Published: 6/23/23The Top Five Civil War BiographiesBy: Matthew Christopher HulbertCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress It may seem a cliche to preface my Top Five articles with the disclaimer that the subject cannot possibly be done justice by so few recommendations. Then...
Published: 6/21/23ACKEN (ed.): Through Blood and Fire (2023)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865 edited by J. Gregory Acken. Revised and Expanded Edition. Kent State University Press, 2023. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-454-4....
Published: 6/14/23KRAMER: Civil War Generals of Indiana (2022)By: Riley SullivanCategory: Book Reviews Civil War Generals of Indiana by Carl E. Kramer. The History Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467151955. $23.99. During the U.S. Civil War, some three million men provided their services to both the...
Published: 6/7/23TOWLE: African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom (2022)By: Daniel KotzinCategory: Book Reviews African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Ashley Towle. Lexington Books, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1666905717. $95.00. With this book, Ashley...
Published: 5/31/23MARTIN: From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge (2022)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War by Brian Martin. ECW Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-77041-638-3. $19.95. Josiah Henson, believed by many to be the inspiration for...
Published: 5/24/23HARMAN: All Roads Led to Gettysburg (2022)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War’s Pivotal Campaign by Troy D. Harman. Stackpole Books, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0811770637. $29.95. Nearly two decades after the release...
Published: 5/24/23Elmer Ellsworth’s Civil WarBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays On May 24, 1861, 24-year-old Elmer E. Ellsworth—colonel of the 11th New York Infantry—was shot and killed by the pro-secessionist proprietor of the Marshall House, an inn located in Alexandria,...
Published: 5/17/23HOOPER: Delivered Under Fire (2023)By: Tim TalbottCategory: Book Reviews Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail by Candice Shy Hooper. Potomac Books, 2023. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781640124486. $36.95. After the excitement of enlisting had faded, and the newness of soldiering had evolved...
Published: 5/9/23CIMPRICH: Navigating Liberty (2022)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich. Louisiana State University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-08071777990. $45.00. Published to great fanfare in 1964, Rehearsals for...
Published: 5/3/23PRIDE: Storm Over Key West (2020)By: Kevin McPartlandCategory: Book Reviews Storm Over Key West: The Civil War and the Call of Freedom by Mike Pride. Pineapple Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1683340935. $26.95. Florida often receives scant coverage from Civil War scholars, but...