Published: 6/28/21Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 1By: Gary W. GallagherCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress J.E.B. Stuart leads the Army of Northern Virginia’s cavalry on its ride around the Army of the Potomac in 1862. Between fall 2013 and summer 2016, I...
Published: 6/23/21KENNING: Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama (2021)By: William BaileyCategory: Book Reviews Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama by Thomas Kenning. Arcadia Publishing, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-63499-283-1. $23.99. In Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama, Thomas Kenning provides a brief history of Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines,...
Published: 6/16/21HESS: Civil War Supply and Strategy (2020)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies by Earl J. Hess. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-00807173329. $48.50. Earl J. Hess is an exceptionally productive historian...
Published: 6/9/21DUNKERLY & CRENSHAW: Embattled Capital (2021)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Embattled Capital: A Guide to Richmond During the Civil War by Robert M. Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw. Savas Beatie, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611214918. $14.95. Since the sesquicentennial of “America’s defining event”...
Published: 6/7/21Extra Voices: FearBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line In the Voices section of the Summer 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about fear. Unfortunately, we didn’t have room to...
Published: 6/2/21HUNT: Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station (2021)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863 by Jeffrey William Hunt. Savas...
Published: 5/28/21The Books that Built MeBy: Steven H. NewtonCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress A Civil War soldier and his reading material Civil War enthusiasts understand that historians construct campaign and battle narratives from official reports, maps, letters, journals, newspaper articles...
Published: 5/26/21NOE: The Howling Storm (2020)By: Lindsay R.S. PrivetteCategory: Book Reviews The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7320-6. $59.95. The Civil War was fought outside. This seems like...
Published: 5/24/21The Death of Colonel EllsworthBy: The New York TimesCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth On May 24, 1861, 24-year-old Elmer E. Ellsworth, colonel of 11th New York Infantry, led a group of his men from their camp...
Published: 5/19/21ASHDOWN & CAUDILL: Imagining Wild Bill (2020)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory by Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809337880. $26.50. Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill,...