74 Pages
Cover Story
Tennessee Turning Point…..28
At Fort Donelson, Rebel officer Nathan Bedford Forrest took matters into his own hands to escape capture. Woe to the Yanks.
Nathan B. Forrest’s Fights and Failures…..36
Violence filled the trooper’s life.
Features
Snakes in the Grass…..38
by Frank Van Der Linden
Copperhead Democrats and Southern agents plot in Canada.
‘Life is Better Than Limb’…..46
by Jack Trammell
Who could blame soldiers for fearing a visit to “old saw bones”.
A Soldier’s Shattered Family…..52
George Tillotson treasured the broken photograph of his family.
The North’s Caustic Cartoonist…..54
by Marc Leepson
Thomas Nast’s drawings savaged Union opponents and kept up morale.
Portfolio…..58
by Marc Leepson
Colorful Christmas illustrations plucked at homefront heartstrings.
Departments
Letters…..6
Open Fire!…..10
Civil War News and History
Five Questions…..18
Digitizing widows’ pensions.
Radicals…..23
by Eric Ethier
Benjamin Franklin Wade, Radical Republican.
The Gathering Storm…..25
by Parke Pierson
The Missouri Compromise.
Prologue…..27
America’s Civil War begins to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with this issue.
Reviews…..63
1. Sherman’s March in Myth and Memory by Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown
2. Major General Robert E. Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia by Darrell Collins
3. Saving Savannah-The City and the Civil War by Jacqueline Jones
4. Firebrands of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War by Stephen V. Ash
5. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James McPherson
6. Shenandoah 1862 by Peter Cozzens
7. Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War by Larry B. Maier and Joseph W. Stahl
8. Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans by Michael D. Pierson
Lincoln Lit
1. Lincoln’s Darkest Year: The War in 1862 by William Marvel
Silver Screen
1. Ride With the Devil (1999)
Web Watch
1. Harper’s Weekly Online: http://www.harpweek.com & http://www.sonofthesouth.net
Struck!…..74
Not a drop to drink.
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