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Conflict of Command

George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War

by George C. Rable, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln AwardWinner of the Austin Civil War Round Table Book PrizeFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book PrizeThe fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard narrative casting the two as foils, with the Great Emancipator inevitably coming out on top over his supposedly ... Read more

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Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln AwardWinner of the Austin Civil War Round Table Book PrizeFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book PrizeThe fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard narrative casting the two as foils, with the Great Emancipator inevitably coming out on top over his supposedly
... Read more
Henry Eustace McCulloch

Texas Ranger, Legislator, Civil War General

by David Paul Smith, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Henry Eustace McCulloch provides the first comprehensive account of a pivotal nineteenth-century military leader and politician from Texas. In his military career, Henry McCulloch served with his brother Ben in one of the first Texas Ranger companies after the Texas Revolution of 1836, defended settlers during the Great Comanche Raid of 1840, and helped to defeat Mexican forces that reoccupied San ... Read more

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Henry Eustace McCulloch provides the first comprehensive account of a pivotal nineteenth-century military leader and politician from Texas. In his military career, Henry McCulloch served with his brother Ben in one of the first Texas Ranger companies after the Texas Revolution of 1836, defended settlers during the Great Comanche Raid of 1840, and helped to defeat Mexican forces that reoccupied San
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Unreconstructed

Slavery and Emancipation on Louisiana's Red River, 1820–1880

by Carin Peller-Semmens, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Carin Peller-Semmens’s Unreconstructed grapples with the longstanding, systemic effects of white supremacist brutality in northwest Louisiana, highlighting the constancy of racial subjugation in one of the most violent areas of the South. Tracing the commitment of the region’s white slaveholders to racial violence from antebellum enslavement through to Reconstruction, Peller-Semmens unearths the ... Read more

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Carin Peller-Semmens’s Unreconstructed grapples with the longstanding, systemic effects of white supremacist brutality in northwest Louisiana, highlighting the constancy of racial subjugation in one of the most violent areas of the South. Tracing the commitment of the region’s white slaveholders to racial violence from antebellum enslavement through to Reconstruction, Peller-Semmens unearths the
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Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend

Reconsidering Lincoln as Commander in Chief

by Kenneth W. Noe, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Kenneth W. Noe’s Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth president was an almost-perfect commander in chief, more intelligent than his generals. The legend originated with Lincoln himself, who early in the war concluded that he possessed a keen strategic and tactical mind. Noe explores the genesis of this powerful idea and asks why so many ... Read more

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Kenneth W. Noe’s Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth president was an almost-perfect commander in chief, more intelligent than his generals. The legend originated with Lincoln himself, who early in the war concluded that he possessed a keen strategic and tactical mind. Noe explores the genesis of this powerful idea and asks why so many
... Read more
War Fought and Felt

The Emotional Motivations of Confederate Soldiers

by Joshua R. Shiver, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Joshua R. Shiver’s War Fought and Felt advances our grasp of the links between masculinity, emotion, and relationships during the American Civil War. It is the first broadly researched, multidisciplinary, and statistically supported approach to understanding the pivotal role of emotions in the everyday lives of Confederate soldiers. Using a source base of more than 1,790 letters and diaries from ... Read more

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Joshua R. Shiver’s War Fought and Felt advances our grasp of the links between masculinity, emotion, and relationships during the American Civil War. It is the first broadly researched, multidisciplinary, and statistically supported approach to understanding the pivotal role of emotions in the everyday lives of Confederate soldiers. Using a source base of more than 1,790 letters and diaries from
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The Devil’s Own Purgatory

The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War

by Robert H. Gudmestad, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Center's Lincoln PrizeThe Devil’s Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy’s Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply ... Read more

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Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Center's Lincoln PrizeThe Devil’s Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy’s Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply
... Read more
Lutheranism and American Culture

The Making of a Distinctive Faith in the Civil War Era

by Timothy D. Grundmeier, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Timothy D. Grundmeier’s Lutheranism and American Culture examines the transformation of the nation’s third-largest Protestant denomination over the course of the nineteenth century. In the antebellum era, leading voices within the church believed that the best way to become American was by modifying certain historic doctrines deemed too Catholic and cooperating with Anglo-evangelicals in ... Read more

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Timothy D. Grundmeier’s Lutheranism and American Culture examines the transformation of the nation’s third-largest Protestant denomination over the course of the nineteenth century. In the antebellum era, leading voices within the church believed that the best way to become American was by modifying certain historic doctrines deemed too Catholic and cooperating with Anglo-evangelicals in
... Read more
Late to the Fight

Union Soldier Combat Performance from the Wilderness to the Fall of Petersburg

by Alexandre F. Caillot, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
In Late to the Fight, Alexandre F. Caillot explores the combat performance of the Union soldiers who filled newly raised regiments that fought through the Civil War’s final year. Historians have typically regarded these late enlistees as substandard to those who signed on at the war’s start. Using the experiences of the 17th Vermont and 31st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiments to assess the record ... Read more

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In Late to the Fight, Alexandre F. Caillot explores the combat performance of the Union soldiers who filled newly raised regiments that fought through the Civil War’s final year. Historians have typically regarded these late enlistees as substandard to those who signed on at the war’s start. Using the experiences of the 17th Vermont and 31st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiments to assess the record
... Read more
The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship

The Civil War Correspondence of Alabama's Pickens Family

by Henry M. McKiven Jr., T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship is a vast collection of Civil War correspondence from the affluent Pickens family of Greene County, Alabama. Unlike nearly all published letter collections from the era, the Pickens family correspondence includes letters written on the home front as well as those penned by family members serving in the Army of Northern Virginia. The correspondence ... Read more

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The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship is a vast collection of Civil War correspondence from the affluent Pickens family of Greene County, Alabama. Unlike nearly all published letter collections from the era, the Pickens family correspondence includes letters written on the home front as well as those penned by family members serving in the Army of Northern Virginia. The correspondence
... Read more
The Confederate Resurgence of 1864

by William Marvel, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
William Marvel’s The Confederate Resurgence of 1864 examines a dozen understudied Confederate and Union military operations carried out during the winter and spring of 1864 that, taken cumulatively, greatly revived white southerners’ hopes for independence. Among the pivotal moments during this period were the sinking of the USS Housatonic by the CSS Hunley; Nathan Bedford Forrest’s defeat of ... Read more

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William Marvel’s The Confederate Resurgence of 1864 examines a dozen understudied Confederate and Union military operations carried out during the winter and spring of 1864 that, taken cumulatively, greatly revived white southerners’ hopes for independence. Among the pivotal moments during this period were the sinking of the USS Housatonic by the CSS Hunley; Nathan Bedford Forrest’s defeat of
... Read more
Between Extremes

Seeking the Political Center in the Civil War North

by Jack Furniss, T. Michael Parrish ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln’s administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery and an unprecedented expansion in the size and scope of the federal government. Since the United States never considered suspending the democratic process during the Civil War, these revolutionary developments—indeed the entire war effort—depended on ballots as much ... Read more

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Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln’s administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery and an unprecedented expansion in the size and scope of the federal government. Since the United States never considered suspending the democratic process during the Civil War, these revolutionary developments—indeed the entire war effort—depended on ballots as much
... Read more
Hundreds of Little Wars

Community, Conflict, and the Real Civil War

by Terry L. Beckenbaugh, Lorien Foote, Dr. Madeleine C. Forrest, Lesley J. Gordon, Barton A. Myers, Dr. Christopher Phillips, Dr. Michael Shane Powers, Dr. Scott Tarnowieckyi, Dr. Eric P. Totten, Dr. Elliott West, T. Michael Parrish, Niels Eichhorn ...

Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
From Texas to Virginia, towns, regions, counties, regiments, prisons, and even refugee camps played a significant role in shaping the contours of the Civil War. According to historian Daniel E. Sutherland, whose many books and essays helped establish the field of community studies, these varied assemblages of individuals experienced and fought the real war. Following his lead, the contributors to ... Read more

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From Texas to Virginia, towns, regions, counties, regiments, prisons, and even refugee camps played a significant role in shaping the contours of the Civil War. According to historian Daniel E. Sutherland, whose many books and essays helped establish the field of community studies, these varied assemblages of individuals experienced and fought the real war. Following his lead, the contributors to
... Read more

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Conflict of Command

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