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Published: 2/17/21
MUELLER: Ambitious Honor (2020)
Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer’s Life of Service and Lust for Fame by James E. Mueller. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0806167206. $32.95. Author James Mueller’s new book opens...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1684152942-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 2/10/21
WRIGHT: Bonds of Salvation (2020)
Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7389-3. $45.00. Bonds of Salvation is the result of Ben Wright’s deeply personal...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1804791602-556x600.jpeg)
Published: 2/3/21
ARRINGTON: The Last Lincoln Republican (2020)
The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 by Benjamin T. Arrington. University Press of Kansas, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-7006-2982-4. $39.95. No period in U.S. history has invited more counterfactual...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81pLX4mcV3L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 1/27/21
HOOD: Patriots Twice (2020)
Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War by Stephen M. Hood. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-515-1. $32.95. In Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1987516942-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 1/20/21
POWELL & WITTENBERG: Tullahoma (2020)
Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23 – July 4, 1863 by David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN:...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1078169268-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 1/13/21
SMITH: The Thin Gray Line (2019)
The Thin Gray Line by Michel Kenneth Smith. Independently Published, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-0987-4013-9. $13.99. Civil War fiction often focuses on battlefield scenarios or romantic tales. The Thin Gray Line offers a new...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1147259596-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 1/6/21
CURRAN: Women Making War (2020)
Woman Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809338030. $26.50. In Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/911QCweFyzL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/30/20
SADLER: Absalom Hazlett (2020)
Absalom Hazlett: A Loyal Soldier in John Brown’s Army by Spencer Sadler. Arcadia Publishing, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1634992794. $21.99. Of all the violent incidents foreshadowing the Civil War, few compare to...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ncsoldier-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/28/20
Goodbye to All That
Library of Congress Lieutenant Robert Pryor James, Co. E, 20th North Carolina Infantry This will be my final column for the “American Iliad” series, a project I undertook five years...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1096902137-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 12/23/20
CHATELAIN: Defending the Arteries of Rebellion (2020)
Defending the Arteries of Rebellion: Confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River Valley, 1861-1865 by Neil P. Chatelain. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611215106. $32.95. In April 1861, artillery batteries of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/coffeefeed-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/21/20
Extra Voices: Coffee
USAHEC A coffee cup used during the Civil War In the Voices section of the Winter 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/546228858-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 12/16/20
McDONOUGH: William Tecumseh Sherman (2016)
William Tecumseh Sherman, In the Service of My Country: A Life by James Lee McDonough. W. W. Norton, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-393-24157-0. $39.95. Can anything new be written of William Tecumseh...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/130505212-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 12/9/20
ZVENGROWSKI: Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology (2020)
Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870 by Jeffrey Zvengrowski. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 9780807170670. $55.00. Jeffrey Zvengrowski, a professor at the University of Virginia...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/bestbooks2020-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/7/20
The Best Civil War Books of 2020
The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2020 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted the help of a handful...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/919FAwMUU3L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/2/20
HESS: Storming Vicksburg (2020)
Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863 by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6017-2. $40.00. Vicksburg has fared well in recent...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/834066377-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 11/25/20
GOTTFRIED: The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign (2020)
The Maps of the Cavalry at Gettysburg: An Atlas of Mounted Operations from Brandy Station Through Falling Waters, June 9-July 14, 1863 by Bradley M. Gottfried. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611214796. $34.95. Gary...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/91vTBh7XOPL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 11/18/20
FUOSS: Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg (2020)
Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg by Jared Fuoss. Arcadia Publishing, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4671-0485-2. $21.99. In June 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia launched its summer campaign, which culminated in the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/glb-600x600.jpg)
Published: 11/17/20
“The Good Lord Bird”: Episode 7
On October 4, 2020, The Good Lord Bird, a 7-part miniseries about the life of abolitionist John Brown—based on the award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride—premiered on...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/219258965-600x600.jpeg)