Published: 3/9/22BAGLEY: The Horse at Gettysburg (2021)By: Jeffry D. WertCategory: Book Reviews The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared For The Day of Battle by Chris Bagley. Gettysburg Publishing, LLC, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 978-0999304969. $26.95. An estimated 80,000 horses and mules accompanied the opposing armies to...
Published: 3/2/22NOE: Contesting Commemoration (2021)By: Meredith BarberCategory: Book Reviews Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-8071-7558-3. $45.00. In 1876, about one in five Americans attended...
Published: 2/28/22The Five Best Books on Civil War MemoryBy: Matthew Christopher HulbertCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Union and Confederate veterans shake hands at the reunion to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. In his 1948 novel Intruder in the Dust,...
Published: 2/15/22FAIRCLOUGH: Bulldozed and Betrayed (2021)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 by Adam Fairclough. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0807175590. $45.00. The election of 1876 generated enormous controversy. Republican Rutherford...
Published: 2/9/22WHITE & DAVIS (eds.): My Work Among the Freedmen (2021)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews My Work among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss edited by Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis. University of Virginia Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN:...
Published: 2/2/22LIULEVICIUS: Rebel Salvation (2021)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee by Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0807174906. $50.00. Reconstruction is often depicted as a political and policy...
Published: 1/26/22WHITE & GLENN (eds.): Untouched by the Conflict (2019)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Untouched by the Conflict: The Civil War Letters of Singleton Ashenfelter, Dickinson College edited by Jonathan W. White and Daniel Glenn. Kent State University Press, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-383-7. $29.95. More than...
Published: 1/19/22GRASSO: Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy (2021)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Teacher, Preacher, Solider, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso by Christopher Grasso. Oxford University Press, 2021. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0197547328. $34.95. Born along the middle border in Franklin County, Ohio,...
Published: 1/18/22Essential Reading on the Peninsula CampaignBy: Glenn David BrasherCategory: The Front Line anne s.k. brown military collection George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac on the move during the Peninsula Campaign In the spring and early summer of 1862, Union general George B....
Published: 1/14/22The Emancipation ProclamationBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation—which declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free”—went into effect. Drafted the previous summer, and...