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Published: 7/1/15
HAGLER: Georgia’s Confederate Monuments (2014)
Georgia’s Confederate Monuments: In Honor of a Fallen Nation by Gould B. Hagler, Jr. Mercer University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-88146-466-5. $45.00. The expanding field of Civil War memory has opened...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-3_3.jpeg)
Published: 6/25/15
GALLMAN & GALLAGHER (eds.): Lens of War (2015)
Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher. University of Georgia Press, 2015. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0820348100. $32.95. In terms of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brian_5.png)
Published: 6/19/15
An Interview with Lisa Tendrich Frank
Our conversation with Lisa Tendrich Frank, historian and recent author of “The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman’s March,” now out with Louisiana State University Press. In...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pe-cwq_5-600x468.jpg)
Published: 6/17/15
Civil War Quarters
While army regulations set strict guidelines for the layout of army camps—prescribing, for instance, that tents be arranged in neat rows by company—in many cases “there was much of the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-1_5.jpeg)
Published: 6/17/15
BREWSTER: Lincoln’s Gamble (2014)
Lincoln’s Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War by Todd Brewster. Scribner, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1451693867. $27.00. “I love...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-2_6.jpeg)
Published: 6/10/15
CUSHMAN: Belligerent Muse (2014)
Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War by Stephen Cushman. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1469618777. $28.00. As Stephen...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown_10.jpeg)
Published: 6/3/15
DOYLE: The Cause of All Nations (2014)
The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War by Don Doyle. Basic Books, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0465029679. $29.99. It has long been accepted that the Civil...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/John-Yates-Beall.jpg)
Published: 6/1/15
Trial of a Confederate Terrorist
John Yates Beall’s friends stirred up a hornet’s nest of protest over the death sentence he had been given by a military commission sitting on Governor’s Island in New York...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-2_5.jpeg)
Published: 5/27/15
GORDON: A Broken Regiment (2014)
A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War by Lesley J. Gordon. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0807157305. $49.95. On the Otto Farm at the Antietam National Battlefield, 150 yards...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-9.jpeg)
Published: 5/20/15
HARRIS: Across the Bloody Chasm (2014)
Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0807157725. $42.50. In this new study of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown_9.jpeg)
Published: 5/20/15
ROBISON: Confederates in Montana Territory (2014)
Confederates in Montana Territory: In the Shadow of Price’s Army by Ken Robison. The History Press, 2014. Paper, IBSN: 978-1626196032. $19.99. “I am so heartily sick of negro rule & Yankee...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-3_2.jpeg)
Published: 5/13/15
HORN: The Man Who Would Not Be Washington (2015)
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History by Jonathan Horn. Scribner, 2015. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1476748566. $28.00. This is not...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-1_4.jpeg)
Published: 5/6/15
GIESBERG (ed.): Emilie Davis’s Civil War (2014)
Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865 edited by Judith Giesberg. Penn State University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0271063683. $16.95. Judith Giesberg’s Emilie Davis’s Civil...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-4_3.jpeg)
Published: 4/29/15
McKENNA: From Vicksburg to Cedar Creek (2014)
From Vicksburg to Cedar Creek: The 22nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War by Thomas P. McKenna. Camp Pope Publishing, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1929919550. $18.95. The 22nd Iowa was an...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-4_4.jpeg)
Published: 4/22/15
LEES & GASKE: Recalling Deeds Immortal (2014)
Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War by William B. Lees and Frederick P. Gaske. University Press of Florida, 2014. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-8130-4996-0. $44.95. For well over a century,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown-2_4.jpeg)
Published: 4/22/15
OLLER: American Queen (2014)
American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War “Belle of the North” and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal by John Oller. DaCapo Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0306822803....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown_7.jpeg)
Published: 4/22/15
LONGACRE: The Early Morning of War (2014)
The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 by Edward G. Longacre. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0806144986. $29.95. Edward G. Longacre’s new history of First Bull Run is...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CWM-ICON-600x600.jpg)
Published: 4/17/15
An Interview with Brian Craig Miller (2015)
Our Conversation with Brian Craig Miller, an Associate Professor of history at Emporia State University and recent author of “Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil War South,” now out with...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown_8.jpeg)