Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Bean, Christopher B., “Death of a Carpetbagger: The George Washington Smith Murder and Stockade Trial in Jefferson, Texas, 1868–1869,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (Jan. 2009), 263–92.
Bell, Andrew McIlwaine, “Trans-Mississippi Miasmas: Malaria and Yellow Fever Shaped the Course of the Civil War in the Confederacy’s Western Theater,” East Texas Historical Journal, 48 (no. 2, 2009), 3–13.
Browning, Judkin, “‘I Am Not So Patriotic as I Was Once’: The Effects of Military Occupation on the Occupying Union Soldiers during the Civil War,” Civil War History, 55 (July 2009), 217–43.
Burnette, Patricia Bauer, “Jaquess and the Lincoln Connection,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 272–84.
Bynum, Victoria E., “Occupied at Home: Women Confront Confederate Forces in North Carolina’s Quaker Belt,” in Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War, ed. LeeAnn Whites and Alecia P. Long, 155–70. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. viii, 256 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3440-5.)
Dawson, Joseph G., III, “Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy’s ‘Offensive-Defensive’ Strategy in the U.S. Civil War,” Journal of Military History, 73 (April 2009), 591–607.
Farmer-Kaiser, Mary, “Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone: The ‘Agony and Strife’ of Civil War Louisiana,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 73–93. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Flaherty, Jane, “‘The Exhausted Condition of the Treasury’ on the Eve of the Civil War,” Civil War History, 55 (July 2009), 244–77.
Futrell, Roger H., “Zachariah Riney: Lincoln’s First Schoolmaster,” Kentucky Ancestors, 44 (Spring 2009), 106–13.
McGhee, James E., “‘A Damned Tight Place’: General Jeff Thompson Confronts the Federals at Fredericktown, Missouri,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (April 2009), 148–60.
Mitchell, Robert E., “Civil War Recruiting and Recruits from Ever-Changing Labor Pools: Midland County, Michigan, as a Case Study,” Michigan Historical Review, 35 (Spring 2009), 29–60.
Possemato, Joseph Anthony, “‘Ain’t You Glad Your Husband Is an Officer in a “Nigger Reg’t?”’: The Letters of Captain Richard Henry Lee Jewett of the 54th Massachusetts,” New England Journal of History, 65 (Spring 2009), 1–23.
Pryor, Elizabeth Brown, “Brief Encounter: A New York Cavalryman’s Striking Conversation with Abraham Lincoln,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30 (Summer 2009), 1–24.
Smith, Michael Thomas, “Corruption European Style: The 1861 Frémont Scandal and Popular Fears in the Civil War North,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (March 2009), 49–69.
Steedman, Marek D., “Resistance, Rebirth, and Redemption: The Rhetoric of White Supremacy in Post–Civil War Louisiana,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 35 (Spring 2009), 97–113.
Stegmaier, Mark J., “‘An Imaginary Negro in an Impossible Place’? The Issue of New Mexico Statehood in the Secession Crisis, 1860–1861,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Spring 2009), 263–90.
Stoker, Donald, “There Was No Offensive-Defensive Confederate Strategy,” Journal of Military History, 73 (April 2009), 571–90.
Williams, James B., “The Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission: Looking to the Past as Tennessee Plans for the Future,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 270–345.
Zdon, Al, “Colvill of Minnesota,” Minnesota History, 61 (Summer 2009), 260–71. Heavily illustrated.
Cloyd, Benjamin Gregory, “Civil War Prisons in American Memory” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2005).
Efford, Alison Clark, “New Citizens: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Reconstruction of Citizenship, 1865–1877” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3324019.
Esplin, Emron Lee, “Racial Mixture and Civil War: The Histories of the U.S. South and Mexico in the Novels of William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3331903.
Heaney, Michael K., “Uncounted Costs: The Civil War’s Impact on an Infantry Company’s Men and Their Families” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3335534.
Scott, Sean Andrew, “‘A Visitation of God’: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War” (Purdue University, 2008). Order No. DA3330579.
Baggett, James Alex, Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee’s Union Cavalry in the Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xvi, 444 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3398-9.)
Cilella, Salvatore G., Jr., Upton’s Regulars: The 121st New York Infantry in the Civil War. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xiv, 586 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1645-9.)
Hatley, Allen G., Reluctant Rebels: The Eleventh Texas Cavalry Regiment. (Hillsboro: Hill College Press, 2006. x, 191 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-9121-7242-2.)
Hess, Earl J., In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xxiv, 403 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3282-0.)
Pickenpaugh, Roger, Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. xiv, 287 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1652-5.)
Sands, Eric C., American Public Philosophy and the Mystery of Lincolnism. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 222 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1849-0.)
Settles, Thomas M., John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xiv, 346 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3391-0.)
Trask, David F., The Civil War on the River Lines of Virginia, 1862–1864: Decision on the Rappahannock and the Rapidan Rivers. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. x, 208 pp. Paper, $33.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4604-8.)
Burkhardt, George S., ed., Double Duty in the Civil War: The Letters of Sailor and Soldier Edward W. Bacon. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xvi, 258 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2910-6.)
Mackall, Mary L., Stevan F. Meserve, and Anne Mackall Sasscer, eds., In the Shadow of the Enemy: The Civil War Journal of Ida Powell Dulany. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. xxxii, 271 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-1-57233-658-2.)
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