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The Journal of Southern History, Volume LXXXIX, No. 2, May 2023 are vivid and will be appreciated by anyone enthusiastic about material culture. The lack of academic jargon in the prose makes even lengthy tactical passages easy to follow. This is accessible scholarship. “We Gave Them Thunder” has few shortcomings. I took issue with how Piston and Rutherford justify not including more stories of women and children, white or Black. The authors assert that “very few sources detail their experiences” (p. 2). Yet there are nearly three thousand records from Missouri’s Union Provost Marshal Papers for Greene, Webster, and Wright Counties alone (an area that includes Springfield, Hartville, and their connecting road). Civil War historians focused on Missouri have utilized the Provost Marshal Papers to uncover the histories of guerrilla violence, Federal occupation, and civilian life. Still, “We Gave Them Thunder” is not a study of occupation or guerrillas—it is a conventional military history, and it excels at providing the most in-depth account of Marmaduke’s Raid available.