Published: 4/7/21STOKES (ed.): Incidents in the Life of Cecilia Lawton (2021)By: Ashley TowleCategory: Book Reviews Incidents in the Life of Cecilia Lawton: A Memoir of Plantation Life, War, and Reconstruction in Georgia and South Carolina edited by Karen Stokes. Mercer University Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0881467659....
Published: 4/5/21Extra Voices: ShirkersBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Hard Tack and Coffee In the Voices section of the Spring 2021 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about shirking. Unfortunately, we...
Published: 3/31/21JEFFREY: First Chaplain of the Confederacy (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews First Chaplain of the Confederacy: Father Darius Hubert, S. J. by Katherine Bentley Jeffrey. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7337-4. $45.00. Darius Hubert, a French-born, Louisiana-based Catholic Jesuit, was...
Published: 3/29/21A Reconstruction BookshelfBy: Brooks D. SimpsonCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress In this sketch by Alfred Waud, a federal official stands between armed groups of southern whites and African Americans during Reconstruction. It’s safe to say that while...
Published: 3/24/21SMITH: In the Shadow of Gold (2020)By: Sarah Kay BierleCategory: Book Reviews In the Shadow of Gold: A Tale of the Lost Confederate Treasure by Michael Kenneth Smith. Independently Published, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 979-8684953736. $14.99. What happened to the gold that stocked the...
Published: 3/22/21The Hands-On HistorianBy: Jenny JohnstonCategory: The Front Line Jimell Greene Photography Bryan Cheeseboro at Fort Stevens, where his interest in the Civil War was born. It was February 2004, and Bryan Cheeseboro was hurtling toward Olustee, Florida, in...
Published: 3/17/21WILLIS: The Black Civil War Soldier (2021)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis. NYU Press, 2021. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1479809004. $35.00. Ask any Civil War historian what they find compelling...
Published: 3/17/21St. Patrick’s Day, 1863By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays On March 17, 1863, Irish Brigade commander Thomas Francis Meagher hosted elaborate festivities to mark St. Patrick’s Day. The celebration featured a number of races and prizes—and, as one Union soldier...
Published: 3/10/21LEVINE: Thaddeus Stevens (2021)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine. Simon & Schuster, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4767-9337-5. $28.00. Not long after the raid on Harper’s Ferry, Thaddeus Stevens lent...
Published: 3/3/21PALENCIA: ‘On Rising Ground’ (2021)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews ‘On Rising Ground’: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, 52nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. by Elaine Fowler Palencia. Mercer University Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0881467666. $27.00....