LAURA MAMMINA is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she is a faculty fellow in the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society and a faculty affiliate for the Center for Black Studies and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. She researches and teaches nineteenth-century U.S. history, civilian-military relations, the history of slavery, and the history of gender and sexuality. She coedited American Discord: The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era, and her work has also appeared in Civil War History. She lives in Hattiesburg with her family.

This excellent book took military actions I thought I knew well and changed my perspective on them. Laura Mammina is right: When we include the negotiations and collaborations of Southern women—Black, white, Unionist, Rebel—in our narratives of U.S. military campaigns, the story changes dramatically.

LAURA MAMMINA is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she is a faculty fellow in the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society and a faculty affiliate for the Center for Black Studies and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. She researches and teaches nineteenth-century U.S. history, civilian-military relations, the history of slavery, and the history of gender and sexuality. She coedited American Discord: The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era, and her work has also appeared in Civil War History. She lives in Hattiesburg with her family.

This excellent book took military actions I thought I knew well and changed my perspective on them. Laura Mammina is right: When we include the negotiations and collaborations of Southern women—Black, white, Unionist, Rebel—in our narratives of U.S. military campaigns, the story changes dramatically.