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Published: 5/15/19
LONGACRE: Custer (2018)
Custer: The Making of a Young General by Edward G. Longacre. Skyhorse, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1510733190. $24.99. Although not as popular as U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman or Philip Sheridan, George...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51RjvmwUu4L._SX327_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 5/8/19
HESS: Fighting for Atlanta (2018)
Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Cloth, ISBN:978-1469643427. $45.00. Earl Hess has justly carved out a reputation...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/516OKD5dfRL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 5/1/19
MARTIN: A Fierce Glory (2018)
A Fierce Glory: Antietam—The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery by Justin Martin. DaCapo Press, 2018. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0306825255. $28.00. The years of the Civil War sesquicentennial produced a host of new...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tredegar-600x600.jpg)
Published: 4/29/19
Emerging Scholars Speakers
The American Civil War Museum The new American Civil War Museum, scheduled to open on May 4, 2019 As proud sponsors of the American Civil War Museum’s upcoming Emerging Scholars...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/361976097-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 4/24/19
ROBERTSON: River of Death (2018)
River of Death—The Chickamauga Campaign, Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga by William Glenn Robertson. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-4696-4312-0. $45.00. Few people alive today know more...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/512KkAS5lHL._SX327_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 4/17/19
SELBY: Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865 (2018)
Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865 by John G. Selby. Kent State University Press, 2018. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1606353486. $49.95. The battles and leaders of the American Civil War have, for many decades,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51dKxI5syxL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 4/10/19
SOMMERVILLE: Aberration of Mind (2018)
Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South by Diane Miller Sommerville. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469643304. $34.95. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/bookreview_4.png)
Published: 4/3/19
WITTENBERG: Holding the Line on the River of Death (2018)
Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg. Savas Beatie, 2018. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1611214307. $29.95. Eric J. Wittenberg’s Holding the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/68679770-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 3/27/19
SILBER: This War Ain’t Over (2018)
This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America by Nina Silber. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469646541. $32.95. In the current fractious political climate of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/rolandweb-478x600.jpg)
Published: 3/22/19
Map Quest
Jimell Greene Scott Roland stands on a corner of the fabled Gettysburg electric map in its new home in Hanover, Pennsylvania. It was a sight that stopped traffic: a 10,000-pound...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/402276723-600x600.jpeg)
Published: 3/20/19
MACKOWSKI: The Great Battle Never Fought (2018)
The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign, November 26-December 2, 1863 by Chris Mackowski. Savas Beatie, 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-61121-407-9. $14.95. A relative quiet in active military operations in...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Unknown_25.jpeg)
Published: 3/13/19
WARD: The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War (2018)
The 96thPennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War by David A. Ward. McFarland & Company, 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476668512. $39.95. In the Civil War’s immediate aftermath, Francis B. Wallace, a Union veteran from...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/61g-Ky8Ye6L._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 3/6/19
RUBIN & MURPHY (eds.): The Perfect Scout (2018)
The Perfect Scout: A Soldier’s Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas by George W. Quimby and edited by Anne Sarah Rubin and Stephen...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/unionreader-560x600.jpg)
Published: 3/4/19
Extra Voices: Avid Readers
Library of Congress A Union soldier holds reading material in camp In the Voices section of the Spring 2019 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes about...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/bookreview_3.png)
Published: 2/27/19
POWELL: The Chickamauga Campaign: Glory or the Grave (2017)
The Chickamauga Campaign—Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863 by David A. Powell. Savas Beatie, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611213836. $22.95. Civil...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/51giMHZgmL._SX348_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Published: 2/20/19
ARMISTEAD & ARCONTI: “An Arch Rebel Like Myself” (2018)
“An Arch Rebel Like Myself”: Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas by Gene C. Armistead and Robert D. Arconti. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018. Paper, IBSN: 978-1476674612. $39.95....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/00815v-600x600.jpg)
Published: 2/19/19
Feeding the Troops
“[A]n army marches on its stomach.” Variations of this statement have been attributed to great historical leaders, including Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte, over the last 150 years. The...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tredegar-600x600.jpg)
Published: 2/18/19
Announcing Emerging Scholars Program Speakers
The American Civil War Museum The new American Civil War Museum, scheduled to open in May 2019 The Civil War Monitor is proud to sponsor The American Civil War Museum’s...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/c3a76826a46385b90966bedd1b7735ee-600x600.jpg)