Features
Partners in War
Meet the wives of the Civil War’s top commanders
The Man Who Broke the Klan
How U.S. Army officer and Civil War veteran Lewis Merrill took on—and routed—the Ku Klux Klan in postwar South Carolina
By Fergus M. Bordewich
The Draper Raid of June 1864
A critical look at a controversial Union operation on Virginia’s Northern Neck
By Colin Woodward
Departments
Editorial: The Power of a New Year
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Voices: Homecomings
Faces of War: A Close Call Close to Home
Travels: Three Days in Gettysburg
Preservation: Fighting Again for Virginia’s Historic Resources
Cost of War: A Rebel Banner of Historic Worth
In Focus: The Broken Glass Plate of Lincoln and McClellan
Columns:
Observatory: The Centennial & The Twilight Zone, by Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Crossroads: An Unwilling Abolitionist, by Andrew S. Bledsoe
Books & Authors:
The Cabinet Diarists
By Cecily N. Zander
Q&A With Harold Holzer