Stephen D. Engle, Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union’s War Governors (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

Lorien Foote, The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

Matthew Hulbert, The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West (University of Georgia Press, 2016).

Kelly Mezurek, For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops (Kent State University Press, 2016).

David Silkenat, Driven from Home: North Carolina’s Civil War Refugee Crisis (University of Georgia Press, 2016).

Ronald White, American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (Random House, 2016).

Ted Widmer ed., The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2016).