Published: 12/21/11GEIGER: Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri’s Civil War (2010)By: Joseph M. Beilein, Jr.Category: Book Reviews Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri’s Civil War, 1861-1865 by Mark W. Geiger. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0300151519. $55.00. Those who pay attention to the world...
Published: 12/14/11WACHTELL: War No More (2010)By: Kenneth W. NoeCategory: Book Reviews War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914 by Cynthia Wachtell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807135623. $35.00. Even the most casual student of the...
Published: 12/7/11THOMPSON (ed.): Tejanos in GrayBy: William L. SheaCategory: Book Reviews Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Rafael de la Garza and Manuel Yturri edited by Jerry Thompson (translated by Jose Roberto Juarez). College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011....
Published: 11/30/11URAL (ed.): Civil War Citizens (2010)By: James J. BroomallCategory: Book Reviews Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict edited by Susanna J. Ural. New York University Press, 2010. Paper, ISBN: 0814785700. $23.00. Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and...
Published: 11/30/11MCGINTY: The Body of John Merryman (2011)By: Michael S. GreenCategory: Book Reviews The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeaus Corpus by Brian McGinty. Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0674061551. $29.95. Among the battles that Abraham Lincoln fought...
Published: 11/23/11HARROLD: Border War (2010)By: Bonnie Laughlin-SchultzCategory: Book Reviews Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War by Stanley Harrold. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807834319. $30.00. In this well-researched and convincing work,...
Published: 11/16/11MORSMAN: The Big House After Slavery (2010)By: Felicity TurnerCategory: Book Reviews The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and their Postwar Domestic Experiment by Amy Feely Morsman. University of Virginia Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0813930030. $45.00. Amy Feely Morsman’s The Big House After...
Published: 11/9/11COFFMAN: Going Back the Way They Came (2011) & MARTIN: I Will Give Them One More Shot (2011)By: James I. Robertson, Jr.Category: Book Reviews Will Give Them One More Shot: Ramsey’s First Regiment Georgia Volunteers by George W. Martin. Mercer University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0881462195. $45.00. Going Back the Way They Came: The Phillips Georgia...
Published: 11/2/11MARTIN: General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A. (2011)By: Jeffry D WertCategory: Book Reviews General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A. by Samuel J. Martin. McFarland, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0786459344. $55.00. A consensus among many Civil War historians is that the Confederacy lost the conflict in the West,...
Published: 10/26/11GLATTHAAR: Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia (2011)By: Brian Craig MillerCategory: Book Reviews Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served Under Robert E. Lee by Joseph T. Glatthaar. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011....