Published: 6/8/22HARDING: Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story (2022)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story: The Ill-Fated Romance of General John Reynolds and Kate Hewitt by Jeffrey J. Harding. The History Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 9781467151597. $21.99. History is replete with heart-rending...
Published: 6/3/22Eyewitness to Cold HarborBy: Theodore LymanCategory: The Front Line Meade’s Headquarters, 1863–1865 (1922) Colonel Theodore Lyman Between May 31 and June 12, 1864, the armies of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee clashed near Mechanicsville, Virginia, in the...
Published: 6/1/22ELDER: Love & Duty (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6774-4. $27.95. Historian Angela Esco Elder’s debut monograph...
Published: 5/25/22STAHR: Salmon P. Chase (2022)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival by Walter Stahr. Simon & Schuster, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1501199233. $35.00. Following up on his popular biographies of Secretary of State William Seward [2012] and...
Published: 5/23/22Quick Picks: Civil War Photography BooksBy: Ronald S. CoddingtonCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress A Civil War photographer and his tent. Looking for good books on Civil War photography? We asked Ronald S. Coddington, author and publisher of Military Images magazine,...
Published: 5/18/22REMSEN & UPP: Back From Battle (2021)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Back from Battle: The Forgotten Story of Pennsylvania’s Camp Discharge and the Weary Civil War Soldiers It Served by Jim Remsen and Brad Upp. Sunbury Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1620065396. $19.95....
Published: 5/11/22JONUSAS: Hell’s Half-Acre (2022)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier by Susan Jonusas. Viking Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1984879837. $28.00. The discovery of the remains...
Published: 5/4/22WALTERS: Harriet Tubman (2022)By: Holly Pinheiro, Jr.Category: Book Reviews Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History by Kerry Walters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1440855689. $30.00. Throughout the nineteenth and early-twentieth-centuries, Harriet Tubman was undoubtedly one of the...
Published: 4/28/22The Books That Built Me: Brian Matthew JordanBy: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: The Front Line SHAWNA SHERRELL Brian Matthew Jordan I suppose you could say that I started researching my recently published book, Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, when I was...
Published: 4/20/22GROELING: First Fallen (2021)By: Kevin McPartlandCategory: Book Reviews First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero by Meg Groeling. Savas Beatie, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611215373. $29.95. In this work, Meg Groeling explores Elmer...