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Published: 5/9/18
MACKOWSKI & WHITE (eds.): Turning Points of the American Civil War (2017)
Turning Points of the American Civil War edited by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809336210. $24.50. In his forward to this finely crafted anthology...
Published: 5/2/18
JORDAN (ed.): The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book (2018)
The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade by Jim Jordan. University of Georgia Press, 2018. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-8203-5196-4. $32.95. The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book is much more...
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Published: 5/2/18
Chancellorsville
Explore the Battle of Chancellorsville through images. Learn about General Hooker's ambitious plans to outwit General Lee and achieve victory.
Published: 5/2/18
Battlefield Echoes: MOPs, MOEs, and Chancellorsville
Library of Congress Kurz & Allison’s depiction of the Battle of Chancellorsville In the aftermath of his army’s defeat at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee welcomed a brother of Secretary...
Published: 4/25/18
RHEA: On to Petersburg (2017)
On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee June 4-15, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea. Louisiana State University Press, 2017. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0807167472. $45.00. The six-week Overland Campaign in Virginia between May 4 and June...
Published: 4/20/18
The Best Civil War Books of 2017
The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2017 issue contained our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted the help of a handful...
Published: 4/18/18
POWELL: Battle Above the Clouds (2017)
Battle Above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 – November 24, 1863 by David A. Powell. Savas Beatie, 2017. Paper, ISBN 978-1-61121-377-5....
Published: 4/11/18
BELCHER: The Cavalries at Stones River (2017)
The Cavalries at Stones River: An Analytical History by Dennis W. Belcher. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476665368. $39.95. The Battle of Stones River, fought from December 31, 1862, to January...
Published: 4/6/18
Beyond the White Man’s Iliad
CATNAP72 / ISTOCK A statue of Robert E. Lee sits atop the Virginia Monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The Confederate monument controversy that has exploded in recent months raises fundamental...
Published: 4/4/18
FRAKER: Looking for Lincoln in Illinois (2017)
Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: A Guide to Lincoln’s Eighth Judicial Circuit by Guy C. Fraker. Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. Paper, IBSN: 978-0809336166. $21.95. This is a delightful journey along the highways and...
Published: 3/28/18
CHERNOW: Grant (2017)
Grant by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2017. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1594204876. $40.00. The standard interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant’s life usually recounts an undistinguished West Point and antebellum army career ended by alcohol abuse,...
Published: 3/21/18
KEATING: The Greatest Trials I Ever Had (2017)
The Greatest Trials I Ever Had: The Civil War Letters of Margaret and Thomas Cahill edited by Ryan W. Keating. University of Georgia Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820351551. $26.95. Good or even...
Published: 3/17/18
St. Patrick’s Day in the Army
On March 17, 1863, Josiah Marshall Favill, a young lieutenant in the 57th New York Infantry, was one of many soldiers in the Army of the Potomac to observe the...
Published: 3/16/18
Extra Voices: Tobacco
Library of Congress In the Voices section of the Spring 2018 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes from Union and Confederate troops about the use of...
Published: 3/14/18
AYERS: The Thin Light of Freedom (2017)
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America by Edward Ayers. W.W. Norton, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0393292633. $35.00. At first glance, The Thin Light of Freedom appears...
Published: 3/9/18
The Eisenhower Farm during the Battle of Gettysburg
Wikipedia February 1959 White House portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower In the fall of 1950, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, signed a contract to purchase a...
Published: 3/7/18
QUINT: Determined to Stand and Fight (2017)
Determined to Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864 by Ryan T. Quint. Savas Beatie, 2017. Paper, ISBN 978-1-61121-346-1. $14.95. Nestled in the pastures southeast of Frederick, Maryland,...
Published: 2/28/18
SODERGREN: The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns (2017)
The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns by Steven E. Sodergren. Louisiana State Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0807165560. $47.95. In 1998, J. Tracy Power published Lee’s Miserables, a groundbreaking analysis...