The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War

Finalist for the Lincoln Prize
Winner of the Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award

Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth W. Noe suggests it should instead be understood as a war between the North, the South, and the weather. In The Howling Storm, Noe retells the history of the conflagration with a focus on the ways in which weather and climate shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns. He further contends that events...