Published: 7/20/22SIMPSON: All for the Union (2022)By: Eric Michael BurkeCategory: Book Reviews All for the Union: The Saga of One Northern Family Fighting the Civil War by John A. Simpson. Stackpole Books. 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0811770873. $34.95. In what can only be described as...
Published: 7/13/22ALFORD: In The Houses of Their Dead (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews In The Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, The Booths, and The Spirits by Terry Alford. Liveright, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-63149-560-1. $27.95. The same afternoon actor Edwin Booth was laid to...
Published: 7/11/22Extra Voices: Salt PorkBy: The Civi War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress In the Voices section of our Summer 2022 issue we highlighted quotes about one of the more common foods consumed by soldiers on both sides: salt pork....
Published: 7/6/22EMBERTON: To Walk About in Freedom (2022)By: Cooper H. WingertCategory: Book Reviews To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton. W.W.Norton, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1324001829. $28.95. In the middle of the Great Depression, the federal government launched an...
Published: 6/29/22NUSSBAUM (ed.): Gettysburg (2022)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Gettysburg: Remembering the Civil War’s Most Decisive Battle: Three Days that Saved the United States edited by Ben Nussbaum. Fox Chapel Publishing, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1497103269. $14.99. No military engagement in...
Published: 6/22/22CARROLL: Invisible Wounds (2021)By: Jonathan S. JonesCategory: The Front Line Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 978-0-80716-9667. $45.00. Historians of the Civil War have been fascinated by mental illness...
Published: 6/21/22The Five Best Books on Lincoln and His CommandersBy: Gerald J. ProkopowiczCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln was not a military man, yet in March 1861 he became commander in chief of forces that would soon face the task of suppressing an...
Published: 6/15/22PURCELL: Spectacle of Grief (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6833-8. $34.95. Early on the morning of Sunday,...
Published: 6/14/22Grand Opening of American Civil War Museum’s Robins TheaterBy: Zethyn McKinleyCategory: The Front Line American Civil War Museum We recently asked Jeniffer Maloney, director of marketing and public relations at American Civil War Museum, about their new Robins Theater opening this month. She gave...
Published: 6/13/22Ticks in CampBy: Josiah M. FavillCategory: The Front Line The Diary of a Young Officer Serving with the Armies of the United States During the War of the Rebellion (1909) Josiah M. Favill, 57th New York Infantry Josiah M....