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FEATURES

Civil Liberties v. National Security:
The Long Shadow of the Civil War
By Frank J. Williams
Controversial questions over the assumption of war powers and the denial of civil rights that arose from 1861 to 1865 are every bit as potent and prevalent today.

The Lincoln Legacy: A Civil War Times Interview
Historians James M. McPherson and Peter S. Carmichael discuss Abraham Lincoln’s lasting effect on national unity, federal and presidential power and the American mind.

Make Straight His Path: Mapmaking in the Civil War
By Earl B. McElfresh
Combat commanders may have gotten all the glory, but they might have never had their chance to shine if not for intrepid mapmakers and topographers who showed them the way.

A Loss of Innocence at Shiloh
By O. Edward Cunningham
The first shots on a peaceful Sunday morning in April 1862 would herald the bloody fight to come—a battle that would shatter any remaining illusions of a quick, painless war.

‘Inured to Hardships, Fleet as Deer’
By Gordon Berg
American Indian sharpshooters fought gallantly beside their black and white comrades in blue in the chaos of the Crater.

ONLINE EXTRAS

Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman: War’s Kindred Spirits

Battle of Shiloh: Shattering Myths

Siege of Petersburg: The City and Citizens Were Impacted from the Start