The Journal of the Civil War EraVolume 2, Number 1March 2012TABLE OF CONTENTSForumThe Future of Civil War Era StudiesStephen Berry, Michael T. Bernath, Seth Rockman, Barton A. Myers, Anne Marshall, Lisa M. Brady, Judith Giesberg, & Jim DownsArticlesJacqueline G. Campbell"e;The Unmeaning Twaddle about Order 28: Ben Butler and Confederate Women in Occupied New OrleansDavid C. WilliardExecutions, Justice, and Reconciliation in North Carolina's Western Piedmont, 1865-67Matthew C. HulbertConstructing Guerrilla Memory: John Newman Edwards and Missouri's Irregular Lost CauseBook ReviewsBooks ReceivedProfessional NotesKathi Kern & Linda LevstikTeaching the New Departure: the United States vs. Susan B. AnthonyNotes on ContributorsThe Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.