Reviews

Author:

Curt Johnson, Richard C. Anderson, Joseph Mills Hanson

Reviewer:

Terry L. Jones

Jones on Johnson and Anderson and Hanson, 'Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam (Texas a & M University Military History Series)'

Curt Johnson, Richard C. Anderson, Joseph Mills Hanson. Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam (Texas a & M University Military History Series). College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. xx + 147 pp. $29.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89096-622-8; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-89096-623-5.

Reviewed by Terry L. Jones (Northeast Louisiana University) Published on H-CivWar (March, 1996)

Author:

Edwin Adams Davis

Reviewer:

Donald S. Frazier

Frazier on Davis, 'Fallen Guidon: The Saga of Confederate General Jo Shelby's March to Mexico'

Edwin Adams Davis. Fallen Guidon: The Saga of Confederate General Jo Shelby's March to Mexico. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. 173 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89096-683-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-89096-684-6.

Reviewed by Donald S. Frazier (McMurry University) Published on H-CivWar (February, 1996)

Author:

James M. McPherson, ed.

Reviewer:

Robert J. Havlik

Havlik on McPherson, '"We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth'

James M. McPherson, ed. "We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. viii + 176 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-02190-9.

Reviewed by Robert J. Havlik (University of Notre Dame) Published on H-CivWar (February, 1996)

Author:

Stephen R. Wise

Reviewer:

W. Wayne Smith

Smith on Wise, 'Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863'

Stephen R. Wise. Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. xii + 312 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87249-985-0.

Reviewed by W. Wayne Smith (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-CivWar (February, 1996)

Author:

Stephanie McCurry

Reviewer:

Jeanette Keith

Keith on McCurry, 'Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country'

Stephanie McCurry. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 320 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-507236-5.

Reviewed by Jeanette Keith (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-CivWar (February, 1996)

Author:

James G. Hollandsworth

Reviewer:

Gregory J. W. Urwin

Urwin on Hollandsworth, 'The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience during the Civil War'

James G. Hollandsworth. The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience during the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. xvi + 140 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-1939-6.

Reviewed by Gregory J. W. Urwin (Department of History, University of Central Arkansas) Published on H-CivWar (January, 1996)

Author:

Peter S. Carmichael

Reviewer:

Joseph R. Fischer

Fischer on Carmichael, 'Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J. Peagram'

Peter S. Carmichael. Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J. Peagram. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. 209 pp. $29.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-1611-8.

Reviewed by Joseph R. Fischer (United States Army Special Operations Command History and Archives, Ft. Bragg, NC) Published on H-CivWar (January, 1996)

Author:

Stephen V. Ash

Reviewer:

Daniel E. Sutherland

Sutherland on Ash, 'When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865'

Stephen V. Ash. When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xi + 309 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2223-4.

Reviewed by Daniel E. Sutherland (Department of History, University of Arkansas) Published on H-CivWar (January, 1996)

Author:

Michael Fellman

Reviewer:

Mark Grimsley

Grimsley on Fellman, 'Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman'

Michael Fellman. Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman. New York: Random House, 1995. xiv + 486 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-679-42966-1.

Reviewed by Mark Grimsley (The Ohio State University ) Published on H-CivWar (January, 1996)

Author:

Michael F. Holt

Reviewer:

Peter B. Knupfer

Knupfer on Holt, 'Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln'

Michael F. Holt. Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 365 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-1728-6.

Reviewed by Peter B. Knupfer (Kansas State University) Published on H-CivWar (December, 1995)

Author:

Eugene C. Harter

Reviewer:

Douglas W. Cupples

Cupples on Harter, 'The Lost Colony of the Confederacy'

Eugene C. Harter. The Lost Colony of the Confederacy. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985. xiv + 141 pp. $14.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87805-259-2.

Reviewed by Douglas W. Cupples (Memphis State University) Published on H-CivWar (December, 1995)

Author:

Robert A. Taylor

Reviewer:

David E. Woodard

Woodard on Taylor, 'Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy'

Robert A. Taylor. Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1995. xii + 220 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8173-0776-9.

Reviewed by David E. Woodard (University of Minnesota) Published on H-CivWar (September, 1995)

Author:

Gary W. Gallagher, ed.

Reviewer:

Crandall Shifflett

Shifflett on Gallagher, 'The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock'

Gary W. Gallagher, ed. The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiv + 243 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2193-0.

Reviewed by Crandall Shifflett (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Published on H-CivWar (September, 1995)

Author:

Stanley Harrold

Reviewer:

Frank Towers

Towers on Harrold, 'The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861'

Stanley Harrold. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. x + 245 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-1906-9.

Reviewed by Frank Towers (History Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) Published on H-CivWar (August, 1995)

Author:

David T. Hedrick, Gordon Barry Davis Jr.., eds.

Reviewer:

Matthew Gallman

Gallman on Hedrick and Jr.., 'I'm Surrounded by Methodists ... Diary of John H.W. Stuckenberg, Chaplain of the 145th Pennsylvania'

David T. Hedrick, Gordon Barry Davis Jr.., eds. I'm Surrounded by Methodists ... Diary of John H.W. Stuckenberg, Chaplain of the 145th Pennsylvania. Gettysburg, Penn.: Thomas Publications, 1995. 140 pp. $16.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-939631-75-9.

Reviewed by Matthew Gallman (Loyola University) Published on H-CivWar (August, 1995)

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Reviews

Jones on Johnson and Anderson and Hanson, 'Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam (Texas a & M University Military History Series)'

Frazier on Davis, 'Fallen Guidon: The Saga of Confederate General Jo Shelby's March to Mexico'

Havlik on McPherson, '"We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth'

Smith on Wise, 'Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863'

Keith on McCurry, 'Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country'

Urwin on Hollandsworth, 'The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience during the Civil War'

Fischer on Carmichael, 'Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J. Peagram'

Sutherland on Ash, 'When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865'

Grimsley on Fellman, 'Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman'

Knupfer on Holt, 'Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln'

Cupples on Harter, 'The Lost Colony of the Confederacy'

Woodard on Taylor, 'Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy'

Shifflett on Gallagher, 'The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock'

Towers on Harrold, 'The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861'

Gallman on Hedrick and Jr.., 'I'm Surrounded by Methodists ... Diary of John H.W. Stuckenberg, Chaplain of the 145th Pennsylvania'

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