Books Received

American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church. Alex Beam. New York: Public Affairs, 2014. ISBN 978-161039-313-3, 352 pp., cloth, $26.99.

The Petersburg Campaign, Volume 2, The Western Front Battles, September 1864– April 1865. Edwin C. Bearss with Bryce Suderow. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61121-104-7, 600 pp., hardcover, $34.95.

Native Memoirs from the War of 1812: Black Hawk and William Apess. Carl Benn.Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4214-1219-1, 208 pp., paper, $29.95.

Last to Join the Fight: The 66th Georgia Infantry. Daniel Cone. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-88146-475-7, 223 pp., cloth, $29.00.

Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834-1907. Carolyn Newton Curry. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-88146-474-0, 256 pp., hardcover, $29.00.

Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC. J. D. Dickey. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7627-8701-2, 320 pp., hardcover, $26.95.

Military Leadership Lessons of the Charleston Campaign, 1861–1865. Kevin Dougherty. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7864-7926-9, 232 pp., paper, $35.00.

No Turning Back: A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4–June 13, 1864. Robert Dunkerly, Donald C. Pfanz, and David R. Ruth. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61121-193-1, 192 pp., paper, $12.95.

Whirlwind and Storm: A Connecticut Cavalry Officer in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Charles E. Farnsworth. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4917-1963-3, 450 pp., paper, $23.95.

A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. Thomas Fleming. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-306-82126-4, 354 pp., cloth, $26.99.

A Corporal’s Story: Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts. Ed. Alan D. and Donald H. Gaff. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8061-4480-1, 368 pp., cloth, $34.95.

From These Honored Dead: Historical Archaeology of the American Civil War. Ed. Clarence R. Geier, Douglas D. Scott, and Lawrence E. Babits. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8130-4944-1, 336 pp., hardcover, $39.95.

Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863–1865. Ed. Judith Giesberg. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-271-06368-3, 240 pp., paper, $16.95.

Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865–1900. Kate Coté Gillin. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61117-291-1, 184 pp., hardcover, $34.95.

So You Think You Know Gettysburg? Volume 2. James Gindlesperger and Suzanne Gindlesperger. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 2014. ISBN 978-0-89587-620-1, 234 pp., paper, $19.95.

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah. Ed. Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8203-4410-2, 288 pp., paper, $34.95.

“Death Does Seem to Have All He Can Attend To”: The Civil War Diary of an Andersonville Survivor. George A. Hitchcock. Ed. Ronald G. Watson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7864-7890-3, 256 pp., paper, $35.00.

Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies. Thomas A. Horrocks. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8093-3331-8, 168 pp., cloth, $24.95.

Little Bighorn: A Novel. John Hough Jr. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-1-62872-409-7, 320 pp., cloth, $24.95.

Slavery and War in the Americas: Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861–1870. Vitor Izecksohn. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8139-3585-0, 272 pp., cloth, $45.00.

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood’s First Sortie, July 20, 1864. Robert D. Jenkins Sr. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8814-6396-5, 597 pp., cloth, $35.00.

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