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Published: 9/24/14
BINNINGTON: Confederate Visions (2013)
Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War by Ian Binnington. University of Virginia Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813935003. $39.50. At one time, the very phrase “Confederate...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown-21.jpeg)
Published: 9/24/14
LEIGH (ed.): Co. Aytch (2014)
Co. Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show by Sam Watkins and edited by Philip Leigh. Westholme Publishing, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1594161797. $14.95. Sam Watkins’ Co. Aytch has long been regarded...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown-12.jpeg)
Published: 9/17/14
RUBIN: Through the Heart of Dixie (2014)
Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory by Anne Sarah Rubin. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469617770. $35.00. The men of William Tecumseh Sherman’s army...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown-3.jpeg)
Published: 9/17/14
JONES & SWORD (eds.): Gateway to the Confederacy (2014)
Gateway to the Confederacy: New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 1862-1863 edited by Evan C. Jones and Wiley Sword. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 9780807155097. $39.95. Literature...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown6.jpeg)
Published: 9/10/14
HAMLER: Civil War Woodworking (2014)
Civil War Woodworking Volume II: More Authentic Projects for Woodworkers and Reenactors by A.J. Hamler. Linden Publishing, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 9781610351966. $24.95. In this well written, prolifically illustrated book, master carpenter...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/KATY.jpg)
Published: 9/10/14
MEIER: Nature’s Civil War (2013)
Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia by Kathryn Shively Meier. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 9781469610764. $39.95. Kathryn Shively Meier’s Nature’s Civil War analyzes the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown-4.jpeg)
Published: 9/3/14
KREYLING: A Late Encounter with the Civil War (2014)
A Late Encounter with the Civil War by Michael Kreyling. University of Georgia Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 9780820346571. $19.95. As the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War draws to a close,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown8.jpeg)
Published: 8/27/14
JENKINS: The Battle of Peach Tree Creek (2014)
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood’s First Sortie, July 20, 1864 by Robert D. Jenkins, Sr. Mercer University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0881463965. $35.00. July 17, 1864, was a momentous...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2017-06-13-at-13.58.04-PM-595x600.png)
Published: 8/27/14
VENET: A Changing Wind (2014)
A Changing Wind: Commerce & Conflict in Civil War Atlanta by Wendy Hamand Venet. Yale University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-300-19216-2. $30.00. Wendy Venet’s interesting new social history of Atlanta during the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown-2.jpeg)
Published: 8/20/14
MACKOWSKI & WHITE: Simply Murder (2013)
Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. Savas Beatie, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1611211468. $12.95. This engaging volume, part of the “Emerging Civil...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown3.jpeg)
Published: 8/20/14
FRESE: Concord and the Civil War (2014)
Concord and the Civil War: From Walden Pond to the Gettysburg Front by Rick Frese. History Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 1626192944. $19.99. Rick Frese’s Concord and the Civil War: From Walden...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/prince_stories1-197x300-1.jpg)
Published: 8/13/14
PRINCE: Stories of the South (2014)
Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915 by K. Stephen Prince. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 1469614189. $39.95. In Stories of the South: Race...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown-1.jpeg)
Published: 8/6/14
O’CONNELL: Fierce Patriot (2014)
Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by Robert L. O’Connell. Random House, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 9781400069729. $28.00. It is a respected aphorism that each generation possesses the inherent...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CLOUDS-OF-GL.jpg)
Published: 8/6/14
KORDA: Clouds of Glory (2014)
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Michael Korda. HarperCollins, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 0062116290. $40.00. There are two difficulties in the path of any biography of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2017-06-13-at-13.59.07-PM-498x600.png)
Published: 7/30/14
SMITH (ed.): Race and Recruitment (2013)
Race and Recruitment edited by John David Smith. Kent State University Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 9781606351802. $29.95. In recognition of Civil War History‘s 60th anniversary, the editors at Kent State University Press...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown2.jpeg)
Published: 7/30/14
DIOUF: Slavery’s Exiles (2014)
Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf. New York University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 081472437X. $29.95. In 1838, authorities discovered a trapdoor hidden beneath a pile...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/51XjVZZ0c8L._SY344_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 7/23/14
GOTTFRIED: The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns (2013)
The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns: An Atlas of the Battles and Movements in the Eastern Theater after Gettysburg, Including Rappahannock Station, Kelly’s Ford, and Morton’s...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Terrys-Texas-Rangers.jpg)
Published: 7/21/14
Terry’s Texas Rangers
It had been just one month since the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in April 1861, launching the Civil War. Texas and ten other states seceded from the Union and then...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unknown5.jpeg)