Books Received

Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg: Searching for Spirits on America’s Most Famous Battlefield. Patrick Burke and Jack Roth. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7387-3970-0, 264 pp., paper, $16.95.

Penn Center: A History Preserved. Orville Vernon Burton with Wilbur Cross. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8203-2602-3, 232 pp., cloth, $24.95.

The Medal of Honor: A History of Service Above and Beyond. Editors of Boston Publishing Company. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7603-4624-2, 304 pp., hardcover, $40.00.

The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Callaway. Ed. Judith Lee Hallock. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8203-4766-0, 248 pp., paper, $22.95.

Badass Civil War Beards. Anna Hider and Julia Hider. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 2014. ISBN 978-0-89587-637-9, 96 pp., hardcover, $12.95.

John Wilkes Booth: Beyond the Grave. W. C. Jameson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. ISBN 978-1-6307-6040-3, 232 pp., paper, $14.95.

Confederate Odyssey: The George W. Wray Jr. Civil War Collection at the Atlanta History Center. Gordon L. Jones. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8203-4685-4, 448 pp., cloth, $49.95.

Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History. Eds. Theodore J. Karaminski and Eileen M. McMahon. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8214-2084-3, 344 pp., paper, $29.95.

Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War. William B. Lees and Frederick P. Gaske. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8130-4996-0, 352 pp., cloth, $44.95.

The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861. Edward G. Longacre. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8061-4498-6, 648 pp., cloth, $29.95.

A Documentary History of the American Civil War, Volume 4, Judicial Decisions, 1867–1896. Ed. Thomas C. Mackey. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-62190-040-5, 664 pp., cloth, $70.00.

Thieves’ Road: The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer’s Path to Little Bighorn. Terry Mort. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61614-960-4, 300 pp., hardcover, $25.00.

By the Red Glare: A Novel. John Mark Sibley-Jones. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61117-399-4, 248 pp., hardcover, $29.95.

A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln’s Cabinet: Navy Secretary Gideon Wells Chronicles the Civil War. Ed. Ronald Spencer. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-615-96103-3, 198 pp., paper, $24.95.

We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865–1877. John David Smith. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-62534-087-0, 144 pp., paper, $18.95.

The Second Maine Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster. Ned Smith. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7864-7968-9, 240 pp., paper, $39.95.

The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864–April 1865. Noah Andre Trudeau. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2014. ISBN 978-1-940669-56-4, 552 pp., cloth, $32.95.

The West Point History of the Civil War. The United States Military Academy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. ISBN 978-1-476-78262-1, 352 pp., hardcover, $45.00.

Cowardice: A Brief History. Chris Walsh. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-691-13863-3, 304 pp., cloth, $27.95.

An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War. Robert Weible, Jennifer A. Lemak, and Aaron Noble. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4384-5348-4, 268 pp., paper, $29.95.

“The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour. Eric Wittenberg. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61121-208-2, 288 pp., hardcover, $32.95.