Description
Contents: Fight For The Flag (Long after the smoke of the Civil War had cleared, a battle continued to rage in the South, over who deserved credit for designing the “Stars and Bars,” first flag of the Confederacy. Our article on the flag and the dispute surrounding it is accompanied by a gallery of Confederate flags from the collection of the Museum of the Confederacy); The Familiar Road (Confederate Brigadier General John Adam’s last day alive took him back down the road toward his childhood home, to fight and die in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee); Gallantry Under Fire (Could black troops be relied upon in combat, or would they break down and run away? The 14 Medals of Honor earned by black soldiers at New Market Heights answered that question once and for all); Air War Over Virginia (The Civil War “air force” takes to the sky as two balloonists vie for control of the Union army’s aerial reconnaissance efforts. With a sidebar on Confederate military ballooning) Departments – Travel – Imagining Civil War New York (New York City has changed a great deal since the 1860s, but lingering traces of the city’s rich Civil War history still await the informed traveler); My War – The Hermannsburg Treasure Hunt (In this second of two parts, a refugee recounts a secret trip to his abandoned Arkansas home to retrieve hidden gold, under constant danger from Rebels, Yankees and Indians); Behind The Lines; Reviews; Letters; News; Calendar; Gallery
Issue: October 1996
Condition: Very Good