Quinn McPhail
Published: 5/6/15
GIESBERG (ed.): Emilie Davis’s Civil War (2014)
Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865 edited by Judith Giesberg. Penn State University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0271063683. $16.95. Judith Giesberg’s Emilie Davis’s Civil...
Published: 4/29/15
McKENNA: From Vicksburg to Cedar Creek (2014)
From Vicksburg to Cedar Creek: The 22nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War by Thomas P. McKenna. Camp Pope Publishing, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1929919550. $18.95. The 22nd Iowa was an...
Published: 4/22/15
LEES & GASKE: Recalling Deeds Immortal (2014)
Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War by William B. Lees and Frederick P. Gaske. University Press of Florida, 2014. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-8130-4996-0. $44.95. For well over a century,...
Published: 4/22/15
OLLER: American Queen (2014)
American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War “Belle of the North” and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal by John Oller. DaCapo Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0306822803....
Published: 4/22/15
LONGACRE: The Early Morning of War (2014)
The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 by Edward G. Longacre. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0806144986. $29.95. Edward G. Longacre’s new history of First Bull Run is...
Published: 4/15/15
ALFORD: Fortune’s Fool (2015)
Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth by Terry Alford. Oxford University Press, 2015. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0195054125. $29.95. As Terry Alford notes in the introduction to Fortune’s Fool, the last...
Published: 4/15/15
STEERS: Lincoln’s Assassination (2014)
Lincoln’s Assassination by Edward Steers Jr. Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0809333493. $24.95. As the commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War comes to an end, historians and...
Published: 4/8/15
GRAHAM: The Coal River Valley in the Civil War (2014)
The Coal River Valley in the Civil War: West Virginia Mountains, 1861 by Michael B. Graham. The History Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1626196605. $19.99. The History Press, publisher of Michael B....
Published: 4/1/15
PARSON: Work for Giants (2014)
Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo / Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864 by Thomas E. Parson. Kent State University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-222-9. $39.95. The Tupelo Campaign offers...
Published: 4/1/15
MORIARTY: A Fine Body of Men (2014)
A Fine Body of Men: The Orleans Light Horse, Louisiana Cavalry, 1861-1865 by Donald Peter Moriarty II. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0917860676. $30.00. Writing the regimental history of...
Published: 3/25/15
MACKOWSKI & WHITE: That Furious Struggle (2014)
That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1-4, 1863 by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. Savas Beatie, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-61121-219-8. $12.95. The Chancellorsville Battlefield...
Published: 3/18/15
RUEF: Between Slavery and Capitalism (2014)
Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South by Martin Ruef. Princeton University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0691162775. $39.95. Martin Ruef opens Between Slavery and Capitalism with a simple...
Published: 3/11/15
UFFELMAN, KANERVO, SMITH, WILLIAMS (eds.): The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams (2014)
The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman’s Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890 edited by Minoa D. Uffelman, Ellen Kanervo, Phyllis Smith, and Eleanor Williams. University of Tennessee Press,...
Published: 3/4/15
McPHERSON: Embattled Rebel (2014)
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson. The Penguin Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1594204975. $32.95. Jefferson Davis and his wife Varina were tending their rose garden...
Published: 2/25/15
SHERBURNE: The St. Albans Raid (2014)
The St. Albans Raid: Confederate Attack on Vermont by Michelle Arnosky Sherburne. The History Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1626196292. $19.99. For most northern observers, October 19, 1864, marked one of...
Published: 2/25/15
PRIEST: “Stand to It and Give Them Hell” (2014)
“Stand to It and Give Them Hell”: Gettysburg As The Soldiers Experienced It From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 by John Michael Priest. Savas Beatie, 2014. Cloth,...
Published: 2/18/15
DOHREN (ed.): Letters from a Shoebox (2013)
Letters from a Shoebox: The Civil War Correspondence of John Huffman, David Huffman and William Bowman edited by Jim Dohren. Sunbury Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 978-1620062944. $14.95. Civil War historians...
Published: 2/11/15
ESCOTT: Lincoln’s Dilemma (2014)
Lincoln’s Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era by Paul D. Escott. University of Virginia Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8139-3619-2. $29.95 ...