Quinn McPhail
Published: 10/29/14
SCHMIEL: Citizen-General (2014)
Citizen-General: Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War Era by Eugene D. Schmiel. Ohio University Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-0821420836. $26.95. Mid-nineteenth century America can be considered the heyday of the...
Published: 10/29/14
WILLIAMS (ed.): Stonewall’s Prussian Mapmaker (2014)
Stonewall’s Prussian Mapmaker: The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs edited by Richard Brady Williams. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469614342. $45.00. Mention mapmaking and Stonewall Jackson, and students...
Published: 10/22/14
HOLZER: Lincoln and the Power of the Press (2014)
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion by Harold Holzer. Simon & Schuster, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1439192719. $37.50. Harold Holzer, author of the clear, fast-paced, and...
Published: 10/22/14
DEVINE: Learning from the Wounded (2014)
Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science by Shauna Devine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469611556. $39.95. The sesquicentennial...
Published: 10/15/14
ESCOTT: Uncommonly Savage (2014)
Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States by Paul D. Escott. University Press of Florida, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813049410. $74.95. The tendency to compare elements of...
Published: 10/8/14
ABBOTT: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy (2014)
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott. HarperCollins Publishers, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0062092892. $27.99. In this compelling popular history, New York Times bestselling author Karen Abbott...
Published: 10/8/14
DAVIS & GREENWALT: Hurricane from the Heavens (2014)
Hurricane from the Heavens: The Battle of Cold Harbor, May 26-June 5, 1864 by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt. Savas Beatie, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611211870. $12.95. “I have always...
Published: 10/1/14
NESTER: The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power (2014)
The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848-1876 by William R. Nester. Potomac Books, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 1612346588. $34.95. President Lincoln did not shrink from exerting his power....
Published: 10/1/14
ZEITZ: Lincoln’s Boys (2014)
Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image by Joshua Zeitz. Viking Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0670025664. $29.95. Astounding as it may seem to modern Americans, Abraham...
Published: 9/24/14
BINNINGTON: Confederate Visions (2013)
Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War by Ian Binnington. University of Virginia Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813935003. $39.50. At one time, the very phrase “Confederate...
Published: 9/24/14
LEIGH (ed.): Co. Aytch (2014)
Co. Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show by Sam Watkins and edited by Philip Leigh. Westholme Publishing, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1594161797. $14.95. Sam Watkins’ Co. Aytch has long been regarded...
Published: 9/17/14
RUBIN: Through the Heart of Dixie (2014)
Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory by Anne Sarah Rubin. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469617770. $35.00. The men of William Tecumseh Sherman’s army...
Published: 9/17/14
JONES & SWORD (eds.): Gateway to the Confederacy (2014)
Gateway to the Confederacy: New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 1862-1863 edited by Evan C. Jones and Wiley Sword. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Cloth, IBSN: 9780807155097. $39.95. Literature...
Published: 9/10/14
HAMLER: Civil War Woodworking (2014)
Civil War Woodworking Volume II: More Authentic Projects for Woodworkers and Reenactors by A.J. Hamler. Linden Publishing, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 9781610351966. $24.95. In this well written, prolifically illustrated book, master carpenter...
Published: 9/10/14
MEIER: Nature’s Civil War (2013)
Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia by Kathryn Shively Meier. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Cloth, IBSN: 9781469610764. $39.95. Kathryn Shively Meier’s Nature’s Civil War analyzes the...
Published: 9/3/14
KREYLING: A Late Encounter with the Civil War (2014)
A Late Encounter with the Civil War by Michael Kreyling. University of Georgia Press, 2014. Paper, ISBN: 9780820346571. $19.95. As the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War draws to a close,...
Published: 8/27/14
JENKINS: The Battle of Peach Tree Creek (2014)
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood’s First Sortie, July 20, 1864 by Robert D. Jenkins, Sr. Mercer University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0881463965. $35.00. July 17, 1864, was a momentous...
Published: 8/27/14
VENET: A Changing Wind (2014)
A Changing Wind: Commerce & Conflict in Civil War Atlanta by Wendy Hamand Venet. Yale University Press, 2014. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-300-19216-2. $30.00. Wendy Venet’s interesting new social history of Atlanta during the...