The Journal of the Civil War Era

Volume 2, Number 3
September 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture

Joan Waugh
"I Only Knew What Was in My Mind": Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox

Patrick Kelly
The North American Crisis of the 1860s

Carole Emberton
"Only Murder Makes Men": Reconsidering the Black Military Experience

Caroline E. Janney
"I Yield to No Man an Iota of My Convictions": Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the Limits of Reconciliation

Book Reviews
Books Received

Review Essay
David S. Reynolds
Reading the Sesquicentennial: New Directions in the Popular History of the Civil War

Notes on Contributors

The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.