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Recent Scholarship

Civil War and Reconstruction

Crow, Amy, “‘In Memory of the Confederate Dead’: Masculinity and the Politics of Memorial Work in Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1894–1895,” North Carolina Historical Review, 83 (Jan. 2006), 31–60.

Fadely, James Philip, “The Veteran and the Memorial: George J. Langsdale and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument,” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 18 (Winter 2006), 26–35. Heavily illustrated.

Fowler, John D., “‘The finishing stroke to the independence of the Southern Confederacy’: Perceptions of Hood’s Tennessee Campaign,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Fall 2005), 216–35.

Futrell, Roger H., “Benjamin F. Lofland, Horatio T. Lofland Jr., and John B. Williams: Loyalists in Confederate Territory,” Kentucky Ancestors, 40 (Summer 2005), 174–80.

Giesberg, Judith Ann, “From Harvest Field to Battlefield: Rural Pennsylvania Women and the U.S. Civil War,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Spring 2005), 159–91.

Gleason, Bruce P., “U.S. Mounted Bands and Cavalry Field Musicians in the Union Army during the Civil War—Background, Duties, and Training,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 27 (April 2006), 102–19.

Hwang, Haesung, “Nambukjeonjaenggi Lincoln Daetongryong eui Leadership: ‘Bulgul eui Jeonsa’” (Lincoln’s leadership during the Civil War: A “tough warrior”), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 17 (May 2003), 27–48. In Korean.

Johansson, M. Jane, “Gibson’s Louisiana Brigade during the 1864 Tennessee Campaign,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Fall 2005), 186–95.

McRae, James S., “David G. Cooke Joins the United States Colored Troops,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Fall 2005), 179–85.

Nash, Steven E., “Aiding the Southern Mountain Republicans: The Freedmen’s Bureau in Buncombe County,” North Carolina Historical Review, 83 (Jan. 2006), 1–30.

Ramage, James A., “Recent Historiography of Guerrilla Warfare in the Civil War—A Review Essay,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 103 (Spring 2005), 517–41.

Reid, Brian Holden, “‘A Signpost That Was Missed’? Reconsidering British Lessons from the American Civil War,” Journal of Military History, 70 (April 2006), 385–414.

Rhodes, Sonny, “Opposite Extremes: How Two Editors Portrayed a Civil War Atrocity,” American Journalism, 22 (Fall 2005), 27–45.

Sandow, Robert M., “The Limits of Northern Patriotism: Early Civil War Mobilization in Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History, 70 (Spring 2003), 175–203.

Severance, Ben H., “Tennessee’s ‘Fighting Joe’: The Civil War Experience of General Joseph A. Cooper,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Fall 2005), 196–215.

Smith, Timothy B., “Civil War Battlefield Preservation in Tennessee: A Nashville National Military Park Case Study,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Fall 2005), 236–47.

Yang, Jae Yul, “Kansas-Nebrask Beopan gwa Jiyeokjueui” (The Kansas-Nebraska Act and sectionalism), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 22 (Nov. 2005), 1–28. In Korean.

 

Fenton, Sarah Kathleen, “Rebel Angels: American Literature across the Civil War” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177718.

Gannon, Barbara A., “The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic” (Pennsylvania State University, 2005). Order No. DA3187505.

Hopkins, Rosemary, “‘Tried in the furnace of affliction’: Political and Social Activism among Civil War Era St. Louis Women” (Saint Louis University, 2005). Order No. DA3185067.

Smith, Michael T., “The Enemy Within: Corruption and Political Culture in the Civil War North” (Pennsylvania State University, 2005). Order No. DA3187563.

Trail, Susan W., “Remembering Antietam: Commemoration and Preservation of a Civil War Battlefield” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178554.

Van Nostrand, Jill, “Minstrelsy in Post–Civil War New York, 1865–1870” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187433.

Xufeng, Huang, “Meiguo nanfang zhuanxing shiqi shehui shenghuo yanjiu” (On social life in the U.S. South in the transitional period, 1877–1920s) (East China Normal University, China, 2003). In Chinese.

 

Bailey, Anne J., Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xvi, 95 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8203-2757-3.)

Gallagher, Gary W., ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xxii, 392 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8078-3005-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Griffin, John Chandler, Abraham Lincoln’s Execution. (Gretna: Pelican, 2006. 464 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-58980-395-7.)

Hall, Harry H., A Johnny Reb from Salem: The Pride of Tarheelia. (Raleigh: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2006. xxii, 288 pp. Paper, $26.00, isbn 0-86526-320-5.)

Hall, James R., Den of Misery: Indiana’s Civil War Prison. (Gretna: Pelican, 2006. 159 pp. $25.00, isbn 1-58980-351-0.)

Smith, Timothy B., The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xxii, 206 pp. $34.00, isbn 1-57233-466-5.)

Van Tassel, David D., with John Vacha, “Behind Bayonets”: The Civil War in Northern Ohio. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2006. x, 125 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-87338-850-X.) Heavily illustrated.

Whitlock, Flint, Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xxii, 293 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-87081-835-X.)

 

Haynes, Dennis E., A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir of a Southern Unionist, ed. Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. xxii, 170 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-55728-811-9.)

Messent, Peter, and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xvi, 333 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8203-2693-3.)

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