Published: 1/13/22Word-clouding the Emancipation ProclamationBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation—which declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free”—went into effect. Below are...
Published: 1/12/22GALLMAN: The Cacophony of Politics (2021)By: Daniel W. CroftsCategory: The Front Line The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman. University of Virginia Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8139-4656-6. $35.00. When Roy Franklin Nichols penned the...
Published: 1/5/22FOOTE: Rites of Retaliation (2021)By: Burrus M. CarnahanCategory: Book Reviews Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469665276. $22.95. By the fall of 1862, Jefferson Davis...
Published: 1/4/22Seeing the ElephantBy: Tracy L. BarnettCategory: The Front Line Union soldier Francis M. Ingram “did not enjoy the 6 of April as well as I hav enjoyed some Sundays.”[2] On the banks of the Tennessee River, the “Rebel tide...
Published: 12/29/21RHEA: Stephen A. Swails (2021)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-8071-7626-9. $29.95. Among the many shelves of biographies...
Published: 12/28/21Benjamin F. Butler and Military EmancipationBy: Andrew S. BledsoeCategory: The Front Line National Archives Major General Benjamin F. Butler What if? This is the eternal question that so often confounds students of Civil War military history, and leads to groundless flights of...
Published: 12/22/21GUELZO: Robert E. Lee (2021)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1101946220. $35.00. “How do you write the biography of someone who commits treason?,” asks...
Published: 12/17/21Extra Voices: War’s Grisly TollBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Battles and Leaders of the Civil War In the Voices section of the Winter 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about...
Published: 12/15/21SIMIONE, SCHMIEL, & SCHNEIDER: Searching for Irvin McDowell (2021)By: Frank JastrzembskiCategory: Book Reviews Searching for Irvin McDowell, Forgotten Civil War General by Frank P. Simione Jr., Gene Schmiel, and E.L. “Dutch” Schneider. Independently Published, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 979-8527312492. $19.99. While there are shelves of books about Ulysses...
Published: 12/8/21PATCHAN (ed.): Worthy of a Higher Rank (2021)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Worthy of a Higher Rank: The 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign Journal of Colonel Joseph Thoburn, Commander, First Infantry Division, Army of West Virginia edited by Scott C. Patchan. 35th Star Publishing,...