Author: Earl J. Hess

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces under John...

Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardCivil War Supply and Strategy stands as a sweeping examination of the decisive ...

On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city, the ...

Civil War Supply and Strategy stands as a sweeping examination of the decisive link between the distribution of provisions to soldiers and the stra...

New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the ho...

During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies...

For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore m...

Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare, including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics, thrived in localized guerril...