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HESS: Civil War Supply and Strategy (2020)

Book Reviews

In "Civil War Supply and Strategy," Earl Hess contends that victory rode on the work of quartermasters and commissaries.

DUNKERLY & CRENSHAW: Embattled Capital (2021)

Book Reviews

Robert M. Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw's "Embattled Capital" provides proper context and reasoned interpretation to readers, rising above the...

Extra Voices: Fear

Articles

In the Voices section of the Summer 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about...

HUNT: Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station (2021)

Book Reviews

Jeffrey William Hunt's "Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station" is a deftly written, exhaustively researched, and profusely illustrated...

The Books That Built Me

Articles

Civil War enthusiasts understand that historians construct campaign and battle narratives from official reports, maps, letters, journals,...

NOE: The Howling Storm (2020)

Book Reviews

Kenneth W. Noe's "The Howling Storm" is a magnum opus that successfully challenges historians to rethink all they have ever known of the war...

The Death of Colonel Ellsworth

Articles

On May 24, 1861, 24-year-old Elmer E. Ellsworth, colonel of 11th New York Infantry, led a group of his men from their camp in Washington, D....

ASHDOWN & CAUDILL: Imagining Wild Bill (2020)

Book Reviews

Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown's "Imagining Wild Bill" is a well-written and accessible study of historical memory.

JEMISON: Christian Citizens (2020)

Book Reviews

Elizabeth L. Jemison's "Christian Citizens" is an important work about the intersection of religion, race, gender, and nineteenth century ...

TEMPLE: Whisperwood (2020)

Book Reviews

Van Temple's novel "Whisperwood" presents an illuminating exploration of Southern memory about the Civil War.

Essential Reading on the Coming of the Civil War

Articles

The literature on the coming of the Civil War is more than vast—it is overwhelming. Choosing just a handful of the thousands of books...

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LEVINE: Thaddeus Stevens (2021)

Book Reviews

Bruce Levine's "Thaddeus Stevens" is the first major biography of The Great Commoner in nearly a quarter century.

The Best Civil War Books of 2020

Articles

With the help of a handful of Civil War historians and enthusiasts, here is our list of the best Civil War books of 2020.

The Seven Days Battles

Photo Essays

Between July 25 and July 1, 1862, George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia battled on the...

Extra Dossier: J.E.B. Stuart

Articles

We recently asked a panel of Civil War historians a series of questions about Major General James Ewell Brown "J.E.B." Stuart—a way of...

The Best Civil War Books of All Time

Analysis

What are the best Civil War books ever published? We asked a panel of Civil War historians—J. Matthew Gallman, Matthew C. Hulbert, James ...

Eyewitness to Bull Run

In the First Person

A week after the Battle of Bull Run--a humiliating defeat for Union forces--23-year-old officer William Thompson Lusk of the 79th New York ...