Description
Contents: The Reliable Remington (Soldiers trusted the Remington New Model Army revolver for its sturdiness and performance. Collectors value it as one of the Civil War’s most-used handguns); G.A.R. Museum Is A Treasury of War Relics (A museum founded by Union veterans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, still opens its doors to visitors who want to step back in time); A Tourist At Gettysburg (Smoke is in the air and wounded still lie in crude hospitals when a disabled Union veteran visits the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); The Century Art: What War Looked Like (Some of the best images of the Civil War were made for The Century Magazine 20 years after the last shot was fired); Inside Mosby’s Confederacy (Northern Virginia’s “Gray Ghost” narrowly avoids capture in this excerpt from the newest book on Confederate Partisan Ranger John S. Mosby and his raiders); Strike The Phrase “Strike The Tent” (Medical research has the last word on the last words on Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s famous “last words”); Big War On A Small Screen (A PBS Civil War history series comes to television this fall); Hard Rope’s Civil War (A secret mission ends abruptly when Indians ask too many questions) Departments – Behind The Lines; Letters To The Editor; In Print; Coming Events; 130 Years Ago; Time Lapse
Issue: September – October 1990
Condition: Very Good