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Published: 6/23/17
Extra Voices: Bad Officers
Library of Congress Confederate general John C. Pemberton In the Voices section of the Spring 2017 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes about some Union and...
Published: 6/21/17
RASBACH: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign (2016)
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign: His Supposed Charge from Fort Hell, his Near-Mortal Wounding, and a Civil War Myth Reconsidered by Dennis A. Rasbach. Savas Beatie, 2016. Hardcover, ISBN:...
Published: 6/16/17
The B&A Q&A: Sydney Blumenthal
In May, Simon & Schuster released Wrestling With His Angel, the second book in veteran journalist and presidential advisor Sidney Blumenthal’s multivolume political biography of President Abraham Lincoln. (A Self-Made Man, the series’ critically...
Published: 6/14/17
LAUSE: Free Spirits (2016)
Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era by Mark A. Lause. University of Illinois Press, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-0252081750. $30.00. Spiritualism has conflicting origins. On the one...
Published: 6/8/17
MACKOWSKI: Hell Itself (2016)
Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–7, 1864 by Chris Mackowski. Savas Beatie, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611213157. $14.95. Only months after receiving command of all Union forces, Lt. Gen....
Published: 6/7/17
CLEMENS (ed.): The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 (2017)
The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Vol. III: The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign by Ezra A. Carman and edited by Thomas Clemens. Savas Beatie, 2017. Cloth,...
Published: 5/31/17
DOYLE (ed.): American Civil Wars (2017)
American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s edited by Don H. Doyle. The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 9781469631080. $27.95....
Published: 5/24/17
LANDE: Psychological Consequences of the American Civil War (2016)
Psychological Consequences of the American Civil War by R. Gregory Lande. McFarland & Company, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476667379. $34.98. The last ten years have been marked by a surge in historical...
Published: 5/17/17
GRZYB: The Last Civil War Veterans (2016)
The Last Civil War Veterans: The Lives of the Final Survivors, State by State by Frank L. Grzyb. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476665221. $35.00. Frank Grzyb is the...
Published: 5/10/17
TRUDEAU: Lincoln’s Greatest Journey (2016)
Lincoln’s Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24-April 8, 1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau. Savas Beatie, 2016. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1611213263. $32.95. In the middle of the American...
Published: 5/10/17
STANLEY: The Loyal West (2016)
The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America by Matthew E. Stanley. University of Illinois Press, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-0252082245. $24.95. During the Grand Review of Union Armies at...
Published: 5/3/17
FOOTE: The Yankee Plague (2016)
The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy by Lorien Foote. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469630557. $34.95. Lorien Foote’s newest work, The Yankee Plague,...
Published: 4/26/17
MACKOWSKI: Grant’s Last Battle (2015)
Grant’s Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Chris Mackowski. Savas Beatie, 2015. Paper, ISBN 978-1611211603. $14.95. In the decades after the Civil War ended,...
Published: 4/19/17
DAVIS: Inventing Loreta Velasquez (2016)
Inventing Loretta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist by William C. Davis. Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0809335220. $39.95. Loreta Velasquez allegedly posed as Lieutenant Harry...
Published: 4/12/17
ENGLE: Gathering to Save a Nation (2016)
Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union’s War Governors by Stephen D. Engle. The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1469629339. $49.95. In Gathering to Save a Nation,...
Published: 4/5/17
BARR: A Civil War Captain and His Lady (2016)
A Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat From Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign by Gene Barr. Savas Beatie, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611212907. $32.95. With A Civil...
Published: 3/29/17
WHITE: Midnight in America (2017)
Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams During the Civil War by Jonathan W. White. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469632049. $34.95 Jonathan White’s new book claims that historians...
Published: 3/22/17
SNEE: Lincoln Before Lincoln (2016)
Lincoln Before Lincoln: Early Cinematic Adaptions of the Life of America’s Greatest President by Brian J. Snee. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8131-6747-3. $40.00. Abraham Lincoln surely holds the...