Quinn McPhail
Published: 5/10/17
STANLEY: The Loyal West (2016)
The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America by Matthew E. Stanley. University of Illinois Press, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-0252082245. $24.95. During the Grand Review of Union Armies at...
Published: 5/3/17
FOOTE: The Yankee Plague (2016)
The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy by Lorien Foote. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469630557. $34.95. Lorien Foote’s newest work, The Yankee Plague,...
Published: 4/26/17
MACKOWSKI: Grant’s Last Battle (2015)
Grant’s Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Chris Mackowski. Savas Beatie, 2015. Paper, ISBN 978-1611211603. $14.95. In the decades after the Civil War ended,...
Published: 4/19/17
DAVIS: Inventing Loreta Velasquez (2016)
Inventing Loretta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist by William C. Davis. Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0809335220. $39.95. Loreta Velasquez allegedly posed as Lieutenant Harry...
Published: 4/12/17
ENGLE: Gathering to Save a Nation (2016)
Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union’s War Governors by Stephen D. Engle. The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1469629339. $49.95. In Gathering to Save a Nation,...
Published: 4/5/17
BARR: A Civil War Captain and His Lady (2016)
A Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat From Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign by Gene Barr. Savas Beatie, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611212907. $32.95. With A Civil...
Published: 3/29/17
WHITE: Midnight in America (2017)
Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams During the Civil War by Jonathan W. White. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469632049. $34.95 Jonathan White’s new book claims that historians...
Published: 3/22/17
SNEE: Lincoln Before Lincoln (2016)
Lincoln Before Lincoln: Early Cinematic Adaptions of the Life of America’s Greatest President by Brian J. Snee. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8131-6747-3. $40.00. Abraham Lincoln surely holds the...
Published: 3/15/17
SNELL: My Gettysburg (2016)
My Gettysburg: Meditations on History and Place by Mark A. Snell. Kent State University Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-293-9. $29.95. As the author, Dr. Mark A. Snell, notes in the Preface, this...
Published: 3/8/17
DAVIS: A Long and Bloody Task (2016)
A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw Mountain to the Chattahoochee River, May 5-July 18, 1864 by Stephen Davis. Savas Beatie, 2016. Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-61121-317-1. $14.95....
Published: 3/7/17
Battle of the Ironclads
“For hours the conflict lasted. Sometimes so near were the vessels they appeared in contact, and again three miles apart; but all the while vomiting forth seeming destruction with frightful...
Published: 3/1/17
LaBARRE: The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War (2016)
The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War by Steven M. LaBarre. McFarland, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4766-6384-5. $29.95. This book is a regimental history that examines the Fifth’s service during...
Published: 2/15/17
PRYOR: Six Encounters with Lincoln (2017)
Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons by Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Viking, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0670025909. $35.00. In Six Encounters with Lincoln, Elizabeth Brown Pryor seeks to get...
Published: 2/8/17
PENN: Kentucky Rebel Town (2016)
Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana & Harrison County by William A. Penn. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0813167718. $45.00. William A. Penn’s examination of Civil...
Published: 2/2/17
SCYTHES: This Will Make a Man of Me (2016)
This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War by James M. Scythes. Lehigh University Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611462180. $75.00....
Published: 2/1/17
LEIGH: The Confederacy at Flood Tide (2016)
The Confederacy at Flood Tide: The Political and Military Ascension, June to December 1862 by Philip Leigh. Westholme Publishing, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-59416-248-0. $28.00. Bookstore shelves prove that after century and...
Published: 1/25/17
CONNER & MACKOWSKI: Seizing Destiny (2016)
Seizing Destiny: The Army of the Potomac’s “Valley Forge” and the Civil War Winter that Saved the Union by Albert Z. Conner, Jr., with Chris Mackowski. Savas Beatie, 2016. Cloth, ISBN:...
Published: 1/18/17
BEILEIN: Bushwhackers (2016)
Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri by Joseph M. Beilein, Jr. Kent State University Press, 2016. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1606352700. $34.95. With the passing of Michael Fellman...