“Ceding the High Ground of Hindsight,”

Civil War Places:  Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians, eds. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

“African Americans and Emancipation in the Civil War,”

The Routledge History of the Nineteenth Century America, ed. Jonathan Daniel Wells (New York: Routledge, 2018).

“Looking at War: Union Soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign,”

Lens of War, eds. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015)

“Southern Home Fronts,”

A Companion to the U.S. Civil War (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

"Lex Talionis in the Civil War: Retaliation and the Limits of Atrocity,"

Civil War Global Conflict, eds. David Gleeson and Simon Lewis (Charleston: University of South Carolina Press, 2014).

"Politics in Civil War Virginia: A Democracy on Trial,"

William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, eds.  Virginia at War, 1864 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009).

"The Blue and the Gray in Black and White: Surveying the Literature on Civil War Soldiers,"

         The View From the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007).

"'It Is Old Virginia and We Must Have It': Overcoming Regionalism in Civil War Virginia,"

Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew Torget, eds.  Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia From Secession to Commemoration (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006).

"'A Fearful Lesson': The Legacy of the Civil War,"

Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War (Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2006).

"'Success Was So Blended with Defeat': Virginia Soldiers in the Shenandoah Valley,"

Gary W. Gallagher, ed.  The 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

"Similarity and Difference in the Antebellum North and South,"

Michael Karman and Anne Knowles, eds.Past Time, Past Place: GIS in History (Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2002).