Update on UNC's Military Campaigns of the Civil War series

Back in 2015, University of North Carolina Press's classic Military Campaigns of the Civil War anthology series reemerged from a decade-long hiatus with the publication of Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign and introduction of Caroline Janney as new general editor. That one was followed three years later by the release of Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia. Filling in the final gaps in its eastern theater coverage, the remaining goals are to address the two Manassas battles, and we'll get the first installment in April '25 with The Second Manassas Campaign edited by Janney and Katherine Shively.

The more recent series volumes have applied similar weight to a wide spectrum of issues and topics both on and off the battlefield. The Second Manassas Campaign continues that trend by presenting an essay compilation that offers "valuable attention to matters of strategy, tactics, and logistics; the performances of key commanders on each side; the campaign's political dimensions; the connections between home front and battlefield; and the memory of the campaign's aftermath."

Ironically, the series grand finale will take us all the way back to the very beginning of the war in the East. Hopefully, it won't be another seven years until we see it!