Journal of the Civil War Era

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of the Civil War Era is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith (review)1
Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War by George C. Rable (review)1
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat (review)1
A New History of the American South ed. by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (review)1
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes (review)0
Monuments and Memory: Civil War Statuary, Public-Facing Scholarship, and the Future of Memory Studies0
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Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain by Michael J. Turner0
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932 by Mark A. Johnson0
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius0
Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Reconstruction0
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later ed. by Adam H. Domby and Simon Lewis0
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig (review)0
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough0
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America by Dael A. Norwood (review)0
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay0
Scouting for the Bluecoats: Navajos, Apaches, and the U.S. Military, 1873–1911 by Robert S. McPherson (review)0
The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876 by Kathleen Diffley0
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White (review)0
Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis by Brian C. Neumann, and: True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Cla0
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler0
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict by John H. Matsui0
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920 by Manisha Sinha (review)0
The Union's Culture Industry0
The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward ed. by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner0
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)0
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)0
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher0
Proving Disloyalty: Enslaved People and Resistance in Missouri’s Guerrilla Households0
The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 by Scott A. MacKenzie (review)0
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker0
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer (review)0
A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas by Kelly Houston Jones0
Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence by Stuart W. Sanders (review)0
Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State by Kathryn Walkiewicz (review)0
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans ed. by Laura Kilcer VanHuss0
Lieber and Clausewitz: The Understanding of Modern War and the Theoretical Origins of General Orders No. 1000
The Civil War and Its Place in Military History0
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe0
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs0
Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War by Matthew Christopher Hulbert (review)0
The Power of Mammon: The Market, Secularization, and New York Baptists, 1790–1922 by Curtis D. Johnson (review)0
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War ed. by Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess (review)0
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Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century by Chad E. Pearson (review)0
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation0
Histories of Nineteenth-Century Education and the Civil War Era0
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts0
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Socialism at the Edges of Civilization: Louis Pio and Colonial Visions in Scandinavia and the United States0
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky (review)0
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham (review)0
African American State Volunteers in the New South: Race, Masculinity, and the Militia in Georgia, Texas, and Virginia, 1871–1906 by John Patrick Blair (review)0
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (review)0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius (review)0
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate Monuments by Roger C. Hartley0
"She Wears the Flag of Our Country": Women, Nation, and War0
The Fortenbaugh Lecture: A Panel Discussion on Military History0
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The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine0
Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past by Ana Lucia Araujo0
Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock by Boyce Thompson (review)0
Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran0
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community by Vanessa M. Holden0
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal0
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse0
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson (review)0
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales (review)0
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Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age ed. by David Prior (review)0
Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe0
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A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang0
Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19–22, 1863 by Earl J. Hess, and: Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies by Earl J. Hess0
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott (review)0
Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough0
Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau by Dale Kretz (review)0
The "Colored American Asiatic Traveler": Peter K. L. Cole and American Empire in Japan0
Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed ed. by Christian B. Keller0
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves ed. by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White (review)0
The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans0
"She Is a Very Smart Woman and a Great Trader": Enslaved and Free Black Women's Property Claims and Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South0
Brother Dixon: College Fraternities and the Ku Klux Klan0
Time and Place, Time and Chance0
Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College0
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo0
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur0
“Shall I Go?”: Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840–19140
Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign by Christopher Thrasher (review)0
One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause by Stephen A. Goldman (review)0
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Digital History and the Civil War Era0
Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz (review)0
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command by Kent Masterson Brown0
All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 by Jeff Strickland0
America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794–1911 by Mark A. Noll (review)0
Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do about Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (review)0
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon0
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Lynn Webster0
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by Andrew Scull (review)0
The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation by Lucy Maddox0
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1–April 30, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith (review)0
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai0
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Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris (review)0
Tracing the Intimate Histories of Poor Black Women in the Late-Nineteenth-Century US South0
The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict ed. by John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault0
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)0
Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus0
Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell (review)0
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South by Brandi Clay Brimmer0
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Editors’ Note0
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought by Kristin Waters0
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America by Scott Gac (review)0
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909 by Raymond James Krohn (review)0
Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone (review)0
Possessed: Understanding the Lives of Enslaved Americans0
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel (review)0
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South by Brendan J. J. Payne (review)0
Chaos and Conquest: The Civil War and Indigenous Crisis on the Upper Missouri, 1861–18650
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America ed. by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney0
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Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State by Brian McGinty (review)0
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser0
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A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood by Joseph M. Beilein Jr (review)0
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787–1860 by William D. Adler0
Reconstruction, Religion, Politics, and Race: A Historiography0
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War by Sebastian N. Page0
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William L. Barney0
Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance before the Civil War by Matthew J. Clavin (review)0
A Right to Speak: Formerly Enslaved People and the Political Antislavery Movement in Antebellum America0
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III0
Partial Portraits: African Americans in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine0
“They Were Married in Heart”: Race, Inheritance, and Interracial Common-Law Marriage in Reconstruction Era Mississippi0
At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (review)0
Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army by Adam D. Mendelsohn (review)0
Historians and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson0
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney0
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link (review)0
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Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era by Jonathan A. Noyalas0
Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.0
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 by Ashley T. Rubin0
The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis by Gary W. Gallagher0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation by Roberto Saba (review)0
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872 by Daniel J. Burge (review)0
Editors' Note0
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich (review)0
Rediscovering Reconstruction in the Urban South: Achievements and New Opportunities0
Forgotten No Longer: Universities and Slavery in Twenty-First-Century Scholarship and Memory0
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens (review)0
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union by Stephen Puleo (review)0
Rereading the High Private: Restoring Class and Race to Co. Aytch0
Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher’s Climb to Freedom by Larry Eugene Rivers, and: No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner by Andre E. Johnson0
Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer M. Black (review)0
The Constant Recurrence of Such Atrocities: Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency during the Mexican-American War0
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)0
Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea0
The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond by Marvin T. Chiles (review)0
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis0
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll (review)0
The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 ed. by Roseann Bacha-Garza et al.0
Violence in the Hill Country: The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era by Nicholas Keefauver Roland0
Peepholes, Eels, and Pickett's Charge: Doing Microhistory Then and Now0
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The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered ed. by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker (review)0
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones0
Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory0
Editors' Note0
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Laura F. Edwards (review)0
Happy Dreams of Liberty0
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The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (review)0
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman (review)0
A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America by Claire M. Wolnisty0
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley0
Mary Chesnut’s War Fever: Disease in the Civil War Narrative of a Lost Cause Dissenter0
Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood by Catherine V. Bateson (review)0
Great Plains Forts by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (review)0
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (review)0
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Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright0
A Legal Confiscation: The 1851 Land Act and the Transformation of Californios into Colonized Colonizers0
Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Van Gosse and David Waldstreicher0
“No Perfect Archive”: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation0
Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization by Allen Christopher York (review)0
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly (review)0
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite0
Researching Nineteenth-Century African American History0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley0
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Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery ed. by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby0
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (review)0
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth R. Varon (review)0
Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation0
The International Dimension of Freedom: Revisiting Black Grassroots Activism during US Reconstruction0
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)0
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The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856–1861 by Lauren N. Haumesser (review)0
General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen J. Ottens0
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki0
Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands by Bernadine Marie Hernández (review)0
In the Shadow of Haiti: US Black Internationalism in the Dominican Republic, 1860–19040
Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke (review)0
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works ed. by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman (review)0
Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts0
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago (review)0
Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley by John C. Rodrigue (review)0
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner0
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C by Tamika Y. Nunley0
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America by Peter Radan (review)0
Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry J. Daniel (review)0
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New Perspectives on Civil War–Era Kentucky ed. by John David Smith (review)0
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)0
Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era0
Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote0
Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama by Jennifer E. Brooks (review)0
In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World ed. by Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene, and; Beacons of Liberty: International Free S0
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–18820
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition by Bronwen Everill0
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States by Erin Austin Dwyer0
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Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic by Ariel Ron0
"We Died Here, Obedient to Her Laws": The Reception of Sparta in the Lost Cause and Confederate Memorialization0
Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement by Phoebe S. K. Young0
Disability in the Civil War Era0
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm (review)0
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill (review)0
Guerilla Women And Men In Silk Dresses: Diplomacy and Orientalism during the 1860 Japanese Mission0
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A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction by Drew A. Swanson (review)0
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui0
A Fit Resting Place for One Who Loved Liberty, Justice, and Equality”: Liberalism, Antislavery, and the American Expatriate Community in Florence, Italy, 1820–18650
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era ed. by Earl J. Hess (review)0
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel0
Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant (review)0
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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by John Matteson0
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