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Published: 1/8/20
HOLLOWAY & WHITE: ‘Our Little Monitor’ (2018)
‘Our Little Monitor’: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War by Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White. Kent State University Press, 2018. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1606353141. $34.95. Why another Monitor book? In Our Little Monitor, authors Anna Holloway and Jonathan W....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/528441192-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 1/1/20
SCHAFF: Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy (2019)
Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy by Jon D. Schaff. Southern Illinois University Press, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0809337378. $34.50. As we come to the end of the decade following the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/bestbooks19-431x600.jpg)
Published: 12/30/19
The Best Civil War Books of 2019
The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2019 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted the help of a handful...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51yCth6QZAL._SX330_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 12/25/19
THIBODEAU: Bicycling Gettysburg (2019)
Bicycling Gettysburg National Military Park: The Cyclist’s Civil War Travel Guide by Sue Thibodeau. Civil War Cycling, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1732603806. $37.00. The battle fought on July 1, 2, and 3,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/review-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/20/19
The March to the Sea
[F]ollowing his successful campaign to capture Atlanta in September 1864, William T. Sherman set his sights on Savannah. On November 15, Sherman’s force of approximately 62,000 men cut free from...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/sherman_1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/20/19
Extra Dossier: William T. Sherman
Library of Congress William T. Sherman For the Dossier section of the Fall 2017 issue of The Civil War Monitor, we asked a panel of Civil War historians a series...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/hw1219-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/19/19
The Drummer Boy of Our Regiment
The December 19, 1863, edition of Harper’s Weekly contained the following full-page illustration that highlighted a variety of scenes associated with the service of a Union drummer boy, some of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81D7oZhB1zL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/18/19
STOTELMYER: Too Useful to Sacrifice (2019)
Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering General George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam by Steven R. Stotelmyer. Savas Beatie, 2019. Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1611213041. $32.95. George...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/luskweb_1.jpg)
Published: 12/14/19
Eyewitness to the Battle of Fredericksburg
War Letters of William Thompson Lusk Union officer William Thompson Lusk The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought on December 13, 1862, resulted in a disastrous Union defeat that saw over 12,000...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/guerrilla-489x600.jpg)
Published: 12/11/19
BEILEIN: William Gregg’s Civil War (2019)
William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerrilla Warfare edited by Joseph M. Beilein, Jr. University of Georgia Press, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820355771. $26.95. Joseph M. Beilein Jr. promises...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/564383614-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 12/4/19
McILWAIN: The Million-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a President (2018)
The Million-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a President: George Washington Gayle and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr. Savas Beatie, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-394-2. $32.95. The names and...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/gambling1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 12/3/19
Extra Voices: Gambling
Library of Congress In the Voices section of the Winter 2019 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes by Union and Confederate troops about the pervasiveness of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9780765381736_p0_v1_s600x595.jpg)
Published: 11/27/19
PETERS: Darkness at Chancellorsville (2019)
Darkness at Chancellorsville: A Novel of Stonewall Jackson’s Triumph and Tragedy by Ralph Peters. Forge Books, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0765381736. $29.99. A favorite blood sport of the Civil War community is...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/spotweb-600x600.jpg)
Published: 11/22/19
The Dogs of Andersonville
Between April 15, 1864, and April 6, 1865, 351 Union prisoners escaped from the prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia. Of these, 163 were able to reach safety. The other 188...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9781501116223_p0_v4_s600x595.jpg)
Published: 11/20/19
GWYNNE: Hymns of the Republic (2019)
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S.C. Gwynne. Scribner, 2019. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1501116223. $32.00. In Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/gaddress2-600x600.jpg)
Published: 11/16/19
Word-clouding the Gettysburg Address
At the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a “few appropriate remarks” to the assembled crowd. Though it lasted only a few minutes,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SHERMAN-600x600.jpg)
Published: 11/15/19
The March to the Sea Begins
Library of Congress William T. Sherman On Nobember 15, 1864, Major General William T. Sherman and his army of some 60,000 men departed the city of Atlanta, which they had...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1329208175-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 11/13/19
DANIEL: Conquered (2019)
Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed by Larry J. Daniel. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-4950-4. $35.00. From its birth as the Provisional Army of Tennessee in...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51kZr4EJkPL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg)