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  • Books Received
Burt, John, Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2013).
Campbell, Bonnie, ed., The Civil War and the Material Culture of Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2012).
Cooper, Edward, Louis Trezevant Wigfall: The Disintegration of the Union and the Collapse of the Confederacy (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012).
Daniel, Larry J., Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army of the Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012).
Davis, Stephen, What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2012).
Halloran, Fiona Deans, Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013).
Fisher, Lewis F., No Cause of Offence: A Virginia Family of Union Loyalists Confronts the Civil War (San Antonio: Maverick Publishing Company, 2012).
Fritsch, James T., The Untried Life: The Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Company in the Civil War (Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2012).
Gagnon, Michael J., Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830–1870 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012).
Hartwig, D. Scott, To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).
Hochfelder, David, The Telegraph in America: 1832–1920 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).
Kurtz, Peter, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828–1865 (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2013).
Kilborne, Sarah S., American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, a Man Who Turned Disaster into Destiny (New York: Free Press, 2012).
LaPlante, Eve, Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother (New York: Free Press, 2012).
LaPlante, Eve, ed., My Heart is Boundless: Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa’s Mother (New York: Free Press, 2012).
Mahood, Wayne, Fight All Day, March All Night: A Medal of Honor Recipient’s Story (Albany: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2012).
Matteson, John, The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012).
McCaslin, Richard B. and L.D. Clark, eds., The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862: The Accounts of Thomas Barrett and George Washington Diamond (Dallas: Texas State Historical Association, 2012).
Mefton, Maurice, The Best Station of Them All: The Savanah Squadron, 1861–1865 (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2012). [End Page 293]
Mozingo, Joe, The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, a Search for Family (New York: Free Press, 2012).
Perry, Aldo S., Civil War Courts-Martial of North Carolina Troops (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2012).
Presnell, Jenny L., The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Slotkin, Richard, The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution (New York: Liveright, 2012).
Thomas, James G., Jr. and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 22: Science & Medicine (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012).
West, Emily, Family or Freedom: People of Color in the Antebellum South (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012).
Wetta, Frank J., The Louisiania Scalawags: Politics, Race, and Terrorism During the Civil War and Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012).
Williams, Heather Andrea, Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012).
Wolmar, Christian, The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (New York: Public Affairs, 2012). [End Page 294]
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