Confederate Veteran Magazine

Articles from Confederate Veteran Magazine

Johnny Reb Relaxes in Camp
(Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1930)

Despite the stories by politicians of how we suffered the pangs of hunger, etc., etc., every veteran who actually soldiered can recall many blue spots on the sky of his memory; many days and nights when pleasure led the march and love burnished life with gold…One fortunate thing for us was that we had our games. Marbles, played with all the zest and and avidity of school boy days; cards, running the gamut through smut, loo, euchre, three-card monte, poker, cribbage and whist; checks, and the royal game of chess.


The author of this short reminiscence also remarked upon the importance that music played in camp.


Click here to read about the heavy influence religion had in the Rebel states during the American Civil War.

The Battle of Kenesaw and the Goodness of Colonel Martin
(Confederate Veteran, 1922)

Here is a segment from a longer article found on this site that recalled the history of boys who had enlisted in the Confederate cause – this short paragraph tells the story of a Rebel colonel, W.H. Martin of the 1st Arkansas Regiment, who called out to his opposite number in the Federal ranks during a lull in the fighting for Kenesaw Mountain and allowed for a truce so that the immobilized wounded of the Northern infantry would be rescued from a fire that was spreading in no-mans-land.

Civil War Reunion Clothing
(Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1922)

What did the smart, re-constructed Confederate soldier wear to the reunions, you ask? Why an eight buttoned sack coat with matching trousers composed of Dixie Gray wool, of course! It was all the rage among the apple-sauce crowd of 1922 – and by clicking the link below you will see a black and white ad from Confederate Veteran Magazine which pictured the togs.

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