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The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe (review)

The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe (review) The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War. By Kenneth W. Noe. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. 680. Cloth, $59.95.) Since 2001 a growing number of scholars have heeded Jack Temple Kirby’s now famous call to put the Civil War back into its natural environ- ment. Some, such as Judkin Browning, Timothy Silver, Kathryn Shively, Andrew McIlwaine Bell, Mark Fiege, and Matthew M. Stith, have empha- sized the myriad ways that nature shaped the conflict’s course and out - come. Others, such as Lisa M. Brady, Erin Stewart Mauldin, and Megan Kate Nelson, have highlighted the war’s lasting effects on the environ - ment. In The Howling Storm, Kenneth W. Noe falls more into the former group, notwithstanding his subjects’ belief that artillery barrages produced rain. More specifically, he argues that abnormal weather during the Civil War hampered agriculture, especially in the South, and “shaped every campaign, often more decisively than we have fathomed” (9). Although military historians have long acknowledged weather’s impact on the bat- tlefield, Noe’s tome is the first comprehensive account of the conventional war—from the attack on Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond—that depicts weather and its long-term counterpart, climate, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe (review)

The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 12 (1) – Feb 15, 2022

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Abstract

The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War. By Kenneth W. Noe. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. 680. Cloth, $59.95.) Since 2001 a growing number of scholars have heeded Jack Temple Kirby’s now famous call to put the Civil War back into its natural environ- ment. Some, such as Judkin Browning, Timothy Silver, Kathryn Shively, Andrew McIlwaine Bell, Mark Fiege, and Matthew M. Stith, have empha- sized the myriad ways that nature shaped the conflict’s course and out - come. Others, such as Lisa M. Brady, Erin Stewart Mauldin, and Megan Kate Nelson, have highlighted the war’s lasting effects on the environ - ment. In The Howling Storm, Kenneth W. Noe falls more into the former group, notwithstanding his subjects’ belief that artillery barrages produced rain. More specifically, he argues that abnormal weather during the Civil War hampered agriculture, especially in the South, and “shaped every campaign, often more decisively than we have fathomed” (9). Although military historians have long acknowledged weather’s impact on the bat- tlefield, Noe’s tome is the first comprehensive account of the conventional war—from the attack on Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond—that depicts weather and its long-term counterpart, climate,

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The Journal of the Civil War EraUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Feb 15, 2022

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