America’s Civil War January 2011

Inside this issue:

• An interview with an American who conducts Civil War tours in England.
• Red Soodalter on High Bridge
• Mosby’s Confederacy by Teri Johnson
• Iowa’s “Hairy Nation” goes to war  – Robert B. Mitchell
• Harold Holzer on how some Southerner’s sought to abate secession fever
• Cynthia Wachtell looks at how some men of letters considered the morality of war
• Reviews
  • The Maryland Campaign of September, 1862, Vol. I by Ezra Carman, edited by Thomas Clemens
  • Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861, by Kenneth Noe
  • My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans, by Rusty Williams
  • Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front, by J. Matthew Gallman
  • The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta, by Gary Ecelbarger
  • Harry’s Just Wild About…
    • Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Redemption, by Shane Kastler
    • Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, ,by Timothy B. Smith
    • After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped, by David Hardin & Ivan Dee
    • Confederate Generals in the Western Theater: Classic Essays on America’s Civil War, Vol I, Lawrence Hewitt & Arthur Bergeron, editors