[Homer_J_Simpson]

Highly Important News: Advance of Federal Troops Toward Manassas Junction – 2
Movements of Troops on the Mississippi – 2
Capture of a Secession Flag – 3
Advance on Harper’s Ferry: Movement of Federal Troops Under Gen. Patterson – 3
Notes on the War: Necessity of Creating a Military Spirit among our People – 3-4
Surgery on the Battle-Field: Directions to Army Surgeons on the Field of Battle – 4-5
Editorial: The Campaign in Virginia – 5-6
Editorial: The Cavalry Question – 6
A Plan of Disposing of Contraband – 6-7
Editorial: England and the Cotton Despotism – 7

[allendale]

These articles unfortunately do not document the severe pandemic of war fever that gripped the entire country. Young men, with an overwhelming sense of martial excitement, not only rushed to enlist in the forming armies but actually worried that the fighting would be over before they could see action. Four years later over 600,000 young men were dead and over a million more were physically and psychologically maimed forever. The country would never be the same. In fact the genetic losses marked the beninning of the end of America’s Protestant core. Subsequent manpower and labor shortages in the coming industrial expansion reguired immigration fron Catholic southern and central Europe. America was transformed. It is again being transformed today.