Published: 4/14/22Assassination ArtifactsBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays “That is the last speech he will ever make.” So remarked John Wilkes Booth on April 11, 1865, after listening to President Abraham Lincoln deliver remarks outside the White House....
Published: 4/13/22PETERS (ed.): Our Comfort in Dying (2021)By: Jonathan M. SteplykCategory: Book Reviews Our Comfort in Dying: Civil War Sermons by R. L. Dabney, Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff edited by Jonathan W. Peters. Sola Fide Publications, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 978-0997266641. $24.99. The Reverend...
Published: 4/6/22WHITE: A House Built By Slaves (2022)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1538161807. $26.00. For many years, historians have debated the...
Published: 4/5/22WHITE: To Address You as My Friend (2021)By: Brian R. DirckCategory: Book Reviews To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln edited by Jonathan W. White, with a foreword by Edna Greene Medford. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN:...
Published: 4/4/22Braxton Bragg at McLemore’s CoveBy: Andrew S. BledsoeCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress General Braxton Bragg The art of command remains an elusive and complex concept for historians of the Civil War, and debates about command decisions and methods hold...
Published: 3/30/22KORNBLITH & LASSER: Elusive Utopia (2018)By: Cassandra Jane WerkingCategory: Book Reviews Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio by Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser. Louisiana State University Press, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-80716-956-8. $48.00. Racism continues to grip the United...
Published: 3/29/22Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 3By: Gary W. GallagherCategory: The Front Line A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1876) General Robert E. Lee rides among his troops during the Battle of Gettysburg. Several European journalists and military officers wrote about their...
Published: 3/23/22GALLGHER & CUSHMAN (eds.): Civil War Witnesses and Their Books (2021)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7580-4. $45.00. Civil War Witnesses collects...
Published: 3/21/22Extra Voices: Mother BickerdykeBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line USAHEC Mother Bickerdyke tends to a wounded soldier in the field. In the Voices section of the Spring 2022 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by and...
Published: 3/16/22JANNEY: Ends of War (2021)By: Shae Smith CoxCategory: Book Reviews Ends of War: The Unfinished Flight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6337-1. $30.00. Caroline E. Janney carefully states that Ends...