The Ongoing Civil War: New Versions of Old Stories

177 Pages·2004·0.561 MB·English

by  Herman Hattaway, Ethan S. Rafuse

The Ongoing
Civil War
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Shades of Blue and Gray Series
Edited by Herman Hattaway and Jon L. Wakelyn
The Shades of Blue and Gray Series will offer Civil
War studies for the modern reader—Civil War buff
and scholar alike. Military history today addresses the
relationship between society and warfare. Thus
biographies and thematic studies that deal with civil-
ians, soldiers, and political leaders are increasingly
important to a larger public. This series will include
books that will appeal to Civil War Roundtable groups,
individuals, libraries, and academics with a special in-
terest in this era of American history.
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The Ongoing
Civil War
New Versions
of Old Stories
Edited with an
Introduction by
Herman Hattaway
and Ethan S. Rafuse
University of Missouri Press
Columbia and London
Copyright © 2004 by
The Curators of the University of Missouri
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201
Printed and bound in the United States of America
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The ongoing Civil War : new versions of old stories / edited, with an
introduction, by Herman Hattaway and Ethan S. Rafuse.
p. cm. — (Shades of blue and gray series)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8262-1524-6 (alk. paper)
1. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865. 2. United
States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Historiography. I. Hattaway,
Herman. II. Rafuse, Ethan Sepp, 1968– III. Series.
E649.O54 2004
973.7'3—dc22
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The articles in this volume are reproduced from various 1997–1999
issues of Columbiadwith the permission of PRIMEDIASpecial Interest
Publications (History Group).
To Robert A. Doughty
and Joseph L. Harsh
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Contents
Introduction 1
The Professional Historian and “Popular History”
Mark Grimsley 13
“Old Brains” Was Brainy After All
Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones 26
McClellan, von Clausewitz, and the Politics of War
Ethan S. Rafuse 40
Franklin Pierce and the Civil War
Michael J. C. Taylor 58
Union Lifeline
Mark A. Snell 74
Before the Wilderness: What Lee Knew
William A. Tidwell 98
History in Hindsight: William T. Sherman and Sooy Smith
Albert Castel 109
Philatelic Pugilists
John F. Marszalek 127
To “Mold the Judgment of History”
Noah Andre Trudeau 139
Contributors 155
Index 159