Andrew E. Masich. Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861-1867. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. x + 454 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-5572-2.
Reviewed by Cecily Zander (Penn State University) Published on H-CivWar (February, 2019) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Peter S. Carmichael. The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 408 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4309-0.
Reviewed by Christopher Rein (Combat Studies Institute, The Army Press) Published on H-CivWar (February, 2019) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Charles B. Strozier. Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xxv + 307 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17132-8.
Reviewed by Holly Pinheiro (University of Iowa) Published on H-CivWar (January, 2019) Commissioned by Susan N. Deily-Swearingen (University of New Hampshire)
William C. Davis. Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged. New York: Da Capo Press, 2015. 1 online resource (689 pp.). ISBN 978-0-306-82245-2.
Reviewed by Charles R. Bowery Published on H-CivWar (October, 2015) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Lives and Legacies of the Civil War's Greatest Captains
Barbara Krauthamer. Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xiii + 211 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-0710-8.
Reviewed by Jennifer Stinson (Saginaw Valley State University) Published on H-CivWar (October, 2015) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
African Americans, Choctaws, and Chickasaws in the Civil War Era
Stephen V. Ash. A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year after the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2013. 286 pp. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-6797-8; $19.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8090-6830-2.
Reviewed by Shannon Smith (College of St. Benedict and St. John's University) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2015) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Race, Rioting, and Reconstruction
Jeremy J. Tewell. A Self-Evident Lie: Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom. American Abolitionism and Antislavery Series. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2013. vii + 168 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60635-145-1; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60635-225-0.
Reviewed by Glenn David Brasher (University of Alabama) Published on H-CivWar (August, 2015) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Liberty or Enslavement for All?
James M. McPherson. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865. Littlefield History of the Civil War Era Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Maps. 277 pp. n.p. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3588-3.
Reviewed by Charles Wexler (Auburn University) Published on H-CivWar (June, 2015) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
A Brief Look at the Civil War at Sea
David Williams. I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 274 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-01649-1; $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-60249-6.
Reviewed by Justin Behrend (SUNY-Geneseo) Published on H-CivWar (April, 2015) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Who Freed the Slaves?
John T. Hubbell, ed. Conflict and Command. Civil War History Readers, Volume 1. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2012. 336 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60635-118-5.
Reviewed by James Sandy (Texas Tech University) Published on H-CivWar (April, 2015) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
An Unusual Fondness for War
Gregory D. Smithers. Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. xii + 257 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-4238-1; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8130-4960-1.
Reviewed by Christine E. Sears (University of Alabama in Huntsville) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2015) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
No Magnolias or Mint Juleps
Kathryn Shively Meier. Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 256 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-1076-4.
Reviewed by Matthew Hulbert (University of Georgia) Published on H-CivWar (January, 2015) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
A Million Ways to Stay Alive during the Civil War
Stephen L. Longenecker. Gettysburg Religion: Refinement, Diversity, and Race in the Antebellum and Civil War Border North. New York: Fordham University Press. xiv + 246 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-5519-1.Timothy L. Wesley. The Politics of Faith during the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. 320 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-5001-6.
Kim Murphy. I Had Rather Die: Rape in the Civil War. Batesville: Coachlight Press, 2014. 180 pp. $14.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-936785-15-5; $21.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-936785-16-2.
Reviewed by Laura Mammina (University of Alabama) Published on H-CivWar (December, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Exploding the Myth of the Low-Rape War
Jonathan Halperin Earle, Diane Mutti Burke, eds. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xii + 346 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-1928-3; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7006-1929-0.
Reviewed by Amy Fluker (University of Mississippi) Published on H-CivWar (December, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
The Border War Comes of Age
