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Exactly what the Emancipation Proclamation did—and did not—accomplish is still hotly debated
By Harold Holzer
Map: The Progress of Abolition
In some states, the path to freedom was a much longer road
By David Fuller
Murder and Mayhem
Rides the Rails A military operation turned drunken and disorderly when foraging Federals tapped stores of applejack whiskey in Virginia's bountiful Sussex County
By George E. Deutsch
Feathered Warriors
The 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry wore distinctive French uniforms
'A White Man's War'
"The negro is in a transition state, and not the equal of the white man," claimed William T. Sherman
By Michael Fellman
A Brit Rates Our Generals
How do Lee, Jackson and Grant rate in one esteemed historian's book?
By John Keegan
DEPARTMENTS
Mail Call
Reevaluating Grant's detractors
Civil War Today
A Napoleon in New Jersey, new Blue Grass museum, preserving Brandy Station
Edited by Linda Wheeler
Blue & Gray
The Union's best general remains underappreciated
By Gary W. Gallagher
Military Manuals of the Civil War
George B. McClellan's Manual of Bayonet Exercise
Field Guide
Shepherdstown, quaint haven on the Potomac
Letter From Civil War Times
Reviews
NEW! Web guide, plus the disunion debate, the war in 3-D and more
Resources
"A Woman's Recollection of Antietam," John Keegan bibliography and more about the 83rd Pennsylvania
Looking at Lincoln
His final appearance
By Harold Holzer
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