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Civil War History 47.1 (2001) 90



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Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters. Compiled and edited by Harold Holzer. (Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mill Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 106. $15.95.)

Cavalry on the Roads to Gettysburg: Kilpatrick at Hanover and Hunterstown. By George A. Rummel III. (Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2000. Pp. iii, 554. $40.00.)

Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America. By Andrew Ward (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. Pp. xv, 352. $25.00.)

The Debate on the American Civil War Era. By Hugh Tulloch. (New York: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 255. $29.95.) Examines the historiographical debate over the significance of the moral dimension of slavery to the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. By Joseph T. Glatthaar. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 370. $19.95.) Denotes the uneasy alliance between men who, divided by racial tension and ideology, were united by the trials and bonds of war.

Lee's Aide-De-Camp. By Charles Marshall. Edited by Frederick Maurice. Introduction by Gary W. Gallagher. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1927; Bison Books Edition, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 280. $14.95.) Marshall, Lee's military secretary, left a memoir of day-to-day experience, including his views of decisions and problems behind the war's biggest battles.

Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government. By Lucas E. Morel. Part of the Application of Political Theory Series edited by Harvey Mansfield and Daniel J. Mahoney. (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2000. Pp. i, 251. $70.00 cloth, $23.95 paper.) Analyzes Lincoln's view of the relationship between religion and politics in the American republic as articulated in several of his important speeches.

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