Features
Images and stories of the Union and Confederate sailors who fought the war on water
By Ronald S. Coddington
“You Have Just Killed the Best Man in the Confederacy!”
The rise and fall of controversial cavalryman John Hunt Morgan
By Terry Bisson
The Western Way of War
From hard-line tactics to emancipation, the war in the West helped shape the larger conflict—and secure victory for the Union.
By Christopher Phillips
Departments
Editorial: The Water War
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Travels: A Visit to Washington, D.C.
Voices: Drill
Dossier: Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
Preservation: Preserved Battlefields as Training Grounds
Figures: The Napoleon
Cost of War: Beauregard’s LeMat
In Focus: On the Path to Freedom
Columns:
American Iliad: The Fire of Phillip Sheridan, by Mark Grimsley
Stereocope: Compelling History, by Megan Kate Nelson
Books & Authors:
The Books That Built Me
By Gerald J. Prokopowicz
Looking Back on Civil War America
With Gary W. Gallagher
Parting Shot: Nap Time