Published: 9/16/20CRIBB: Old Abe (2020)By: Sarah Kay BierleCategory: Book Reviews Old Abe: A Novel by John Cribb. Republic Book Publishers, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1645720164. $28.00. Abraham Lincoln’s life and struggles have been told and re-told in a variety of formats and...
Published: 9/9/20BRETTLE: Colossal Ambitions (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World by Adrian Brettle. University of Virginia Press, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0813944371. $45.00. In recent years, Paul Quigley, Michael T. Bernath, Ann Tucker,...
Published: 9/7/20Agenda: September 2020 EventsBy: Zethyn McKinley, The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line acwm.org White House of the Confederacy Looking for a Civil War event—virtual or in person—to attend in September? Below are some very good options to keep you busy. White House...
Published: 9/4/20A Man of SorrowsBy: Mark GrimsleyCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln in 1860 Abraham lincoln had a great reputation for humor. He cracked jokes constantly—often painfully bad ones, as when he said after examining a model...
Published: 9/2/20GLYMPH: The Women’s Fight (2020)By: Misti HarperCategory: Book Reviews The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation by Thavolia Glymph. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469653631. $34.95. “The spaces in which women live during...
Published: 8/26/20WITTENBERG, SARGUS, AND BARRICK: Seceding from Secession (2020)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia by Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus, Jr., and Penny L. Barrick. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1611215069....
Published: 8/25/20Extra Voices: ThirstBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress In the Voices section of the Fall 2020 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about the extreme thirst they...
Published: 8/19/20MAXFIELD: Hellmira (2020)By: Angela RiottoCategory: Book Reviews Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derek Maxfield. Savas Beatie, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-61121-487-1. $14.95. With Hellmira, Derek Maxfield supplies an easy-to-read introductory volume on Civil...
Published: 8/12/20WEST: Christopher H. Tebault, Surgeon to the Confederacy (2020)By: Guy HasegawaCategory: Book Reviews Christopher H. Tebault, Surgeon to the Confederacy by Alan I. West. McFarland, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4766-8082-8. $39.95. Collectors of historical artifacts often like to share what they have learned about the...
Published: 8/7/20Road Trip: Petersburg to AppomattoxBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays Few regions offer a denser concentration of Civil War history than Central Virginia. The historical significance of the region is reason enough to visit, but the fact that you can retrace...