Alice Baumgartner.
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.
New York: Basic Books, 2020. xi + 365 pp.
$26.10 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5416-1778-0. 
Reviewed by Patrick Kelly (UTSA) Published on H-CivWar (January, 2022) Commissioned by Niels Eichhorn
Diana Dretske.
The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
Engaging the Civil War series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2021. 276 pp.
$26.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8093-3820-7.
Thomas F. Curran.
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. 274 pp.
$26.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8093-3803-0.
Kent Masterson Brown.
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command.
Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 488 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6199-5.
Kevin Waite.
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire.
The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Illustrations. xv + 372 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6319-7; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6318-0.
Nicholas Keefauver Roland. Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era. Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Endowment Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-2175-1.
Reviewed by Richard B. McCaslin (University of North Texas) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2021) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Kenneth W. Noe. The Howling Storm: Climate, Weather, and the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 688 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7320-6.
Reviewed by Lisa M. Brady (Boise State University) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2021) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55884
Jonathan A. Noyalas.
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era.
Southern Dissent Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. Illustrations, tables. 250 pp.
$85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6686-8.
Nicole Myers Turner. Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Illustrations, graphs, tables, maps. 223 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5522-2; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5523-9.
Amy Laurel Fluker. Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2020. xiii + 267 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2208-4.
Reviewed by Luke Ritter (New Mexico Highlands University) Published on H-CivWar (June, 2021) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear, ed. Vicksburg Besieged. Civil War Campaigns in the West Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 200 pp. $29.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8093-3783-5.
Reviewed by Bradley R. Clampitt (East Central University) Published on H-CivWar (June, 2021) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
David Prior. Between Freedom and Progress: The Lost World of Reconstruction Politics. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-6968-1.
Reviewed by Dustin McLochlin (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums) Published on H-CivWar (June, 2021) Commissioned by Madeleine Forrest (Virginia Military Institute)
Michael J. Turner. Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. xii + 334 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7108-0.
Reviewed by Beau Cleland (University of Calgary) Published on H-CivWar (May, 2021) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Claire M. Wolnisty.
A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. 180 pp.
$50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0790-6.
Reviewed by Roberto Saba (Wesleyan University) Published on H-CivWar (May, 2021) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
David A. Powell. The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga. The World of Ulysses S. Grant Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 264 pp. $34.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8093-3801-6.
Reviewed by William Glenn Robertson (Combat Studies Institute) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2021) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
