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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...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/819rqSLf8ML-600x600.jpg)
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...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/douglass-600x600.jpg)
Published: 7/20/21
After Fort Wagner
National Park Service Lewis Douglass, 54th Massachusetts Infantry On July 20, 1863, 22-year-old Lewis Douglass, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry—and son of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass—wrote the following...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/28106896dbfe6f9c7ee29d1500cbdbcc-600x600.jpg)
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...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/bully-600x600.jpg)
Published: 7/16/21
Bully Boys
“If you want to have a good time, join the cavalry!” Detailing the early war exploits of J.E.B. Stuart’s Confederate troops, this song immortalized the daring ride around George B....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/718ShB9NNKS-600x600.jpg)
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...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/61A8lk0ECUL-600x600.jpg)
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...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/91bEFnpD3QL-600x600.jpg)
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...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/stuart-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/28/21
Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 1
Library of Congress J.E.B. Stuart leads the Army of Northern Virginia’s cavalry on its ride around the Army of the Potomac in 1862. Between fall 2013 and summer 2016, I...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/91W3gkI2m-L-600x600.jpg)
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,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/hess_1-600x600.jpg)
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...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ec-600x600.jpg)
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”...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/fear-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/7/21
Extra Voices: Fear
In the Voices section of the Summer 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about fear. Unfortunately, we didn’t have room to...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/61Fk82PM0GL-600x600.jpg)
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...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cwreading.jpg)
Published: 5/28/21
The Books that Built Me
Library of Congress A Civil War soldier and his reading material Civil War enthusiasts understand that historians construct campaign and battle narratives from official reports, maps, letters, journals, newspaper articles...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51KGwP5KoXL.jpg)
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...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ellsworth-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/24/21
The Death of Colonel Ellsworth
Library of Congress Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth On May 24, 1861, 24-year-old Elmer E. Ellsworth, colonel of 11th New York Infantry, led a group of his men from their camp...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/4191ZyP-0lL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg)
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,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/71YmkvbLdyL-600x600.jpg)