Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Engle, Stephen D., “‘The Union Must Stand’: Wisconsin Governors’ Contributions to the Civil War Effort,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Autumn 2007), 14–27. Heavily illustrated.
Lindell, Terrence J., “An Iowan’s View from Fort Randall: The Letters of Doctor Samuel N. Pierce, 1861–1862,” South Dakota History, 37 (Fall 2007), 224–55.
McCandless, Peter, “The Political Evolution of John Bachman: From New York Yankee to South Carolina Secessionist,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (Jan. 2007), 6–31.
Nagler, Jörg, “Der Präsident als Kriegsherr: Abraham Lincoln” (The president as master of war: Abraham Lincoln), in Kriegsherren in der Weltgeschichte (Warlords in world history), ed. Stig Förster, Marcus Pöhlmann, and Dierk Walther, 234–51. (Munich: Beck, 2006. Paper, €24.90, isbn 3-406-54983-7.) In German.
Nagler, Jörg, “Die Phase der militärischen Besatzung der Südstaaten nach dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg” (The phase of military occupation of the Southern states after the American Civil War), in Besatzung: Funktion und Gestalt militärischer Fremdherrschaft von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (Occupation: Function and gestalt of military foreign rule from antiquity to the twentieth century), ed. Günter Kronenbitter, Markus Pöhlmann, and Dierk Walther, 81–92. (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2006. Paper, €24.90, isbn 3-506-71736-7.) In German.
Pankin, Mary Faith, “Missing the Massacre: Charles I. Eaton’s Civil War Service in the West,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 40 (Spring–Summer 2007), 17–28.
Ramold, Steven J., “‘We should have killed them all’: The Violent Reaction of Union Soldiers to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” Journal of Illinois History, 10 (Spring 2007), 27–48.
Robertson, Brian K., “‘Will They Fight? Ask the Enemy’: United States Colored Troops at Big Creek, Arkansas, July 26, 1864,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2007), 320–32.
Whelan, Bernadette, “The Consuls Who Helped Sink a Fleet: Union Consuls, Intelligence, and the American Civil War,” in Intelligence, Statecraft, and International Power: Irish Conference of Historians, ed. Robert Armstrong, Eunan O’Halpin, and Jane Ohlmeyer, 94–106. (Dublin: Irish Academic, 2006. 272 pp. $85.00, isbn 0-71652840-1.)
Bell, Andrew McIlwaine, “Mosquito Soldiers: The Impact of Malaria and Yellow Fever during the American Civil War” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3248468.
Bonner, Michael Brem, “Confederate Political Economy: The Creation of an Expedient Corporatist State” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3244068.
English, Bertis Deon, “Civil Wars and Civil Beings: Violence, Religion, Race, Politics, Education, Culture, and Agrarianism in Perry County, Alabama, 1860–1875” (Auburn University, 2006). Order No. DA3245467.
Hartman, Michelle L., “Irish Military Service during the American Civil War: A Case against Assimilation; New York, 1861–1865” (New School University, 2006). Order No. DA3239932.
Heyse, Amy L., “Teachers of the Lost Cause: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Rhetoric of Their Catechisms” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3241431.
McClanahan, Brion T., “A Lonely Opposition: James A. Bayard Jr. and the American Civil War” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3245421.
Post, Christopher W., “In Memory: Landscape Memorialization of the Guerilla Warfare on the Kansas-Missouri Frontier” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3243443.
Calhoun, Stephen D., The Marylanders: Without Shelter or a Crumb; A Saga of the Fascist Repression of a Family during the American Civil War. (Westminster: Heritage Books, 2007. viii, 143 pp. Paper, $24.50, isbn 978-0-7884-4392-3.) Revised edition.
Dougherty, Kevin, Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. xiv, 207 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-57806-968-2.)
Hess, Earl J., Trench Warfare under Grant & Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xx, 313 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3154-0.)
Joiner, Gary D., Mr. Lincoln’s Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xiv, 199 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-7425-5097-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7425-5098-8.)
Lewin, J. G., and P. J. Huff, Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War. (New York: Collins, 2007. xii, 212 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-06-113788-4.) Heavily illustrated.
Marszalek, John F., Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xxvi, 635 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2785-0.) Originally published in 1993.
Mayeux, Steven M., Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of Red River. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xvi, 370 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-576-9.)
Rhea, Gordon C., In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee: The Wilderness through Cold Harbor. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. x, 134 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3269-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Sword, Wiley, Courage under Fire: Profiles in Bravery from the Battlefields of the Civil War. (New York: St. Martin’s, 2007. xvi, 318 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-312-36741-1.)
Wylie, Paul R., The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xii, 404 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3847-3.)
Lowe, David W., ed., Meade’s Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2007. xviii, 518 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-87338-901-3.)
Roland, Charles P., History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History, ed. John David Smith. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. x, 353 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2456-8.)
Schaller, Mary W., and Martin N. Schaller, eds., Soldiering for Glory: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Frank Schaller, Twenty-Second Mississippi Infantry. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xx, 185 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-57003-701-6.)
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