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Published: 10/17/22
FRYE: September Suspense (2012)
September Suspense: Lincoln’s Union in Peril by Dennis E. Frye. Antietam Rest Publishing, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0985411902. $27.95. Close students of Civil War military history are familiar with the long career...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/osgood-600x600.jpg)
Published: 10/12/22
BURROWS & KEATING (eds.): Yours Affectionately, Osgood (2022)
Yours Affectionately, Osgood: Colonel Osgood Vose Tracy’s Letters Home from the Civil War, 1862-1865 edited by Sarah Tracy Burrows and Ryan W. Keating. Kent State University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1606354407....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/71o1YTuyfdL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 10/5/22
DALY: The War after the War (2022)
The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction by John Patrick Daly. University of Georgia Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820361901. $24.95. John Patrick Daly opens The War after the War with...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/71fdpuqGUiL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/28/22
BERRY: Count the Dead (2022)
Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469667522. $17.95. This little book packs...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/shermansmarch-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/28/22
Quick Picks: Sherman’s March Books
Library of Congress Looking to do some reading on William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea? We asked Bennett Parten, a professor of history at Georgia Southern University who is...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/astraggler-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/26/22
A Straggler
Harper’s Weekly “A Straggler” by Alfred R. Waud On March 28, 1863, Harper’s Weekly published Alfred R. Waud’s description, and associated illustration, of an army straggler—a class of soldier encountered...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/71lAVg7OHSL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/21/22
PINHEIRO, JR: The Families’ Civil War (2022)
The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. University of Georgia Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8203-6196-3. $26.95. Chasing the faint archival traces made...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/81yghkoQ5L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/14/22
COWIE: When Hell Came to Sharpsburg (2022)
When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and Its Impact on the Civilians Who Called It Home by Steven Cowie. Foreword by Dennis E. Frye. Savas Beatie, 2022. Cloth,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/unclejim2-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/12/22
“Union Jim” Williams
Harper’s Weekly “Union Jim” Williams The March 28, 1863, issue of Harper’s Weekly included the following article about, and illustration of, Jim Williams, a formerly enslaved man who assisted Union...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/61OjrX9scKL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/7/22
KNUDSEN: James Longstreet and the American Civil War (2022)
James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next Warby Harold M. Knudsen. Savas Beatie, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611214758. $32.95. James Longstreet and the American...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81yfgbfhUiL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 9/3/22
DAVIS & BELL (eds.): The Whartons’ War (2022)
The Whartons’ War: The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Bradford Wharton, 1863-1865 edited by William C. Davis and Sue Heth Bell. University of North Carolina Press, 2022....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/71A8nraXOSL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/31/22
BURTCH & BURTCH: W.G. (2022)
W.G.: The Opium-addicted Pistol Toting Preacher Who Raised the First Federal African American Union Troops by Donna Burtch & William Burtch. Sunbury Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1620069080. $16.95. Donna and William...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nativesoldier-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/31/22
The Five Best Books on the Civil War in the (Far) West
Library of Congress On the first day of my American West in History and Film class, I ask students to explain where the historical West of their imaginations is located,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/41WorRAE60L.jpg)
Published: 8/24/22
EDWARDS: Only the Clothes on Her Back (2022)
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Laura F. Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0197568576. $34.95. Princeton...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/battlefeed-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/22/22
Extra Voices: A Thirst For Battle
Anne SK Brown Military Collection In the Voices section of our Fall 2022 issue we highlighted quotes about the thirst for battle that consumed many Union and Confederate soldiers. Unfortunately,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/A1tjqMN1ToL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/17/22
LITWACK: Been in the Storm So Long (1979)
Been In The Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack. Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Paper, ISBN: 978-0394743981. $24.00. On the one-year anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize winning scholar...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Joseph_F_Knipe-552x600.jpg)
Published: 8/15/22
Major Knipe Winging a Secessionist
Joseph F. Knipe Library of Congress The following news item and image about an incident involving Union officer Joseph Knipe ran in Harper’s Weekly on July 20, 1861—the day before...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/61HNP-Lu9rL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 8/10/22
CHICK: Dreams of Victory (2022)
Dreams of Victory: General P.G.T. Beauregard in the Civil War by Sean Michael Chick. Savas Beatie, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611215212. $16.95. Among Southerners of the Civil War generation, no Confederate general...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/91VzT15v89L-600x600.jpg)