Published: 5/12/21JEMISON: Christian Citizens (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South by Elizabeth L. Jemison. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5969-5. $29.95. In Christian Citizens, Elizabeth L. Jemison uncovers...
Published: 5/5/21TEMPLE: Whisperwood (2020)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Whisperwood: A Confederate Soldier’s Story of War and Conscience by Van Temple. Independently Published, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1087921761. $16.99. Whisperwood’s protagonist, Private Anderson Flowers, is based on stories passed down about author...
Published: 4/29/21Essential Reading on the Coming of the Civil WarBy: Russell McClintockCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Fort Sumter under fire, April 1861 The literature on the coming of the Civil War is more than vast—it is overwhelming. Choosing just a handful of the...
Published: 4/28/21BUNN: The Assault on Fort Blakeley (2021)By: John C. WaughCategory: Book Reviews The Assault on Fort Blakeley: The Thunder and Lightning of Battle by Mike Bunn. History Press, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 978-1467148634. $21.99. In the four years of the Civil War, Mobile, Alabama, made itself into the...
Published: 4/21/21HARRIS: The Last Slave Ships (2020)By: Jonathan W. WhiteCategory: Book Reviews The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage by John Harris. Yale University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 9780300247336. $30. In 1808, the U.S. government made it...
Published: 4/19/21Kissing and Kicking AssBy: Tracy L. BarnettCategory: The Front Line Private Amos Breneman of the 203rd Pennsylvania Infantry was, by his own estimation, an ass. Addressing a male friend back in Lancaster County, he wrote in April 1865, “I am...
Published: 4/16/21War’s Early DaysBy: Mary Boykin ChesnutCategory: The Front Line A Diary From Dixie (1906) Mary Boykin Chesnut Two days after the fall of Fort Sumter, 38-year-old South Carolinian Mary Boykin Chesnut sat down with her journal—something she’d done faithfully...
Published: 4/15/21“The First Gun is Fired”By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress George F. Root Published three days after the fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861, “The First Gun is Fired: May God Protect the Right” is known...
Published: 4/14/21KEMPF: What Though the Field Be Lost (2021)By: Kent GrammCategory: Book Reviews What Though the Field Be Lost: Poems by Christopher Kempf. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 978-0807173633. $18.95. Christopher Kempf has written an excellent series of poetic reflections on the...
Published: 4/9/21Word-Clouding Lee’s and Grant’s Farewell AddressesBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line On the night of April 9, 1865, only hours after surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Robert E. Lee sat around a fire with a group of...