A Companion to the U.S. Civil War
2 Volume Set
Blackwell Companions to American History
1. Edition August 2020
1232 Pages, Softcover
Handbook/Reference Book
Short Description
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). More than 60 original essays that explore all the major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the period are featured.
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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
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
Part IV The Civil War in History 1087
61 Theory and Method 1089
Paul Christopher Anderson
62 The Global Civil War 1103
Don H. Doyle
63 Wartime Origins of Reconstruction 1121
John C. Rodrigue
64 Memory 1139
Caroline E. Janney
Name Index 1155
Subject Index 1167
