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Contents: The Civil War – A Special Issue – Letter From The Editors; Correspondence; The Life And Times (Of Gen. Edward Porter Alexander); The Business Of America (Paying for the war); In The News (Dreams deferred); American Made (The Army Colt); History Happened Here (At Mobile Bay); The Time Machine; A War That Never Goes Away (More than the Revolution, more than the Constitutional Convention, it was the crucial test of the American nation); The Slave Who Sued For Freedom (While the Revolution was still being fought, Mum Bett declared that the new nation’s principle of liberty must extend to her too); The Fires Of Norfolk (A frightened commander was ready to give away the Union’s greatest navy yard); Lee’s Greatest Victory (At Chancellorsville. But the cost was too steep); The Rock Of Chickamauga (Lee. Grant. Jackson. Sherman. Thomas. Yes, George Henry Thomas belongs in that company. The trouble is that he and Grant never really got along); Lincoln From Life (Previously unknown: The first portrait of Lincoln ever painted); The Big Parade (Serious postwar tensions within the Union army disappeared in one happy stroke that gave the United States its grandest pageant); Then And Now (In pictures); Editor’s Bookshelf
Issue: March 1990
Condition: Very Good