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Published: 11/13/13
BARNICKEL: Milliken’s Bend (2013)
Milliken’s Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory by Linda Barnickel. Louisiana State University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0807149926. $39.95. The past few decades have witnessed an outpouring of...
Published: 11/6/13
HOOD: John Bell Hood (2013)
John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General by Stephen Hood. Savas Beatie, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 1611211409. $32.95. If biographers are often guilty of loving their subjects...
Published: 10/31/13
An Interview with David Gleeson
Our conversation with David Gleeson, a Reader in American History at Northumbria University and author of “The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America,” now...
Published: 10/30/13
LINK: Atlanta, Cradle of the New South (2013)
Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War’s Aftermath by William A. Link. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 146960776X. $34.95. In recent decades,...
Published: 10/28/13
An Interview with Kathryn Shively Meier
Our conversation with Kathryn Shively Meier, an assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of “Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia,” published...
Published: 10/23/13
SERRANO: Last of the Blue and Gray (2013)
Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery that Outlived the Civil War by Richard A. Serrano. Smithsonian Books, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1588343952. $27.95. As America...
Published: 10/18/13
An Interview with Elizabeth Varon
Our conversation with Elizabeth Varon, the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia and author of “Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of...
Published: 10/15/13
REVIEW ESSAY: Mosby’s Raids (2013) and Morgan’s Great Raid (2013)
Morgan’s Great Raid: The Remarkable Expedition from Kentucky to Ohio by David L. Mowery. The History Press, 2013. Paper, ISBN: 1690494369. $19.99. Mosby’s Raids in Civil War Northern Virginia by William S....
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Published: 10/9/13
Wounded Warriors: Civil War Amputation
Learn about the realities of Civil War amputation and the difficult decisions doctors faced on the battlefield.
Published: 10/9/13
WESLEY: The Politics of Faith (2013)
The Politics of Faith During the Civil War by Timothy L. Wesley. Louisiana State University Press, 2013. Cloth, ISBN: 0807150002. $45.00. The past fifteen years or so have witnessed renewed scholarly...
Published: 10/9/13
The Wound Dresser
During the Civil War, renowned poet Walt Whitman served as a nurse. His battlefield medical career began at Fredericksburg, where he tended to wounded soldiers—including his brother. Deeply moved by...
Published: 10/9/13
Civil War Amputation…In Their Own Words.
Throughout the Civil War, surgeons performed approximately 60,000 amputations—the most common battlefield operation. Such drastic measures were a consequence of the damage caused by Minié balls, which often shattered and...
Published: 10/9/13
Civil War Medical Remedies
While these nineteenth century remedies might not cure what ails you, they make an intriguing read. For Dysentery Dissolve as much table salt in pure vinegar as will ferment and...
Published: 10/2/13
KEEHN: Knights of the Golden Circle (2013)
Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War by David C. Keehn. Louisiana State University Press, 2013.Cloth, ISBN: 0807150047. $39.95. Historians have long delved into the dynamics of...
Published: 9/30/13
The Civil War’s French Accent
In October 1862 during a wide-ranging meeting, the French Emperor Napoleon III asked Commissioner John Slidell why the Confederacy didn’t have a navy capable of breaking the blockade. The two...
Published: 9/25/13
The Petersburg Campaign (2012)
The siege of Petersburg remains one of the most understudied campaigns in the American Civil War. Although one can point to several fine studies of individual operations and a few...
Published: 9/20/13
An Interview with Ben Wright and Zach Dresser
Our interview with Ben Wright and Zach Dresser, editors of “Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era,” forthcoming from LSU Press. In the conversation, Wright and Dresser...
Published: 9/18/13
The World’s Largest Prison (2012)
A military prison need not have operated for long to warrant remembrance. That is the primary premise from which John K. Derden begins to record the short history of Camp...