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Published: 7/14/17
Living History: Bringing Battles to Life
Republican American Don Troiani in his Connecticut studio Last year, historical artist Don Troiani put the final brushstrokes on a painting called Valverde. The work captures the February 1862 lancer...
Published: 7/12/17
ADAMS & HUDSON (eds.): Democracy and the American Civil War (2016)
Democracy and the American Civil War: Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century edited by Kevin Adams and Leonne M. Hudson. Kent State University Press, 2016. Paper, IBSN: 978-1606352694. $24.95....
Published: 7/5/17
JOHANSSON (ed.): Albert C. Ellithorpe, the First Indian Home Guards, and the Civil War on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier (2016)
Albert C. Ellithorpe, The First Indian Home Guards, and the Civil War on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier edited by M. Jane Johansson. Louisiana State University Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0807163580. $45.00. Recent...
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Published: 7/3/17
Gettysburg in Art
Numerous artists have produced renditions of the Battle of Gettysburg, some of them created within days of the fighting, others years afterward. We've assembled a variety of these portrayals.
Published: 7/3/17
News from Gettysburg
Library of Congress Lieutenant Waters Whipple Braman, Co. C, 93rd New York Infantry During the Battle of Gettysburg, First Lieutenant Waters Whipple Braman, 23, and his regiment, the 93rd New...
Published: 6/28/17
MACKOWSKI: Grant’s Last Battle (2015)
Grant’s Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Chris Mackowski. Savas Beatie, 2015. Paper, ISBN 978-1611211603. $14.95. In the decades after the Civil War ended,...
Published: 6/23/17
Extra Voices: Bad Officers
Library of Congress Confederate general John C. Pemberton In the Voices section of the Spring 2017 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes about some Union and...
Published: 6/21/17
RASBACH: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign (2016)
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign: His Supposed Charge from Fort Hell, his Near-Mortal Wounding, and a Civil War Myth Reconsidered by Dennis A. Rasbach. Savas Beatie, 2016. Hardcover, ISBN:...
Published: 6/16/17
The B&A Q&A: Sydney Blumenthal
In May, Simon & Schuster released Wrestling With His Angel, the second book in veteran journalist and presidential advisor Sidney Blumenthal’s multivolume political biography of President Abraham Lincoln. (A Self-Made Man, the series’ critically...
Published: 6/14/17
LAUSE: Free Spirits (2016)
Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era by Mark A. Lause. University of Illinois Press, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-0252081750. $30.00. Spiritualism has conflicting origins. On the one...
Published: 6/8/17
MACKOWSKI: Hell Itself (2016)
Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–7, 1864 by Chris Mackowski. Savas Beatie, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611213157. $14.95. Only months after receiving command of all Union forces, Lt. Gen....
Published: 6/7/17
CLEMENS (ed.): The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 (2017)
The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Vol. III: The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign by Ezra A. Carman and edited by Thomas Clemens. Savas Beatie, 2017. Cloth,...
Published: 5/31/17
DOYLE (ed.): American Civil Wars (2017)
American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s edited by Don H. Doyle. The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 9781469631080. $27.95....
Published: 5/24/17
LANDE: Psychological Consequences of the American Civil War (2016)
Psychological Consequences of the American Civil War by R. Gregory Lande. McFarland & Company, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476667379. $34.98. The last ten years have been marked by a surge in historical...
Published: 5/17/17
GRZYB: The Last Civil War Veterans (2016)
The Last Civil War Veterans: The Lives of the Final Survivors, State by State by Frank L. Grzyb. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476665221. $35.00. Frank Grzyb is the...
Published: 5/10/17
TRUDEAU: Lincoln’s Greatest Journey (2016)
Lincoln’s Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24-April 8, 1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau. Savas Beatie, 2016. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1611213263. $32.95. In the middle of the American...
Published: 5/10/17
STANLEY: The Loyal West (2016)
The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America by Matthew E. Stanley. University of Illinois Press, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-0252082245. $24.95. During the Grand Review of Union Armies at...
Published: 5/3/17
FOOTE: The Yankee Plague (2016)
The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy by Lorien Foote. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469630557. $34.95. Lorien Foote’s newest work, The Yankee Plague,...