Features
Andersonville
Life and death at the Civil War’s most notorious prison
The Barbara Frietchie Caper
What really happened when Confederate troops marched past the house of an elderly widow in Frederick, Maryland, in 1862? It depends on who’s telling the story.
By Stephen W. Sears
Holiday Toasts and Homesick Rebels
How the Civil War changed Christmas in the South
By Tracy L. Barnett
Departments
Editorial: A Piece of Hell on Earth
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items of Interest
Travels: A Visit to Chicago
Voices: Gambling
Preservation: A Big Question
Figures: The Dictator
Faces of War: Million-Dollar Soldier
Cost of War: A Battle-Tested Banner
In Focus: The First Prisoners of War
Columns:
American Iliad: Grant and Lee at Appomattox, by Mark Grimsley
Stereoscope: Badge Quest, by Jenny Johnston
Books & Authors:
The Best Civil War Books of 2019
With A. Wilson Greene, Brian Matthew Jordan, Ethan S. Rafuse, Gerald J. Prokopowicz,
and Kevin M. Levin
Parting Shot: Yankee Ingenuity