Just by casually browsing through Scribner's in the database, it is easy to see that the magazine was very concerned with the war. Every cover boasts an article to be found within that touches on the war. Even the magazines advertisements promote books on the war such as this page (12c) found in Vol. 60, No. 3. All six books promoted here are either about the war or are related to the nations that are participating in the war. Scribner's was a New York based magazine and this issues was published a year before the United States joined in the war effort and seems to show that the American people were curious about the war and the people fighting in the war, especially the French.
There is an interesting moment in a short piece of fiction called "Baytop" by Armisead C. Gordon published in Vol. 57, No. 5, on pages 561-574. The story takes place on a plantation "fifteen years after the close of he war - the only war that ever was or ever could be for the oldtimers of Kingsmill" (561). The author is obviously refering to he Civil War and on first read it could seem a controversial statment to make about recently freed slaves, especially in a story published while another war was raging on. Does the author mean that no feed slave would care about any other war before or after the Civil War? It could also simply be read as the author establishing age and setting of his characters, but in a very interesting way.
