Recent Scholarship
Civil War and Reconstruction
Alent’eva, T. V., “Prichiny Grazhdanskoi voiny v SShA v noveishei amerikanskoi istoriografii” (Reasons for the Civil War in the U.S. in the newest American historiography), Novaia i Noveishaia Istoria (Moscow) (no. 5, 2007), 66–79. In Russian.
Dean, Eric T., “‘The Awful Shock and Rage of Battle’: Rethinking the Meaning and Consequences of Combat in the Civil War,” in Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat, ed. Kent Gramm, 92–110. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. xii, 147 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8173-1622-8.)
Evans, Bruce A., “Effects of Battle: Wounds, Death, and Medical Care in the Civil War,” in Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat, ed. Kent Gramm, 67–91. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. xii, 147 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8173-1622-8.)
Ferraro, William M., “A Struggle for Respect: Lew Wallace’s Relationships with Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman after Shiloh,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (June 2008), 125–52.
Gallagher, Patrick, “Through Battle, Prison, and Disease: The Civil War Diaries of George Richardson Crosby,” Vermont History, 76 (Winter–Spring 2008), 19–45.
Hartwig, D. Scott, “‘It’s All Smoke and Dust and Noise’: The Face of Battle at Gettysburg,” in Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat, ed. Kent Gramm, 12–66. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. xii, 147 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8173-1622-8.)
Stanton, Michael N., “The Civil War Memoir of Charles Dubois,” Vermont History, 76 (Winter–Spring 2008), 47–61.
Brasher, Glenn David, “‘None more meritorious’: African Americans and the Peninsula Campaign of 1862” (University of Alabama, 2007). Order No. DA3270480.
Entel, Rebecca Beth, “The Politics of Comparability: Figuring Common and Uncommon Ground of the Civil War” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007). Order No. DA3278762.
Hébert, Keith Scott, “Civil War and Reconstruction Era Cass/Bartow County, Georgia” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3265502.
Hull, Alice Page Elizabeth, “Lessons in Heritage: Southern Children Inherit the Lost Cause” (University of Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3269675.
Jewell, James Robbins, “Left Arm of the Republic: The Department of the Pacific during the Civil War” (West Virginia University, 2006). Order No. DA3276512.
Jones, Gordon L., “‘Gut history’: Civil War Reenacting and the Making of an American Past” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264078.
Knight, Nadine Margaret, “A Lovely Ruin: Sherman’s March in the Literary Imagination” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3265006.
Padilla, Jalynn Olsen, “Army of ‘cripples’: Northern Civil War Amputees, Disability, and Manhood in Victorian America” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3277826.
Steward, Rodney J., “David Schenck and the Contours of a Confederate Identity” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3273393.
Stratman, Jacob Hadley, “The American Jeremiad in Civil War Literature” (Marquette University, 2006). Order No. DA3263798.
Armstrong, Marion V., Jr., Unfurl Those Colors! McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. xii, 384 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1600-6.)
Cimbala, Paul A., The Civil War. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xxii, 264 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-313-33182-4.) Heavily illustrated.
Dupree, Stephen A., Planting the Union Flag in Texas: The Campaigns of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks in the West. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xvi, 293 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-58544-641-4.)
Ecelbarger, Gary, Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xviii, 273 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3886-2.)
Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xvi, 231 pp. $35.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3274-6.)
Gallagher, Gary W., Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 274 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3206-6.)
Garrison, Webb, Brady’s Civil War: A Collection of Memorable Civil War Images Photographed by Mathew Brady and His Assistants. (New York: Lyons, 2008. 256 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-59921-315-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Greene, A. Wilson, The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xviii, 573 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57233-610-0.) Second edition.
LaFantasie, Glenn W., Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xvi, 279 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-35071-8.)
McGhee, James E., Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861–1865. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. xvi, 296 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55728-870-7.)
Mobley, Joe A., Weary of War: Life on the Confederate Home Front. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. xiv, 174 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-99202-6.)
Nosworthy, Brent, Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier’s Eye View of Civil War Battles. (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2008. viii, 342 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-7867-1747-7.)
Öfele, Martin W., True Sons of the Republic: European Immigrants in the Union Army. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. xiv, 200 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-275-98422-9.)
Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R., The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2008. xvi, 421 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7656-1171-0.)
Donald, Robert Bruce, Manhood and Patriotic Awakening in the American Civil War: The John E. Mattoon Letters, 1859–1866. (Lanham: Hamilton, 2008. xii, 116 pp. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-7618-3933-0.)
Lee, Jacob F., ed., “An Honorable Position: Joseph Holt’s Letter to Joshua F. Speed on Neutrality and Secession in Kentucky, May 1861,” Ohio Valley History, 7 (Winter 2007), 32–55.
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