Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Bell, Walter F., “Civil War Texas: A Review of the Historical Literature,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Oct. 2005), 205–32.
Blakey, George T., “Morgan’s Raid: Childhood Memories of the Civil War in Indiana,” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 17 (Fall 2005), 24–33. Heavily illustrated.
Brady, Lisa M., “The Wilderness of War: Nature and Strategy in the American Civil War,” Environmental History, 10 (July 2005), 421–47.
Clapper, Michael, “Reconstructing a Family: John Rogers’s Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations,” Winterthur Portfolio, 39 (Winter 2004), 259–77. Heavily illustrated.
Knight, Glenn B., “Black Sailors from Lancaster,” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 107 (Winter 2005), 134–39.
Levin, Kevin M., “William Mahone, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 113 (no. 4, 2005), 378–412.
Nagler, Jörg, “Images and History: The American Civil War in Photography, Caricature, and Print,” in Visual Culture in the American Studies Classroom: Proceedings of the U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2003, ed. Udo Hebel and Martina Kohl, 75–98. (Vienna: rpo, 2005. 221 pp. isbn 3-00-016008-6.)
Risley, Ford, “‘Dear Courier’: The Civil War Correspondence of Editor Melvin Dwinell,” Journalism History, 31 (Fall 2005), 162–70.
Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, “Justice Has Something To Do with It,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 113 (no. 4, 2005), 340–77.
Towne, Stephen E., “Works of Indiscretion: Violence against the Democratic Press in Indiana during the Civil War,” Journalism History, 31 (Fall 2005), 138–49.
Wilson, Mark R., “The Politics of Procurement: Military Origins of Bureaucratic Autonomy,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 44–73.
Work, David, “United States Colored Troops in Texas during Reconstruction, 1865–1867,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Jan. 2006), 337–57.
Bernath, Michael Thomas, “Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3173862.
Gantt, Jonathan Wes, “Irish Terrorism, British Counter-Terrorism, and United States Foreign Policy, 1865–1922” (University of South Carolina, 2005). Order No. DA3173156.
Janney-Lucas, Caroline Elizabeth, “If Not for the Ladies: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Making of the Lost Cause” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3169651.
LaFantasie, Glenn Warren, “William C. Oates: A Biography” (Brown University, 2005). Order No. DA3174631.
Latimore, Carey H., IV, “Always a Minority: Richmond Area Free Blacks in the Civil War Era” (Emory University, 2005). Order No. DA3176037.
Stabler, Scott L., “Race, Reaction, Policy, and Perception: A Tri-Cultural Study of Postbellum America through the Life of General O. O. Howard” (Arizona State University, 2005). Order No. DA3166941.
Stowe, Christopher S., “A Philadelphia Gentleman: The Cultural, Institutional, and Political Socialization of George Gordon Meade” (University of Toledo, 2005). Order No. DA3177609.
Woodward, Colin Edward, “Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army, 1861–1865” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2005). Order No. DA3167171.
Broadwater, Robert P., The Battle of Perryville: Culmination of the Failed Kentucky Campaign. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2005. viii, 200 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-7864-2303-X.) Heavily illustrated.
Fleming, James R., The Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry. (Gretna: Pelican, 2006. 344 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-58980-331-0.) Originally published in 1996.
Mahood, Wayne, Alexander “Fighting Elleck” Hays: The Life of a Civil War General, from West Point to the Wilderness. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2005. x, 222 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-7864-2213-0.)
Walsh, George, “Whip the Rebellion”: Ulysses S. Grant’s Rise to Command. (New York: Forge, 2005. 480 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 0-765-30527-5.)
Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr., ed., “Captain Daniel Scully’s Diary of the Red River Campaign, 1864,” Military History of the West, 35 (2005), 77–98.
Hackemer, Kurt H., ed., To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xxiv, 365 pp. $42.00, isbn 1-57233-442-8.)
Ross, Kirby, ed., Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwacker. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005. xviii, 276 pp. $24.95, isbn 1-55728-799-6.)
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