Published: 8/7/13HESS: Kennesaw Mountain (2013)By: William A. LinkCategory: Book Reviews Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2013.Cloth, ISBN: 1469602113. $35.00. In a brutal series of engagements fought between May and...
Published: 7/31/13MILLER (ed.): A Punishment on the Nation (2012)By: Barton A. MyersCategory: Book Reviews A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War edited by Brian C. Miller. Kent State University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 1606351443. $45.00. In A Punishment on the Nation,...
Published: 7/24/13MAXWELL: Copperhead (2013)By: Megan Kate NelsonCategory: Book Reviews Copperhead directed by Ron Maxwell. Length: 120 minutes. Premiere: June 28, 2013. What is the worst sin a movie can commit? Excessive, gratuitous violence? Flagrant disregard for universal truths? A meandering...
Published: 7/17/13DANIEL: Battle of Stones River (2012)By: William D. HickoxCategory: Book Reviews Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict Betwen the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland by Larry J. Daniel. Louisiana State University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN:...
Published: 7/17/13LEVINE: The Fall of the House of Dixie (2013)By: Yael SternhellCategory: Book Reviews The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South by Bruce Levine. Random House, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1400067030. $30.00. In The Fall of...
Published: 7/15/13The PursuitBy: Tom HuntingtonCategory: The Front Line On July 7 Major General George Gordon Meade left Gettysburg and traveled to Frederick, Maryland. He found the streets crowded with people eager to get a glimpse of him. The...
Published: 7/10/13LOPERFIDO (ed.): A Surgeon’s Tale (2011)By: Dillon CarrollCategory: Book Reviews A Surgeon’s Tale: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantries, 1862-1865 edited by Christopher E. Loperfido. Ten Roads Publishing, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 0982527578....
Published: 7/10/13JOHNSON: River of Dark Dreams (2013)By: Christine E. SearsCategory: Book Reviews River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0674045556. $35.00. Walter Johnson opens River of Dark...
Published: 7/8/13The Day Holt Collier Killed HogzillaBy: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line Holt Collier (c. 1845-1936) was a Mississippi slave who went off to the Civil War as a servant to his master, Howell Hinds, and Hinds’ son Tom. Although he was...
Published: 7/5/13An Interview with Timothy WesleyBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Timothy Wesley, a lecturer in history and religious studies at Penn State University and affiliate of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. In...
Published: 7/3/13REARDON & VOSSLER: A Field Guide to Gettysburg (2013)By: Thom BassettCategory: Book Reviews A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through its History, Places, and People by Carol Reardon and William T. Vossler. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 0807835250. $22.00....
Published: 7/3/13PETRUZZI & STANLEY: The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses (2013)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses: Synopses, Orders of Battle, Strengths, Casualties, and Maps, June 9 – July 14, 1863 by J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley. Savas Beatie, 2013....
Published: 7/1/13The Battle in Public: Newspaper Reports from GettysburgBy: Glenn BrasherCategory: The Front Line Undoubtedly, over the next few days newspapers and blogs will provide enthralling details about the Battle of Gettysburg on the 150th anniversaries of each of its three days. In our...
Published: 6/30/13Gettysburg in ColorBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays Edwin Forbes is best known today for his work during the Civil War as a special correspondent for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, to which he supplied a multitude of illustrations...
Published: 6/28/13An Interview with Caroline JanneyBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Caroline Janney, an associate professor of history at Purdue University and author of Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation published by the...
Published: 6/26/13FULLER (ed.): The Election of 1860 Reconsidered (2013)By: Elizabeth R. VaronCategory: Book Reviews The Election of 1860 Reconsidered edited by A. James Fuller. Kent State University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1606351486. $49.95. This series of essays on the election of 1860 had its origins...
Published: 6/24/13Oh Lord, Where Art Thou? Civil War Guards, Prisoners, and PunishmentsBy: Angela M. ZombekCategory: The Front Line A prison register was a seemingly strange place to write the Our Father. Nonetheless, one guard from the 128th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, charged with guarding Johnson’s Island Prison, scribbled the...
Published: 6/21/13An Interview with J.P. TerryBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with J.P. Terry, CEO of Smartdoc Technologies and the developer of the Gettysburg150 app. In this interview, Terry discusses the features of the Gettysburg150 app as well as...
Published: 6/14/13An Interview with Allen GuelzoBy: David K. ThomsonCategory: Behind The Lines Our conversation with Allen Guelzo, the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College and author most recently of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, published by...
Published: 6/12/13DAVIS: What the Yankees Did to Us (2012)By: Frank TowersCategory: Book Reviews What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta by Stephen Davis. Mercer University Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0881463981. $35.00. General William Tecumseh Sherman was a very bad...