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BOOK NOTES Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Compiled by Don E. Fehrenbacher. (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970. Pp. xvi, 127. $2.25. ) The Nation in Crisis, 1861-1877. Compiled by David Donald . (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969. Pp. xv, 92. $2.25.) American Economic History Before 1860. Compiled by George Rogers Taylor. (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969. Pp. xiv, 108. $2.25.) Goldentree Bibliographies in American History. Edited by Arthur S. Link. A Chssified Bibliography of the Periodical Literature of the TransMississippi West: A Supplement (1957-1967). Compiled by Oscar Osburn Winther and Richard A. Van Orman. (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1970. Pp. xxv, 340. $5.00. ) The Southern Historical Collection: A Guide to Manuscripts. Edited by Susan Skokal Blosser and Clyde Norman Wilson, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Library, 1970. $5.00.) The Southern Historical Collection is, of course, a primary repository of material for historians of the South. This guide contains 3901 descriptive entries, plus an index and suggestions for more efficient use of the collection. Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations on Maryhnd History. Compiled by Richard R. Duncan and Dorothy M. Brown. (Maryland Historical Society, 1970. $2.00. ) List of Officers of the Army of the United States from 1779 to 1900. Compiled by Lt. Col. William H. Powell. (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1967. Pp. 863. $20.00. ) Reprint of 1900 edition. An Author and Subject Index to the Southern Historical Society Papers, VoL·. 1-38. Compiled by Kate Pleasants Minor. (Dayton: Morningside Bookshop, 1970. Pp. 139. $10.00.) Reprint of 1913 edition. Military Operations of the Civil War: A Guide-Index to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865. Vol. II, Main Eastern Theater of Operations. (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. 1st Fascicle, containing Section L: "Tables of Key Reports for Principal Military Operations," entire. 1-76. $.65. 2nd Fascicle, 367 368civil war history Containing Section M: "Comprehensive Index of Recognized Military Operations," 1st part. Pp. 77-172. $1.00.) Dissent in Three American Wars. By Samuel Eliot Morison, Frederick Merk, and Frank Freidel. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. vii, 103. $4.95. ) These essays are based on a series of lectures given before the Massachusetts Historical Society on dissent in the War of 1812, the War with Mexico and the Spanish-American War. Tennessee, A Short History. By Stanley J. Folmsbee, Robert E. Corlew, and Enoch L. Mitchell. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1970. Pp. xv, 640. $15.00 cloth; $8.95 paper.) The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873. By J. T. Headley. Introduced by Thomas Rose and James Rodgers. (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970. Pp. xxx, 312. $2.75.) Reprint of 1873 volume. The Transformation of American Society, 1870-1890. Edited by John A. Garraty. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1969. Pp. vi, 265. $7.95.) Foundations of American Diplomacy, 1775-1872. Edited by Robert H. Ferrell. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1969. Pp. ix, 284. $7.95.) The Civil War. By Robert Paul Jordan. (Washington: National Geographic Society, 1969. Pp. 216. $4.25. ) The best feature of this volume is the photographs and prints. Mr. Jordan, a senior editor with National Geographic, offers a traditional narrative account. East of Gettysburg. By David F. Riggs. (Bellevue, Nebraska: The Old Army Press, 1970. Pp. vi, 78. $6.00. ) The price is a little steep for this account of cavalry action at East Cavalry Battlefield. Reminiscences of the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Mary Logan. Abridged and edited by George Worthington Adams. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. Pp. xi, 324. $10.00.) As the seventeen-year-old bride or the aging widow of John A. Logan, Mary Logan devoted herself to her husband's personal comfort and professional advancement. This volume of her reminiscences is annotated and indexed and concentrates on the war years and Logan's postwar political career. "First with the Most" Forrest. By Robert Selph Henry. (Jackson, Tenn.: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1969. Pp. 5SO. $8.00.) Reprint of the 1944 edition , which, as Bell Wiley notes in his foreward, "for too many years . . . has been out...