1. SOLDIERS FROM EXPERIENCE: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke (LSU Press).
2. Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History by Gene Eric Salecker (Naval Inst Press).
3. Suffering in the Army of Tennessee: A Social History of the Confederate Army of the Heartland from the Battles for Atlanta to the Retreat from Nashville by Christopher Thrasher (UTenn Press).
4. Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond by Hampton Newsome (UP of Kansas).
5. The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865: A Study in Command by William Royston Geise, ed. by Michael J. Forsyth (Savas Beatie).
6. Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess (LSU Press).
7. Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers by John M. Sacher (LSU Press).
8. Fortress Nashville: Pioneers, Engineers, Mechanics, Contrabands & U.S. Colored Troops by Mark Zimmerman (Author-Zimco)
9. At War With King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever (UNC Press).
10. The Nashville and Decatur in the Civil War: History of an Embattled Railroad by Walter R. Green, Jr. (McFarland).
Civil War Book and Authors also has an “Honorable Mention” list:
• The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers’ Struggle for Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle by Jeffry Wert (UNC Press, 2022).
• Early Struggles for Vicksburg: The Mississippi Central Campaign and Chickasaw Bayou, October 25-December 31, 1862 by Timothy Smith (UP of Kansas, 2022).
• Engineering in the Confederate Heartland by Larry Daniel (LSU Press, 2022)
• True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Clayton Butler (LSU Press, 2022).
• Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by William Kiser (UPenn Press, 2022).
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