Picked up a new magazine today, Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America's Greatest Conflict. Fall 2011. $5.99. (Charter subscripyion $16.95 for 4 issues). Call 877-344-7409 or visit http://www.CivilWarMonitor.com Published by Bayshore History LLC.
Table of Contents
The Men & The Hour: Lincoln, Davis and the Struggle to Avert War. pg 22
The Work That REmains (after battles, bringing the bodies of dead soldiers home) pg 38
Run Agrund at Sailor's Creek pg 46
Captive Memories: Union Ex-prisoners and the Work of Remembrance
"Babylon id Fallen,": The Northern Press reports Sherman's March to the Sea.
Departments
Editorial
Salvo: Facts, Figures & Items on Interest)
--Travel: A Visit to Gettysburg
--Voices: the War begins
--Primer: Getting to know Civil War headgear
--Preservation: Big plans for the 150th
--Figures: Resources of the Union & Confederacy
--In Focus: Baking for the Cause
Casualties of war
Battlefield Echoes
Books & Authors
--Essential REading on the Coming of the war, by Russell McClintock
--Musings of a Civil WAr Bibliophile by Robert Krick
--The Books that Made Me, by Steven M. Newton
Parting Shot
Terry Johnston, in his editorial Welcome to the Civil War Monitor, writes:
For decades after the guns fellsilent-and at times still today-many author's of the war's popular histories papered over the conflict's less savory or controversial elements, opting instead to tell simplified, sanitized, or sentimental tales of a chivalrous contest fought by strictly honorable men. The Civil WAr, in such histories, is presented through a rose-colored lens, void of context and absent any attempt at understanding its causes and consequences, let alone the times in which it was fought.
The Civil War Monitor attempts to remedy that lack.
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