| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Christopher Waldrep. Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance. (The American Crisis Series.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2005. Pp. xix, 344. $26.95.

In the tradition of the best scholarship on Civil War memory, Christopher Waldrepexplores the ways that particular individuals and groups—Confederates and Unionists, white women and African Americans, former generals and soldiers, Washington bureaucrats and entrepreneurs—labored to shape the memory of the battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the decades following the Civil War. In doing so, Waldrep also raises questions regarding two additional bedrock assumptions of Civil War scholarship: that late nineteenth and early twentieth-century white southerners were unstintingly devoted to the Lost Cause, and that, while the North won the war, the South won the peace. The case of Vicksburg, he suggests, reveals both weaknesses in southerners' commitment to the memory of the Confederacy and the relative success of the North—especially in the form of the federal government—in determining the aftermath and significance of the Civil War. This book, then, is both a fascinating case study that hones in on the particular memory of a critical Civil War battle and a work of scholarship that engages much broader concerns and methodologies in Civil War studies.

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