Reviews

Author: 
Susan J. Tracy
Reviewer: 
Lynn Berkowitz

Berkowitz on Tracy, 'In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature'

Susan J. Tracy. In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. ix + 307 pp. $42.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87023-968-7.

Reviewed by Lynn Berkowitz Published on H-CivWar (September, 1996)

Author: 
Peter W. Bardaglio
Reviewer: 
Robert Kenzer

Kenzer on Bardaglio, 'Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South'

Peter W. Bardaglio. Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xxi + 348 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2222-7.

Reviewed by Robert Kenzer (Department of History, University of Richmond) Published on H-CivWar (September, 1996)

Author: 
Robert Brent Toplin, ed.
Reviewer: 
Lex Renda

Renda on Toplin, 'Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond'

Robert Brent Toplin, ed. Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xxvi + 197 pp. $24.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-509330-8.

Reviewed by Lex Renda (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Published on H-CivWar (August, 1996)

Author: 
Gary Gallagher, ed.
Reviewer: 
Lesley J. Gordon

Gordon on Gallagher, 'Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath'

Gary Gallagher, ed. Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi + 263 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2275-3.

Reviewed by Lesley J. Gordon (Murray State University ) Published on H-CivWar (July, 1996)

Author: 
Jeffrey D. Stocker, ed.
Reviewer: 
Arthur W. Bergeron

Bergeron on Stocker, 'From Huntsville to Appomattox: R. T. Cole's History of 4th Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A., Army of Northern Virginia'

Jeffrey D. Stocker, ed. From Huntsville to Appomattox: R. T. Cole's History of 4th Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A., Army of Northern Virginia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. xvi + 318 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87049-924-1.

Reviewed by Arthur W. Bergeron (Pamplin Civil War Site) Published on H-CivWar (June, 1996)

Author: 
Christine Schultz White, Benton R. White
Reviewer: 
Kim Allen Scott

Scott on White and White, 'Now The Wolf Has Come: The Creek Nation in the Civil War'

Christine Schultz White, Benton R. White. Now The Wolf Has Come: The Creek Nation in the Civil War. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. 216 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-89096-689-1.

Reviewed by Kim Allen Scott (Montana State University ) Published on H-CivWar (June, 1996)

Author: 
Jonathan M. Bryant
Reviewer: 
Douglas Deal

Deal on Bryant, 'How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885'

Jonathan M. Bryant. How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. x + 266 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2257-9.

Reviewed by Douglas Deal (SUNY-Oswego) Published on H-CivWar (May, 1996)

Author: 
Thomas D. Cockrell, Michael B. Ballard, eds.
Reviewer: 
David Eyman

Eyman on Cockrell and Ballard, 'Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt'

Thomas D. Cockrell, Michael B. Ballard, eds. Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. xx + 354 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8071-1981-5.

Reviewed by David Eyman (History Department, Skidmore College) Published on H-CivWar (May, 1996)

Author: 
John Taylor
Reviewer: 
Kyle Sinisi

Sinisi on Taylor, 'Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862'

John Taylor. Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. xii + 185 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8263-1632-5.

Reviewed by Kyle Sinisi (The Citadel ) Published on H-CivWar (May, 1996)

Author: 
Timothy S. Good, ed.
Reviewer: 
Beverly Wilson Palmer

Palmer on Good, 'We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts'

Timothy S. Good, ed. We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995. viii + 215 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87805-778-8; $22.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-87805-779-5.

Reviewed by Beverly Wilson Palmer (Thaddeus Stevens Papers) Published on H-CivWar (April, 1996)

Author: 
Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, ed.
Reviewer: 
John F. Votaw

Votaw on Wiggins, 'The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878'

Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, ed. The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. xxxix + 305 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-0770-7.

Reviewed by John F. Votaw (Cantigny First Division Foundation) Published on H-CivWar (April, 1996)

Author: 
Laurence M. Hauptman
Reviewer: 
David Eyman

Eyman on Hauptman, 'Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War'

Laurence M. Hauptman. Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War. New York: The Free Press, 1995. xv + 304 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-02-914180-9.

Reviewed by David Eyman (History Department, Skidmore College) Published on H-CivWar (April, 1996)

Author: 
Jim Cullen
Reviewer: 
Richard Lowry

Lowry on Cullen, 'The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past'

Jim Cullen. The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. x + 253 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56098-459-7.

Reviewed by Richard Lowry (College of William and Mary) Published on H-CivWar (April, 1996)

Author: 
Mark Grimsley
Reviewer: 
George C. Rable

Rable on Grimsley, 'The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865'

Mark Grimsley. The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii + 244 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-46257-0.

Reviewed by George C. Rable (Anderson University) Published on H-CivWar (April, 1996)

Author: 
Daniel E. Sutherland
Reviewer: 
Crandall Shifflett

Shifflett on Sutherland, 'Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865'

Daniel E. Sutherland. Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865. New York: The Free Press, 1995. vii + 488 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-02-874043-0.

Reviewed by Crandall Shifflett (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Published on H-CivWar (April, 1996)

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