Book Reviews
The digital home of book reviews and author interviews—and your source of the most up-to-date information on all things Civil War literature
Published: 12/12/18
“This Infernal War” (2018)
A detailed review of "'This Infernal War': The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard," ed. by Timothy Mason Roberts.
Published: 12/5/18
Vicksburg (2018)
A detailed review of "Vicksburg: The Bloody Siege that Turned the Tide of the Civil War" by Samuel W. Mitcham.
Published: 11/28/18
Challenges of Command in the Civil War (2018)
A detailed review of "Challenges of Command in the Civil War: Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond" by Richard J. Sommers.
Published: 11/21/18
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations (2018)
A detailed review of "Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations," edited by Whitney Nell Stewart and John Garrison Marks.
Published: 11/14/18
Civil War Barons (2018)
A detailed review of "Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation" by Jeffry D. Wert.
Published: 11/7/18
General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky (2018)
A detailed review of "General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky: Assessing the “Reign of Terror” of the Summer of 1864" by Dieter C. Ullrich and Berry Craig.
Published: 10/31/18
In The Wake of War (2017)
A detailed review of "In The Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America" by Andrew F. Lang.
Published: 10/24/18
New Bern and the Civil War (2018)
A detailed review of "New Bern and the Civil War" by James Edward White III.
Published: 10/17/18
Frederick Douglass (2018)
A detailed review of "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" by David W. Blight.
Published: 10/10/18
The War Outside My Window (2018)
A detailed review of "The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865," edited by Janet Elizabeth Croon.
Published: 10/3/18
“Don’t tell father I have been shot at” (2018)
A detailed review of "'Don’t tell father I have been shot at': The Civil War Letters of Captain George N. Bliss, First Rhode Island Cavalry" edited by William C. Emerson with Elizabeth C. Stevens.
Published: 9/26/18
Wade Hampton’s Iron Scouts (2018)
A detailed review of "Wade Hampton’s Iron Scouts" by D. Michael Thomas.
Published: 9/12/18
Kirk’s Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge (2018)
A detailed review of "Kirk’s Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge" by Michael Hardy.
Published: 9/9/18
Man’s Better Angels (2017)
A detailed review of "Man’s Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War" by Philip F. Gura.
Published: 9/5/18
Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge (2016)
A detailed review of "Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains" by Steven E. Nash.
Published: 8/29/18
General Lee’s Immortals (2018)
A detailed review of "General Lee’s Immortals: The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865" by Michael C. Hardy.
Published: 8/22/18
Where Valor Proudly Sleeps (2018)
A detailed review of "Where Valor Proudly Sleeps: A History of Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 1866-1933" by Donald C. Pfanz.
Published: 8/21/18
A Crooked River (2018)
A detailed review of "A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861-1877" by Michael L. Collins.