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It is not often that a group of historians make a wholly original contribution to the vast literature on the American Civil War era. Earl J. Hess and his team have earned this coveted distinction. This volume is sure to spark a vibrant new scholarship on a well-trod historiographical landscape. --Andrew F. Lang, associate professor of history at Mississippi State University and author of In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America This is a timely addition to both the growing body of scholarship in animal studies and the recent florescence of work on the environmental aspects of the Civil War era. The innovative essays fill out the broader context of how nineteenth-century Americans lived their lives. Twenty-first-century Americans rarely have contact with animals, except as pets, and so these authors enrich our knowledge of the past by highlighting the roles of non-human actors in events both momentous and ordinary, in humans' views of the world and of themselves. --Erin Stewart Mauldin, author of Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South

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Earl J. Hess is the former Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University. He is the author of nearly two dozen books on the American Civil War, including Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation.

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