Jay Slagle. Ironclad Captain: Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864. Kent, Oh.: Kent State University Press, 1997. xvi + 449 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87338-550-3.
Reviewed by Daniel E. Sutherland (University of Arkansas) Published on H-CivWar (September, 1997)
Arthur N. Skinner, James L. Skinner, eds. The Death of a Confederate: Selections from the Letters of the Archibald Smith Family of Roswell, Georgia, 1864-1956. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xlviii + 296 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-1844-8.
Reviewed by Jonathan Sarris (University of Georgia) Published on H-CivWar (September, 1997)
Drew Gilpin Faust. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi + 326 pp. $29.95 (cloth), $15.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-2255-5.
Reviewed by Virginia J. Laas (Missouri Southern State College) Published on H-CivWar (September, 1997)
Morris Penny, J. Gary Laine. Law's Alabama Brigade in the War Between the Union and the Confederacy. Shippensburg, Penn: White Mane Publishing, 1997. xxi + 458 pp. $37.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-57249-024-6.
Reviewed by Thomas D. Mays (University of Dallas) Published on H-CivWar (August, 1997)
William H. Harris. With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. x + 354 pp. $37.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-2007-2.
Reviewed by Jean Harvey Baker (Goucher College) Published on H-CivWar (August, 1997)
Michael A. Morrison. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii + 396 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2319-4.
Reviewed by Allan G. Bogue (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Published on H-CivWar (August, 1997)
Herman Hattaway. Shades of Blue and Gray: An Introductory Military History of the Civil War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. xii + 281 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-1107-1.
Reviewed by Gregory J. W. Urwin (University of Central Arkansas) Published on H-CivWar (August, 1997)
JoAnna McDonald. The World Will Long Remember: A Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg. Shippensburg, Penn.: White Mane Publishing, 1996. vii + 183 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57249-000-0.
Reviewed by Daniel E. Sutherland (Department of History, University of Arkansas) Published on H-CivWar (July, 1997)
Chester G. Hearn. The Capture of New Orleans, 1862. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. 292 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-1945-7.
Reviewed by Douglas W. Cupples (University of Memphis) Published on H-CivWar (July, 1997)
Earl J. Hess. The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xii + 244 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-0837-9.
Reviewed by Ricardo A. Herrera (Department of History and Geography, Texas Lutheran University) Published on H-CivWar (July, 1997)
Steven E. Woodworth, ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. xiv + 754 pp. $99.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-313-29019-0.
Reviewed by Lawrence A. Kreiser (University of Alabama) Published on H-CivWar (July, 1997)
Jonathan M. Atkins. Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. xviii + 371 pp. $38.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87049-950-0.
Reviewed by Kenneth W. Noe (State University of West Georgia) Published on H-CivWar (July, 1997)
Paul D. Escott, ed. North Carolina Yeoman: The Diary of Basil Armstrong Thomasson, 1853-1862. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. lvi + 355. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-1755-7.
Reviewed by Douglas Deal (SUNY-Oswego) Published on H-CivWar (July, 1997)
David Madden. Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. 160 pp. $19.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87049-948-7.
Reviewed by Richard Lowry (College of William and Mary) Published on H-CivWar (July, 1997)
David S. Moore, ed. I Will Try to Send You All the Particulars of the Fight: Maps and Letters from New York State's Civil War Newspapers, 1861-1863. Albany: Friends of the New York State Newspaper Project, 1995. x + 134 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Dardenne (University of South Florida at St. Petersburg) Published on H-CivWar (July, 1997)
