{"title":"A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina","authors":"Alexander Wing","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.26.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.26.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"Neil Kinghan offers an intriguing biography of Francis Cardozo, the first African American to hold statewide office after the Civil War. As secretary of state, and later treasurer of South Carolina, Kinghan reevaluates Cardozo’s historical significance as an instrumental figure in the postwar reconstruction of the state. The primary aim of this book is to “give [Cardozo] the recognition he deserves and restore his place in African American history of the nineteenth century.” In so doing, Kinghan addresses the “still inadequate recognition of the achievements of the period and almost none of the contribution of Francis Cardozo.” The author uses Cardozo’s achievements as minister, educator, and politician to critique the understanding – popularized after Redemption – of Reconstruction as a “tragic era.” Far from a period of failure, he emphasizes Cardozo’s tangible contributions to the enduring successes that African Americans could carry forward after Reconstruction’s demise, and into Jim Crow.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"49 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140730262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era","authors":"David Endres","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.26.2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.26.2.13","url":null,"abstract":"In American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era, Robert Emmett Curran argues that nineteenth-century America did not offer equal opportunities for Blacks, Native Americans, Jews, Catholics, and women. Curran, a professor emeritus of history at Georgetown University, focuses on Catholics’ pursuit of equality from 1846 to 1877, showcasing their transformation from “internal aliens” to full-fledged citizens, which did not prevent them from seeking to deprive others, especially African Americans, of the same.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"191 1-2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140730767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant","authors":"Joshua Waddell","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.26.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.26.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"In 1854, U.S. Army Captain Ulysses S. Grant underwent a demoralizing stretch in his military career. Following his service in the Mexican American War, the Army transferred Grant to the isolated Fort Humboldt in northern California. Separated from his wife, Julia, and their two children, Grant suffered intense bouts of loneliness and occasionally turned to alcohol for reprieve. Grant’s drinking eventually bled into his work, and his superior officer forced his resignation after Grant arrived at a pay meeting hungover. He returned home in shame, and many, including his father Jesse, had lost faith in him. Few would have expected that, a mere ten years later, Grant would save the Union from political schism and become the first Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army since George Washington. For John Reeves, the decade between Grant’s resignation in 1854 and his accession to Lieutenant General in 1864 constituted the most critical juncture in Grant’s life, but scholars have not given these years adequate focus. Reeves’s book follows Grant’s life during this time and documents his family ties to both North and South, his multiple attempts to find a new career in antebellum civilian life, and his eventual reentry and redemption in the Union Army.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140728410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectives on the Civil War Era","authors":"K. Howell Keiser","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.01","url":null,"abstract":"The book reviews and feature essay in this fall 2023 issue of the Civil War Book Review highlight the Civil War Era from the perspectives of various individuals and groups – black sailors and surgeons, women, guerillas, cavalry soldiers, Cherokee warriors, and veterans. The sectional crisis and the war to come shaped the lives of countless individuals, and no one person experienced these years from the same perspective.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134891489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862�1865","authors":"David J. Eicher","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.08","url":null,"abstract":"Through Blood and Fire adds to the understanding of this interesting young officer, whose life was ultimately cut short, and makes the volume of valuable information more widely available, as the original publication was a limited run. The mixture of battle experience and substantial, almost remarkable, staff assignments, yields a unique and interesting perspective on the war that will delight readers interested in the eastern theater.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134891510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels","authors":"Christopher Rein","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.05","url":null,"abstract":"Black Sailors in the Civil War documents the thousands of Black sailors who served with valor during the Civil War, highlighting their contributions to the Union's impressive naval victories throughout the war.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134889847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War","authors":"Emily Muhich","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134891499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty","authors":"C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"In Cherokee Civil Warrior, W. Dale Weeks offers several arguments about Cherokee history and United States Indian policy in the Civil War Era while seeking to reframe how scholars understand Chief John Ross’s wartime leadership.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134891477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One More War to Fight: Union Veterans� Battle for Equality Through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause","authors":"Brian Matthew Jordan","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.11","url":null,"abstract":"Building from the “Left Armed Corps” (a cohort of veterans who lost their right arms to battle or disease and then entered one of two “left-handed penmanship” competitions soon after the war), Goldman argues that as “Jim Crow took hold on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, Union veterans individually and collectively maintained their important interconnected roles as potent moral and political forces, particularly through the Grand Army of the Republic.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134891496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty","authors":"W. Dale Weeks","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.03","url":null,"abstract":"\"For the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet another battle in the larger struggle against multiple white governments for land and tribal sovereignty. Cherokee Civil Warrior tells the story of Chief John Ross as he led the tribe in this struggle.\" - University of Oklahoma Press","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134891467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}