Winter 2022
Vol. 12, No. 4
Features
Features
No Stranger to Violence
Ardent abolitionist James Montgomery earned admirers and courted controversy as he blazed an uncompromising path through the Civil War.
Features
Gettysburg, Readdressed
Since Abraham Lincoln delivered his iconic Gettysburg Address, seven presidents and one vice president have traveled to Gettysburg to speak about the legacy of the Civil War.Salvo
Voices
Army Stragglers
Firsthand Union and Confederate soldier quotes on the prevalence of straggling troops in the armies.
Preservation
Your Voice Makes a Difference
American Battlefield Trust president David Duncan on efforts to protect North Carolina's Wyse Fork Battlefield.
Faces of War
Trick Photography
A look at the novelty of double exposure portraits made during the Civil War.
Figures
In the Line of Duty
Facts and figures associated with the operation of the U.S. Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War.
Cost of War
Major General Godfrey Weitzel’s Wartime Letters
A look at the career of Union general Godfrey Weitzel through a collection of his personal wartime papers auctioned in 2009.
In Focus
The Bridge at Berlin
A look at the pontoon bridge across the Potomac River at Berlin, Maryland, used by George McClellan to move his army off the Antietam battlefield in October 1862.Columns
Fighting Words
“Skylark”
How Civil War sailors carried on the old seafaring tradition of "skylarking."
Crossroads
Nathan Bedford Forrest at Franklin
How notoriously temperamental Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest tried but failed to prevent a disastrous attack.Books & Authors
The Best Civil War Books of 2022
The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2022 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we’ve enlisted a handful of Civil War...Odds & Ends
Parting Shot
Lincoln’s Laboratory
A look at a patriotic Civil War envelope by G.M. Whipple & A.A. Smith that depicts Abraham Lincoln as an apothecary.