Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863–1866 ed. by Timothy J. Williams and Evan A. Kutzler (review)

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construct some chapters. Not only is the number of pro-Confederate newspapers that Craig consults problematic, but so is where they were from. All of the newspapers listed above were headquartered either in major urban centers in the Bluegrass region or small towns in the Jackson Purchase region of the commonwealth. All of these flaws, unfortunately, diminish his argument’s persuasiveness. In all, Kentucky’s Rebel Press is an accessible work that tells an intriguing story set in one of the most turbulent periods in American history. Those interested in the press during the Civil War or nineteenth-century Kentucky should consider cracking open its pages. Undergraduates and history buffs will undoubtedly be entertained by the colorful, highly partisan rhetoric of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers. Historians and graduate students, however, will find much to critique. Francis M. Curran III West Virginia University