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Fall 2024
Vol. 14, No. 3
Grant and Sherman did it. Hood and Longstreet and Johnston too. So why didn’t the Confederacy’s greatest general write a memoir of the war? We explore Robert E. Lee’s “unwritten history” in our Fall 2024 cover story. Also, read how rank-and-file Union and Confederate troops experienced the Battle of Antietam and learn about Elmer Ellsworth, whose friendship with Abraham Lincoln helped him become a household name by the outbreak the Civil War.
Features
The Bloodiest Day
D. Scott Hartwig looks at how rank-and-file Union and Confederate troops experienced the Battle of Antietam.
The Zouave
By 1861, Elmer Ellsworth had become a household name in much of America. Read how he and his Chicago Zouaves earned national fame.Salvo
Voices
Accidental Deaths
A sampling of first-person quotes about accidental deaths during the Civil War.
Faces of War
With the Sanitary Commission at Belle Plain
A wartime photograph sheds light on the civilian volunteer organization called the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Travels
Profile of a Civil War Traveler
View the results of the Monitor's special reader Civil War travel survey.
Preservation
A Gettysburg Transformation Continues
The latest updates in preservationists' efforts to reclaim the Gettysburg Country Club property on the Gettysburg Battlefield.
Primer
A Floating Hospital
A look at the Civil War hospital ship D.A January through a digital recreation of the vessel.
Cost of War
A Miniature Gettysburg “Relic Tower”
Highlighting a relic tower made by Gettysburg furniture maker John Good that sold at auction in 2010.
In Focus
A Package from Home
A captivating photograph of Union officers opening a package from home.Columns
Fighting Words
“Johnny Cake”
A look at the Civil War era foodstuff popularly known as a "Johnny Cake."
Crossroads
A Burdensome Decision
A look at the difficult decision Colonel Lewis Johnson of the 44th U.S. Colored Troops faced at Dalton, Georgia.Books & Authors
The Top Five Books on Johnny Reb
Matthew Christopher Hulbert offers his picks for the best books about the common Confederate soldier.
Q&A with Alan Taylor
Historian Allen Taylor discusses his 2024 book "American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873."Odds & Ends
Editorial
Silent Rebel
Reflections on the cover story—"Rebel Revival" by William Marvel—of The Civil War Monitor's Fall 2024 issue.
Dispatches
Fall 2024 | Dispatches
Letters to the editor published in the Fall 2024 issue of The Civil War Monitor.