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from common usage to mean Unionist partisans) and Confederate reprisals against these guerrillas, but in chapter ten alone there are five references to bushwhackers that are not included in the index. Further, Guerrant offers a lengthy accouiit of the Union raid on Saltville, Virginia, ati action that involved newly mustered African American cavalry from Kentucky's infamous Cainp Nelson. but the index contai,is no entry either for black troc, ps or African Americans. Guerrant' s diary contains similar references to importint aspects of the Civil War in Kentucky and the middle border. However, readers will have to rely on their own knowledge of the period to identify the nuggets of historical inforniation thit lie withiti Guerrant's mundane accounts of camp life. There will always be a market for Civil War sources so rich in detail, ind Guerrant's diary is one of the most complete and insightful Civil War diaries written by any soldier and certainly by a Kentuckian. It is thus unfortunate that the limited scope of the editing does not fully realize the potential of this vital resource. Guerrant' s diary is worth the effort necesDonald E. Collins. Tbe Death and Resumelion ofJefferso, 1 Davis . New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers,Inc., 2005. 184 pp. ISBN: 0742543048 (cloth), $ 22. 95. n Tbe Death a,id Resurrection ofJefferson Dat,is.Dc, nald E. Collins argues that at the end of the Civil War white southerners were critical of Davis,blaming him for the Confederacy's defeat and resenting what they considered his abandonment of states' rights and slaver. w. Yet by the time of his death in 1889.the former Confederate president TH[DEATH BEL RESLIRRECTION QI ]EFFE'15 ON [) AV]5 sary to gain the perspective of a Kentuckian whose dedication to secession drove hitn into selfimposed exile for the duration of the war. Stephen Rockenbacb Northern Kent!, tcky University Editors' note: Readers interested in Edward 0. Guerrant' s postwar missionary career should consuit Mark Andrew Huddle' s article in Ohio Valley History 5 Winter 2005), 4764 . 1 had become one of the South's most respected heroes. Collins begins with a brief discussion of Davis' s life tip until and including his twoyear imprisonii, ent after the war. Davis's nlistreatment iii prison rendered him " a martyr"who was seen by white southerners as suffering for the defeated South" ( 18). Many northerners, though, still harbored a ereat deal of hostility" ( 20) for the former leader of the Confederacy . Two events, Collins argues, led to the resurrection of Davis's reputation: a triumphant tour of cities in Alabama and Georgia in 1886 and 1887,and his death and funeral in 1889. On the tour,white southerners greeted Davis with a tremendous outpouring of respect and affection,and their adulation only increased with his death. Southern newspapers praised him and in New Orleans, where he died and was initially buried, huge crowds mourned his passing. Mourners saw more American than Confederate flags,Collins observes,and Davis' s funeral incorporated themes of sectional reconciliation, a cause Davis himself had embraced during the last years of his life. By the 18905, Davis had become for white southerners as great a hero as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson,and although all hostility in the North had not disappeared,even there he SPRING 2006 73 BOOK REVIEWS had come to be treated with greater respect. African scholars who have argued that by the earlytwenti Americans did not join in the celebration of Davis, eth century the white South had come to celebrate although a very few did honor his memory. the Collfederacy even as it had embraced reunion Collins then goes on to explore two other events and reconciliation. central to the resurrection of Davis's historical reputation: his reburial mid the erectwn of a monu Gaines M. Poster ment to him in Richmond, VA. Collins explains Louisiana State University the decision to move Davis's body, carefully narrates the procession by rail from New Orleans to Richmond,and - Howard L. Sacks and describes Davis's burial in that Way Up North Judith Rose Sacks. Way city's Hollywood Cemetery. Up Nortb in Dixie: A Collins also provides a detailed...

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