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Article: The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Edited by Mark Grimsley and Todd D. Miller. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 2000. Pp. xxiv, 267. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-069-4.)
Publishers seeking to cater to--and cash in on--popular and scholarly interest in the Civil War have churned out a seemingly endless stream of books containing letters, diaries, and memoirs written by the people who experienced the war in uniform. These works have varied in quality and value to students of the war. Many, unfortunately, have been distinguished by inadequate editing and offer little of ...