Books Received

Akers, Monte, Year of Desperate Struggle: Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, from Gettysburg to Yellow Tavern, 1863–1864 (Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers, 2015).

Arenson, Adam and Andrew R. Graybill, eds., Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015).

Behrend, Justin, Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015).

Beilein, Jr., Joseph M. and Matthew C. Hulbert, eds., The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015).

Dal Lago, Enrico, The Age of Lincoln and Cavour: Comparative Perspectives on Nineteenth Century American and Italian Nation-Building (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).

Drake, Brian Allen, ed., The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015).

Hernando, Matthew J., Faces Like Devils: The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in the Ozarks (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2015).

Hood, Stephen M., The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2015).

Horn, Jonathan, The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History (New York: Scribner, 2015).

Horn, John, The Siege of Petersburg: The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864, Second Edition (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2015).

Jackson, Jr., Ron J. and Lee Spencer White, Joe: The Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015).

Jamieson, Perry D., Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).

Jenkins, Sr., Robert D., To the Gates of Atlanta: From Kennesaw Mountain to Peach Tree Creek, 1–19 July 1864 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2015).

Kennedy, Walter Donald, Rekilling Lincoln (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2015).

Kierner, Cynthia A. and Sandra Gioia Treadway, eds., Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times—Volume 1 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015).

Lewis, Patrick A., For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015).

Luskey, Brian P. and Wendy A Woloson, eds., Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

McDermott, Stacy Pratt, Mary Lincoln: Southern Girl, Northern Woman (New York: Routledge, 2015).

McPherson, James M., The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Mirola, William A., Redeeming Time: Protestantism and Chicago’s Eight-Hour Movement, 1866–1912 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015).

Murphy, Angela F., The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Phalen, William J., How the Telegraph Changed the World (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2014).

Richter, Amy G., At Home in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History (New York: New York University Press, 2015).

Rosenthal, Debra J., Performatively Speaking: Speech and Action in Antebellum American Literature (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015).

Quatman, G. William, A Young General and the Fall of Richmond: The Life and Career of Godfrey Weitzel (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015).

Quinn, Edythe Ann, Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and the Hills Community, Westchester County, New York (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015).

Scharff, Virginia, ed., Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015).

Schermerhorn, Calvin, The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

Smith, Timothy B., Shiloh: Conquer or Perish (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014).

Sullivan, Mark W., Picturing Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau in American Visual Culture (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Wahlstrom, Todd W., The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015).