| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam. By Benjamin Franklin Cooling. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii, 354 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-1515-3.)

At first glance, Benjamin Franklin Cooling's chronicle of operations in the Civil War's eastern theater in 1862 from early summer through late fall is simply a recounting of well-trod scholarly ground. Gary Gallagher, James McPherson, Joseph Harsh, Stephen Sears, and John Hennessy, among others, have already traveled this historical landscape and provided excellent histories of campaigns and battles in this period. McPherson and, most recently, Allen Guelzo, have also examined in great detail the ramifications of the Emancipation Proclamation, the seminal document that most historians agree irrevocably changed the course—and nature—of the conflict. Yet none of those scholars have quite been able to tie all the events of this critical juncture in the war together in a narrative that is at once analytical and entertaining. Cooling has succeeded in doing just that in this important book.

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