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Published: 3/8/17
DAVIS: A Long and Bloody Task (2016)
A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw Mountain to the Chattahoochee River, May 5-July 18, 1864 by Stephen Davis. Savas Beatie, 2016. Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-61121-317-1. $14.95....
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Published: 3/7/17
Battle of the Ironclads
“For hours the conflict lasted. Sometimes so near were the vessels they appeared in contact, and again three miles apart; but all the while vomiting forth seeming destruction with frightful...
Published: 3/1/17
LaBARRE: The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War (2016)
The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War by Steven M. LaBarre. McFarland, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4766-6384-5. $29.95. This book is a regimental history that examines the Fifth’s service during...
Published: 2/15/17
PRYOR: Six Encounters with Lincoln (2017)
Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons by Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Viking, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0670025909. $35.00. In Six Encounters with Lincoln, Elizabeth Brown Pryor seeks to get...
Published: 2/8/17
PENN: Kentucky Rebel Town (2016)
Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana & Harrison County by William A. Penn. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0813167718. $45.00. William A. Penn’s examination of Civil...
Published: 2/2/17
SCYTHES: This Will Make a Man of Me (2016)
This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War by James M. Scythes. Lehigh University Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611462180. $75.00....
Published: 2/1/17
LEIGH: The Confederacy at Flood Tide (2016)
The Confederacy at Flood Tide: The Political and Military Ascension, June to December 1862 by Philip Leigh. Westholme Publishing, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-59416-248-0. $28.00. Bookstore shelves prove that after century and...
Published: 1/25/17
CONNER & MACKOWSKI: Seizing Destiny (2016)
Seizing Destiny: The Army of the Potomac’s “Valley Forge” and the Civil War Winter that Saved the Union by Albert Z. Conner, Jr., with Chris Mackowski. Savas Beatie, 2016. Cloth, ISBN:...
Published: 1/18/17
BEILEIN: Bushwhackers (2016)
Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri by Joseph M. Beilein, Jr. Kent State University Press, 2016. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1606352700. $34.95. With the passing of Michael Fellman...
Published: 1/18/17
Extra Dossier: Robert E. Lee
Library of Congress For the Dossier section of the Summer 2015 issue of The Civil War Monitor, we asked a panel of Civil War historians a series of questions about...
Published: 1/11/17
O’HARROW: The Quartermaster (2016)
The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln’s General, Master Builder of the Union Army by Robert O’Harrow, Jr. Simon & Schuster, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1451671926. $28.00. When President Chester A. Arthur forced...
Published: 1/4/17
SMITH: Scarred (2016)
Scarred: A Civil War Novel of Redemption by Michael Kenneth Smith. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-53037-974-3. $13.99. Scarred is Michael Kenneth Smith’s emotional, fast-paced sequel to his debut Civil War novel Home...
Published: 1/4/17
BEAN: Too Great a Burden to Bear (2016)
Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean. Fordham University Press, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-0823271764. $40.00. With the sesquicentennial...
Published: 12/28/16
CARPENTER: Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War (2016)
Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War by Robert C. Carpenter. McFarland Books, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4766-6244-2. $39.95. In recent years, microhistories have become passé among many scholars. On a...
Published: 12/21/16
RAY (ed.): Sharpshooter (2016)
Sharpshooter: The Selected Letters and Papers of Maj. Eugene Blackford, C.S.A. edited by Fred L. Ray. CFS Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-9882435-1-4. $39.95. Tales of Civil War marksmen have long been...
Published: 12/14/16
UNGER: Henry Clay (2015)
Henry Clay: America’s Greatest Statesman by Harlow Giles Unger. Da Capo Press, 2015. Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0306823916. $26.00. Biographers often fall in love with their subjects. Dumas Malone’s multi-volume biography of Thomas...
Published: 12/14/16
MACKOWSKI, WHITE & DAVIS: Don’t Give an Inch (2016)
Don’t Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg July 2, 1863 – From Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis. Savas...
Published: 12/7/16
BACKUS & ORRISON: A Want of Vigilance (2015)
A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign by Bill Backus and Robert Orrison. Foreword by J. Michael Miller. Savas Beatie, 2015. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611213003. $14.95. For the average American, traditional...