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Published: 7/21/22
First Bull Run
On July 21, 1861, Union and Confederate forces clashed just north of Manassas, Virginia, in the war’s first major land battle. The engagment brought together inexperienced northern and southern volunteers,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/816XNkhP3YL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 7/20/22
SIMPSON: All for the Union (2022)
All for the Union: The Saga of One Northern Family Fighting the Civil War by John A. Simpson. Stackpole Books. 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0811770873. $34.95. In what can only be described as...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/B09KMC1VCH.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg)
Published: 7/13/22
ALFORD: In The Houses of Their Dead (2022)
In The Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, The Booths, and The Spirits by Terry Alford. Liveright, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-63149-560-1. $27.95. The same afternoon actor Edwin Booth was laid to...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CWdining-600x600.jpg)
Published: 7/11/22
Extra Voices: Salt Pork
Library of Congress In the Voices section of our Summer 2022 issue we highlighted quotes about one of the more common foods consumed by soldiers on both sides: salt pork....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/61mLDQVidJL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 7/6/22
EMBERTON: To Walk About in Freedom (2022)
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton. W.W.Norton, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1324001829. $28.95. In the middle of the Great Depression, the federal government launched an...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/91rP0WtRu9L-1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/29/22
NUSSBAUM (ed.): Gettysburg (2022)
Gettysburg: Remembering the Civil War’s Most Decisive Battle: Three Days that Saved the United States edited by Ben Nussbaum. Fox Chapel Publishing, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1497103269. $14.99. No military engagement in...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/61c4WYXI4aL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/22/22
CARROLL: Invisible Wounds (2021)
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 978-0-80716-9667. $45.00. Historians of the Civil War have been fascinated by mental illness...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/lg-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/21/22
The Five Best Books on Lincoln and His Commanders
Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln was not a military man, yet in March 1861 he became commander in chief of forces that would soon face the task of suppressing an...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/91r7Xzvar4L-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/15/22
PURCELL: Spectacle of Grief (2022)
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah J. Purcell. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6833-8. $34.95. Early on the morning of Sunday,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/acwm_1-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/14/22
Grand Opening of American Civil War Museum’s Robins Theater
American Civil War Museum We recently asked Jeniffer Maloney, director of marketing and public relations at American Civil War Museum, about their new Robins Theater opening this month. She gave...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/flavill-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/13/22
Ticks in Camp
The Diary of a Young Officer Serving with the Armies of the United States During the War of the Rebellion (1909) Josiah M. Favill, 57th New York Infantry Josiah M....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81P1XYruAtL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/8/22
HARDING: Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story (2022)
Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story: The Ill-Fated Romance of General John Reynolds and Kate Hewitt by Jeffrey J. Harding. The History Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 9781467151597. $21.99. History is replete with heart-rending...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/lyman-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/3/22
Eyewitness to Cold Harbor
Meade’s Headquarters, 1863–1865 (1922) Colonel Theodore Lyman Between May 31 and June 12, 1864, the armies of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee clashed near Mechanicsville, Virginia, in the...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/91cUYjNijJL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 6/1/22
ELDER: Love & Duty (2022)
Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6774-4. $27.95. Historian Angela Esco Elder’s debut monograph...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/7114FVBAthL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/25/22
STAHR: Salmon P. Chase (2022)
Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival by Walter Stahr. Simon & Schuster, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1501199233. $35.00. Following up on his popular biographies of Secretary of State William Seward [2012] and...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/photography-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/23/22
Quick Picks: Civil War Photography Books
Library of Congress A Civil War photographer and his tent. Looking for good books on Civil War photography? We asked Ronald S. Coddington, author and publisher of Military Images magazine,...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/71Ucrv5PLbL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/18/22
REMSEN & UPP: Back From Battle (2021)
Back from Battle: The Forgotten Story of Pennsylvania’s Camp Discharge and the Weary Civil War Soldiers It Served by Jim Remsen and Brad Upp. Sunbury Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1620065396. $19.95....![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/81A37BEWojL-600x600.jpg)
Published: 5/11/22
JONUSAS: Hell’s Half-Acre (2022)
Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier by Susan Jonusas. Viking Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1984879837. $28.00. The discovery of the remains...![](https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/61r3V4GeAjL-600x600.jpg)