Features
Wounded Warriors
For thousands of injured or infirm Union soldiers, the Invalid Corps provided a means to extend their military service. Not all of them were grateful for the opportunity
By Sarah Handley-Cousins
The Hero of Franklin
How quick thinking by headstrong Colonel Emerson Opdycke helped save the day for Union forces at one of the Civil War’s fiercest battles
By Andrew S. Bledsoe
Counterfeit Confederates
As the notion of sectional reconcilliation spread in the decades after the conflict, impostors showed up with invented wartime histories
By Adam H. Domby
Departments
Editorial: Mr. Lincoln’s Other Army
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Voices: Thirst
Preservation: A Valuable Discovery
Faces of War: A Pint-Sized Hero
Cost of War: Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Photo Albums
Figures: The Soldier Vote
In Focus: Civil War Sutlers’ Mall
Columns:
American Iliad: A Man of Sorrows, by Mark Grimsley
Fighting Words: Grin and Bear It, by Tracy L. Barnett
Books & Authors:
The Five Best Books on the Confederate Homefront
By Anne Sarah Rubin
The Five Best Books on the African-American Civil War Experience
By Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
Parting Shot: A Sinister Band