Description
Lorien Foote will deliver the Center for Civil War Research's 2025 Burnham Lecture on dogs, war, and the Department of the South on April 9 at 5pm in the Overby Center Auditorium.
Lorien Foote is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor in History at Texas A&M University. She is the author four books. Her most recent, Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War, was awarded the 2022 Organization of American Historians Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award. The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners of War (2016), was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Manhood, Honor, and Violence in the Union Army (2010), was a finalist and honorable mention for the 2011 Lincoln Prize. She is the co-editor of three volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War (2021). Dr. Foote is the creator and principal investigator of the Digital Humanities Project “Fugitive Federals,” which visualizes the escape and movement of 3000 Federal prisoners of war during the American Civil War.
Publication Date
4-9-2025
Relational Format
presentation
Recommended Citation
Foote, Lorien, "Bloodhounds: Dogs, Prisoners, and War in the Department of the South, 1835-1877" (2025). Burnham Lecture in Civil War History. 12.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/burnham_lecture/12
