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Published: 4/7/21
STOKES (ed.): Incidents in the Life of Cecilia Lawton (2021)
Incidents in the Life of Cecilia Lawton: A Memoir of Plantation Life, War, and Reconstruction in Georgia and South Carolina edited by Karen Stokes. Mercer University Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0881467659....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/157696530-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 3/31/21
JEFFREY: First Chaplain of the Confederacy (2020)
First Chaplain of the Confederacy: Father Darius Hubert, S. J. by Katherine Bentley Jeffrey. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7337-4. $45.00. Darius Hubert, a French-born, Louisiana-based Catholic Jesuit, was...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/649004535-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 3/24/21
SMITH: In the Shadow of Gold (2020)
In the Shadow of Gold: A Tale of the Lost Confederate Treasure by Michael Kenneth Smith. Independently Published, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 979-8684953736. $14.99. What happened to the gold that stocked the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2125546558-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 3/17/21
WILLIS: The Black Civil War Soldier (2021)
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis. NYU Press, 2021. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1479809004. $35.00. Ask any Civil War historian what they find compelling...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/44-600x600.jpg)
Published: 3/17/21
St. Patrick’s Day, 1863
On March 17, 1863, Irish Brigade commander Thomas Francis Meagher hosted elaborate festivities to mark St. Patrick’s Day. The celebration featured a number of races and prizes—and, as one Union soldier...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81TRyLR57pL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 3/10/21
LEVINE: Thaddeus Stevens (2021)
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine. Simon & Schuster, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4767-9337-5. $28.00. Not long after the raid on Harper’s Ferry, Thaddeus Stevens lent...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/814ZRXxF7rL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 3/3/21
PALENCIA: ‘On Rising Ground’ (2021)
‘On Rising Ground’: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, 52nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. by Elaine Fowler Palencia. Mercer University Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0881467666. $27.00....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81oGBeoAiJL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 2/24/21
SEIDULE: Robert E. Lee and Me (2021)
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule. St. Martin’s Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-250-23926-6. $27.99. All but one of the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/769785925-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 2/17/21
MUELLER: Ambitious Honor (2020)
Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer’s Life of Service and Lust for Fame by James E. Mueller. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0806167206. $32.95. Author James Mueller’s new book opens...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1684152942-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 2/10/21
WRIGHT: Bonds of Salvation (2020)
Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7389-3. $45.00. Bonds of Salvation is the result of Ben Wright’s deeply personal...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1804791602-556x600.jpeg)
Published: 2/3/21
ARRINGTON: The Last Lincoln Republican (2020)
The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 by Benjamin T. Arrington. University Press of Kansas, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-7006-2982-4. $39.95. No period in U.S. history has invited more counterfactual...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81pLX4mcV3L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 1/27/21
HOOD: Patriots Twice (2020)
Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War by Stephen M. Hood. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-515-1. $32.95. In Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1987516942-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 1/20/21
POWELL & WITTENBERG: Tullahoma (2020)
Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23 – July 4, 1863 by David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN:...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1078169268-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 1/13/21
SMITH: The Thin Gray Line (2019)
The Thin Gray Line by Michel Kenneth Smith. Independently Published, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-0987-4013-9. $13.99. Civil War fiction often focuses on battlefield scenarios or romantic tales. The Thin Gray Line offers a new...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1147259596-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 1/6/21
CURRAN: Women Making War (2020)
Woman Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809338030. $26.50. In Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/911QCweFyzL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/30/20
SADLER: Absalom Hazlett (2020)
Absalom Hazlett: A Loyal Soldier in John Brown’s Army by Spencer Sadler. Arcadia Publishing, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1634992794. $21.99. Of all the violent incidents foreshadowing the Civil War, few compare to...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1096902137-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 12/23/20
CHATELAIN: Defending the Arteries of Rebellion (2020)
Defending the Arteries of Rebellion: Confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River Valley, 1861-1865 by Neil P. Chatelain. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611215106. $32.95. In April 1861, artillery batteries of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/546228858-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 12/16/20
McDONOUGH: William Tecumseh Sherman (2016)
William Tecumseh Sherman, In the Service of My Country: A Life by James Lee McDonough. W. W. Norton, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-393-24157-0. $39.95. Can anything new be written of William Tecumseh...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/130505212-600x600.jpeg)