Published: 10/12/22BURROWS & KEATING (eds.): Yours Affectionately, Osgood (2022)By: Keith AltavillaCategory: Book Reviews Yours Affectionately, Osgood: Colonel Osgood Vose Tracy’s Letters Home from the Civil War, 1862-1865 edited by Sarah Tracy Burrows and Ryan W. Keating. Kent State University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1606354407....
Published: 10/5/22DALY: The War after the War (2022)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly. University of Georgia Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820361901. $24.95. John Patrick Daly opens The War after the War with...
Published: 9/28/22BERRY: Count the Dead (2022)By: Mark S. SchantzCategory: Book Reviews Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469667522. $17.95. This little book packs...
Published: 9/28/22Quick Picks: Sherman’s March BooksBy: Bennett PartenCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Looking to do some reading on William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea? We asked Bennett Parten, a professor of history at Georgia Southern University who is...
Published: 9/26/22A StragglerBy: Alfred WaudCategory: The Front Line Harper’s Weekly “A Straggler” by Alfred R. Waud On March 28, 1863, Harper’s Weekly published Alfred R. Waud’s description, and associated illustration, of an army straggler—a class of soldier encountered...
Published: 9/21/22PINHEIRO, JR: The Families’ Civil War (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. University of Georgia Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8203-6196-3. $26.95. Chasing the faint archival traces made...
Published: 9/14/22COWIE: When Hell Came to Sharpsburg (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and Its Impact on the Civilians Who Called It Home by Steven Cowie. Foreword by Dennis E. Frye. Savas Beatie, 2022. Cloth,...
Published: 9/12/22“Union Jim” WilliamsBy: Harper's WeeklyCategory: The Front Line Harper’s Weekly “Union Jim” Williams The March 28, 1863, issue of Harper’s Weekly included the following article about, and illustration of, Jim Williams, a formerly enslaved man who assisted Union...
Published: 9/7/22KNUDSEN: James Longstreet and the American Civil War (2022)By: A.J. BlaylockCategory: Book Reviews James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next Warby Harold M. Knudsen. Savas Beatie, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611214758. $32.95. James Longstreet and the American...
Published: 9/3/22DAVIS & BELL (eds.): The Whartons’ War (2022)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews The Whartons’ War: The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Bradford Wharton, 1863-1865 edited by William C. Davis and Sue Heth Bell. University of North Carolina Press, 2022....