Books Received

Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline. Morris Berman. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012. ISBN 978-1-118-06181-7, 256 pp., cloth, $25.95.

I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison. David R. Bush. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8130-3744-8, 224 pp., cloth, $34.95.

Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood, and Honor in the Old South. Charity R. Carney. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-3886-1, 216 pp., cloth, $35.00.

Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965. Robert J. Cook. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-4365-0, 320 pp., paper, $22.50.

In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals. Ed. William J. Cooper Jr. and John M. McCardell Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-4363-6, 208 pp., paper, $18.95.

Tried Men and True, or Union Life in Dixie. Thomas Jefferson Cypert, ed. Margaret M. Storey. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8173-1750-8, 184 pp., cloth, $26.00.

“Feel the Bonds That Draw”: Images of the Civil War at the Western Reserve Historical Society. Christine Dee. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-60635-091-1, 160 pp., cloth, $34.95.

The Massachusetts Andrew Sharpshooters: A Civil War History and Roster. Alden C. Ellis Jr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7864-6489-0, 276 pp., paper, $40.00.

Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction. James K. Hogue. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-4361-2, 248 pp., paper, $23.00.

Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade. Maurice D. McInnis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-226-55933-9, 280 pp., cloth, $40.00.

Children and Youth during the Civil War Era. Ed. James Marten. New York: New York University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8147-9608-5, 270 pp., paper, $25.00.

Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861–1865. Barton A. Myers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-4362-9, 216 pp., paper, $18.95.

To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker. Sydney Nathans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-674-06212-2, 360 pp., cloth, $29.95.

McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. Ethan S. Rafuse. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-253-00611-0, 544 pp., paper, $29.00.

Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Second Edition. William L. Richter. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8108-7817-4, 1032 pp., cloth, $99.00.

Hungarian Emigrés in the American Civil War: A History and Biographical Dictionary. István Kornél Vida. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7864-6562-0, 268 pp., paper, $35.00.

The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-3851-9, 352 pp., cloth, $45.00.

Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman. Jonathan W. White. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-4346-9, 224 pp., paper, $18.95.

The 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry: A Civil War History. David Williamson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7864-6595-8, 448 pp., paper, $45.00.