Winter 2023

Vol. 13, No. 4

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FEATURES

Friendly Foes
How James Longstreet's close relationship with Ulysses S. Grant survived the war—and made him a pariah in the postwar South
By Elizabeth R. Varon

The Education of Quincy Gillmore
A Union general learns the lessons of sedimentary geology the hard way during the Siege of Charleston.
By Scott Hippensteel

A Disappointment to His Friends
The unkown story of the "Brooks Expedition"
By James Marten

DEPARTMENTS

Editorial: Pete & Sam & AI

Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest

          Voices: Losing Comrades
          Preservation: A Gettysburg Reclamation Project
          Faces of War: A Young Volunteer's Short War
          Figures: The Sharps Carbine
          Cost of War: The Fabric of a Fatal Tale
          In Focus: Grant Moves South


Columns:

          Fighting Words: "Postal Currency" and "Postage Stamps," by Tracy L. Barnett

           Crossroads: John Bell Hood and Indecision Along the Tennessee River, by Andrew S. Bledsoe
 

Books & Authors

              The Books Civil War Books of 2023
               
With Cecily N. Zander, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, Brian Matthew Jordan, Jennifer M. Murray,
              and Kevin M. Levin


  Parting Shot: A Sumter Souvenir