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Published: 4/3/20
The “Hero” of Castle Thunder
On June 3, 1865—only a few weeks after the surrender ceremonies at Appomattox Court House—Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper ran the following article about the former Confederate-run prison in Richmond called...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/503659764-529x600.jpeg)
Published: 4/1/20
STARRETT: Mississippi Bishop William Henry Elder (2019)
Mississippi Bishop William Henry Elder and the Civil War by Ryan Starrett. The History Press, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467143806. $21.99. Ryan Starrett has produced an excellent, if limited local history. Starrett writes about...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1495417778-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 3/25/20
CROWE: Caught in the Maelstrom (2019)
Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Clint Crowe. Savas Beatie, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611213362. $32.95. The Civil War was fought over the future of the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/741692965-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 3/18/20
INSKEEP: Imperfect Union (2020)
Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the War by Steve Inskeep. Penguin Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0735224353. $32.00. Steve Inskeep is a U.S....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/LevinPic-600x600.jpg)
Published: 3/16/20
History in the Digital Age
Michaela Levin Historian Kevin M. Levin In November 2005 I created the website Civil War Memory, which included a blog. I had recently completed a master’s degree in history and...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/10dollarbill-600x350.jpg)
Published: 3/13/20
Extra Voices: Payday
National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History A Civil War greenback In the Voices section of the Spring 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1086319861-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 3/11/20
GERARD: The Last Battleground (2019)
The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina by Philip Gerard. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1469649566. $28.00. Philip Gerard’s The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/64fashions-600x600.jpg)
Published: 3/6/20
The Fashion Trends of 1864
On February 27, 1864, Harper’s Weekly published the following illustration—”a few of the various styles of garments manufactured by” New York City–based clothing wholesalers Kirkland, Bronson, & Co. “New York...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/708401800-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 3/4/20
MILLER: Vicksburg (2019)
Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy by Donald L. Miller. Simon and Schuster, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1451641370. $35.00. Civil War historians have long made much ado about July 1863. Generations...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/85243695-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 2/26/20
BORDEWICH: Congress at War (2020)
Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America by Fergus M. Bordewich. Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0451494443. $32.50. The history of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/0985.13.2375_1080-600x600.jpg)
Published: 2/20/20
A Goodbye Gift
While attending services at St. Paul’s Church in Richmond on Sunday, April 2, 1865, Confederate president Jefferson Davis received word that Confederate forces had begun evacuating Petersburg in the wake...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/5128IH7gPXL.jpg)
Published: 2/19/20
WILLIAMS: Rebel Guerrillas (2018)
Rebel Guerrillas: Mosby, Quantrill and Anderson by Paul Williams. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4766-7573-2. $39.95. In a narrative history of the Civil War’s western and eastern theaters, Paul...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/67902440-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 2/12/20
VARON: Armies of Deliverance (2019)
Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War by Elizabeth R. Varon. Oxford University Press, 2019. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0190860608. $34.95. As a National Park Service interpretive ranger and now as...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/713453699-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 2/5/20
McKENNA: British Blockade Runners in the American Civil War (2019)
British Blockade Runners in the American Civil War by Joseph McKenna. McFarland, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4766-7679-1. $49.95. On April 19, 1861, less than a week after the cannon roar in Charleston...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51KJlox2tmL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 1/29/20
KEITH: When It Was Grand (2020)
When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War by LeeAnna Keith. Hill & Wang, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0809080311. $28.00. The term radical originated with the Latin radix, or source, and...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/baton_rouge-600x600.jpg)
Published: 1/26/20
“What will not the human body endure?”
Harper’s Weekly Union soldiers march through Baton Rouge in May 1863. While on furlough in Baton Rouge in May 1863, Corporal James K. Hosmer of the 52nd Massachusetts Infantry volunteered...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1625631012-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 1/22/20
BROWN: Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America (2019)
Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America by Thomas J. Brown. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469653747. $29.95. In many ways, the United States is a warrior...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/mcleanhouse-600x569.jpg)
Published: 1/21/20
Grant and Lee at Appomattox
Library of Congress The McLean House in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, where Robert E. Lee met with Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, to discuss terms of surrender. In...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1067257780-600x600.jpeg)