
Holding the Nashville Pike: Captain John H. James of the 26th Ohio at Stones River
Death of a General: The Final Days of General Joshua W. Sill 

Memorial Day Tribute to General Joshua W. Sill

Capturing the Flags: The 2nd Ohio Infantry at Stones River
The Doubtful Day: Sam Pettit of the 15th Ohio at Stones River
Yelling Like Fiends Incarnate: The Opening Moments of Stones River (49th OVI)

Honor Fearfully Won: A Stones River Story of the 39th Indiana
Give 'Em Hell by the Acre: The 21st Ohio Earns Its Laurels at Stones River

Ditching the Cards: The 31st Ohio Infantry Marches Towards Stones River

John H. Purvis at Stones River (51st OVI)

The 1st Ohio Cavalry at Stones River

Receipt in Full in Red Ink: Captain Warren P. Edgarton at Stones River (Battery E, 1st OVLA)
Captured Entire: The Loss of Battery E, 1st Ohio Light Artillery at Stones River

Capturing a Dutch General: The 8th Texas Cavalry at Stones River
Scenes at Gresham House Hospital During the Battle of Stones River
With the Regulars at Stones River (15th U.S.)

With the Regular Artillery at Stones River (Battery H, 5th U.S.)
"Pork & Beans" Writes of Stones River and the Regular Brigade (Battery H, 5th U.S.)
Summoning Hell's Helf Acre: The 41st Ohio in the Round Forest
Assaulting the Round Forest: A Confederate Viewpoint (16th Tennessee)
All the Fury of Demons: The 65th Ohio at Stones River
"When the Lightning Flashed, I Could See the Bodies of Three Confederates lying only a few yards from me." (1st Wisconsin Infantry)
"My God! Leave me George and save the battery!"  (5th Wisconsin Battery)
Beastly Drunk: The Dismissal of Colonel William B. Cassilly, 69th Ohio Infantry
Charles Barney Dennis at Stones River (101st OVI): Part I, II, III, IV, and V
The Saga of Battery G: A Desperate Escape from the Slaughter Pen at Stones River (Battery G, 1st OVLA)
Lost from the O.R. Volume II: The 15th Missouri at the Battle of Stones River
A Sentence of Fire: Wheeler's Raid Around Rosecrans at Murfreesboro

The 90th Ohio Sees the Elephant at Stones River

The Murfreesboro Carnage

Saving the Army at Stones River: Chicago Board of Trade Battery

Capturing the Gun at Knob Gap with the 15th Wisconsin

Driving the Rebs to Murfreesboro with the 15th Indiana

Wilkinson Crossroads with the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry

Confederate Vanguard: Ector's Texans Open the Battle of Stones River

Swallowed by the Cedars: A Day with the 15th Kentucky

Surrounded by a Wall of Fire: With Sheridan's Division at Stones River

Perfectly Appalled: Arthur MacArthur Escapes Death at Stones River

Chaos Behind the Lines: A Non-Combatant's View of Stones River

Getting Bitten by the Bait: The 21st Illinois at Stones River

A Frenzied Charge Into the Cedars: Stones River with the 9th Texas

On Breckinridge's Assault at Stones River

Rich and Racy Crumbs: A Sampling of battlefield souvenirs from Stones River

Shoulder Arms! How Sheridan's and Davis' Divisions Were Armed at Stones River

Revenge of the Tribe of Dan: A Look at Alexander McCook's Captured Correspondence

A Beautiful Fight: The McCook-Prentice Duel on the Road to Stones River

Colonel Housum's Coat and the Opening of the Battle of Stones River

A Wonderful Conflict of Arms: Skedaddling with the 99th Ohio at Stones River

Time for the 19th to try its grit: The 19th Ohio at Stones River

Retrieving Major Carpenter: Joseph R. Prentice Earns His Medal of Honor at Stones River

A Deadly Crossfire of Artillery: The 19th Alabama at Stones River

A Band of Gypsies: The 19th Tennessee and the Fight for the Slaughter Pen

Who'll Save the Left? The 19th Illinois and the Fight of January 2nd

A Gallant Defense: The 1st Michigan Engineers and the Fight for LaVergne

McKee's Last Missive: The 15th Wisconsin and Knob Gap

Dirt Fishing at Murfreesboro

Sheep Before Destroying Wolves: Wounded at Stones River with the 93rd Ohio

Father Trecy and the Battle of Stones River

Facing the Iron Hail: The 74th Ohio at Stones River

Rosy's Heavy Metal: Artillery of the Army of the Cumberland

The Cost of Gallantry: A Voice from the 18th U.S.

Glory and Honor Stamped on the Stump of My Leg: A Voice from the 26th Ohio

Hooping, Yelling, and Rushing Around Like Madmen: An Indianan Captured During Wheeler's Ride (81st Indiana)

Woodard's Night Ride at Stones River

On the March in Earnest and Full of Fight: An Illinois Bugler Marches to Murfreesboro (88th Illinois)

Onward to Chattanooga is the Cry: With Sheridan's Provost Guard at Stones River (44th Illinois)

Comanche Versus the Professor: The Artillery Duel Along the Franklin Pike

Like Autumn Leaves Playing Before a Tornado: A Texan at Stones River (11th Texas Cavalry)

Thirty-Three Holes in the Colors: The 24th Ohio at Stones River

Like Gods for Their Altars: With Preston's Brigade at Stones River (20th Tennessee)

If The Rebel Wants to Die, Let Him Go. A Tennessean Left for Dead at Stones River (18th Tennessee)

I Hope Bragg Will Break Us Up: Defeat and Discouragement in the 1st Louisiana

Grandest Charge of Them All: Adams Brigade Charges the Round Forest at Stones River (16th Louisiana)

Lost from the O.R. Part 3: Colonel William Sirwell's Report of the 78th Pennsylvania at Stones River

An Alabamian's Memories of Breckinridge's Charge and a Chance Meeting with General Lee (41st Alabama)

His True Qualities were Appreciated by All Who Knew Him: The Death of Lieutenant Christian Nix at Stones River

A Necessary Sacrifice to Save the Army: A Regular Recalls Stones River

The Triune Slobberknocker

The Enemy is no more here: Willich's Reconnaissance to Rigg's Crossroads

The Night Attack at Harker's Crossing (51st Indiana)

Old Blucher Thompson Charges the Round Forest at Stones River (44th Mississippi)

On Campaign with the 36th Indiana at Stones River

We Fight for Home and Country: Letter from the 26th Tennessee

Things Began to Assume a Serious Aspect: A 4th Michigan Cavalryman Recalls the Horrors of the Nashville Pike

Reminders of the 4th Indiana Battery's Fight Along the Wilkinson Pike

Dr. Shellenberger Visits Stones River 30 Years Later

Losing Our Star of Hope: The Death of Colonel Minor Milliken at Stones River  (1st Ohio Cavalry)

Yankee Preacher, Rebel Lawyer: The Intersecting Lives of Granville and George Moody

A nice little game of balls played over our heads: With the 84th Illinois at Stones River

When the War Came to McMinnville

Stones River Letters: Robert Wolfkill of the 13th Ohio

On Swept the Tide of Battle: A Buckeye in Miller's Counterattack at Stones River 

Hiding from the Rebels in the Attic: Captain Grinager at Murfreesboro

Scenes to Melt the Stoutest Heart: A Teamster at Stones River

Last Fight for the Round Forest at Stones River 

An Intimate View of Battery E's Demise

Miracle at the Three-Mile Marker Now a Lake at Stones River

Strasburg

"Never saw a more magnificent sight" A forgotten skirmish at Strasburg

Streight's Raid

Gobbled Up on Streight's Raid (73rd Indiana)

Stopping Streight's Raid: A Confederate View of the Ill-Fated Expedition

Stuart's Ride Around McClellan

Riding Around McClellan's Army with the Jeff Davis Legion

Sutlers

Hard Times for the sutler in western Virginia

A Yankee Sutler's View of Van Dorn's Holly Springs Raid

Tazewell

The Tazewell Scrap: A Voice from the 42nd Ohio

Telegraphy

Aerial Reconnaissance, Telegraphy, and the Battle of Fair Oaks

General William R. Terrill

The Saga of General William R. Terrill's Sword

General George H. Thomas

Escorting the Rock of Chickamauga

Thompson's Station

We Went for Wool and were Shorn Ourselves: A Hoosier Colonel Explains the Debacle at Thompson's Station

Father Jeremiah F. Trecy

Father Trecy and the Battle of Stones River

Triune

The Triune Slobberknocker

Tullahoma Campaign
Cleaning Out Bragg: Vignettes of the Tullahoma Campaign

Liberty Gap as Seen by the 77th Pennsylvania

All in Our Favor: A Federal Officer in the Midst of the Tullahoma Campaign

Taking the Southern Course: The 74th Indiana and Tullahoma

I'll Drive Them Into the Duck River: The Sabre Regiment Takes Shelbyville (7th Pennsylvania Cavalry)

The Only Union Town in Tennessee: The Reserve Corps Visits Shelbyville (40th Ohio)

Tunnel Hill

The Drummer Boy of Missionary Ridge

Ready for Breakfast or a Fight: The 8th Missouri and the Fight for Tunnel Hill

Tupelo
"To Fight All the Time" The 95th Ohio on A.J. Smith's Mississippi Raid

Clubbed Gun Against Bayonet: The Fatal Charge at Tupelo

The Cannons Are Now Silent: The Field of Death at Tupelo

Braxton Bragg and the Tupelo Revival (1862)

Utoy Creek

Cut to the Quick: The 104th Ohio Proves Itself at Utoy Creek

Vaught's Hill

Thumping Morgan at Vaught's Hill

A Little Chicanery on the Part of Colonel Hall: The 123rd Illinois at Vaught's Hill

Vicksburg (1862)

Vicksburg in Still in Command of the Rebels: The U.S. Navy Takes a Crack at Vicksburg

Fleeing the Arkansas at Vicksburg

Vicksburg (1863)
With the 2nd Iowa Cavalry on Grierson's Raid

A Glorious Conclusion: The Surrender of Vicksburg (32nd Ohio)
Life Hardly Endurable: An English Rebel on the Vicksburg Campaign
The Forlorn Hope at Vicksburg (30th Ohio)

A Most Bloody and Foolhardy Charge: A Buckeye Recalls the First Crack at Vicksburg (47th Ohio)

A Whistling Hail of Death: The First Assault on Vicksburg with the 95th Illinois

William McLain: On the Subject of Surrendering

Talking Smack with the Johnnies at Vicksburg

Working for Vicksburg: A Voice from the 33rd Illinois

Marching to Vicksburg with the 31st Iowa

Exhausting Pemberton's Peas: The Siege of Vicksburg (31st Iowa)

The Gods Are Smiling on Us: The Surrender of Vicksburg (31st Iowa)

Vermont and Vicksburg

Pummeled at Grand Gulf

His Grave is Marked by the Lid of a Cartridge Box: A Death at Vicksburg (17th Illinois)

This Hard Life Has Told Heavily on the Men: Victory at Vicksburg (20th Ohio)

Storming Vicksburg: Earning a Medal of Honor in the Forlorn Hope (8th Missouri)

The Ground was Slippery with Blood: The 54th Ohio Tries for Vicksburg

Bearing the Stars and Stripes at Vicksburg (68th Ohio)

A Dark Spot in Memory: The Second Storming of Vicksburg (33rd Illinois)

Spades are Trumps: The 96th Ohio and the Siege of Vicksburg

Taking Passage on the Hay Bale Line: Running the Gauntlet at Vicksburg

Guarding Vicksburg's Back Door with the 46th Ohio

Go in on your own hook, boys: With the 16th Indiana at Vicksburg

Vining's Station

Vining's Station and the End of Captain Daniel Lewis

George Washington
Washington's Gold Watch in Civil War Tennessee (14th Ohio)

Wauhatchie

Opening the Cracker Line: Battle of Wauhatchie with Alfred E. Lee

In the Night Fight at Wauhatchie with the 136th New York 

Weapons Classification

Classifying Long Arms During the Civil War

Colonel George P. Webster

Losing Colonel Webster: The 98th Ohio at Perryville

Western Theater in the Civil War Blog

Making Game of the Butternut Gentry: Squirrel Hunters at Cincinnati

Surprised at Shiloh? Hell no said Sherman.

My Civil War Bookshelf

The Surrender of Port Hudson

Life Before Shiloh: Vignettes of Camp Life at Pittsburg Landing

First Shot of the Civil War in the Western Theater

Tunnel-Busting: Morgan's Cavalry Closes Big South Tunnel

The Bull on the Battlefield

Wiard Rifled Cannon
Wiards of Ohio

Wilder's Lightning Brigade

How Wilder's Brigade Got Their Lightning

Wilderness

Coming Out with a Whole Hide: A Sharpshooter Describes the Wilderness (2nd U.S.S.S.)

Grant the Great will soon be no more: An Alabamian at Wilderness and Spotsylvania Courthouse (15th Alabama)

Williams Patent Bullets

Williams Cleaners

Williamsburg

A Sharpshooter at Williamsburg

Strong Men Fainted in the Ranks at the Sight: At Williamsburg with the 7th New Jersey

August Willich

David Dixon Discusses August Willich

General August Willich and Advance Firing

Wilmington

Taking Wilmington with the 23rd Corps

Wilson's Creek

Totten's Nemesis: Woodruff's Arkansas Battery at Wilson's Creek

Wilson's Raid

Wilder's Last Ride: On Wilson's Raid  with the 17th Indiana

Winchester

A Flag Bearer's End: With the 34th Ohio in the Shenandoah Valley

This Most Inglorious Retreat: The 1st Michigan Evacuates the Shenandoah Valley

Disaster at Second Winchester with the 122nd Ohio

Three Hard Days in June: The 110th Ohio at Second Winchester

Yazoo River Expedition

Losing the Cairo: A Yankee Pilot Recalls the Yazoo Disaster

Sergeant Thomas Walters (left)  and pard, both of Co. I, 111th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
1864