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Civil War History 47.4 (2001) 363-365



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Civil War Firsts: The Legacies of America's Bloodiest Conflict. By Gerald S. Henig & Eric Niderost. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. xiii, 434. $29.95.)

General William S. Harney. By George Rollie Adams. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 389. $50.00.)

Frederick W. Lander: The Great American Soldier. By Gary L. Ecelbarger. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xxv, 347. $39.95.)

Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches. Edited by Michael P. Johnson. (New York: St. Martin's, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 358. $39.95.)

The History of the Ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, June, 1861-June 1864. By Daniel George Macnamara with an introduction by Christian G. Samito. (Bronx: Fordham University Press, 2000. Pp. xxxviii, 558. $39.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.)

An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government. By William C. Davis. (New York: Harcourt, 2001. Pp. xii, 477. $30.00.)

Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865. By William K. Klingaman. (New York: Viking, 2001. Pp. 344. $25.95.)

Texas & New Mexico on the Eve of the Civil War: The Mansfield & Johnston Inspections, 1859-1861. Edited by Jerry Thompson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Pp. 264. $29.95.)

Cracker Cavaliers: The 2nd Georgia Cavalry under Wheeler and Forrest. By John Randolph Poole. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 297. $34.95.)

Under Custer's Command: The Civil War Journal of James Henry Avery. Compiled by Karla Jean Husby. Edited by Eric J. Wittenberg. (Washington. D. C.: Brassey's, 2000. Pp. 208. $24.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.)

A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on Major General Patrick R. Cleburne. Edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. 237. $34.95.)

California Sabers: The 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry in the Civil War. By James McLean. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. 341. $35.00.)

Life and Letters of General W. H. L. Wallace. By Isabel Wallace. New foreword by John Y. Simon. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 231. $29.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.)

The Grand Review: The Civil War Continues to Shape America. By Georg R. Sheets. (York, Pa.: Bold Print, 2000. Pp. vi, 120. $24.95.)

Ellet's Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All. By Chester G. Hearn. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 289. $34.95.)

Third Alabama! The Civil War Memoir of Brigadier General Cullen Andrews Battle, csa. Edited by Brandon H. Beck. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 180. $29.95.)

"We Shall Meet Again:" The First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) July 18-21, 1861. By JoAnna M. McDonald. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 230. $14.95 paper.)

The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Student Companion. By William L. Barney. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 358. $40.00.)

"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count": The Department of Justice and the Enforcement of Voting Rights in the South, 1877-1893. By Robert M. Goldman. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001. Pp. xxix, 222. $35.00 cloth; $20.00 paper.)

The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope. By Chris E. Fonvielle Jr. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. xi, 623. $22.95 paper.)

Lee, Grant and Sherman: A Study in Leadership in the 1864. By Alfred H. Burne. Introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman. Foreword by Albert Castel. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xxiii, 226. $29.95 cloth; $16.95 paper.)

Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian. By Hans L. Trefousse. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2001. Pp. xiii, 312. $16.95 paper.)

From Everglade to Canyon with the Second United States Cavalry: An Authentic Account of Service in Florida, Mexico, Virginia and the Indian Country, 1836-1875. By Theophilus F. Rodenbough. Foreword by Edward G. Longacre. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pp. 561. $19.95 paper.)

Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor May-June 1864. By Noah Andre Trudeau. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 354. $19.95 paper...

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