Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina

A Closer Look at Reconstruction in a Southern State Mark L. Bradley, a historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History, uses North Carolina as a test case to analyze the behavior of the victorious Union army during Reconstruction. Not surprisingly, his findings completely rever...

The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

Revising Old Narratives of Guerrilla Warfare during the Civil War This very valuable collection builds from the foundational works by Michael Fellman, Inside War (1989), and Daniel E. Sutherland, A Savage Conflict (2009). It aims, as the editors explain, to contextualize Fel...

Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War\u27s Aftermath.

A New Focus for Reconstruction History This much needed and very useful collection highlights the Appalachian region’s diverse responses to the Civil War and complicates, while it illuminates, several long-standing historical debates. The Appalachians were not isolated from the rest of...

Guerrilla Hunters in Civil War Missouri

What it Took to Win in Civil War Missouri In this concise, well-illustrated narrative, the author, attorney James W. Erwin, undertakes to tell the story of the Unionist militias that were the ultimate victors in Missouri’s murderous guerrilla war. The militias produced no talented leade...

The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts During The Civil War

A New Collection on Civil War Guerrillas The essays in this collection continue the conversation started by Michael Fellman, Robert R. Mackey, and especially Daniel E. Sutherland. Fellman\u27s Inside War (1989) emphasized how the guerrilla war in Missouri broke down expectations of civilized be...