Kenneth W. Howell, ed. Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865-1874. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2012. 480 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-449-3.
Reviewed by Steven Ramold (Eastern Michigan University) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2013) Commissioned by Martin Johnson
William A. Dobak. Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867. Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2011. xvi + 553 pp. $58.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-16-086695-1.Barbara A. Gannon. The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic.
Aaron Astor. Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. 360 pp. $47.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-4298-1.
Reviewed by Court Carney (Stephen F. Austin State University) Published on H-CivWar (January, 2013) Commissioned by Martin Johnson
Christopher P. Lehman. Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Jefferson: McFarland, 2011. 228 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-5872-1.
Reviewed by Michael Crane (University of Arkansas, Fort Smith) Published on H-CivWar (January, 2013) Commissioned by Martin Johnson
Paul Finkelman, Donald R. Kennon. In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011. viii + 248 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-1934-2.Henry Goings. Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery.
David Johnson. Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2012. 319 pp. + 8 pp. of plates. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61614-509-5.
Reviewed by Gerald Prokopowicz Published on H-CivWar (October, 2012) Commissioned by Martin Johnson
1864 As You Heard It Before
Dennis W. Belcher. The 11th Missouri Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster. Jefferson: McFarland, 2011. x + 336 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-4882-1.Mark W. Geiger. Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 320 pp.
Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller, eds. The Great Task Remaining before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. 200 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-3202-4; $24.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-3203-1; ISBN 978-0-8232-3204-8.J. Matthew Gallman.
Elizabeth D. Leonard. Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xii + 417 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3500-5.
Reviewed by Mark Neels (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2012) Commissioned by Martin Johnson
Hugh Davis. "We Will Be Satisfied with Nothing Less": The African American Struggle for Equal Rights in the North during Reconstruction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. xvii + 209 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5009-9.
Reviewed by Angela F. Murphy Published on H-CivWar (September, 2012) Commissioned by Martin Johnson
Judkin Browning. Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xiii + 250 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3468-8.
Reviewed by Tommy Brown (Auburn University) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2012) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle
John D. Broadwater. USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012. xiv + 239 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60344-473-6.
Reviewed by Gordon B. Calhoun (Hampton Roads Naval Museum) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2012) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle
Raising the USS Monitor
D. Laurence Rogers. Apostles of Equality: The Birneys, the Republicans, and the Civil War. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2011. 250 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61186-015-3.
Reviewed by Carl Creason (Murray State University) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2012) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle
Frances M. Clarke. War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xiv + 251 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-10862-9.
Reviewed by A. James Fuller Published on H-CivWar (June, 2012) Commissioned by Martin Johnson
Redeeming the Horror of War
Catherine M. Lewis, J. Richard Lewis, eds. Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2011. Illustrations. 330 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-55728-957-5; $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55728-958-2.Owen W. Muelder. Theodore Dwight Weld and the American Anti-Slavery Society.
