Books Received

Columns of Vengeance: Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863-1864. Paul N. Beck. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8061-4344-6, 320 pp., cloth, $34.95.

James F. Jaquess: Scholar, Soldier and Private Agent for President Lincoln. Patricia B. Burnette. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7864-7358-8, 208 pp., paper, $38.00.

The Fourteenth Brooklyn Regiment in the Civil War: A History and Roster. Frank Callenda. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7864-4899-9, 328 pp., paper, $35.00.

Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner. Ed. Jean Lee Cole. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-935978-61-9, 288 pp., paper, $22.99.

Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland. Larry J. Daniel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8071-4516-6, 344 pp., cloth, $38.50.

President Lincoln's Recruiter: General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War. Michael A. Eggleston. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7864-7017-8, 208 pp., paper, $39.95.

Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era. Richard Etulain. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-87071-702-4, 224 pp., paper, $19.95.

A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. Thomas Fleming. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-306-82126-4, 368 pp., cloth, $26.99.

Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History, updated edition. David Goldfield. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8071-5215-7, 400 pp., paper, $22.95.

The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader: An Eyewitness History of the Civil War's Greatest Battle. Rod Gragg. Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2013. ISBN 978-1-62157-043-1, 416 pp., cloth, $24.95.

All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry. Ed. Peter P. Hinks and Stephen Kantrowitz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8014-5030-3, 280 pp., cloth, $35.00.

The Prairie Boys Go to War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry, 1861-1865. Rhonda M. Kohl. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8093-3203-8, 328 pp., cloth, $39.50.

The Civil War in Pennsylvania: A Photographic History. Michael G. Kraus, David M. Neville, and Kenneth C. Turner. Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, 2013. ISBN 978-0-936340-19-7, 312 pp., paper, $34.95.

Bucking the Railroads on the Kansas Frontier: The Struggle over Land Claims by Homesteading Civil War Veterans, 1867-1876. John N. Mack. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7864-7029-7, 224 pp., paper, $45.00.

The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy's Greatest Icon. Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61121-150-1, 168 pp., paper, $12.95.

Confederate General William "Extra Billy" Smith: From Virginia's Statehouse to Gettysburg Scapegoat. Scott L. Mingus Sr. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61121-129-0, 432 pp., cloth, $29.95.

Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas. Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8071-5286-7, 224 pp., paper, $21.95.

Alonzo's War: Letters from a Young Civil War Soldier. Ed. Mary Searing O'Shaughnessy. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-61147-554-8, 268 pp., cloth, $38.50.

The Civil War in Photographs: New Perspectives from the Robin Stanford Collection. Anne E. Peterson. Dallas: DeGoyler Library, 2013. ISBN 978-1-878516-96-1, 95 pp., paper, $20.00.

Civil War Battlegrounds: The Illustrated History of the War's Pivotal Battles and Campaigns. Richard Sauers. Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7603-4453-8, 160 pp., paper, $26.99.

Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles for Brinkerhoff's Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863. Eric J. Wittenberg. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas...