Fall 2024
Vol. 14, No. 3
Features
Robert E. Lee’s Unwritten History
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?
By Stephen Cushman
The Bloodiest Day
How rank-and-file troops experienced the Battle of Antietam
By D. Scott Hartwig
The Zouave
By 1861, Elmer Ellsworth had become a household name in much of America. How a friendship with Abraham Lincoln helped propel him to prominence.
By Lesley J. Gordon
Departments
Editorial: Silent Rebel
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Voices: Accidental Deaths
Faces of War: With the Sanitary Commission at Belle Plain
Travels: Our Reader Survey Results
Preservation: A Gettysburg Transformation Continues
Cost of War: A Unique Battlefield Souvenir
In Focus: A Package From Home
Columns:
Fighting Words: “Johnny Cake,” by Tracy L. Barnett
Crossroads: A Burdensome Decision, by Andrew S. Bledsoe
Books & Authors:
The Five Best Books on Johnny Reb
By Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Q&A
With Alan Taylor
Parting Shot: A Short Blanket