Features
“We Must Not Be Enemies”
Faces with a nation on the verge of civil war, Abraham Lincoln used his first inaugural address as a last-ditch effort to avert bloodshed.
By Glenn W. LaFantasie
The Perils of Nursing
A look at the brief yet consequential hospital service of Louisa May Alcott
By Jeff Wieand
Smoking War
The allure and significance of tobacco use among Civil War soldiers
By Ben Roy
Departments
Editorial: Lincoln Takes the Stage
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Voices: A Thirst for Battle
Preservation: A New Battlefield Park is Born
Dossier: George G. Meade
Faces of War: Full Highlander
Figures: Anesthesia
Cost of War: Joseph Pitty Couthouy’s Identity Badge
In Focus: After the Storm
Columns:
Fighting Words: Forty Rod, by Tracy L. Barnett
Crossroads: Charles Redington Mudge at Gettysburg, by Andrew S. Bledsoe
Books & Authors:
The Five Best Books on the Civil War in the (Far) West
By Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Voices from the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 5
By Gary W. Gallagher
Parting Shot: If Relics Could Talk