Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War is a fascinating new look into Civil War soldiers' postwar adjustments to returning home. Jordan notes that what little work currently exists focuses too narrowly on the veterans' "fraternal rituals, their infamous pension lobbying, and their reunions, parades, and monuments" (3). Jordan identifies Gerald Linderman (Embattled Courage) and his assertion that Union soldiers paid "as little heed as possible to the memories of the war" as representative of the existing historiography on the subject, a notion which he counters: "Afflicted with guilt, sorrow, and purposelessness, Union soldiers considered homecoming a task as onerous and demanding as any military campaign" (3).
Insightful Meditations on Civil War Photographs This volume is the result of "a deceptively simple invitation" issued by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher to twenty-five fellow Civil War historians: "select one photograph taken during the Civil War and write about it" (2). The book reproduces the images-many familiar, others less well known-alongside the contributors' sprite reflections. The photographs fall into at least one of five categories-leaders, soldiers, civilians, victims, and places. Not surprisingly, many contributors decide on photographs that illustrate their line of research-Jane Schultz, for instance, contemplates a photograph of the Union nurse Annie Etheridge Hooks, Daniel Sutherland reflects on Champ Ferguson, and Joan Waugh takes on Grant-but others embrace the opportunity to write about a person, place, or event removed from their existing body of scholarship.
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