{"title":"A Wilderness of Destruction: Confederate Guerrillas of East and South Florida, 1862�1865","authors":"Ralph Mann","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.07","url":null,"abstract":"A Wilderness of Destruction offers a comprehensive survey of guerrilla warfare in east and south Florida. It recounts Union officers being captured while partying and wagon trains seized on the way to Union-held towns and fortifications, as well as battles for towns—Gainesville, Jacksonville. This coverage is vital for understanding Florida’s Civil War.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"77 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":"134889862","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":"�Knowing Which Way the Wind was Blowing during Reconstruction�","authors":"Hans Rasmussen","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"The events of Reconstruction played out within the context of an agrarian society where most people lived in rural areas, close to nature and susceptible to the fickle whims of weather and climate. A dry summer, a wet spring, a sudden flood, or an early killing frost may have put a locality’s agricultural economy out of joint for a while and spun off other political or social reverberations. Understanding how these various political, economic, social, and climactic factors played off each other to produce the volatile events of the Reconstruction era will present a challenging puzzle for historians to unravel. Such an effort to bring weather and climate into the historiography of Reconstruction will be possible only by consulting the standardized forms and consistently kept journals of government weather observers that tell us how hot was the air, how many clouds filled the sky, and which way the wind was blowing.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"6 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":"134891518","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":"Horse Soldiers at Gettysburg: The Cavalryman�s View of the Civil War�s Pivotal Campaign","authors":"Allen C Guelzo","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.09","url":null,"abstract":"Daniel Murphey's Horse Soldiers at Gettysburg: The Cavalryman’s View of the Civil War’s Pivotal Campaign brings to his account a lively appreciation for the character of horses and their high-maintenance demands. He adds to that another virtue, that of not being obsessed with J.E.B. Stuart, so that both Federal and Confederate cavalry get remarkably equal billing. For those interested in cavalry operations during the Gettysburg campaign, this book stands as a fine introduction to the cavalry’s campaign at Gettysburg, and well-illustrated.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"20 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":"134889858","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":"Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeon","authors":"Margaret Humphreys","doi":"10.31390/cwbr.25.3.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.25.3.04","url":null,"abstract":"Without Concealment, Without Compromise sketches sketching the lives of the fourteen Black men who served as surgeons in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It reveals the courage it took for these men to face the overt racism and hostility that faced the remarkable phenomenon of Black men in uniform.","PeriodicalId":500483,"journal":{"name":"Civil war book review","volume":"21 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":"134891488","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}