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  • Perryville

    This Grand Havoc of Battle

    by Kenneth W. Noe ...
    Winner of the Seaborg Civil War Prize: "Impressively researched . . . will please many readers, especially those who enjoy exciting battle histories." ― Journal of Military HistoryOn October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Perryville in what would be the largest battle ever fought on Kentucky soil. The climax of a campaign that began two months before in northern Mississippi, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reluctant Rebels

    The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861

    by Kenneth W. Noe ...
    Series series Civil War America
    After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of “later enlisters.” He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause, rekindling the debate over who these later enlistees were, why they joined, and why they stayed and fought ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Howling Storm

    Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War

    by Kenneth W. Noe, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Finalist for the Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book AwardTraditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth W. Noe suggests it should instead be understood as a war between the North, the South, and the weather. In The Howling Storm, Noe retells the history of the conflagration with a focus on the ways in which ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend

    Reconsidering Lincoln as Commander in Chief

    by Kenneth W. Noe, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Kenneth W. Noe’s Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth president was an almost-perfect commander in chief, more intelligent than his generals. The legend originated with Lincoln himself, who early in the war concluded that he possessed a keen strategic and tactical mind. Noe explores the genesis of this powerful idea and asks why so many ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Southwest Virginia's Railroad

    Modernization and the Sectional Crisis in the Civil War Era

    by Professor Kenneth W. Noe ...
    A close study of one region of Appalachia that experienced economic vitality and strong sectionalism before the Civil WarThis book examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s, before the Civil War began. The building and operation of the railroad reoriented the economy of the region toward staple crops and slave labor. Thus, during the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Blue, the Gray, and the Green

    Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War

    by Brian Allen Drake, Lisa M. Brady, John C. Inscoe, Megan Kate Nelson, Kenneth Noe, Aaron Sachs, Mart A. Stewart, Paul S. Sutter, Drew A. Swanson, Timothy Johnson0, Dr. Timothy Silver1, Kathryn J. Shively2 ...
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    The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding, and use of nature. The contributors use a wide range of approaches that serve as a valuable template for ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Weirding the War

    Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges

    by Anya Jabour, Barton A. Myers, Brian Craig Miller, Daniel E. Sutherland, Diane Sommerville, Emory Thomas, Joan E. Cashin, Kenneth Noe, LeeAnn Whites, Lesley J. Gordon, Megan Kate Nelson0, Michael DeGruccio1, Michael Fellman2, Paul Anderson3, Peter S. Carmichael4, Rodney J. Steward5, Steven E. Nash6, Stephen Berry8, Andrew Slap9, Amy Murrell Taylor0 ...
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    “It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Guerrilla Hunters

    Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War

    by Adam Domby, Andrew Fialka, Scott Thompson, Lisa Tendrich Frank, Joseph Beilein, Earl J. Hess, Laura J. Davis, Andrew F. Lang, Matthew M. Stith, Aaron Astor, Brian Steel Wills, Stephen Rockenbach, Daniel E. Sutherland, Matthew Christopher Hulbert ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts, from the Confederate-authorized Partisan Rangers, a military force directed to spy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Upon the Fields of Battle

    Essays on the Military History of America's Civil War

    by Brian D. McKnight, Kenneth W. Noe, Earl J. Hess, Brian Matthew Jordan, Jennifer M. Murray, Kevin M. Levin, Keith Altavilla, Robert L. Glaze, John J. Hennessy ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the home front and the battlefield. Indeed, scholars taking a holistic view of the war have contributed to our understanding of the social complexities of emancipation—of freedom in a white republic—and the multifaceted experiences of both civilians and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Yellowhammer War

    The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

    by Terry L. Seip, Brian Steel Wills, Dr. Lonnie A. Burnett, Ph.D., Dr. Harriet E. Amos Doss, Ph.D., Dr. Michael W. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Dr. Jennifer Lynn Gross, Ph.D., Dr. Patricia A. Hoskins, Ph.D., Dr. Kristopher A. Teters, Ph.D., Dr. Jennifer Newman Treviño, Ph.D., Dr. Bertis D. English, Ph.D., Professor Jason J. Battles, Professor Kenneth W. Noe, Ph.D., Professor Victoria E. Ott, Ben H. Severance, Dr. Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, Ph.D. ...
    Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath.During the first winter of the war, Confederate soldiers derided the men of an Alabama Confederate unit for their yellow-trimmed uniforms that allegedly resembled the plumage of the yellow-shafted flicker or “yellowhammer ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Corps Commanders in Blue

    Union Major Generals in the Civil War

    by Mark A. Snell, Steven Woodworth, Christopher S. Stowe, Brooks D. Simpson, John J. Hennessy, Thomas G. Clemens, Kenneth W. Noe ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their corps commanders, though vital to military success, was all too rare: Corps commanders were often forced to exercise considerable discretion in the execution of orders from their generals, and bitter ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Civil War Guerrilla

    Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

    by Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Matthew C. Hulbert ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    Civil War historians shed new light on the importance of guerrilla combat across the south in this "useful and fascinating work" ( Choice).Touching states from Virginia to New Mexico, guerrilla warfare played a significant yet underexamined role in the Civil War. Guerrilla fighters fought for both the Union and the Confederacy—as well as their own ethnic groups, tribes, or families. They were ... Read more

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