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Military Images magazine, in collaboration with the Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech and the National Science Foundation, presents civilwarphotosleuth.com....

“He Turned the Tide of Battle at First Manassas”

In the supreme moment of crisis for Southern arms at the First Battle of Manassas, Arthur Campbell Cummings was a central figure. A graduate of Virginia...

A Lost Story

Though the particulars of the story behind this photograph are currently lost to history, the soldier surrounded by his comrades was undoubtedly the central...

Women on the Home Front: Their Essential Roles During the Civil...

Author Juanita Leisch Jensen states, “We have grown accustomed to seeing photographs of soldiers in military publications. Therefore, the presence of...

The American Zouave: Mania and Mystique

“During the Civil War, Union and Confederate troops both adopted exotic dress in the transgressive guise of the Zouave uniform,” observes historian...

Gettysburg’s Honored Dead, Haunted Survivors

They fell in the thousands during three brutal days of carnage in a crossroads community in southeast Pennsylvania. The ground hallowed by their blood—Little...

Previously Unknown Image of Jefferson Davis Comes to Light

Rare tintypes of the Confederate president and commander-in-chief and his first lady hidden away since the end of the Civil War come to light in the Spring...

Assassination in Jackson County

By 1865, the bullets had stopped flying and many of the soldiers in blue and gray marched home. But the residual effects of the war would continue for...

Riding the Rail, Revisited

25 years after a unique photo of a soldier holding an impossible large wood sword and seated astride an oversize “horse” made of timber made the rounds...

Thoughts on Private Booth

“When we attempt to understand history, we often find that empirical truths unfold alongside significant symbolic moments,” writes historian J. Matthew...

Mistaken Identity?

Two court-martial cases that arose at the end of the Civil War—one in Albany, N.Y., and the other in Springfield, Ill.—reveal how some litigants relied...

Stories Yet to Be Told

Dan Schwab appreciates the connection that old photos make to long lost volunteers in blue and gray. “When I hold an image in my hand, I know that the...

Finding Aid: September/October 1998

The complete issue Vol. XX, No. 2 (48 pages) No issues in stock Subscribe to MI Inside Cover image A tintype from the Richard Ricca Collection is a portrait...

Finding Aid: July/August 1998

The complete issue Vol. XX, No. 1 (40 pages) No issues in stock Subscribe to MI Inside Cover image A cabinet card from the Anthony Gero Collection is...

Finding Aid: May/June 2000

The complete issue Vol. XXI, No. 6 (40 pages) No issues in stock Subscribe to MI Inside Cover image A carte de visite from the Michael J. McAfee Collection...

Finding Aid: September/October 1997

The complete issue Vol. XIX, No. 2 (40 pages) No issues in stock Subscribe to MI Inside Cover image A sixth-plate ambrotype from an anonymous collector...

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