Book Reviews 425 From Greene Ville to Fallen Timbers: A Journal of the Wayne Campaign, July 28-September 14, 1794, Edited by Dwight L. Smith. Volume XVI, Number 3, Indiana Historical Society PublicaCions. (Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society, 1952, pp. 95. Index. $1.00.) With the publication of this journal dealing with the Wayne campaign the historian is furnished with additional documentary evidence concerning the intrigue of one of the most ambitious and treasonable figures in American history, General James Wilkinson. Despite the fact that the writer of this journal remains anonymous, his outspoken support of the wily Wilkinson is significant in that it substantiates in an intimate fashion the machinations of Wilkinson against his immediate military superior, General Anthony Wayne. The reader cannot help but be impressed with this evidence of the great influence of Wilkinson’s personal magnetism, which simultaneously won for him a pension from the Span- ish monarch and the support of many Americans a few years prior to the launching of this campaign. The journal covers the crucial days from July 28 to September 14, 1794, during which time Wayne and his men advanced from Fort Greene Ville to a place in the Maumee Valley known as Fallen Timbers, where the Indian Confed- eration was dealt a body blow. Included in it are many de- tails such as supply problems, geographical features, and personalities. Unfortunately, the pronounced pro-Wilkinson bias of the writer inclines the reader to exercise mental reservations in accepting much of the information even though it be of a purely factual nature. In a brief but able introduction, Smith sets the stage for this account of this military expedition of General Wayne against the Indians of the Old Northwest. Furthermore, by careful editing he identifies various correspondents, furnishes numerous explanatory footnotes, and offers adequate refer- ences to other materials that make for a more complete pic- ture of this historic event. The fragmentary nature of the journal as well as the anonymity of its writer were only two of the many obstacles which confronted the editor. Since a reviewer must be alert to possible errors it should be pointed out that the editor in his introductory remarks states: “A week was spent here constructing Fort 426 Indiana Magazine of History Defiance. Then the legion and volunteers moved down the Auglaize towards their objective.” Instead of “Auglaize” he should have written “Maumee,” since it was down the latter stream that the forces of Wayne proceeded immediately prior to their engagement with the Indians at Fallen Timber-. Such an error, typographical or otherwise, does not detract from the overall merit of this work. Smith is to be com- mended for his able editing of a difficult journal. Ball State Teachers College Richard H. Caldemeyer The Growth of So?ithern Nationalism, 1848-1861. By Avery 0. Craven. Volume VI. A History of the South. Edited by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and E. Merton Coulter. (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1953, pp. xi, 433. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $6.00.)- The decade of the 1850’s severely tested the American democratic process and, in certain important respects, found it wanting. These were years of increasingly bitter section- alism, of diverging Northern and Southern values, and of growing “Southern Nationalism.” Professor Avery Craven describes these tragic events in the sixth volume of that very useful set, A History of the South, sponsored by Loui- siana State University and by the Littlefield Fund at the University of Texas. In view of the vast amount of histori- cal evidence, as well as the controversial character of num- berless interpretations that would explain it, the author has perhaps the most difficult assignment of any of the contri- butors to the ten-volume work. In the early nineteenth century there were many bonds uniting the Northwest and the Southwest : common frontier problems, trade routes of the Mississippi River system, sim- ilar attitudes toward public lands and internal improvements. But, with the advent of the Mexican War in 1846, devisive forces were becoming powerful. Northern states, suspecting that the South was fighting this war simply to get more territory for slavery, supported the Wilmot Proviso, which would have reserved newly acquired lands exclusively for freeholders. The distrust from which the Proviso sprang was nourished by Northern dissatisfaction with Polk‘s com- promise of American claims to the Oregon country. At the .