Books

Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021). 

           Winner of the 2022 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize

            Finalist for the 2022 Library of Virginia Literary Awards in Nonfiction

            The Civil War Monitor’s Best Civil War Books of 2021

            Richard Barksdale Harwell Award presented by the Atlanta Civil War Roundtable

Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation. Volume 16 of the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era Series (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

       Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award presented by the Southern Historical Association 

       Winner of the Jefferson Davis Award presented by the American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Virginia

       Honorable mention, Avery O. Craven Award presented by the Organization of American Historians 

Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).

Edited / Co-Authored Books

The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher, co-edited with Peter S. Carmichael and Aaron Sheehan-Dean (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024). A collection of nine essays that explore the state of field in Civil War history. Co-wrote introduction and epilogue. Wrote an essay titled “Guerrillas, Vengeance, and Mercy after Appomattox: The Trial of John W. McCue.”

Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America, co-edited with James Marten (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021). A collection of thirteen essays that explore the impact of Civil War memory on American consumerism, material culture, and technology during the Gilded Age. Co-wrote the introduction and section introductions. Wrote an essay titled “A New and Unique Show: The Rise and Fall of Civil War Cycloramas.”

Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia.Volume 11 of the Military Campaigns of the Civil War Series (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Wrote the introduction and contributed an essay titled “‘We Were Not Paroled’: The Surrenders of Lee’s Men beyond Appomattox Court House.”

Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign.Volume 10 of the Military Campaigns of the Civil War Series (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Co-edited the book with Gary W. Gallagher, co-wrote the introduction, and contributed an essay titled “‘A War Thoroughfare’: Confederate Civilians and the Siege of Petersburg.”

The South as It Is, 1865-1866 byJohn Richard Dennett. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010). Wrote a new scholarly introduction to this reprint edition.

Peer Reviewed Articles

“Free to Go Where We Liked: The Army of Northern Virginia after Appomattox,” Journal of the Civil War Era(vol. 9, no. 1, March 2019): 4-28.

 “‘I Yield to No Man an Iota of My Convictions’: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the Limits of Reconciliation,” Journal of the Civil War Era(vol. 2, no. 3, September 2012): 394-420.

“War over the Shrine of Peace: The Appomattox Peace Monument and Retreat from Reconciliation,” Journal of Southern History(vol. 77, no. 1, February 2011): 91-120.

“‘One of the Best Loved, North and South’: The Appropriation of National Reconciliation by LaSalle Corbell Pickett,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography(vol. 116, no. 4, 2008): 370-406.

“Written in Stone: Gender, Race, and the Heyward Shepherd Memorial,” Civil War History (vol. 52, no. 2, June 2006): 117-41.

 Book Chapters

“The Civil War in Public Memory,” in Cambridge History of the American Civil War, vol. 3, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed. (New York: Cambridge, 2019), 481-505.

“Bridge to the Past,” in Civil War Places: Historians Reflect on Where They Visit and What They See, J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher, eds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

“Janet Henderson Weaver: Mother of Daughters,” in Virginia Women: Their Lives and TimesCynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway, eds. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016), 72-93.

“A Family in Camp,” in Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War, J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher, eds. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, April 2015), 111-20.

“Born in the Heart of Woman: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and Confederate Memorialization, 1865-1870s,” in “We Learned that we are Indivisible": Sesquicentennial Reflections on the Civil War Era in the Shenandoah Valley, Jonathan Noyalas A. and Nancy T. Sorrels eds. (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), 200-22.

“Civil War Memory,” in A Companion to the U.S. Civil War, 2 vols, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed. (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), 1139-1154.

“‘No Sickly Sentimental Gush of Reconciliation’: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the Limits of Reconciliation” in Gateway to the Confederacy: New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 1862-1863, Evan Jones and Wiley Sword, eds. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014), 285-310.

Foreword in “Answer at Once:” Letters Written in the 1930’s by Families Displaced by   Shenandoah National Park, Katrina Powell, ed.(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009).

“The Right to Love and To Mourn: The Origins of Virginia’s Ladies’ Memorial Associations” in Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration, Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and AndrewTorget, eds. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006), 165-88.