Features
An Unholy Alliance
Behind the cloak-and-dagger relationship between detective Allan Pinkerton and Army of the Potomac commander George B. McClellan
By Stephen W. Sears
Who’s Buried in Calhoun’s Tomb?
The unusual tale of John C. Calhoun’s final resting place, the site of one of the country’s earliest struggles over Civil War memory
By Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts
Rebel Armada
How a number of WWII Liberty Ships came to be named after Confederates
By Noah Andre Trudeau
Departments
Editorial: The Spy and the General
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Voices: Shirkers
Preservation: Road to Freedom
Faces of War: Fake News, 1864
Figures: United States Sanitary Commission at Gettysburg
Cost of War: Captain Nelson Ames’ Gauntlets
In Focus: The More Things Change…
Columns:
Fighting Words: Kissing and Kicking Ass, by Tracy L. Barnett
Living History: The Hands-On Historian, by Jenny Johnston
Books & Authors:
War and Remembrance in Raintree County
By William Marvel
Parting Shot: Saved by the Good Book