Features
Dogs of War
Canines played a variety of important roles—from supportive to savage—for the Union and Confederate armies
By Lorien Foote
The Lincoln Autopsy
A detailed look at the postmortem examination of the assassinated president
By Mathew W. Lively
Two Little Words
How last-minute changes to the Emancipation Proclamation affected the transition from slavery to freedom
By Edward T. Cotham Jr.
Departments
Editorial: War Dogs
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Voices: Trench Life
Preservation: The Hard Work of Remembering
Figures: The Bayonet
Faces of War: A Capitol Police Officer Inside the Dome
Primer: Army Banners
Cost of War: Cuthbert H. Slocomb’s Kepi
In Focus: Wartime Photography
Columns:
Fighting Words: “Acknowledge the Corn,” by Tracy L. Barnett
Crossroads: Teaching the Battle of Chickamauga, by Andrew S. Bledsoe
Books & Authors:
The Top Five Books on the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley
By Jonathan A. Noyalas
Voices from the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 7
By Gary W. Gallagher
Parting Shot: A Patriotic Pie