The Journal of Southern History articles from November 2003

The Journal of Southern History archives from November 2003

A rejected alternative: Union policy and the relocation of southern "contrabands" at the dawn of emancipation.
November 1, 2003... HISTORIANS CONTINUE TO DISAGREE ABOUT HOW DEEPLY THE NEGATIVE attitudes of northern whites toward blacks influenced politics during the Civil War. Increasingly scholars do agree that powerful prejudice against blacks prevailed among white...

The crucible of disease: trauma, memory, and national reconciliation during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
November 1, 2003... FEW SOUTHERN WHITES WERE MORE PASSIONATE ABOUT OR MORE DEDICATED to the Confederacy and the Lost Cause than Father Abram J. Ryan, a poet and Catholic priest in New Orleans and other southern cities. During the Civil War he served as a chaplain...

The Columbians, Inc.: a chapter of racial hatred from the post-World War II South.
November 1, 2003... IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF OCTOBER 31, 1946, SOMEONE dynamited the front porch of Goldsmith and Minnie Sibley, African Americans who had recently bought their clapboard house on Ashby Street, in a previously all-white working-class...

Racism: A Short History.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By George M. Fredrickson. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 207. $22.95, ISBN 0-691-00899-X.) In this fine interpretive volume George M. Fredrickson presents a sweeping survey of the "rise...

Florida's Frontiers.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Paul E. Hoffman. A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 470. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-34019-5.) The very concept of a history of the multilayered and shifting...

Before and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Helen C. Rountree and E. Randolph Turner III. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c.2002. Pp. [xii], 259. $39.95, ISBN 0-8130-2476-5.) Anthropologist Helen C. Rountree and archaeologist E. Randolph Turner III...

Lands of True and Certain Bounty: The Geographical Theories and Colonization Strategies of Jean Pierre Purry.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Edited and annotated by Arlin C. Migliazzo. Translated by Pierrette C. Christianne-Lovrien and 'BioDun J. Ogundayo. (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, c. 2002. Pp. 201. $39.95, ISBN...

Appalachia: A History.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By John Alexander Williams. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 473. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5368-2; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2699-5.) Given the proliferation of scholarship on Appalachia...

Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Daniel D. Arreola. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. [xvi], 272. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-292-70511-5; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-292-70510-7.) In Tejano South...

Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks. The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 400. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-374-9.) This fine collection...

From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712-1862.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Mark F. Fernandez. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xx], 135. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2705-1.) A widely held view insists that Louisiana's legal system shares little with the common-law practices and procedures...

Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley. Studies in the History of Education. (New York and London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002. Pp. xii, 364. $90.00, ISBN 0-415-93118-5.) Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley restore the private academy to its rightful...

Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Kirsten Fischer. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 265. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8014-8679-3; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3822-5.) Kirsten Fischer's study of colonial North Carolina is a provocative...

In the Affairs of the World: Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Cara Anzilotti. Contributions in American History, No. 196. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. x, 216. $64.95, ISBN 0-313-32031-4.) Cara Anzilotti describes South Carolina planter-class women as selfless promoters...

Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Helen Bryan. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 417. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-15892-5.) In this first full-scale biography of Martha Washington published in over forty years, Helen Bryan seeks to replace the "bland domestic...

Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Volumes I, II, and III. Edited by Ronald Hoffman, Sally D. Mason, and Eleanor S. Darcy. (Chapel Hill and London: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; the Maryland...

Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Martha L. Keber. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 312. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2360-8.) In Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton Martha L. Keber limns the fascinating life of Christophe Poulain DuBignon...

A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Philip N. Mulder. Religion in America Series. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. [x], 233. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-513163-0.) Once there was the New Light, observes Philip N. Mulder, and it promised ecumenical...

Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Marjoleine Kars. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 286. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4999-5; cloth, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-2672-3.) Historians such as Jeffrey J. Crow, A. Roger Ekirch, Marvin L....

Jefferson on Jefferson.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Paul M. Zall. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 160. $25.00, ISBN 0-8131-2235-X.) The author of Franklin on Franklin (Lexington, Ky., 2000) and Lincoln on Lincoln (Lexington, Ky., 1999) attempts to encapsulate...

Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Thomas E. Chavez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 286. $29.95, ISBN 0-8263-2793-1.) Thomas E. Chavez, director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, naturally respects the importance of material culture...

Neither Separate nor Equal: Congress in the 1790s.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789-1801. (Athens, Ohio: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 344. $44.95, ISBN...

The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon. Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789-1801. (Athens, Ohio: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 348. $44.95, ISBN...

Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Joanne B. Freeman. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 376. $29.95, ISBN 0-300-08877-9.) American historians still tend to describe the founding of the United States as a battle of ideas, in which quirks of...

General Thomas S. Woodward and Woodward's Remininscences.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Don C. Marler. (Hemphill, Tex.: Dogwood Press, c. 2001. Pp. [iv], 335. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 1-887745-18-1.) General Thomas S. Woodward was well known in pre-Civil War America, although almost forgotten today. He was a close friend of...

Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Diane Batts Morrow. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5401-8; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2726-6.) This is a welcome history of the origins and early years of the first...

Emily Donelson of Tennessee.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Pauline Wilcox Burke. Edited by Jonathan M. Atkins. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. [xxiv], 358. $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-137-2.) The 1960s feminist proclamation that "the personal is political" applies, with some...

Sam Houston.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By James L. Haley. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2002. Pp. xxii, 513. $39.95, ISBN 0-8061-3405-4.) By James L. Haley's count, there have been no fewer than sixty biographies of Sam Houston. But another is needed, he explains,...

Treasures of the Longleaf Pines: Naval Stores.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Carroll B. Butler. Illustrations by John Christian. (2d rev. ed.; Shalimar, Fla.: Tarkel Publishing, c. 1998. Pp. [xx], 270. $40.00, ISBN 0-9660620-0-0.) Historians of the American South have paid scant attention to the piney woods...

Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Richard Bruce Winders. The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era, No. 6. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. Pp. xxx, 172. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8420-2801-3; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2800-5.) This volume is part of the...

Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Graham Davis. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 92. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 304. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-189-9.) English historian Graham Davis provides...

Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Robert E. May. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 426. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2703-7.) In this balanced, judicious, and readable account of U.S. filibustering from the 1820s to the 1860s, Robert...

Railroads and American Law.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By James W. Ely Jr. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 365. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-1144-4.) No one but an expert in legal history will come to Railroads and American Law without a glazed look: what are court opinions and...

A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by James W. Ely Jr. (Knoxville: Published by the University of Tennessee Press and sponsored by the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, Inc., 2002. Pp. xvi, 459. $46.00, ISBN 1-57233-178-X.) Historians have neglected state...

Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Georgia's First Chief Justice.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Paul DeForest Hicks. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. viii, 183. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2365-9.) Paul DeForest Hicks has produced a scholarly, spare biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867), an...

Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers, 1840-1940.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Harvey S. Teal. (Columbia: Published by the University of South Carolina Press for the South Caroliniana Library, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 415. $24.95, ISBN 1-57003-384-6.) Harvey S. Teal has produced a model reference work for anyone...

Like a Sponge Thrown into Water: Francis Lieber's European Travel Journal of 1844-1845.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited with an introduction and commentary by Charles R. Mack and Ilona S. Mack. (Columbia: Published by the University of South Carolina Press for the South Caroliniana Library, c. 2002. Pp. [xxx], 193. $18.95, ISBN 1-57003-447-8.) To...

Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Patrick Rael. John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 421. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4967-7; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2638-3.) ...

Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Sharla M. Fett. Gender and American Culture. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 290. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5378-X; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2709-6.) Since the 1970s, scholars such as...

In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Claudia L. Bushman. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xx], 292. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6725-8.) John Walker (1785-1867) was born and died in King and Queen County, Virginia. An eighth-generation farmer of...

Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Edward E. Baptist. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 392. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-53534; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2688-X.) Like other state studies of antebellum social and political...

Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist & Plantations by the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By H. Parrott Bacot, Barbara SoRelle Bacot, Sally Kittredge Reeves, John Magill, and John H. Lawrence. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Pp. [xviii], 135. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2642-X; cloth, $39.95, ISBN...

Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer, with the assistance of Holly Byers Ochoa and Carol Faulkner. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2002. Pp. liv, 580. $55.00, ISBN 0-252-02674-8.) This volume is...

Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 253. $24.95, ISBN 1-57441-146-2.) In this romantic biography Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis tells the story of Lucy Holcombe Pickens, the wife of Civil...

When Slavery was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By John Patrick Daly. Religion in the South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 207. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2241-4.) In recent years, historians of the South have explored the ways in which religion contributed to the...

Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Stephen R. Haynes. Religion in America Series. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 322. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-514279-9.) Stephen R. Haynes's new study admirably expands on Thomas V. Peterson's Ham and...

Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Stephen John Hartnett. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 230. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02722-1.) This slender volume analyzes several loosely related debates of the mid-nineteenth century regarding...

The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Demetrius L. Eudell. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. x, 238. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5345-3; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2680-4.) The aftermath of emancipation in the U.S. South and the British...

Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By William C. Davis. (New York and other cities: The Free Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 484. $35.00, ISBN 0-684-86585-8.) For all the words poured onto paper about the Civil War, there have been few histories of the Confederacy, and even fewer...

Confederates Against the Confederacy: Essays on Leadership and Loyalty.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Jon L. Wakelyn. (Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 2002. Pp. [xvi], 189. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97364-6.) Southern support for the Confederacy was certainly not monolithic. In recent years historians have analyzed how Unionists,...

The Loyal, True, and Brave: America's Civil War Soldiers.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. Pp. xii, 222. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8420-2931-1; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8420-2930-3.) This book is a collection that places soldiers' accounts of their Civil War experiences...

Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Harold S. Wilson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2002. Pp. xxii, 412. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-462-7.) For years Civil War scholars regarded "Confederate industrialization" as an oxymoron: the moonlight-and-magnolia myth...

Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Terrie Dopp Aamodt. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. Pp. [xx], 236. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-738-6.) As Terrie Dopp Aamodt emphasizes in Righteous Armies, Holy Cause, apocalyptic beliefs, ideas, and images not only permeated the...

Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By William Lee Miller. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Pp. xvi, 515. $30.00, ISBN 0-375-40158-X.) In early 1865 Abraham Lincoln, exasperated by the internecine violence that continued in Missouri despite the departure of all organized...

The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Mark E. Neely Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 257. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-00742-5.) Mark E. Neely Jr. revives debate over the role of political parties in the Civil War by challenging one of the...

Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By William B. Feis. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 330. $39.95, ISBN 0-8032-2005-7.) William B. Feis's new study contributes both to the history of military intelligence during the Civil War and to...

Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Clayton E. Jewett. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 310. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1390-1.) Clayton E. Jewett offers a new interpretation of the attitudes and actions of...

Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Nelson Lankford. (New York and other cities: Viking, 2002. Pp. viii, 312. $27.95, ISBN 0-670-03117-8.) This is not the first book to tell the story of the fall of Richmond as the capital of the Confederate States of America. In addition...

Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By George C. Rable. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 671. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2673-1.) On the surface, Fredericksburg was a simple battle. "Without strategy or tactics to...

The Most Glorious Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4, 1863.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Duane Schultz. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 447. $27.95, ISBN 0-393-04870-5.) Books on the Civil War have addressed increasingly specific topics in recent years. First came Joseph E. Stevens's 1863:...

Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Noah Andre Trudeau. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, c. 2002. Pp. [xxii], 694. $34.95, ISBN 0-06-019363-8.) Here is an unusual if not unique book about the battle of Gettysburg. Though it does not reveal anything of major importance...

The Bombardment of Charleston, 1863-1865.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By W. Chris Phelps. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2002. Pp. 175. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 1-58980-028-1.) "At first I thought a meteor had fallen," wrote British war correspondent Frank Vizetelly. "But another awful rush and whir...

War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor; Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor. By David A. Mindell. (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 187. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8018-6250-7; cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-6249-3.) ...

Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Edward G. Longacre. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Pp. xii, 468. $36.95, ISBN 0-8117-0898-5.) Carefully based on contemporary Civil War memoirs, recent biographies, official records, regimental histories, and pertinent...

Galloping Thunder: The Story of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Robert J. Trout. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Pp. xiv, 786. $44.95, ISBN 0-8117-0707-5.) Robert J. Trout's comprehensive study is not a unit history in the sense of Robert K. Krick's Parker's Virginia Battery, C.S.A....

War of Vengeance: Acts of Retaliation Against Civil War POWs.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Lonnie R. Speer. (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 190. $22.95, ISBN 0-8117-1388-1.) War's corruption of the manners and morals of combatants and civilians has been observed since at least the days of Thucydides....

Dispatches from Lincoln's White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Michael Burlingame. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xxviii], 287. Paper, $39.95, ISBN 0-8032-9290-2.) Recent Civil War research has devoted greater attention to the political culture of the...

A Kingdom Not of This World: Stuart Robinson's Struggle to Distinguish the Sacred from the Secular during the Civil War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Preston D. Graham Jr. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. Pp. [xviii], 296. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-757-2.) Preston D. Graham Jr. utilizes a case study of Stuart Robinson, who served as pastor for the Second Presbyterian Church of...

Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy: The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by George M. Brooke Jr. Studies in Maritime History. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xviii], 257. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-418-4.) While the published dimes of several Confederate War Department insiders...

Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Paul Christopher Anderson. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiv, 258. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2752-3.) Paul Christopher Anderson has written an...

On to Atlanta: The Civil War Diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth Regiment of Volunteers.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Janet Correll Ellison with assistance from Mark A. Weitz. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2001. Pp. xxvi, 161. $49.95, ISBN 0-8032-2012-X.) On to Atlanta describes the experiences of John Hill Ferguson, an...

Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Thomas W. Cutrer. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xiv], 182. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-1118-1.) In the spate of edited collections of Civil War letters and diaries published during the last decade,...

A Soldier's General: The Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Edited by John C. Oeffinger. Civil War America. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xx, 299. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2690-1.) One of the first major generals appointed in the Army of Northern Virginia,...

Only a Few Bones: A True Account of the Rolling Fork Tragedy and its Aftermath.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By John Philip Colletta. (Washington, D.C.: Direct Descent Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 436. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-9701327-0-0.) John Philip Colletta offers readers a Reconstruction-era mystery centered on the deaths of his...

Two Novels by Mary Chesnut.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Edited by Elisabeth Muhlenfeld. Introduction by Elizabeth Hanson. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2002. Pp. [xxxviii], 216. $29.50, ISBN 0-8139-2058-2.) Scholars have...

The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair: A Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Wilber W. Caldwell. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. [x], 613. $50.00, ISBN 0-86554-748-3.) In this comprehensive volume Wilber W. Caldwell accomplishes his goals. He systematically reviews scores of county courthouses and...

Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Charlene Gilbert and Quinn Eli. (Boston: Beacon Press, c. 2000. Pp. [ix], 193. $30.00, ISBN 0-8070-0962-8.) Homecoming is a companion volume to Charlene Gilbert's documentary film--first aired on PBS in 2000--which braided an intimate...

The Inman Family: An Atlanta Family from Reconstruction to World War I.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Tammy Harden Galloway. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. Pp. 186. $29.95, ISBN 0-86554-755-6.) This book is about three generations of a family whose origins lay in eastern Tennessee but whose lives and careers were mostly...

God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Kathryn W. Kemp. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. Pp. [viii], 312. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-782-3.) In the mid-1880s John S. Pemberton, an Atlanta druggist and former Confederate solider, was working on a syrup to cure headaches....

Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Jon David Cash. Sports and American Culture Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 279. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1401-0.) When modern fans think about professional baseball in St. Louis, they usually...

Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General Versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Jonathan W. Singer. Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History, No. 12. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. [xiv], 344. $49.95, ISBN 1-58544-160-0.) Jonathan W. Singer recounts the valiant attempts by the...

A Government by the People: Direct Democracy in America, 1890-1940.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Thomas Goebel. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 302. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5361-5; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2694-4.) In the opening chapters of his overview of "the three components...

Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... By Raymond Wolters. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xvi], 311. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1385-5.) The literature on W. E. B. Du Bois--NAACP founder, scholar, novelist, father of Pan-Africanism, and in his later...

My Dearest Angel: a Virginia Family Chronicle, 1895-1947.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... By Katie Letcher Lyle. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xxx], 380. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8214-1411-9; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8214-1410-0.) Part family biography, part edited epistolary exchange, My Dearest Angel recounts...