Published: 5/16/12CARNEY: Ministers and Masters (2011)By: John J. Langdale IIICategory: Book Reviews Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood, and Honor in the Old South by Charity R. Carney. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 080713886X. $35.00. Over the last several decades, scholars of...
Published: 5/15/12The Battle of Drury’s BluffBy: Dave KummerCategory: The Front Line The morning of May 15, 1862 set up to be another feather in the cap of the U.S. Navy following her victories at Port Royal, South Carolina (November, 1861) and...
Published: 5/15/12John Mackie: The Man and the MemoryBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line One rarely thinks of the United States Marine Corps and the Civil War in the same thought. Given their small size and limited service, this is not really surprising. And...
Published: 5/14/12Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One NightBy: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The following Walt Whitman poem—“Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night”—reminds us of the tangible, human costs of war. Whitman often found the indiscriminate carnage and wholesale anonymity...
Published: 5/11/12The “Light Guard”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good Morning! Today’s Friday Funny is an 1861 Harper’s Weekly cartoon. Entitled “Costume Suggested for the Brave Stay-at-Home Light Guard,” this sketch mockingly questions the masculinity of Union men who...
Published: 5/9/12LAUSE: A Secret Society History of the Civil War (2011)By: Matt GallmanCategory: Book Reviews A Secret Society History of the Civil War by Mark A. Lause. University of Illinois Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0252036557. $35.00. When historians of the Civil War think about wartime “secret...
Published: 5/5/12…And They’re Off..By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line In honor of the Kentucky Derby, we bring you this image of Civil War era horse racing (courtesy of Frank Leslie). While not a Stakes Race, this image is from...
Published: 5/4/12The Blockade on the “Connecticut Plan”By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line Good Morning! To celebrate the end of another long work week, we bring you a “Friday Funny.” Today’s Civil War era cartoon is an 1862 Currier & Ives sketch entitled,...
Published: 5/2/12McKnight: CONFEDERATE OUTLAW (2011)By: William FeisCategory: Book Reviews Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia by Brian D. McKnight. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807137693. $34.95. Scholarly interest in Civil War guerrillas has burgeoned...
Published: 5/2/12MILLER: John Bell Hood (2010)By: James MartenCategory: Book Reviews John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory by Brian C. Miller. University of Tennessee Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 1572337028. $37.95. The Civil War destroyed John Bell Hood’s life....