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BOOK NOTES The War for the Union: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863. By Allan Nevins. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. Pp. xiv, 557. $7.50.) Allan Nevins needs as little introduction to the Civil War field as the monumentalset on which he has been laboring for several years. This volume is the second of four on the war itself; it is also the sixth of ten proposed volumes covering the period from the Mexican War through Reconstruction. This new addition continúes the story from 1862 through the Northern victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The theme of the whole study is best expressed by Nevins in the statement: "A modern America was being born." With his superb style and deep insight the author shows the slow transition of America in the war years from an uncoordinated manufacturing effort into a synchronized machine geared to accelerate production and victory. In presenting the political, social, and economic growth of the nation, he adds nuggets of new facts and interpretations that swell the impact of war and give it added scope andmeaning. There is little military historyhere, but for once it is not needed; the story is too vivid, fundamental, and important to the total picture to be marred by the gods of war on distant battlefields. Uniform and Dress of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States of America. Introduction by Richard Harwell. (New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1960. Pp. 68. $15.00) Included in this unique and important volume are three Confederate imprints treating of uniforms prescribed for Southern forces. The study depicts what the well-dressed Johnny Reb of land and sea was supposed to wear, not how, in the turmoil of war, he was actually dressed. Full-color plates vividly illustrate uniforms, insignia, buttons, and even a tailor's pattern. In his enlightening introduction to this new and limited edition, Mr. Harwell explains why gray was the color chosen for the official Confederate uniform, to what degree Southern troops were outfitted, and the mode of dress for Confederate naval and marine corps personnel. Drawing largely from soldiers' letters, he sets the stage for a work so scarce that a copy of the first edition recently sold for $1,000. A collector's item by nature, the contents will attract the interest of many Civil War buffs—and no doubt hasten its return to the scarce and out-of-print categories. 219 220CIVIL WAR history Alabama Tories: The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A, 1862-1865. By William Stanley Hoole. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Confederate Publishing Co., 1960.Pp. 141. $4.00.) In his introduction the author states that this regiment—the only all-white unit from Alabama to serve in the Federal armies—"was not conspicuous in either accomplishments or attitudes," yet "the very existence of the First Alabama Cavalry entitles it to special consideration." Drawing largely from the Official Records, he has pieced together the story of 2,066 Tories from Alabama who, opposed to secession and its by-products, wrenched themselves from Southern control and enlisted in defense of the Union. Their history is neither valorous nor dramatic, as Professor Hoole implies in the thirty-one pages it takes to tell it. He has nevertheless assimilated all known data on the 1st Alabama and added to it an eighty-page descriptive muster roll of its members. Although more units could have been chosen that possessed a greater degree of exploits and adventure, it is comforting to see some inroads being made into the neglected field of unit histories. Confederate City: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1865. By Florence Fleming Corley. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1960. Pp. 130. $6.00.) As weak works now in circulation attest, city histories are difficult to write. To be comprehensive in such an undertaking necessitates full discussions of all social, political, economic—and oftentimes military—aspects of a city's life during a certain period. Mrs. Corley has passed that test with this attractive and stimulating look at Georgia's second largest city during wartime. As it should be, this is a story of a town's inhabitants, not merely its leaders; that everything from the Confederate Clothing Bureau...

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