Civil War History preview June 2012, Vol. 58, No. 2

“The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Fashion of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri,” by Joseph M. Beilein Jr

“War in Earnest: The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Union War Effort, 1862,” by John Matsui

“A Canadian Yankee in King Cotton’s Court,” edited by Marc-William Palen

Wars for the American South: The First and Second Reconstructions Considered as Insurgencies
By Mark Grimsley

Virginia’s Embattled Textbooks: Lessons (Learned and Not) from the Centennial Era
By Carol Sheriff

Assuring Freedom to the Free: Jefferson’s Declaration and the Conflict over Slavery
By Jeremy J. Tewell

A CENSUS-BASED COUNT OF THE CIVIL WAR DEAD
By J. David Hacker

CONDITIONAL CONFEDERATES: ABSENTEEISM IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS, 1861-1865
By Scott King-Owen

THE MORAL JOURNEY OF A POLITICAL ABOLITIONIST
By Frederick J. Blue

“ALL THE TRULY WISE OR TRULY PIOUS HAVE ONE AND THE SAME END IN VIEW”: OBERLIN, THE WEST, AND ABOLITIONIST SCHISM
By J. Brent Morris