Scholarly Articles about the Trans-Mississippi

Each year “Southern History in Periodicals: A Selected Bibliography" is published in The Journal of Southern History. After perusing the list, I pulled out citations for the following articles published in 2012 that pertain to the trans-Mississippi:

Bearss, Edwin C. “The Federals Raid Van Buren and Threaten Fort Smith.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, v. 71 (Summer 2012): 188-202.

Beilein, Joseph M., Jr. “The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Style of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri.” Civil War History, v. 58 (June 2012): 151-179.

Bledsoe, Andrew Scott. “The Homecircle: Kinship and Community in the Third Arkansas Infantry, Texas Brigade, 1861-1865.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, v. 71 (Spring 2012): 22-43.

Campbell, Jacqueline G. “’The Unmeaning Twaddle about Order 28’: Benjamin F. Butler and Confederate Women in Occupied New Orleans, 1862.” The Journal of the Civil War Era, v. 2 (March 2012): 11-30.

Hulbert, Matthew C. “Constructing Guerrilla Memory: John Newman Edwards and Missouri’s Irregular Lost Cause.” The Journal of the Civil War Era, v. 2 (March 2012): 58-81.

Hulbert, Matthew C. “Texas Bound and Down: An Untold Narrative of Missouri’s Guerrilla War on Film.” Journal of the West, v. 50 (Fall 2011): 27-33.

Kamphoefner, Walter D. “Missouri Germans and the Cause of Union and Freedom.” Missouri Historical Review, v. 106: 115-136.

Monnett, Howard N. “A Yankee Cavalryman Views the Battle of Prairie Grove.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, v. 71 (Summer 2012): 151-163.

Roberts, Bobby L. “General T. C. Hindman and the Trans-Mississippi District.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, v. 71 (Summer 2012): 110-121.

Shea, William L. “The Aftermath of Prairie Grove: Union Letters from Fayetteville.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, v. 71 (Summer 2012): 203-216.

Shea, William L. “Prelude to Prairie Grove: Cane Hill, November 28, 1862.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, v. 71 (Summer 2012): 122-150.

Stith, Matthew M. “’The Deplorable Condition of the Country’: Nature, Society, and War on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier.” Civil War History, v. 58 (September 2012): 322-347.

Thompson, Alan and Mark K. Christ. “The Prairie Grove Campaign: An Introduction.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, v. 71 (Summer 2012): 107-109.

Wilder, Jeremy H. “The Thirty-Seventh Illinois at Prairie Grove.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, v. 71 (Summer 2012): 164-180.