Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr., “Fort Berwick and Fort Chene: Guardians of the Attakapas,” Louisiana History, 47 (Fall 2006), 435–50.
Costa, Dora L., and Matthew E. Kahn, “Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (Dec. 2006), 936–62.
Kelly, Brian, “Black Laborers, the Republican Party, and the Crisis of Reconstruction in Lowcountry South Carolina,” International Review of Social History (Amsterdam), 51 (Dec. 2006), 375–414.
Medford, Edna Greene, “Lincoln and the Constitutional Dilemma of Emancipation,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (Jan. 2007), 19–23. Heavily illustrated.
Paludan, Phillip Shaw, “‘Dictator Lincoln’: Surveying Lincoln and the Constitution,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (Jan. 2007), 8–13. Heavily illustrated.
Slay, David, “Playing a Sinking Piano: The Struggle for Position in Occupied Rome,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Winter 2006), 483–504.
Clampitt, Brad R., “Morale in the Western Confederacy, 1864–1865: Home Front and Battlefield” (University of North Texas, 2006). Order No. DA3214457.
Lu, Ling-Pei, “Sound at Heart and Right Hand: Mobile’s Road to Secession” (Auburn University, 2006). Order No. DA3215730.
Sodergren, Steven E., “‘Great is the shovel and spade’: The Adaptation of Union Soldiers to Combat Conditions, 1864–1865” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3214808.
Brandt, Dennis W., From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xxiv, 274 pp. $42.50, isbn 978-0-8262-1680-9.)
Foster, Buck T., Sherman’s Mississippi Campaign. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xiv, 215 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1519-1.)
Hess, Earl J., et al., Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xvi, 281 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8032-7366-5.)
Kaufman, Will, The Civil War in American Culture. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. xiv, 193 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-7486-1935-1.)
Lardas, Mark, African American Soldier in the Civil War: usct 1862–66. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2006. 64 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-84603-092-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Logue, Larry M., and Michael Barton, eds., The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. x, 457 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-5203-6. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-8147-5204-3.)
McPherson, James M., This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 260 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-19-531366-6.)
Walsh, George, “Those Damn Horse Soldiers”: True Tales of the Civil War Cavalry. (New York: Doherty, 2006. 477 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-765-31270-9.)
Wittenberg, Eric J., Rush’s Lancers: The Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War. (Yardley: Westholme, 2007. xii, 316 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59416-032-5.)
Wynne, Ben, Mississippi’s Civil War: A Narrative History. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2006. xxiv, 243 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-88146-039-1.)
Bonner, Robert E., The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. xxii, 248 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-8090-8744-0.)
Hubard, Robert T., Jr., The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman, ed. Thomas P. Nanzig. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xxvi, 302 pp. $46.50, isbn 978-0-8173-1530-6.)
Wilson, Keith, ed., Honor in Command: Lt. Freeman S. Bowley’s Civil War Service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xxviii, 290 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8130-2998-8.)
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