Quinn McPhail
Published: 8/18/21
GOSSE: The First Reconstruction (2021)
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6010-3. $39.95. The First Reconstruction provides a new account...
Published: 8/11/21
STANLEY: Grand Army of Labor (2021)
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley. University of Illinois Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-0252043741. $30.00. The memory and meaning of...
Published: 8/4/21
DRETSKE: The Bonds of War (2021)
The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit De Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry by Diana L. Dretske. Southern Illinois University Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8093-3820-7....
Published: 7/28/21
WYNSTRA: No Place for Glory (2021)
No Place for Glory: Major General Robert E. Rodes and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg by Robert J. Wynstra. Kent State University Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-60635-410-0. $55.00. Robert J. Wynstra has...
Published: 7/21/21
WAITE: West of Slavery (2021)
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469663197. $29.95. As an historian of the Civil War’s westernmost...
Published: 7/18/21
The 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner
On July 18, 1863, Union troops commanded by Brigadier General Quincy Gillmore launched an attack on Fort Wagner, the Confederate bastion that protected Morris Island, located south of Charleston Harbor—part...
Published: 7/14/21
TRAMMELL & TERRELL: Civil War Richmond (2021)
Civil War Richmond: The Last Citadel by Jack Trammell and Guy Terrell. The History Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467145893. $21.99. In the vast realm of Civil War studies, few individual cities...
Published: 7/7/21
STAHL & BORDERS: Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain & Harpers Ferry (2021)
Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain & Harpers Ferry by Joseph Stahl and Matthew Borders. The History Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467147439. $21.99. Bell Irvin Wiley’s books, The Life of Johnny...
Published: 6/30/21
BIELSKI: A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy (2021)
A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy: The Fall of New Orleans, 1862 by Mark F. Bielksi. Savas Beatie, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611214895. $14.95. When one thinks of the Civil War, they often...
Published: 6/23/21
KENNING: Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama (2021)
Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama by Thomas Kenning. Arcadia Publishing, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-63499-283-1. $23.99. In Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama, Thomas Kenning provides a brief history of Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines,...
Published: 6/16/21
HESS: Civil War Supply and Strategy (2020)
Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies by Earl J. Hess. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-00807173329. $48.50. Earl J. Hess is an exceptionally productive historian...
Published: 6/9/21
DUNKERLY & CRENSHAW: Embattled Capital (2021)
Embattled Capital: A Guide to Richmond During the Civil War by Robert M. Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw. Savas Beatie, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611214918. $14.95. Since the sesquicentennial of “America’s defining event”...
Published: 6/2/21
HUNT: Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station (2021)
Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863 by Jeffrey William Hunt. Savas...
Published: 5/26/21
NOE: The Howling Storm (2020)
The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7320-6. $59.95. The Civil War was fought outside. This seems like...
Published: 5/19/21
ASHDOWN & CAUDILL: Imagining Wild Bill (2020)
Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory by Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809337880. $26.50. Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill,...
Published: 5/12/21
JEMISON: Christian Citizens (2020)
Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South by Elizabeth L. Jemison. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5969-5. $29.95. In Christian Citizens, Elizabeth L. Jemison uncovers...
Published: 5/5/21
TEMPLE: Whisperwood (2020)
Whisperwood: A Confederate Soldier’s Story of War and Conscience by Van Temple. Independently Published, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1087921761. $16.99. Whisperwood’s protagonist, Private Anderson Flowers, is based on stories passed down about author...
Published: 4/28/21
BUNN: The Assault on Fort Blakeley (2021)
The Assault on Fort Blakeley: The Thunder and Lightning of Battle by Mike Bunn. History Press, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 978-1467148634. $21.99. In the four years of the Civil War, Mobile, Alabama, made itself into the...