William A. Blair 
Journal of the Civil War Era [EPUB ebook] 
Fall 2012 Issue

The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 2, Number 3September 2012TABLE OF CONTENTSArticles 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.