Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Bailey, Joe R., “Union Lifeline in Tennessee: A Military History of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 106–23. Heavily illustrated.
Diffley, Kathleen, “Splendid Patriotism: How the Illustrated London News Pictured the Confederacy,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 385–407.
Hamilton, Marsha J., “Mercury and Water: Two Civil War Surgeons of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Autumn 2008), 467–504.
Howell, Sarah M., “John C. Gaut: Wielding Justice in Tennessee, 1861–1869,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Spring 2008), 2–21.
Hutchison, Coleman, “On the Move Again: Tracking the ‘Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez,’” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 423–40.
Kennedy-Nolle, Sharon, “Captain Nemo’s Questing after American Causes: Jules Verne’s Transatlantic Vision of Reconstruction,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 441–58.
Laver, Harry S., “Determination and Leadership: Ulysses S. Grant,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 33–60. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)
Lee, Chulhee, “Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1880,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 862–99.
Leeman, William P., “George Bancroft’s Civil War: Slavery, Abraham Lincolm, and the Course of History,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 462–88.
Matsuda, Hiroyuki, “Nanbokusenso ni okeru gunyodenshinmo no yakuwari” (The role of military telegraph networks during the Civil War: The untold story of the United States Military Telegraph Corps), Koshien Daigaku Kiyo (Takarazuka), 34 (2006), 123–55. In Japanese.
Meekins, Alex Christopher, “Unionism and the Arcane Origin of ‘Buffalo,’” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (July 2008), 282–316.
Newman, Mark, “Toward ‘Blessings of Liberty and Justice’: The Catholic Church in North Carolina and Desegregation, 1945–1974,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (July 2008), 317–51.
Niewinski, Lukasz, “Abraham Lincoln I jego misja ocalenia Unii w latach 1861–1865” (Abraham Lincoln and his mission to save the Union in the years 1860–1865), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 91–102. In Polish.
Smith, Timothy B., “The Forgotten Inhabitants of Shiloh: A Civilian-Government Relationship Case Study,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Spring 2008), 36–55.
Surwillo, Lisa, “Poetic Diplomacy: Carolina Coronado and the American Civil War,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 409–22.
Yang, Jae-Yul, “Miguk Nambukjonjang Sigi Gongwadang Gupjinpa Sangwoneowonui Giyukjui Seonghang” (The sectional dimensions in U.S. Radical Republican senates during the Civil War), Daegusahak/The Journal of Daegu History (Daegu), 90 (Feb. 2008), 207–28. In Korean.
DeGruccio, Michael E., “Unmade: American Manhood in the Civil War Era” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299135.
Frawley, Jason Mann, “Marching through Pennsylvania: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians during the Gettysyburg Campaign” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3297466.
Mortenson, Christopher Ryan, “Lew Wallace and the Civil War: Politics and Generalship” (Texas A&M University, 2007). Order No. DA3296484.
Silkenat, David Andrew, “Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289084.
Sternhell, Yael A., “Revolution in Motion: Human Mobility and the Transformation of the South, 1861–1865” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3299827.
Allardice, Bruce S., Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 436 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1809-4.)
Allers, Ken, Jr., The Fog of Gettysburg: The Myths and Mysteries of the Battle. (Nashville: Cumberland House, 2008. 288 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-58182-647-0.)
Crocker, H. W., III, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War. (Washington: Regnery, 2008. 370 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-59698-549-0.)
Davis, Charles S., with J. Barto Arnold III, Colin J. McRae: Confederate Financial Agent; Blockade Running in the Trans-Mississippi South as Affected by the Confederate Government’s Direct European Procurement of Goods. (College Station: Institute of Nautical Archaeology, 2008. 222 pp. Paper, isbn 978-0-9795874-1-2.) Originally published 1961.
Farmer, Alan, Access to History: The American Civil War; Causes, Course, and Consequences, 1803–77. (London: Hodder Education, 2008. vi, 250 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-34-096587-0.) Fourth edition.
Howell, Kenneth Wayne, Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xviii, 251 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-040-0.)
Hurst, Jack, Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War. (New York: Basic, 2007. xx, 442 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-465-03184-9.)
Pullen, John J., The Twentieth Maine. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2008. xii, 338 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8117-3524-7.) Originally published in 1957.
Shaffer, Duane E., Men of Granite: New Hampshire’s Soldiers in the Civil War. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xviii, 365 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-751-1.)
Simson, Jay W., Custer and the Front Royal Executions of 1864. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 204 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3973-7.)
Dinges, Bruce J., and Shirley A. Leckie, eds., A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xvi, 449 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2859-8.)
Wiche, Glen N., ed., Dispatches from Bermuda: The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861–1888. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xviii, 251 pp. $32.00, isbn 978-0-87338-938-9.)
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