Features
Meade, Grant, and the Path to Victory
Behind the partnership that won the Civil War
By Stephen W. Sears
The Soldier Artist
The artwork of Charles W. Reed, one of the foremost chroniclers of the life of the common Civil War soldier
Reverberations of Battle
A brief, fierce clash during the first day of fighting at Gettysburg affected the men of the 24th Michigan and 26th North Carolina long after the guns fell silent.
By Judkin Browning
Departments
Editorial: An Underappreciated Duo
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Travels: A Visit to Philadelphia
Voices: Subpar Officers
Primer: Rebel Buttons
Preservation: A New Guarantee for Tennessee
Figures: The March to the Sea
Cost of War: Colonel Gustavus Sniper’s Pistols
In Focus: Secession in San Antonio
Columns:
American Iliad: “Spoons” Butler, by Mark Grimsley
Stereoscope: The Civil War through British Eyes, by Megan Kate Nelson
Books & Authors:
The B&A Q&A
With Sidney Blumenthal
The Books That Built Me
By A. Wilson Greene
Parting Shot: A Fortunate Horse