Published: 2/26/21Letters Home: Correspondence from Men at WarBy: Peter S. CarmichaelCategory: The Front Line Frank Leslie’s illustrated Newspaper Union soldiers take a moment to write home on the hurricane deck of the U.S. transport North Star while on campaign in the Gulf of Mexico...
Published: 2/24/21SEIDULE: Robert E. Lee and Me (2021)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule. St. Martin’s Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-250-23926-6. $27.99. All but one of the...
Published: 2/17/21MUELLER: Ambitious Honor (2020)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer’s Life of Service and Lust for Fame by James E. Mueller. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0806167206. $32.95. Author James Mueller’s new book opens...
Published: 2/10/21WRIGHT: Bonds of Salvation (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism by Ben Wright. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7389-3. $45.00. Bonds of Salvation is the result of Ben Wright’s deeply personal...
Published: 2/3/21ARRINGTON: The Last Lincoln Republican (2020)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 by Benjamin T. Arrington. University Press of Kansas, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-7006-2982-4. $39.95. No period in U.S. history has invited more counterfactual...
Published: 1/27/21HOOD: Patriots Twice (2020)By: Ryan BixbyCategory: Book Reviews Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War by Stephen M. Hood. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-515-1. $32.95. In Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building...
Published: 1/20/21POWELL & WITTENBERG: Tullahoma (2020)By: Fred L. Johnson IIICategory: Book Reviews Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23 – July 4, 1863 by David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN:...
Published: 1/13/21SMITH: The Thin Gray Line (2019)By: Sarah Kay BierleCategory: Book Reviews The Thin Gray Line by Michel Kenneth Smith. Independently Published, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-0987-4013-9. $13.99. Civil War fiction often focuses on battlefield scenarios or romantic tales. The Thin Gray Line offers a new...
Published: 1/6/21CURRAN: Women Making War (2020)By: Heather Carlquist WalserCategory: Book Reviews Woman Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809338030. $26.50. In Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union...
Published: 12/30/20SADLER: Absalom Hazlett (2020)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Absalom Hazlett: A Loyal Soldier in John Brown’s Army by Spencer Sadler. Arcadia Publishing, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1634992794. $21.99. Of all the violent incidents foreshadowing the Civil War, few compare to...