Civil War Quarterly - Early Fall 2014 (Soft Cover)

Across the Bloody Cornfield
At Antietam, Maryland, America’s bloodiest day began with heavy fighting that ravaged a previously innocuous cornfield in western Maryland. It was a misleadingly bucolic place for such a slaughter. By Michael E. Haskew

Photographing Antietam
Scottish photographer Alexander Gardner and his assistant, James F. Gibson, who were part of Matthew Brady’s team, changed the nature of war photography with 70 images of the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam. By Roy Morris Jr.

Morgan’s Ohio Raid
For three weeks in July 1863, Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate cavalry raided across southern Indiana and Ohio, destroying railroads, bridges, and thousands of dollars worth of private property. It was the longest cavalry raid of the Civil War. By Joshua Shepherd

Sealing Vicksburg’s Fate
With Union forces swarming toward Vicksburg, Confederate General John C. Pemberton reluctantly moved out of the city to intercept Ulysses S. Grant’s hard-charging forces. They would collide at Champion’s Hill. By Lawrence Weber

A Short History of American Slavery
For nearly two centuries, the “peculiar institution” of slavery dominated Southern social and economic life in America, infecting the nation’s politics with an unresolvable moral conflict that led finally to civil war. By Rick Beard

Simply a Butchery
Ulysses S. Grant would later admit that the Battle of Cold Harbor was one he “would not fight over again.” Many Federal soldiers who survived the slaughter that early June day would likely agree. The dead had no recorded opinions on the matter.  By Mike Phifer

High Seas Duel
On June 19, 1864, the fabled CSS Alabama sailed out of the harbor in Cherbourg, France, to confront the USS Kearsarge, which was blockading the port. It would be the greatest high seas duel of the Civil War. By Don Holloway

Misbegotten Attack on Bristoe Station
In October 1863, Robert E. Lee moved north against the Union Army at Centreville, Virginia. General A.P. Hill’s III Corps blundered straight into Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren’s II Corps at Bristoe Station. By Arnold Blumberg

The Crime at Pickett’s Mill
Angry and embarrassed by the recent setback at New Hope Church, Union General William T. Sherman ordered an ill-advised attack on entrenched Confederate positions at Pickett’s Mill. It was a recipe for disaster. By Roy Morris Jr.

Soldiers
Union Captain Henry Sawyer drew the short straw in Libby Prison’s infamous “Lottery of Death.” By James M. Powles

Espionage
John Surratt somehow escaped justice the Lincoln assassination despite being intimately acquainted with John Wilkes Booth and other conspirators. By Peter Kross