Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Anbinder, Tyler, “Which Poor Man’s Fight? Immigrants and the Federal Conscription of 1863,” Civil War History, 52 (Dec. 2006), 344–72.
Clampitt, Brad R., “Two Degrees of Rebellion: Amnesty and Texans after the Civil War,” Civil War History, 52 (Sept. 2006), 255–81.
Denmark, Lisa L., “‘At the Midnight Hour’: Economic Dilemmas and Harsh Realities in Post-Civil War Savannah,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Fall 2006), 350–90.
Giesberg, Judith Ann, “‘To Forget and Forgive’: Reconstructing the Nation in the Post–Civil War Classroom,” Civil War History, 52 (Sept. 2006), 282–302.
Hamilton, Daniel W., “The Confederate Sequestration Act,” Civil War History, 52 (Dec. 2006), 373–408.
Higgins, Andrew C., “Reconstructing Rebellion: The Politics of Narrative in the Confederate Memoir,” Mississippi Quarterly, 57 (Winter 2004–2005), 119–39.
Hoeflich, M. H., and Virgil W. Dean, “Went at Night to Hear Hon. Abe Lincoln Make a Speech,” Kansas History, 29 (Summer 2006), 100–113.
Hutchinson, William K., and Robert A. Margo, “The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (Oct. 2006), 689–704.
Miller, Richard F., “Narrative of a Nickname: How the Twentieth Massachusetts Became the Harvard Regiment,” New England Quarterly, 79 (June 2006), 277–97.
Phillips, Jason, “The Grape Vine Telegraph: Rumors and Confederate Persistence,” Journal of Southern History, 72 (Nov. 2006), 753–88.
Ramage, James A., and Kristopher A. Teters, “Public Reactions to Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign in Kentucky, Cincinnati, and across the Union,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 103 (Autumn 2005), 627–60.
Sheppard, Jonathan C., “‘This Seems To Be Our Darkest Times’: The Florida Brigade in Mississippi, June–July, 1863,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Summer 2006), 64–90.
Smith, Michael T., “The Beast Unleashed: Benjamin F. Butler and Conceptions of Masculinity in the Civil War North,” New England Quarterly, 79 (June 2006), 248–76.
Stevens, William D., and Jonathan M. Leader, “Skeletal Remains from the Confederate Naval Sailor and Marines’ Cemetery, Charleston, SC,” Historical Archaeology, 40 (no. 3, 2006), 74–88.
Thompson, Jerry, “Lt. Franklin Cook Recalls the Battle of Valverde,” New Mexico Historical Review, 81 (Fall 2006), 365–90.
Tubbs, William B., “A Bibliography of Illinois Civil War Regimental Sources in the Collections of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library: Part 2, Manuscript Sources,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Summer 2006), 95–136.
Tunnell, Ted, “Creating ‘the Propaganda of History’: Southern Editors and the Origins of Carpetbagger and Scalawag,” Journal of Southern History, 72 (Nov. 2006), 789–822.
Wolff, Robert S., “The Problem of Race in the Age of Freedom: Emancipation and the Transformation of Republican Schooling in Baltimore, 1860–1867,” Civil War History, 52 (Sept. 2006), 229–54.
Yonkers, Charles E., “The Civil War Transformation of George W. Smith: How a Western Kentucky Farmer Evolved from Unionist Whig to Pro-Southern Democrat,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 103 (Autumn 2005), 661–90.
Flaherty, Jane, “The Percieved Power: Government and Taxation during the American Civil War” (Texas A&M University, 2005). Order No. DA3202308.
Lee, Susanna Michele, “Claiming the Union: Stories of Loyalty in the Post-Civil War South” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3202681.
Rockenbach, Stephen I., “‘War upon our border’: War and Society in Two Ohio Valley Communities, 1861–1865” (University of Cincinnati, 2005). Order No. DA3196968.
Allendorf, Donald, Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army–The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2006. xxxii, 342 pp. $39.00, isbn 978-0-87338-871-9.)
Ayers, Edward L., Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget, eds., Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. x, 226 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2552-3.)
Benedict, Michael Les, Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xiv, 314 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-8232-2553-8. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-8232-2554-5.)
Boritt, Gabor, The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. xii, 415 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-7432-8820-0.)
Dunkelman, Mark H., War’s Relentless Hand: Twelve Tales of Civil War Soldiers. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xvi, 288 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3190-9.)
Finseth, Ian Frederick, The American Civil War: An Anthology of Essential Writings. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xvi, 629 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-97743-2. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-415-97744-9.)
Flood, Charles Bracelen, Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War. (New York: HarperPerennial, 2006. xvi, 460 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-06-114871-2.)
Raus, Edmund J., Jr., Banners South: A Northern Community at War. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2005. xiv, 333 pp. $39.00, isbn 978-0-87338-842-9.)
Thomsen, Paul A., Rebel Chief: The Motley Life of Colonel William Holland Thomas, C.S.A. (New York: Doherty, 2006. 300 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-765-30959-4.)
Whalen, Charles, and Barbara Whalen, The Fighting McCooks: The True Story of America’s Famous Fighting Family. (Bethesda: Westmoreland, 2006. x, 421 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-9779081-4-1. Paper, $16.95, isbn 0-977-90815-1.)
Zuczek, Richard, ed., Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. Vol. 1: A–L, lxii, 392 pp. Vol. 2: M–Z and Primary Documents, vi, 472 pp. $199.95/set, isbn 0-313-33073-5/set.)
Cutrer, Thomas W., ed., Our Trust Is in the God of Battles: The Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, Chaplain, Terry’s Texas Rangers, C.S.A. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xxxiv, 436 pp. $45.00, isbn 1-57233-458-4.)
Giunta, Mary A., ed., A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859–64. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxiv, 310 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03076-5.)
Gorman, Kathleen, ed., Boy Soldier of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Johnnie Wickersham. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. xxii, 169 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2722-5.) Originally published in 1918.
Houston, Alan Fraser, ed., Keep Up Good Courage: A Yankee Family and the Civil War; The Correspondence of Cpl. Lewis Q. Smith, of Sandwich, New Hampshire, Fourteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 1862–1865. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Randall, 2006. xiv, 337 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-931-80749-4.)
Kamphoefner, Walter D., and Wolfgang Helbich, eds., Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home, trans. Susan Carter Vogel. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xxxvi, 521 pp. $59.95.) Published in German in 2002.
Pate, James P., ed., When This Evil War Is Over: The Correspondence of the Francis Family, 1860–1865. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xiv, 321 pp. $42.50, isbn 978-0-8173-1517-7.)
Reinhart, Joseph R., trans. and ed., August Willich’s Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2006. xiv, 262 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-87338-862-7.)
Scriber, Terry G., Twenty-seventh Louisiana Volunteer Infantry. (Gretna: Pelican, 2006. 569 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58980-374-9.)
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