NEWSLETTER Vol. XXXI No. 4 Society of Civil War Historians Fall 2018

BIRMINGHAM IN NOVEMBER BAILEY RETIRES AS NEWSLETTER EDITOR The Society of Civil War Historians will meet in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Sheraton Birmingham Anne J. Bailey, who became editor of the SCWH Hotel from Thursday, November 8 to Sunday, Newsletter in the Spring of 1992, will retire at the November 11. The hotel is located at 2101 Richard end of 2018 ending over twenty-six years in the Arrington Jr. Blvd. N. Telephone 205.324.5000. position. Dr. Bailey is the author or editor of eight The annual banquet and award dinner is held during books, numerous books chapters and encyclopedia the conference of the Southern Historical Society entries, and over three hundred book reviews. The and information about the SHA conference schedule concept of an organization devoted to the study of can be found at http://thesha.org/annual-meeting. the Civil War grew out of a conversation between Information about the hotel can be found at TCU Professor Grady McWhiney (d. 2006) and http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/o Jerry L. Russell (d. 2003) at a Congress of Civil verview/index.html?propertyID=115. The airport is War Round Tables in Charleston, South Carolina, in located around three miles from the hotel and a the Fall of 1984. The following year McWhiney and complimentary hotel shuttle operates from 6:00 a.m. Russell arranged an organizational meeting at the until 11:00 p.m. For those with their own cars, the Southern Historical Association conference in Birmingham Jefferson Convention Center provides Houston, Texas. More than two hundred people both self and valet parking for $14 to $25 per day. joined, and the first gathering of members was at Parking is located across from the hotel and the Southern in New Orleans in 1986. Dr. connected by a skywalk. McWhiney served as president of the Society until At the SCWH dinner on Thursday, Andrew F. 1996, while Russell, who served as the Society’s Lang, Assistant Professor of History at Mississippi first secretary and executive director, began to take State University, will be awarded the Tom Watson a less active role in the early 1990s. In 1992 Dr. Brown Book prize sponsored by the Watson-Brown McWhiney asked Dr. Bailey, who earned her Ph.D. Foundation and the SCWH for In the Wake of War: at TCU, to become editor of the newsletter. In Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War January 1994, Steven D. Engle, who received his America (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2017). Ph.D. from Florida State University, became executive secretary/treasurer; he took over as the SOCIETY OF CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS book review editor for the newsletter in Fall of BANQUET 1997. The newsletter has been sponsored by the Friday, November 9: 5:30-8:00 East Ballroom A academic home of Dr. Bailey: Georgia Southern Presiding University; the University of Arkansas at Nina Silber, Boston University Fayetteville; Georgia College and State University; and after her retirement, the McWhiney History Andrews F. Lang, Mississippi State University Education Group. It was through a conversation “Union Demobilization and the Boundaries of between Dr. Bailey and Tad Brown that the idea for War and Peace” a book prize honoring Tad’s father, the late Tom The dinner is free to SCWH members. Registration Watson Brown of Atlanta, was born. This award has is required. For more information, go to the SCWH grown to symbolize the excellent scholarship seen website at https://sites.psu.edu/scwhistorians/ among the Society’s members.

BOOKS IN REVIEW played an important role as the third speaker at the Stephen D. Engle, Book Review Editor dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery in November of 1863. According to Dixon, his speech was the perfect Gordon C. Rhea. On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, ending in a trifecta of perfect speeches given that day by June 4-15, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Everett, Lincoln, and Anderson. The Lost Gettysburg University Press, 2017. Pp. 453. $45.00. Address is a good and fast read, and entertaining like any good story well told. It is an excellent book for The current volume completes Rhea’s study of the remembering why we like enjoy this subject so much. 1864 Overland Campaign, following previous volumes on the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, and Cold Brian Hackett, North Kentucky University Harbor. Civil War historians have anxiously awaited this ______final volume, coming as it does ten years after his previous book on Cold Harbor. Though it is the shortest Catherine Clinton, Stepdaughters of History: volume in the series, On to Petersburg does not Southern Women and the American Civil War. Baton disappoint, and provides a fitting conclusion to a Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. Pp. distinguished achievement in Civil War historiography. 144. $48.00. The volume begins with the two armies entrenched at Cold Harbor. Rhea documents Grant’s plan to send a In Stepdaughters of History Catherine Clinton force to quickly strike the railroad and supply center of challenges historians to continue dismantling Petersburg. Uninspired Union leadership and exhausted assumptions about women’s experiences during the Civil troops, coupled with an able defense by General P.G.T. War. She argues that despite the increase in studies Beauregard, doomed the promising effort. focused on women in recent years, too often women Rhea writes that the thrust against Petersburg was the appear on the sidelines of narratives about the Civil War, “last act” of the Overland Campaign, since it “was hidden behind stereotypes and myths, which obscures conceptually a continuation of his mobile operations to the real lived experience of the war for many southern destroy Lee’s army that had started with the crossing of women. Each of the three chapters focuses on the Rapidan” (x). Rhea concludes with an Epilogue challenging our preconceptions about certain groups of discussing the overall results of the Overland Campaign. southern women: elite white women and the ideological Grant as a whole “employed a judicious mixture of and personal ties they formed with each other, white maneuvers and attacks to achieve his purpose” (321). Confederate women whose patriotism took forms Lee “did extraordinarily well” in achieving tactical “impermissible” to contemporary gender norms, and the successes, but “[i]f the campaign is viewed in terms of “Mammy” image that has so obscured the lives of black which general came closest to realizing his overall southern women. This brief, engaging volume is an strategic goal, Grant comes out ahead” (334). excellent addition to our understanding of the Civil War experience of southern women, and an incentive to David J. Coles, Longwood University future inquiry. ______Kristen Anderson, Webster University David T. Dixon. The Lost Gettysburg Address. Santa Barbara, California: B-List History, 2015. Pp. 242. Funding for the Newsletter is provided by $18.95. McWhiney History Education Group, McMurry University

Charles Anderson was truly a remarkable man. But The SCWH Newsletter is published quarterly. Regular dues are $65.00 and include the newsletter and a journal subscription. Dues should be like many remarkable men, his contributions to Civil forwarded to the UNC Press Journals Department, 116 South Boundary War history was destined to be lost in one of the many Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. President: Nina Silber, Department of History, Boston University, 226 places where history goes to be forever forgotten. Had it Bay State Road, Room 308, Boston, MA 02215. Tel. 617-353-8307. not been for the remarkable luck of Rob Tolley, the E-mail: [email protected]. generosity of the Skinner family, and the writing genius Executive Secretary: Stephen D. Engle, Department of History, Box 3091, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991. Tel. of David Dixon, most of us would never have heard of 561-297-2444. E-mail: [email protected]. Governor Anderson. Editor: Anne J. Bailey. E-mail: [email protected] or In The Lost Gettysburg Address Dixon, through [email protected]. Advisory Board: Anne J. Bailey, McWhiney History Education Group; painstaking research and outstanding prose, traces William A. Blair, Pennsylvania State University; Stephen D. Engle, Anderson’s story from son of a famous family, to Florida Atlantic University; Judith Giesberg, Villanova University; Patrick Lewis, Kentucky Historical Society; Caroline Janney, Purdue prisoner, to fugitive, to Ohio’s highest office. Always a University; Paul Quigley, Virginia Tech; Nina Silber, Boston University; man of principle, loyal only to his convictions, Anderson Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut.

Civil War Era Sessions at the SHA Comments Michael T. Bernath, University of Miami Paul A. Cimbala, Fordham University Friday, November 9: 9:30–11:30 East Meeting Room K Animal Studies in the Civil War Era: Topics and Methodology Sunday, November 11: 9:00–11:00 East Meeting Room F Presiding The Science of Slavery: How Science, Technology, and Megan Kate Nelson, Independent Writer Finance Made Slavery Modern Panelists Presiding Joan E. Cashin, Ohio State University Edward E. Baptist, Cornell University Kenneth Noe, Auburn University “Money Power”: The European Financialization and Daniel Rood, University of Georgia Quantification of American Slavery Comments John Handel, University of California, Berkeley Audience Medicalizing Slavery and Capitalism: Understanding the American South as a Pioneering Region Friday, November 9: 2:30–4:30 East Meeting Room A Deirdre Cooper Owens, Queens College, CUNY Material Witness: Visual Culture and Reliquaries of the The Science of Antislavery: Scientists, Antislavery, and Slave South Myth of Slavery’s Backwardness Presiding Eric Herschthal, Schomburg Center & Lapidus Center W. Fitzhugh Brundage, UNC at Chapel Hill Comments The Circulation and Business of Antislavery Images in the Peter Shulman, Case Western Reserve University 1830s Edward E. Baptist Aston Gonzalez, Salisbury University The Visual Culture of Slavery and its Aftermath in Sunday, November 11: 9:00–11:00 East Meeting Room J “Mulatto” Women’s Lives in Memphis Defining Defeat: Three Approaches to Making Sense of Earnestine Jenkins, University of Memphis Loss and the Confederate Experience Racial Profiling: Silhouette Depictions of Black Bodies in Presiding the Antebellum South Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Teresa Parker Farris, Tulane University “We Too Bear the Confederate Name”: The Lost Cause Comments and Missouri’s Contested Civil War Memory Deborah Willis, New York University Amy L. Fluker, University of Mississippi Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans Internationalizing Loss: Former Confederates’ International Perspectives on Defeat Friday, November 9: 2:30–4:30 East Meeting Room K Ann L. Tucker, University of North Georgia War Trauma and the American Civil War: A Roundtable The Pleasures of Satire: A New Perspective on the Discussion Emotions of Defeat Presiding Sarah K. Bowman, Columbus State University Diane Miller Sommerville, Binghamton University Comments Panelists Peter Carmichael, Gettysburg College Dillon Carroll, Hunter College Anne Sarah Rubin Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Texas A&M–Kingsville Angela M. Riotto, University of Akron Sunday, November 11: 9:00–11:00 AM East Meeting Room K Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, United States Naval Academy Emancipationist Memory and Radical Dreams of Freedom: New Directions in African American History of Saturday, November 10: 9:30–11:30 East Meeting Room L the Reconstruction Era Northern Civilians and the Occupied Wartime Presiding Confederacy Robert D. Bland, St. John’s University Presiding The Spatial Roots of the “Church with the Soul of a Caroline E. Janney, University of Virginia Nation” “Among the Fifes and Drums”: Harriet Hawley and the Nicole Myers Turner, Virginia Commonwealth University Occupied South Public Leisure: Black and White Social Life in the Paul E. Teed, Saginaw Valley State University Reconstruction-Era South “‘Till I Came Here I Was Ignorant of Slavery”: Charlotte Caitlin Verboon, Freedmen and Southern Society Project, Forten, James Miller McKim, and Abolitionist Travel to University of Maryland, College Park the Sea Islands Claiming Freedom: Black Litigants in Post-Emancipation Frank J. Cirillo, New-York Historical Society Southern Courts “The Disgusting Law of the South”: A Reforming Giuliana Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara Newspaper’s Campaign in Occupied Mississippi Comments Nancy McKenzie Dupont, University of Mississippi Carole Emberton, University of Buffalo & Robert D. Bland

The Journal of the Civil War Era SCWH Early Career Committee Announces Changes The Society’s Early Career Committee mentorship project pairs recent PhDs in the early stages of their The Journal of the Civil War Era has a new associate careers with a more experienced mentor outside their editor as Greg Downs leaves the position. Also, five new university. Mentorship takes many forms, from aiding scholars have been added to the editorial board. Rotating mentees with career issues, to support and feedback on off the board are Lorien Foote, Fay Yarbrough, Brian writing, to portfolio advice. The committee includes DeLay, Matt Gallman, and Manisha Sinha. Kristen Anderson, Webster University; Aaron Astor, The new associated editor is Luke Harlow, who is an Maryville College; Lorien Foote, Texas A&M Associate Professor of History at the University of University; Julie Mujic, Paramount Historical Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Religion, Consulting; and T. Michael Parrish (chair), Baylor Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830- University. 1880 (Cambridge, 2014), which received a Kentucky History Award from the Kentucky Historical Society. Harlow will work with Stacy Smith, associate editor, to Future Meeting Dates of the recruit historiographic review essays for the journal. SCWH and SHA Other additions to the board include Rabia Belt, a legal historian at Stanford Law School; Angela Pulley 2019 – November 7-10 Hudson, Professor of History at Texas A&M University; Galt House Hotel Louisville, Kentucky Stephen Kantrowitz, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History and an affiliate faculty member in 2020 – November 19-22 the Department of Afro-American Studies and the Sheraton Memphis Downtown American Indian Studies Program at the University of Memphis, Tennessee Wisconsin-Madison; David Silkenat, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh; and Brenda E. Stevenson, 2021 – November 3 – 6 Nickoll Family Endowed Chair and Professor of History Astor Crowne Plaza and African American Studies at UCLA. New Orleans, Louisiana

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