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Desperate Confederates scavenged tracks and trains to supply hungry troops in 1861
By Arthur Candenquist
PLUS: Tracing the Centreville Military Railroad
A David Fuller map
'We Must Make Free Men of Them'
Patrick Cleburne's bold plan to free slaves to fight could have changed the war
By Paul D. Escott
Vicksburg in the Round
Previously unpublished images of the Vicksburg cycloramas
By Noel G. Harrison
'Noble Union Girls'
Explosions killed dozens of women workers in Federal arsenals
By Judith Giesberg
Rebel Mystery Man
Who was the Southern sergeant who plotted to capture a schooner?
By Mary Roy Dawson Edwards
DEPARTMENTS
Mail Call
War horse memorials; defending Lee; Meade needs a bio
Civil War Today
Restored cannon's new home; Who won the Lincoln Prize?; Sesquicentennial roundup
Edited by Linda Wheeler
Blue & Gray
Most Northerners fought to restore the Union
By Gary W. Gallagher
NEW! In Harm's Way
Gettysburg's Leister House
By Harry Smeltzer
Places and People
The National Civil War Museum curator Brett Kelley makes winter camp
Field Guide
Arlington National Cemetery
Letter From Civil War Times
Reviews
Major General Israel Richardson's letters; West Pointers go to war; Louisa May Alcott's firsthand look at war's horrors
Resources
A Graphical treatment of Patrick Cleburne and more
Characters
Caricatures by Mike Caplanis