"The essays approach the period through the expansive lens of military history, grounded in both traditional and pioneering methodologies. By offering fresh areas of inquiry and demonstrating the potential of military history to provide invaluable insights, the collection seeks to realign military scholarship on the American Civil War with other scholarly avenues of inquiry"--

Andrew S. Bledsoe, assistant professor of history at Lee University, is the author of Citizen-Officers: The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War.

Andrew F. Lang, assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, is the author of In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America.