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Published: 2/8/23
NEWSOME: Gettysburg’s Southern Front (2022)
Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond by Hampton Newsome. University Press of Kansas, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0700633470. $36.95 Thousands of books have been written about the Gettysburg Campaign,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/91EgwbwZiXL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 2/1/23
WILLIAMS: I Saw Death Coming (2023)
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1635576634. $30.00. The process of Reconstruction after the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81TwWn4s3oL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 1/25/23
THORP & ROSSINO: The Tale Untwisted (2023)
The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee’s Lost Orders by Gene M. Thorp and Alexander B. Rossino. Savas Beatie, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-61121-622-6....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/815ow4R0TiL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 1/18/23
LOWENSTEIN: Ways and Means (2022)
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein. Penguin Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 9780735223554. $30.00. Some have characterized economics as the dismal science....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/91vL4L3d1bL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 1/11/23
MORGAN III: Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell (2022)
Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell: The Battle of Secessionville, June 16, 1862 by James A. Morgan III. Savas Beatie, 2022. Paper, IBSN: 978-1611216011. $16.95. James A. Morgan takes...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/713DZEcVCPL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 1/4/23
FULLER & KNIGHT (eds.): Contemners and Serpents (2022)
Contemners and Serpents: The James Wilson Family Civil War Correspondence edited by Theodore Albert Fuller and Thomas Daniel Knight. Mercer University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-88146-869-5. $45.00. Contemners and Serpents presents the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1611215846.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg)
Published: 12/28/22
MINGUS, SR., & WITTENBERG: “If We are Striking for Pennsylvania” (2022)
“If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg, Volume 1: June 3-21, 1863 by Scott L. Mingus, Sr., and...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81cWryGk5OL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/21/22
COBB: C. Vann Woodward (2022)
C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian by James C. Cobb. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469670218. $37.50. For anyone who teaches, writes, or reads Southern History, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999)...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/xmas1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/16/22
The Holiday Season During War
How did Americans observe Christmas and the New Year during the Civil War? Illustrated newspapers, like Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s, published many illustrations throughout the conflict that showed readers how their fellow countrymen marked...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/91WnFc8Ym7L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/14/22
REDD: Hidden History of Civil War Florida (2022)
Hidden History of Civil War Florida by Robert Redd. The History Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467150873. $21.99. Volumes have been written about major Civil War battles, military and political leaders, and...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AFireBallinthePastVol1__17383-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/7/22
PASLEY & HAMMOND (eds.): A Fire Bell in the Past (2021)
A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume I: Western Slavery, National Impasse edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond. University of Missouri Press, 2021. Cloth,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/41cApa5dELL.jpg)
Published: 11/30/22
TURLEY: The Gospel of Freedom (2022)
The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad by Alicestyne Turley. University Press of Kentucky, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813195476. $40.00. Black Evangelical churches in Kentucky formed “an organized ‘underground’...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81joUCCMh0L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 11/23/22
GREEN, JR.: The Nashville and Decatur Railroad in the Civil War (2022)
The Nashville and Decatur Railroad in the Civil War: History of an Embattled Railroad by Walter R. Green Jr. McFarland, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1476688527. $39.95. The Civil War was the first...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/91amtMyMs0L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 11/16/22
BROWNING & SILVER: An Environmental History of the Civil War (2020)
An Environmental History of the Civil War by Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469655383. $32.50. Building on a growing body of scholarship, authors...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LinkFIRE-EATER-600x600.jpg)
Published: 11/9/22
LINK: The Last Fire-Eater (2022)
The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-8071-7821-8. $30.00. This slender volume took...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/51Ap5IgiTfL.jpg)
Published: 11/2/22
ESCOTT: Black Suffrage (2022)
Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal by Paul D. Escott. University of Virginia Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813948171. $39.50. Paul Escott’s Black Suffrage focuses on Northern attitudes towards Black rights in the immediate...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/71KRALz3kmL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 10/26/22
POTTER, HANNA, ALDERMAN, CARTER, BRIGHT & BUTLER (eds.): Remembering Enslavement (2022)
Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum edited by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler. University of Georgia...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81-OjAr1zYL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 10/19/22
CONNER: James Montgomery (2022)
James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior by Robert C. Conner. Casemate, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1636241425. $34.95. In one of the many memorable scenes in the 1989 film Glory, James Montgomery (played convincingly by...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/sept_suspense_1-500x500-1.jpg)