Editor's Overview

This issue of Civil War History presents our first "Historians' Forum," on the Battle of Bull Run. We plan to feature these forums regularly on various topics and welcome suggestions for future themes and participants. Please contact us at civilwarhistory@uakron.edu. For more information on manuscript submissions and book reviews, visit our website: http://upress.kent.edu/journals/index.htm.

Brian Matthew Jordan's "'Living Monuments': Union Veteran Amputees and the Embodied Memory of the Civil War" examines left-handed penmanship competitions to see how Union veterans became full-fledged participants in the postwar debate over Civil War memory. Jordan's article joins a growing number of historians challenging the notion that Union Veterans lost any sense of sectional identity once the fighting ended.

John Sacher's "The Loyal Draft Dodger? A Reexamination of Confederate Substitution" uses enrollment records and other sources from Rockingham County, Virginia, to argue that at least for these southerners, Confederate nationalism could be expressed in ways other than bearing arms. Even those who hired substitutes could be loyal Confederates.

Book Reviews

Our review section includes Robert McGlone's award-winning title on John Brown. We also review recently edited collections on Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and gender.