Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii, 354 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1515-3.)
Fuller, Randall, “Hawthorne and War,” New England Quarterly, 80 (Dec. 2007), 655–86.
Krivdo, Michael E., “Confederate Marine Corps Recruiting in New Orleans and Marine Activities in the First Year of the Civil War,” Louisiana History, 48 (Fall 2007), 441–66.
Legan, Marshall Scott, “‘Hang by the Neck Until Dead’: The Trial and Hanging of a Member of the 22nd Texas Cavalry,” Military History of the West, 37 (2007), 55–68.
Sodergren, Steven E., “Exercising Restraint: Military Responses to Southern Sentiment in California during the Civil War,” Military History of the West, 37 (2007), 1–27.
Armstrong, Marion V., Jr., “McClellan, Sumner and the Second Army Corps in the Maryland Campaign of September 1862” (Middle Tennessee State University, 2004). Order No. DA3255582.
Mountcastle, John Claiborne, “The Guerrilla Problem and the Union Response: Punitive War in America, 1861–1865” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3263254.
Murphree, Ridgeway Boyd, “Rebel Sovereigns: The Civil War Leadership of Governors John Milton of Florida and Joseph E. Brown of Georgia, 1861–1865” (Florida State University, 2006). Order No. DA3252153.
Dammann, Gordon, and Alfred Jay Bollet, Images of Civil War Medicine: A Photographic History. (New York: Demos, 2008. x, 204 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-932603-39-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Field, Ron, American Civil War Fortifications (3): The Mississippi and River Forts. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 64 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-184603-194-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Field, Ron, The Confederate Army, 1861–65 (5): Tennessee & North Carolina. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 48 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-84603-187-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Marvel, William, A Place Called Appomattox. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xii, 400 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2831-4.) Second edition.
Millett, Wesley, and Gerald White, The Rebel and the Rose: James A. Semple, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and the Lost Confederate Gold. (Nashville: Cumberland House, 2007. 299 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-58182-583-1.)
Reid, Brian Holden, Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2007. 271 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-59102-585-6.)
Spruill, Matt, and Lee Spruill, Winter Lightning: A Guide to the Battle of Stones River. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xx, 268 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-57233-598-1.)
Starr, Stephen Z., The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, vol. 1: From Fort Sumter to Gettysburg, 1861–1863. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xiv, 507 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-0484-2. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3291-3.) Originally published in 1979.
Starr, Stephen Z., The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, vol. 2: The War in the East from Gettysburg to Appomattox, 1863–1865. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xviii, 526 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-0859-8. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3292-0.) Originally published in 1981.
Starr, Stephen Z., The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, vol. 3: The War in the West, 1861–1865. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xviii, 616 pp. Cloth, $77.95, isbn 978-0-8071-1209-0. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8071-1209-0.) Originally published in 1985.
Stone, H. David, Jr., Vital Rails: The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 369 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-716-0.)
Engs, Robert F., and Corey M. Brooks, eds., Their Patriotic Duty: The Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County, Ohio. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. xxviii, 410 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2784-6.)
Flannery, Michael A., and Katherine H. Oomens, eds., Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xiv, 140 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2770-6.)
Ford, Jennifer W., ed., The Hour of Our Nation’s Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xxiv, 336 pp. $48.50, isbn 978-1-57233-567-7.)
Foroughi, Andrea R., ed., Go If You Think It Your Duty: A Minnesota Couple’s Civil War Letters. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2008. x, 336 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-87351-600-6.)
Towne, Stephen E., ed., A Fierce, Wild Joy: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Edward J. Wood, 48th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xxviii, 296 pp. $38.00, isbn 978-1-57233-599-8.)
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