Features
Disputed Glory
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry performed heroically in the attack on Fort Wagner. Why did so many northern newspapers argue otherwise?
By Glenn David Brasher
Mission to the James
Inside Abraham Lincoln’s secretive visit to Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia, in 1864
By Noah Andre Trudeau
Fortunate Sons
A summer in the saddle with the Dartmouth Cavalry
By William Marvel
Departments
Editorial: Uncertain Times
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Voices: Camp Sports
Preservation: Joining Forces
Faces of War: Cadet to Boy Colonel
Figures: The Civil War’s Long Reach
Cost of War: A Historic Bulletin Earns Big
In Focus: A Deathly Calm
Columns:
American Iliad: The Greatest Bards: Part 2, by Mark Grimsley
Fighting Words: Skedaddle, by Stephen Berry
Books & Authors:
The B&A Profile: Ralph Peters
By Patrick Brennan
Parting Shot: Seating for Surrender