Published: 2/8/23NEWSOME: Gettysburg’s Southern Front (2022)By: Jonathan M. SteplykCategory: Book Reviews 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,...
Published: 2/1/23WILLIAMS: I Saw Death Coming (2023)By: Jennifer AndrellaCategory: Book Reviews 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...
Published: 1/28/23The Books That Built Me: George RableBy: George C. RableCategory: The Front Line BRYAN HESTER Historian George C. Rable I was not one of those precocious Civil War enthusiasts who started reading Bruce Catton at the age of 10. Even when I was...
Published: 1/25/23THORP & ROSSINO: The Tale Untwisted (2023)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews 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....
Published: 1/18/23LOWENSTEIN: Ways and Means (2022)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews 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....
Published: 1/11/23MORGAN III: Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell (2022)By: A.J. BlaylockCategory: Book Reviews 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...
Published: 1/9/23Josephine Miller and Her StoveBy: Charles Carleton CoffinCategory: The Front Line Marching To Victory (1888) Josephine Miller Slyder New Hampshire-born journalist Charles Carleton Coffin accompanied Winfield Scott Hancock and his II Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Gettysburg...
Published: 1/4/23FULLER & KNIGHT (eds.): Contemners and Serpents (2022)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews 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...
Published: 12/28/22MINGUS, SR., & WITTENBERG: “If We are Striking for Pennsylvania” (2022)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews “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...
Published: 12/21/22COBB: C. Vann Woodward (2022)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews 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)...