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Spring 2020
Vol. 10, No. 1
On the cover of our Spring 2020 issue, we take an inside look at the decision to remove George B. McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. Plus, the rise and fall of Clement Vallandigham, the Democratic congressman who became the Lincoln administration’s most strident opponent, and how the country’s anti-slavery reformers’ reaction to the Civil War helped transform the conflict into one for emancipation—and also provoked the collapse of their decades-old movement.
Features
Features
The Great Dissenter
The rise and fall of Clement Vallandigham, the Democratic congressman who became the Lincoln administration’s most strident opponent.
Features
Abolitionists at War
Read how anti-slavery reformers’ reaction to the Civil War helped transform the conflict into one for emancipation—and provoked their movement's collapse.Salvo
Travels
On the Trail of John Wilkes Booth
Visit sites along the way the of the escape route John Wilkes Booth took from Ford’s Theatre after assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
Preservation
Virtual Reality Meets the Civil War
Civil War 1864: A Virtual Reality Experience lets users experience how it may have looked, felt, and sounded to be a Civil War soldier.
Faces of War
A Steadfast Rebel
Emma Kline would be little remembered today if not for a photograph taken in 1864 showing her standing defiantly after her arrest for smuggling.
Figures
Lightening Their Load
Civil War soldiers regularly jettisoned personal effects in an effort to lighten their loads. Read what was dropped during the Chancellorsville Campaign.
Cost of War
Robert E. Lee and Traveller Tintype
A tintype of Robert E. Lee and Traveller may be "the last original photograph of Lee in private hands." Learn how much it earned at auction.Columns
American Iliad
The Greatest Bards: Part 1
Asked to name the writer whose work had the greatest influence on their early love for the Civil War, most lay students of the conflict would offer one of two...
Public History
History in the Digital Age
Historian and educator Kevin Levin takes a look at how historians are engaging scholars, enthusiasts, and the public in the digital age.Books & Authors
Books & Authors
The Five Best Books on Civil War Combat
Historian Andrew S. Bledsoe offers his picks for the five best books on combat during the American Civil War.
Books & Authors
The B&A Q&A Megan Kate Nelson
Megan Kate Nelson discusses her book, The Three-Cornered War, and why she felt it important to focus on the Civil War in the West.Odds & Ends
Editorial
Dissatisfaction, Dissent, and Fragmentation
Editorial thoughts and reflections from the Spring 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor.
Dispatches
Spring 2020 | Dispatches
Reader questions and comments published in the Spring 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor.