A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: CAMPAIGNS AND BATTLES
• Chapter One: VIRGINIA 1861
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Two: MISSOURI
• General Histories
• Early Battles
• Confederate Incursions into Missouri, 1862–1863
• The Price Raid
• Unit Histories and Soldier Diaries and Memoirs
• Guerrilla Warfare
• Biographies
• Reference Works
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Three: MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CAMPAIGN
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Four: 1862 SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Five: LOGISTICS
• Procurement, Organization, and Supply
• Distribution
• Confederate Shortages
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Six: PENINSULA CAMPAIGN
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Seven: SOLDIERS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Eight: KENTUCKY
• Kentucky's Civil War Significance and Historiography
• Secession Crisis, Neutrality, and Politics
• Kentucky Goes to War: Mobilization and Two Confederate Invasions
• Emancipation and Black Soldiers
• Guerrilla Warfare and Racial Violence
• Concluding the War: Vanquished Become Victors
• Conclusion and Suggestions for Further Research
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Nine: GUERRILLAS
• Defining Civil War Irregulars: The Scholarly Debate
• Guerrilla Memoirs/Histories Written by Veterans
• Biographies and Unit Histories
• U.S. Army Counter-Irregular Warfare
• The Vietnam War's Impact on U.S. Civil War Scholarship
• Scholarship on Militant Dissent in the Civil War
• “The Long War” and U.S. Civil War Guerrilla Studies
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Ten: MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OF 1862
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Eleven: BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
• The Commanders
• Battle Histories
• Phases of the Battle
• Specialized Studies and the Battle's Aftermath
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twelve: CIVIL WAR TACTICS
• The Last Napoleonic War or the First Modern War?
• Strategies, Doctrine, Operations, and Tactics
• How Soldiers Fought
• Tactics: How Battles Were Fought
• Unit Histories
• The State of Civil War Tactical Scholarship
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirteen: BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fourteen: BLOCKADING CAMPAIGNS
• Contemporary Accounts of the Blockade
• The Efficacy of U.S. Navy Enforcement
• Economic Impact of the Blockade
• The Blockade as Naval Strategy
• The Blockade as Foreign Policy
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifteen: CHANCELLORSVILLE CAMPAIGN
• A Campaign of Contingency
• Hooker's Campaign Plan and Opening Moves
• The Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1 and 2, 1863
• The Battle of Chancellorsville, May 3 and 4, 1863
• The End of the Campaign and Strategic Results
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Sixteen: BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Seventeen: AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOLDIERING
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Eighteen: VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Nineteen: OCCUPATION
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty: ARKANSAS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty-One: INDIAN AMERICA
• We Are All Americans
• Allies
• Soldiers
• Civilians and Refugees
• “Insurgents”
• The Vanishing Indian
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty-Two: NAVAL DEVELOPMENT AND WARFARE
• Organization and Leadership
• Sailors’ Lives
• Blockade
• Technology and Naval Revolution
• Syntheses
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty-Three: BATTLES OF CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA
• Opening Moves in the Tullahoma Campaign
• McLemore's Cove
• The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18–20, 1863
• Chattanooga Campaign
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty-Four: ATLANTA CAMPAIGN
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty-Five: GEORGIA AND CAROLINAS CAMPAIGNS
• First Histories
• Modern Overviews
• State Studies: Georgia
• The Carolinas
• Social History
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty-Six: PRISONS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: 1864 SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: OVERLAND CAMPAIGN, 1864
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: LOUISIANA AND TEXAS CAMPAIGNS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirty: PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN
• Background
• Grant and Federal Strategy at Petersburg
• Grant's Summer Offensives
• The Longest Winter
• The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign
• Campaign Historiography
• African Americans and Civilians in the Petersburg Campaign
• Siege Warfare and Life in the Trenches
• Conclusion
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirty-One: TECHNOLOGY AND WAR
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirty-Two: WAR AND ENVIRONMENT
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirty-Three: APPOMATTOX CAMPAIGN
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirty-Four: MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE
• Overview: Organization and Challenges
• Medical Issues
• Historiographical Questions and Challenges
• The Current State of the Field
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirty-Five: CIVIL WAR VETERANS
• General Studies
• Institutional and Political Histories
• Veterans in Gilded Age America
• Memory
• Pensions and Economic Issues
• Disability
• Biographies
• Masculinity
• Conclusion
• REFERENCES
• Part II: LEADERS
• Chapter Thirty-Six: ULYSSES S. GRANT
• Hardscrabble
• Reunion and Reaction
• A Baby Politician but Brilliant General
• The Unredeemed Captive
• Grant's Ascension
• Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirty-Seven: ROBERT E. LEE
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirty-Eight: UNITED STATES GENERALS
• Grant
• McClellan
• Sherman
• Second Ranking Generals
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Thirty-Nine: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
• Early Life
• Springfield and the Law
• Antebellum Political Career and Slavery's Critic
• Road to the White House and the Secession Crisis
• President and Commander in Chief
• Lincoln and Emancipation
• Conclusion: General Biographies
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Forty: JEFFERSON DAVIS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Forty-One: FREDERICK DOUGLASS
• REFERENCES
• Part III: POLITICS, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
• Chapter Forty-Two: CIVIL WAR DIPLOMACY
• Confederate Diplomacy
• Union Diplomacy
• Foreign Powers
• Contexts and Legacies
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Forty-Three: ETHNICITY
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Forty-Four: WOMEN
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Forty-Five: MANHOOD
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Forty-Six: NORTHERN POLITICS
• The Republican Party
• The Democratic Party
• The Party System
• Politics, Political Culture, and National Identity
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Forty-Seven: SOUTHERN POLITICS
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Forty-Eight: NORTHERN DISSENT
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Forty-Nine: SOUTHERN DISSENT
• Dissent and the Question of Confederate Defeat
• Defining the Dissenter
• Conclusions
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty: NORTHERN HOME FRONT
• Civil War Cities
• The Rural North during the Civil War
• Conclusion
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty-One: SOUTHERN HOME FRONT
• The Role of Southern Communities in the Civil War
• The Effect of the Civil War on Southern Communities
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty-Two: ABOLITIONISTS IN THE CIVIL WAR
• Abolitionists before the Civil War
• Abolitionists during the Civil War
• Post–Struggle for Equality Treatments of Abolitionists during the Civil War
• More Recent Extensions of Larger Studies of Abolitionism into the Civil War Years
• Abolitionist Women during the Civil War
• Abolitionists in Recent Studies of the Civil War Era
• Conclusion
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty-Three: SLAVERY IN THE CIVIL WAR
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty-Four: EMANCIPATION
• Early Scholarship
• The Contours of Emancipation
• Gender
• Lincoln and Emancipation
• Who Freed the Slaves?
• The Transnational Turn in Emancipation Studies
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty-Five: LITERATURE
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty-Six: MUSIC
• Foundations
• The Patriotic Declension Thesis
• Sectional Studies
• Songs and Songwriters
• African Americans
• Women
• Military Bands and Bandsmen
• Recent Syntheses
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty-Seven: RELIGION
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty-Eight: CONSTITUTION AND LAW
• The Nature of the Union
• The Coercive Power of the State
• The State and the Economy
• African Americans and the Union
• Citizenship
• The Constitution
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Fifty-Nine:NATIONALISM
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Sixty: WARTIME POLITICAL ECONOMY
• REFERENCES
• Part IV: THE CIVIL WAR IN HISTORY
• Chapter Sixty-One: THEORY AND METHOD
• Agency
• Aftermath
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Sixty-Two: THE GLOBAL CIVIL WAR
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Sixty-Three: WARTIME ORIGINS OF RECONSTRUCTION
• The Politics of Wartime Reconstruction
• The Wartime Origins of Free Labor
• The Wartime Development of the Free Black Community
• REFERENCES
• Chapter Sixty-Four: MEMORY
• REFERENCES
• Name Index