Features
Grant’s Cruel Summer
In June and July 1864, the Union’s top soldier tried to defeat Robert E. Lee and capture Petersburg, Virginia. It didn’t go so well.
By A. Wilson Greene
Relics of War
A sampling of battlefield souvenirs taken by Union and Confederate soldiers
The Perils of Peace
For the white and black residents of Staunton, Virginia, life in the first year after the end of the Civil War was transformative—and unsettled.
By Edward L. Ayers
Departments
Editorial: An Inauspicious Start
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Travels: The Best Civil War Battlefield Parks
Voices: Tobacco
Inquiry: Anatomy of a Civil War Buff
Figures: Pickett’s Charge
Preservation: A Preserved Harpers Ferry Tract Has Much to Tell
Cost of War: A Rains Barrel Torpedo
In Focus: The Chancellors of Chancellorsville
Columns:
American Iliad: Beyond the White Man’s Iliad, by Mark Grimsley
Stereoscope: The West’s Missing War, by Megan Kate Nelson
Books & Authors:
The Best Civil War Books of All Time
With Matthew C. Hulbert, James Marten, and Amy Murrell Taylor
Parting Shot: A Talented Texan