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Published: 10/18/23
HIPPENSTEEL: Sand, Science, and the Civil War (2023)
Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat by Scott Hippensteel. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820363530. $44.95. It is always refreshing to see a novel...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/61n0RoMMyHL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 10/11/23
SHEA: Union General (2023)
Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West by William L. Shea. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1640125186. $34.95. William L. Shea is a prolific scholar of...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/acwm2-600x600.jpg)
Published: 10/6/23
Lincoln Prize Lecture 2023
On October 26, 2023, The American Civil War Museum (ACWM), in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, will host its first annual Lincoln Prize Lecture, where guests will...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/71n2D9mDldL-1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 10/4/23
WILSON: The Southern Way of Life (2023)
The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South by Charles Reagan Wilson. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6498-9. $39.95. This book...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81DAJjGctoL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/27/23
FREDETTE: Heartsick and Astonished (2023)
Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia by Allison Dorothy Fredette. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820364285. $32.95. Historians have long been interested in the Civil War’s...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TXBrig_1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/25/23
Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 8
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University Soldiers of the Texas Brigade Putting this series together has been enjoyable but also frustrating. None of the retrospective literature created by soldiers in the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/8138cTnXcuL-1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/20/23
HARRIS: Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered (2023)
Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered by William C. Harris. University Press of Kansas, 2023. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-7006-3533-7. $44.95. Across a career spanning nearly six decades, historian William C. Harris has produced important...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/4_5-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/15/23
Hints to Soldiers
The Soldier in Our Civil War, a multi-volume work about the Civil War published in 1893, showcases many of the illustrations that appeared during the conflict in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. The...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/71ofzyKXjWL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/13/23
OWENS: Consent in the Presence of Force (2023)
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469672137. Consent in the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81AOZSQ0CRL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/6/23
ROGER HEPBURN (ed.): Private No More (2023)
Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry edited by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn. University of Georgia Press, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 9780820363455. $24.95. What...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/91LE1cmhL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/30/23
ORR: The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2023)
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863: The Second Day by Timothy J. Orr. Illustrated by Steve Noon. Osprey, 2023. Paper, ISBN: 978-1472854640. $25.00. Osprey Publishing has long set the standard for handsomely...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/lee_1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/25/23
Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 7
A LIFE OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE (1876) In a postwar illustration, Robert E. Lee is depicted leading his men at Gettysburg. Three books containing Robert E. Lee’s testimony provide...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/81Mh5rRtKL._SL1500_-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/23/23
NUNLEY: The Demands of Justice (2023)
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Paper, IBSN: 978-1469673127. $27.95. The Demands of Justice examines “the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/71QxGBylZL._SL1500_-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/18/23
GOODYEAR: President Garfield (2023)
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear. Simon & Schuster, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-9821-4691-7. $35.00. He was the first front porch campaigner and the last president born in...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/61IpR1Ja80L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/9/23
GREENIDGE: The Grimkes (2022)
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge. Liveright, 2022. ISBN 978-1-324-09454-8. $32.50. Among the leading African American professionals at the turn of the twentieth century...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/61xCYVnPJdL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/2/23
O’NEILL: Small but Important Riots (2023)
Small But Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville by Robert F. O’Neill. Potomac Books, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-64012-547-6. $36.95. By the author’s own admission, Small but Important Riots has been...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/716Cs2CNdPL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 7/26/23
LOVOLL: Colonel Hans Christian Heg (2023)
Colonel Hans Christian Heg and the Norwegian American Experience by Odd S Lovoll. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023. Paper, IBSN: 978-1681342504. $19.25. Tens of thousands of foreign-born and first- or second-generation immigrants...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/shenandoah-600x600.jpg)
Published: 7/25/23
The Five Best Books on the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley
Library of Congress “Sheridan’s Final Charge at Winchester” by Thure de Thulstrup For the past two decades I have been fortunate to live in the place I research and write...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/71NRMy9j1bL-600x600.jpg)