Female Partisans
In the weeks after Lincoln's election, many Southern women proved surprisingly vocal in their support for secession.
View ArticleMark Twain and the Fortune-Teller
With war looming, a young steamboat pilot peers into his future.
View ArticleCaptain Huse Gives the South ‘Old-Fashioned Hell’
An idealistic New Hampshire volunteer finds himself at war in the Deep South.
View ArticleThe Fall of New Orleans
Admiral Farragut's momentous, and surprisingly bloodless, conquest of the Big Easy.
View Article‘Our Servants Do Pretty Much as They Please’
Slaves in occupied New Orleans didn't wait for Lincoln: they emancipated themselves.
View ArticleDeath on Virginia’s ‘Sacré’ Soil
A brash French immigrant finds his fate in an obscure Virginia battle.
View ArticleGeneral Butler and the Women
How the Union's controversial Order No. 28 upset gender relations in New Orleans.
View ArticleThe Making of Rear Admiral Farragut
How a has-been officer became a Civil War naval hero.
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