Features
Building the Perfect Army
What if you could create the ideal Civil War fighting force? Five top historians take their shot.
With Lorien Foote, Brian Matthew Jordan, Jennifer Murray, Ethan S. Rafuse, and Brooks D. Simpson
“Death Comes to Us by Many a Way”
A look at the fatal dangers that Civil War soldiers, sailors, and civilians faced away from the battlefield.
By Brian Steel Wills
Mr. Lincoln and the Monitor
The Union’s famed ironclad warship had a fan in the country’s president, who paid the vessel an eventful visit in the spring of 1862.
By Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White
Departments
Editorial: Picking Favorites
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Travels: A Visit to Sharpsburg
Voices: Slurs and Slights
Faces of War: The Virtuous Knight of the Orphan Brigade
Primer: A U.S. Army Surgical Kit
Preservation: Three Batteries and a Trio of Opportunities
Cost of War: A Confederate Cipher Disk
In Focus: The Sable Arm in Kentucky
Columns:
American Iliad: Jackson the Magician, by Mark Grimsley
Stereoscope: Varina, by Megan Kate Nelson
Books & Authors:
The B&A Q&A
With William W. Freehling
The B&A Q&A
With Dan Abrams
Parting Shot: A POW’s Thoughtful Gift