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SMITH: The Thin Gray Line (2019)

Book Reviews

Michael Smith's "The Thin Gray Line" offers a new look at the darker side of the war.

CURRAN: Women Making War (2020)

Book Reviews

Readers and scholars with wide-ranging interests will find Thomas F. Curran's "Women Making War" useful and fascinating.

SADLER: Absalom Hazlett (2020)

Book Reviews

In "Absalom Hazlett," Spencer Sadler has unearthed and conveyed a valuable story about a captivating and overlooked subject.

Goodbye to All That

American Iliad

A southerner finds clarity in a tangle of loyalties ...

CHATELAIN: Defending the Arteries of Rebellion (2020)

Book Reviews

Comprehensive is perhaps the best adjective to describe Neil P. Chatelain's "Defending the Arteries of Rebellion."

Extra Voices: Coffee

Articles

In the Voices section of the Winter 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about the...

McDONOUGH: William Tecumseh Sherman (2016)

Book Reviews

James Lee McDonough's "William Tecumseh Sherman" is a capable and often moving biography of a worthy subject.

ZVENGROWSKI: Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology (2020)

Book Reviews

Internal division within the Confederacy, Jeffrey Zvengrowski claims, had less to do with class and more to do with politics...

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.

HESS: Storming Vicksburg (2020)

Book Reviews

Earl Hess' "Storming Vicksburg" is an effective battle history that moves beyond strategy and tactics to embrace the broader mosaic of the ...

GOTTFRIED: The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign (2020)

Book Reviews

"The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign" makes excellent use of primary accounts penned by Union and Confederate cavalrymen....

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Extra Voices: Coffee

Articles

In the Voices section of the Winter 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about the...

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.

An Infernal Machine

Image of the Day

In the July 27, 1861, issue of Harper's Weekly, the editors published a small story about an "infernal machine" recently removed from the ...

New Year's Eve in Camp

In the First Person

On New Year's Eve 1862, 24-year-old William Thompson Lusk, a captain in the 79th New York Infantry—a regiment known as the "Highlanders"...

Winter is Coming

Photo Essays

With the winter season nearly upon us, we thought it the perfect time to compile Civil War scenes—in photos and sketches—that invoke the...

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 ...