Contents for Volume XLVII (2001) “The Deadly Influence of Negro Capitalists”: Southern Yeomen and Resistance to the Expansion of Slavery in Illinois SUZANNE COOPER GUASCO The Beards Were Right: Parties in the North, 1840-1860 Marc EGNAI Exempt from the Ordinary Rules of Life: Researching Postwar Adjustment Problems of Union Veterans JAMES MARTEN Denouncing the Brotherhood of Thieves: Stephen Symonds Foster's Critique of the Anti-Abolitionist Clergy Troy DUNCAN AND CHRIS DIXON “Frictions”: Shipboard Relations between White and Contraband Sailors MICHAEL J. BENNET1 ‘The Strong Arm of the Military Power of the United States”: The Chicago Fire, the Constitution, and Reconstruction ANDREW L. SLAP ‘Oh God, What a Pity”: The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg and the Creation of Myth CRAIG A. WARREN The Confederate Press Association: Cooperative News Reporting of the War FORD RISLEY “The Deformed Child”: Slavery and the Election of 1864 MICHAEL VORENBERG The 1835 Anti-Abolition Meetings in the South: A New Look at the Controversy over the Abolition Postal Campaign SUSAN WYLY-JONES ‘The Sport of Folly and the Prizoef Treason”: Confederate Property Seizures and the Northern Home Front in the Secession Crisis SILVANA R. SIDDALI Feelin’ Mighty Southern: Recent Scholarship on Southern Appalachia in the Civil War NOEL FISHER