A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). _ Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War _ Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship _ Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory
A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). _ Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War _ Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship _ Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory
Aaron Sheehan-Dean is Fred C. Frey Professor at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (2007) and the Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War (2008).
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Volume I
Notes on Contributors x
Preface xviii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Part I Campaigns and Battles 1
1 Virginia 1861 3 Clayton R. Newell
2 Missouri 19 Jeffrey Patrick
3 Mississippi Valley Campaign 41 Barbara A. Gannon
4 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign 56 Jonathan A. Noyalas
5 Logistics 74 Brian Holden Reid
6 Peninsula Campaign 95 Timothy J. Orr
7 Soldiers 114 Lorien Foote
8 Kentucky 132 Aaron Astor
9 Guerrillas 154 Barton A. Myers
10 Maryland Campaign of 1862 178 Benjamin Franklin Cooling
11 Battle of Antietam 195 D. Scott Hartwig
12 Civil War Tactics 211 Jennifer M. Murray
13 Battle of Fredericksburg 231 Mark A. Snell
14 Blockading Campaigns 240 Samuel Negus
15 Chancellorsville Campaign 262 Christian B. Keller
16 Battle of Gettysburg 280 Carol Reardon
17 African-American Soldiering 297 Andre M. Fleche
18 Vicksburg Campaign 316 Steven Nathaniel Dossman
19 Occupation 328 Jacqueline Glass Campbell
20 Arkansas 338 Buck T. Foster
21 Indian America 365 Megan Kate Nelson
22 Naval Development and Warfare 386 Kurt Henry Hackemer
23 Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga 410 Keith S. Bohannon
24 Atlanta Campaign 428 Robert L. Glaze
25 Georgia and Carolinas Campaigns 444 Anne Sarah Rubin
26 Prisons 456 James Gillispie
27 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign 476 Scott C. Patchan
28 Overland Campaign, 1864 492 Mark Grimsley
29 Louisiana and Texas Campaigns 501 Bradley R. Clampitt
30 Petersburg Campaign 521 Brian Matthew Jordan
31 Technology and War 540 Andrew S. Bledsoe
32 War and Environment 561 Kathryn Shively Meier
33 Appomattox Campaign 573 Bradley A. Wineman
34 Medicine and Health Care 590 Michael A. Flannery
35 Civil War Veterans 608 James Marten
Volume II
Notes on Contributors x
Preface xviii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Part II Leaders 629
36 Ulysses S. Grant 631 James J. Broomall
37 Robert E. Lee 652 Elizabeth Brown Pryor
38 United States Generals 673 Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
39 Abraham Lincoln 691 Brian Dirck
40 Jefferson Davis 710 Lynda Lasswell Crist
41 Frederick Douglass 724 L. Diane Barnes
Part III Politics, Society, and Culture 741
42 Civil War Diplomacy 743 Jay Sexton
43 Ethnicity 763 David T. Gleeson
44 Women 779 Judith Giesberg
45 Manhood 795 Brian Craig Miller
46 Northern Politics 811 Adam I.P. Smith
47 Southern Politics 830 John M. Sacher
48 Northern Dissent 849 Matthew Warshauer
49 Southern Dissent 867 Margaret M. Storey
50 Northern Home Front 891 Robert M. Sandow
51 Southern Home Front 909 Aaron Sheehan-Dean
52 Abolitionists in the Civil War 927 Stanley Harrold
53 Slavery in the Civil War 949 Jaime Amanda Martinez
54 Emancipation 965 Yael A. Sternhell
55 Literature 987 Michael T. Bernath
56 Music 1003 Christian McWhirter
57 Religion 1021 Sean A. Scott
58 Constitution and Law 1035 Christian G. Samito
59 Nationalism 1056 Paul Quigley
60 Wartime Political Economy 1073 Sean Patrick Adams
