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Volume I
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Notes on Contributors
Sean Patrick Adams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is the author of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in ĀAntebellum America (2004) and is currently completing a book on energy transitions in home heating in the nineteenth-century United States.
Paul Christopher Anderson teaches at Clemson University. He is the author of Blood Image: Turner Ashby and the Civil War in the Southern Mind, and is currently working on Sorrow the Living, Sorrow the Dead, which examines the collapse of the South Carolina chivalry, as well as After the Fire, a trilogy about cultural reconstruction in the Shenandoah Valley.
Aaron Astor is Associate Professor of History at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee. He is the author of Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri, 1860ā1872 (2012) and earned his PhD in History at Northwestern University in 2006.
L. Diane Barnes is Professor of History at Youngstown State University, where she pursues research interests in nineteenth-century social history, slavery and abolition, and documentary editing. She is associate editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers and editor of the journal Ohio History. Her writings include Frederick Douglass: Reformer and Statesman; The Old Southās Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region and Nation in the Age of Progress; and Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820ā1865.
Michael T. Bernath is Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor in American History at the University of Miami. He is the author of Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South.
Andrew S. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of History at Lee University. His work on American Civil War soldiers and officers has appeared in a number of books and journals. He is author of the forthcoming Citizen-Officers: The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War, 1861ā1865.
Keith S. Bohannon is Associate Professor of History at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and essays and co-editor with Randall Allen of Campaigning with āOld Stonewallā: Confederate Captain Ujanirtus Allenās Letters to His Wife (1998).
James J. Broomall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Florida. A scholar of the nineteenth century, he has both presented on and written about this topic in numerous forums and is currently writing a book-length study of masculinity and emotions in the Civil War era South. His work has appeared in the edited collection Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South, and in the Journal of the Civil War Era, among other venues.
Jacqueline Glass Campbell is an Associate Professor of History at Francis Marion University. She earned her PhD from Duke University in 2000 and is the author of When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front (2003). Her current project is titled āA Unique but Dangerous Entanglementā: Benjamin F. Butler in Occupied New Orleans.
Bradley R. Clampitt is an Assistant Professor of History at East Central University. He is the author of The Confederate Heartland: Military and Civilian Morale in the Western Confederacy (2011).
Benjamin Franklin Cooling is currently Professor of National Security Studies at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University. He is the author of numerous histories of the Civil War, including Counter Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam and Symbol, Sword and Shield: Defending Washington during the Civil War.
Lynda Lasswell Crist has been the editor of The Papers of Jefferson Davis at Rice University since 1979.
Brian Dirck is Professor of History at Anderson University. He has written numerous books and articles on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809ā1865; Lincoln the Lawyer, a study of Lincolnās legal career; Lincoln and the Constitution; and Abraham Lincoln and White America.
Steven Nathaniel Dossman teaches at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author of Campaign for Corinth: Blood in Mississippi and Vicksburg, 1863: The Deepest Wound.
Don H. Doyle is McCausland Professor of History at University of South Carolina. He has published Nations Divided: The United States, Italy, and the Southern Question; Nationalism in the New World, edited with Marco Pamplona; and Secession as an International Phenomenon (edited). He is finishing a book on Americaās International Civil War.
Michael A. Flannery is Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Besides the works cited in his chapter, he is also the co-editor (with Katherine H. Oomens) of Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall (2007).
Andre M. Fleche is Associate Professor of History at Castleton State College. His work on African-American Civil War soldiers has appeared in the journal Civil War History and elsewhere. He is the author of The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict.
Lorien Foote is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She is the author of two books, including The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Manhood, Honor and Violence in the Union Army (2010), which was Honorable Mention for the Lincoln Prize.
Buck T. Foster (PhD Mississippi State University) is a native of Booneville, Arkansas and is presently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Central Arkansas, where he teaches courses in American history, military history, and the Old South. He is the author of Shermanās Mississippi Campaign.
Barbara A. Gannon is currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic, which was awarded the Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book on the Civil War
Judith Giesberg teaches at Villanova University and is the author of three books on the Civil War, Civil War Sisterhood: The United States Sanitary Commission and Womenās Politics in Transition (2000),āArmy at Homeā: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (2009), and Keystone State in Crisis: Pennsylvania in the Civil War (2013).
James Gillispie is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and a Professor of History at Sampson Community College in Clinton, North Carolina. He is the author of Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners (2008) and Cape Fear Confederates: The 18th North Carolina Regiment in the Civil War (2011). He teaches courses on mid nineteenth-century Southern history, the Civil War era, and the Great War.
Robert L. Glaze holds degrees in history from Kennesaw State University (BA) and the University of West Georgia (MA). He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
David T. Gleeson is Reader in American History at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He is the author of The Irish in the South, 1815ā1877 (2001) and editor of The Irish in the Atlantic World (2010). His most recent work is The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America (2013).
Mark Grimsley is an Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University and the author of numerous books and articles on the Civil War, including And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, MayāJune 1864.
Kurt Henry Hackemer is Professor of History and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of South Dakota. His books include The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847ā1883 (2001) and To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery (2005).
Stanley Harrold is Professor of History at South Carolina State University. Among his publications during the past decade are Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828ā1865 (2003), The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (2004); and Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War (2010).
D. Scott Hartwig is a veteran of thirty-two years of the National Park Service and works as a supervisory historian at Gettysburg National Military Park. He is the author of To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of 1862 (2012).
Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh is the author of various articles and West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace (2009). He is an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.
Caroline E. Janney is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. She is the author of Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladiesā Memorial Association and the Lost Cause and Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation.
Brian Matthew Jordan is a doctoral candidate at Yale University and adjunct instructor in the Civil War Era Studies Department at Gettysburg College. His dissertation, āWhen Billy Came Marching Home,ā is exploring how Union veterans came to terms with the experience of the war in the decades after Appomattox.
Christian B. Keller is Professor of History at the United States Army War College, Carlisle, PA. Along with many scholarly articles, he is author of Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory (2007) and co-author of Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg (2004).
James Marten is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Marquette University, former President of the Society of Civil War Historians, and author or editor of more than a dozen books on the sectional conflict and childrenās history. His most recent book is Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (2011).
Jaime Amanda Martinez is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where she teaches the U.S. Civil War and African American History. She has published essays on wartime slave hiring and the Confederate economy, and is completing a Ābook-length manuscript on slave impressment in Virginia and North Carolina.
Christian McWhirter is an Assistant Editor for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln and the author of Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War.
Kathryn Shively Meier is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first book, Natureās Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia (2013), has been awarded the Edward M. Coffman Prize.
Brian Craig Miller is Assistant ĀProfessor and Associate Chair of History at Emporia State University and serves as Book Review Editor for Civil War History. His publications include A Punishment on the Nation (2012) and John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory (2010).
Jennifer M. Murray is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginiaās College at Wise. She is the author of The Civil War Begins and the forthcoming āOn a Great Battlefieldā: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933ā2012.
Barton A. Myers is Assistant Professor of Civil War History at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861ā1865, which received the Jules and Frances Landry Award in Southern Studies.
Samuel Negus is a final-year PhD candidate at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. His primary research addresses politics and foreign policy in the Early American Republic. He has previously written journal articles on various naval and diplomatic aspects of the Civil War for Civil War History and the Northern Mariner.
Megan Kate Nelson is a Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (2012) and Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (2005). She lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Clayton R. Newell retired from the Army in 1992. Since then, he has been an independent military historian, consultant, and writer. His published works include Lee vs. McClellan: The First Campaign and Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War, co-authored with Charles R. Shrader.
Jonathan A. Noyalas is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Center for Civil War History at Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, Virginia. He is the author or editor of eight books on Civil War Era history, including Stonewall Jacksonās 1862 Valley Campaign: War Comes to the Homefront.
Timothy J. Orr is an Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the editor of Last to Leave the Field: The Life and Letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, and he has authored several essays analyzing partisanship in the Union Army.
Scott C. Patchan is the author of The Forgotten Fury: The Battle of Piedmont (1996), Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign (2007), The Battle of Piedmont and Hunterās Raid on Staunton (2011), Second Manassas: Longstreetās Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge (2011), and The Last Battle of Winchester (2013). He also served as a contributing historian and author for TimeLifeās Voices of the Civil War: Shenandoah 1864 and has written dozens of articles on the Civil War.
Jeffrey Patrick completed his MA in history at Purdue University, and is currently the librarian at Wilsonās Creek National Battlefield. He has published numerous books and articles on military history, including Campaign for Wilsonās Creek: The Fight for Missouri Begins, for which he received the Eastern National Authorās Award.
Elizabeth Brown Pryor is the author of numerous books and articles on nineteenth-century history, including Clara Barton, Professional Angel and Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through His Private Letters. The latter won multiple awards, including the Lincoln Prize and the Jefferson Davis Award.
Paul Quigley is the James I. Robertson Jr. Associate Professor of Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech and director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. He is the author of Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848ā65 (2011).
Carol Reardon is the George Winfree Professor of American History and scholar-in-residence of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University. She is a past president of the Society for Military History.
Brian Holden Reid is Professor of American History and Military Institutions, Kingās College London, and since 2010 Academic Member of College Council. His books include J.F.C. Fuller: Military Thinker (1987, 1990), The Origins of the American Civil War (1996), Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation (2005, 2007) and Americaās Civil War: The Operational Battlefield, 1861ā1863 (2008).
John C. Rodrigue is the Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Professor in the Department of History at Stonehill College. He is the author of Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisianaās Sugar Parishes, 1862ā1880 (2001); and Lincoln and Reconstruction (2013).
Anne Sarah Rubin is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her book A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy received the 2006 Avery O. Craven Award. Her study of the memory of Shermanās March, entitled Through the Heart of Dixie: Shermanās March and America will be published in 2014.
John M. Sacher is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida. His A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824ā1861 won the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for best book on Louisiana History. His research focuses on nineteenth-century politics, and he is currently investigating Confederate conscription.
Christian G. Samito obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School and his PhD in American history from Boston College. He teaches at Boston University School of Law and his most recent book is Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era (2009).
Robert M. Sandow is Professor of History at Lock Haven ...
