The Front Line Roanoke Island…150 Years Ago BY: Laura June DavisPosted: 2/8/12 Roanoke Island showing the position of Confederate Batteries Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, March 1, 1862.
Firsthand Accounts Cleaning Ironclads A look at the process used to clean the ironclad monitor-class warships that made up the Union’s South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
The Front Line The Best Civil War Books of 2019 The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2019 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted the help of a handful…
The Front Line The Unintended Expert Lisa Shafer Garry Adelman holds the first Civil War image he ever owned, an ambrotype of an unidentified Union soldier given to him by his grandmother at age 16. It…
The Front Line Map Quest Jimell Greene Scott Roland stands on a corner of the fabled Gettysburg electric map in its new home in Hanover, Pennsylvania. It was a sight that stopped traffic: a 10,000-pound…
