Features
Rebel Menace
Tracking the long, destructive journey—and swift demise—of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama
By William Marvel
Band of Brothers
How the men of the 107th Ohio Infantry grappled with suffering and death, and remembering, after Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
By Brian Matthew Jordan
The Wilderness Myth
Understanding how and why the Wilderness of Spotsylvania earned its reputation as a uniquely hostile landscape
By Adam H. Petty
Departments
Editorial: Roll, Alabama, Roll
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Voices: Fear
Preservation: Mississippi to Make Landmark Investment
Figures: The Sultana Disaster
Faces of War: The Advance of the 50
Cost of War: An Unknown Soldier’s Shoes Earn Big
In Focus: Antietam’s Immortals
Columns:
Fighting Words: Bully Boys, by Tracy L. Barnett
Crossroads: Ephraim Cutler Dawes at Shiloh, by Andrew S. Bledsoe
Books & Authors:
Voices from the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 1: Essential Works
By Gary W. Gallagher
The Best Books on Civil War Strategy
By Brooks D. Simpson
Parting Shot: Sign of the Times