Reviews

Author:

Cheryl Janifer LaRoche

Reviewer:

Marcus Nevius

Nevius on LaRoche, 'Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance'

Cheryl Janifer LaRoche. Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014. xviii + 232 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03804-4; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07954-2.

Reviewed by Marcus Nevius (Ohio State University) Published on H-CivWar (November, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

Author:

William A. Link, David Brown, Brian E. Ward, Martyn Bone, eds.

Reviewer:

Sarah Bowman

Bowman on Link and Brown and Ward and Bone, 'Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South'

William A. Link, David Brown, Brian E. Ward, Martyn Bone, eds. Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. 304 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-4413-2.

Reviewed by Sarah Bowman (Yale University) Published on H-CivWar (November, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

Negotiating Belonging: Citizenship as Contestation in the Nineteenth-Century South

Author:

Christopher Childers

Reviewer:

Michael Green

Green on Childers, 'The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics'

Christopher Childers. The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics. American Political Thought Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. 348 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-1868-2.

Reviewed by Michael Green Published on H-CivWar (October, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

Slavery as Sovereign

Author:

Andrew Delbanco

Reviewer:

Chris Babits

Babits on Delbanco, 'The Abolitionist Imagination'

Andrew Delbanco. The Abolitionist Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. xi + 205 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-06444-7.

Reviewed by Chris Babits (University of Texas) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2014) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle

Abolitionism and the Search for a "Usable Past"

Author:

Frank L. Grzyb

Reviewer:

Shauna Devine

Devine on Grzyb, 'Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital: Life and Death at Portsmouth Grove, 1862-1865'

Frank L. Grzyb. Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital: Life and Death at Portsmouth Grove, 1862-1865. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2012. 208 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-6861-4.

Reviewed by Shauna Devine (Western University) Published on H-CivWar (July, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital

Author:

Phillip E. Faller

Reviewer:

Stephen E. Towne

Towne on Faller, 'The Indiana Jackass Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 21st Infantry/1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, with a Roster'

Phillip E. Faller. The Indiana Jackass Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 21st Infantry/1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, with a Roster. Jefferson: McFarland, 2013. 375 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-7046-4.

Reviewed by Stephen E. Towne (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) Published on H-CivWar (July, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

All about the Regiment

Author:

Kevin M. Levin

Reviewer:

Brian M. Jordan

Jordan on Barnickel, 'Milliken's Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory' and Levin, 'Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder'

Linda Barnickel. Milliken's Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. 320 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-4992-8.Kevin M. Levin. Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. 200 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-3610-3.

Author:

Ronald S. Coddington

Reviewer:

Justin Behrend

Behrend on Brasher, 'The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom' and Coddington, 'African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album'

Glenn David Brasher. The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 288 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3544-9.Ronald S. Coddington. African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Illustrations. xliii + 338 pp.

Author:

Earl F. Mulderink III

Reviewer:

Eric P. Totten

Totten on Mulderink III, 'New Bedford's Civil War'

Earl F. Mulderink III. New Bedford's Civil War. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. xii + 306 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-4334-1.

Reviewed by Eric P. Totten (University of Central Florida) Published on H-CivWar (June, 2014) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle

Author:

Michael B. Ballard

Reviewer:

James Sandy

Sandy on Ballard, 'Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege'

Michael B. Ballard. Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. 232 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8093-3240-3.

Reviewed by James Sandy (Texas Tech University) Published on H-CivWar (June, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

The Forging of a General

Author:

Robert F. O'Neill

Reviewer:

John F. Chappo

Chappo on O'Neill, 'Chasing Jeb Stuart and John Mosby: The Union Cavalry in Northern Virginia from Second Manassas to Gettysburg'

Robert F. O'Neill. Chasing Jeb Stuart and John Mosby: The Union Cavalry in Northern Virginia from Second Manassas to Gettysburg. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2012. xi + 316 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-7085-3.

Reviewed by John F. Chappo (American Public University System) Published on H-CivWar (May, 2014) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle

Author:

Earl J. Hess

Reviewer:

Drew S. Bledsoe

Bledsoe on Hess, 'Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign'

Earl J. Hess. Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xvi + 322 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-0211-0.

Reviewed by Drew S. Bledsoe (Lee University) Published on H-CivWar (May, 2014) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle

Sherman’s Failed Experiment

Author:

D. Scott Hartwig

Reviewer:

Robert Sidwell

Sidwell on Hartwig, 'To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862'

D. Scott Hartwig. To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 794 pages. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-0631-2.

Reviewed by Robert Sidwell (Kent State University) Published on H-CivWar (May, 2014) Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle

Bloody Prelude to the Bloodiest Day

Author:

Bruce Tap

Reviewer:

John Cimprich

Cimprich on Tap, 'The Fort Pillow Massacre: North, South, and the Status of African Americans in the Civil War Era'

Bruce Tap. The Fort Pillow Massacre: North, South, and the Status of African Americans in the Civil War Era. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. 216 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-80864-4; $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-80863-7.

Reviewed by John Cimprich (Thomas More College) Published on H-CivWar (May, 2014) Commissioned by Christopher Childers

A Reader on the Fort Pillow Incident

Author:

Randall M. Miller, ed.

Reviewer:

David K. Thomson

Thomson on Miller, 'Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making'

Randall M. Miller, ed. Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making. North's Civil War Series. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. xiv + 135 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-4344-0; $18.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-4345-7.

Reviewed by David K. Thomson (University of Georgia) Published on H-CivWar (May, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

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Nevius on LaRoche, 'Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance'

Bowman on Link and Brown and Ward and Bone, 'Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South'

Green on Childers, 'The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics'

Babits on Delbanco, 'The Abolitionist Imagination'

Devine on Grzyb, 'Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital: Life and Death at Portsmouth Grove, 1862-1865'

Towne on Faller, 'The Indiana Jackass Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 21st Infantry/1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, with a Roster'

Jordan on Barnickel, 'Milliken's Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory' and Levin, 'Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder'

Behrend on Brasher, 'The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom' and Coddington, 'African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album'

Totten on Mulderink III, 'New Bedford's Civil War'

Sandy on Ballard, 'Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege'

Chappo on O'Neill, 'Chasing Jeb Stuart and John Mosby: The Union Cavalry in Northern Virginia from Second Manassas to Gettysburg'

Bledsoe on Hess, 'Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign'

Sidwell on Hartwig, 'To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862'

Cimprich on Tap, 'The Fort Pillow Massacre: North, South, and the Status of African Americans in the Civil War Era'

Thomson on Miller, 'Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making'

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