Published: 11/23/22GREEN, JR.: The Nashville and Decatur Railroad in the Civil War (2022)By: Scott Mingus, Sr.Category: Book Reviews 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...
Published: 11/21/22Extra Dossier: George G. MeadeBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Major General George G. Meade For the Dossier section of our Fall 2022 issue, we asked a panel of Civil War historians a series of questions about...
Published: 11/18/22Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 5By: Gary W. GallagherCategory: The Front Line A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1876) Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg Four division commanders wrote letters that rival the best from anyone...
Published: 11/16/22BROWNING & SILVER: An Environmental History of the Civil War (2020)By: Brett BagurCategory: Book Reviews 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...
Published: 11/9/22LINK: The Last Fire-Eater (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews 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...
Published: 11/2/22ESCOTT: Black Suffrage (2022)By: Ruth WhiteCategory: Book Reviews 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...
Published: 10/31/22Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 4By: Gary W. GallagherCategory: The Front Line USAHEC Confederate corps commander James Longstreet Literature on the Army of Northern Virginia contains book-length testimony from four of the seven officers who commanded its infantry corps. These titles include...
Published: 10/26/22POTTER, HANNA, ALDERMAN, CARTER, BRIGHT & BUTLER (eds.): Remembering Enslavement (2022)By: Nick SaccoCategory: Book Reviews 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...
Published: 10/19/22CONNER: James Montgomery (2022)By: Colin Edward WoodwardCategory: Book Reviews 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...
Published: 10/17/22FRYE: September Suspense (2012)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews September Suspense: Lincoln’s Union in Peril by Dennis E. Frye. Antietam Rest Publishing, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0985411902. $27.95. Close students of Civil War military history are familiar with the long career...