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Cover Story
Killers in Green Coats [online]
By R.L. Murray
Many Rebels “bit the dust” when Colonel Hiram Berdan’s marksmen took their deadly skills into the field during the 1862 Peninsula campaign

Harvesting the Dead
By Drew Gilpin Faust
Unprecedented campaigns—both public and private—were launched to locate, identify and reinter dead soldiers in the war’s aftermath

Lincoln at Gettysburg?
By Bob Zeller
An enhanced view of one of Alexander Gardner’s Gettysburg Address images raises new questions

Look Away Dixie Land
By Michael C. Hardy
The South’s unofficial anthem has gained an enduring role in America’s consciousness. Who wrote it?
Dixie audio file. 

‘Only Take the Top Rail’
By Earl McElfresh
Thousands of miles of fences went up in campfire smoke or were destroyed during battle, contributing to the devastation of the South’s rural economy

ONLINE EXTRAS

Battle of Shiloh:

• Battle of Shiloh by James B. Ronan II
• Battle of Shiloh: Shattering Myths by Timothy B. Smith
• The Battle of Shiloh: The Devil’s Own Day by Christopher J. Allen