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Civil War, Military
Alvarez, M. Raymond. “Fairmont’s Last Living Slave.” Goldenseal 42 (Spring 2016): 50-54.
Cullinan, Thomas. 2017. The Beguiled : A Novel (version Movie tie-in edition.) Movie tie-in ed. New York, New York: Penguin Books. 384 pp. Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled?
Dawson, Nathaniel Henry Rhodes, and Elodie Todd Dawson. 2017. Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. Edited by Stephen William Berry and Angela Esco Elder. New Perspectives on the Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia Press. These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved―a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.
Harrold, Stanley, and Randall M Miller. 2017. The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History. Edited by Douglas R Egerton and Robert L Paquette. Southern Dissent. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1 eBook. Egerton and Paquette have edited and annotated a wealth of archival material to create the authoritative one-volume documentary history of the Denmark Vesey insurrection of 1822.
Horn, James Francis. World War I and Jefferson County, West Virginia. Charleston, SC: The History Press. 111 pp. Details Jefferson County’s role in World War I, including rates of enlistment, Red Cross participation, and food rationing.
McIlwain, Christopher Lyle. 2017. 1865 Alabama: From Civil War to Uncivil Peace. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 377 pp. In this novel, Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr. examines the end of the Civil War and the early days of Reconstruction in the state and details what he interprets as strategic failures of Alabama’s political leadership. The actions, and inactions, of Alabamians during those twelve months caused many self-inflicted wounds that haunted them for the next century.
Mellott, David. W and Mark A. Snell. The Seventh West Virginia Infantry. An Embattled Union Regiment from the Civil War’s Most Divided State. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas, (2019). 353 pgs. Including index. Illustrated. Known as the “bloody Seventh,” this unit fought in more battles and suffered more losses than any other West Virginia regiment. Its story covers the citizen soldiers, most of them from Appalachia, who fought in the major campaigns in the eastern theater, including Winchester, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Petersburg. Weaving military, social, and political history, the book uses statistical analysis to profile the Seventh’s soldiers from a socio-economic, military, medical, and personal point of view. In addition, the authors consult dozens of primary sources, including soldiers’ living descendants.
Pleasants, Julian M. 2017. Home Front: North Carolina during World War II. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Julian Pleasants offers a grassroots view of World War II's extraordinary impact on the homefront by focusing on the myriad ways, large and small, that World War II changed the lives of average citizens in North Carolina.
Sledge, John S. 2017. These Rugged Days : Alabama in the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 255 pp. his book charts residents’ experiences from secession’s heady early days to its tumultuous end, when 75,000 blue-coated soldiers were on the move statewide. Sledge details this eventful history using an impressive array of primary and secondary materials, including official records, diaries, newspapers, memoirs, correspondence, sketches, and photographs.