Features
Of Monuments and Men
How do we responsibly remember Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy?
By Allen C. Guelzo and John M. Rudy
Boys at War
Images and stories of some of the Civil War’s youngest soldiers
By Ronald S. Coddington
“Our hearts ached with pity”
In remarkable newspaper accounts published decades after the war, nurse Maria Hall recalls the suffering of “army boys”
Edited by John Banks
Departments
Editorial: Whither Confederate monuments?
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Travels: A Visit to St. Louis
Voices: Hunger Pangs
Faces of War: A Soldier and His “Secess” Cap
Figures: Black Men in Blue
Preservation: A New State Park for Virginia
Cost of War: A Confederate POW’s Pipe
In Focus: Manassas Monument
Columns:
American Iliad: The March to the Sea, Part 2, by Mark Grimsley
Living History: The History Seeker, by Jenny Johnston
Books & Authors:
The Best Civil War Books of 2017
With Lorien Foote, A. Wilson Greene, Kevin M. Levin, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, and Andrew
Wagenhoffer
Parting Shot: A Goodbye Gift