Published: 4/22/24War Poems of “Howard Glyndon”By: Laura C. Redden Category: The Front Line In 1864, 25-year-old Maryland native Laura Catherine Redden published her first book of poetry, Idyls of Battle, and Poems of the Rebellion. Redden, who had lost her hearing at age...
Published: 4/17/24SWANSON: A Man of Bad Reputation (2023)By: Riley SullivanCategory: Book Reviews Drew A. Swanson's "A Man of Bad Reputation" attempts to unravel the contested history of Reconstruction North Carolina.
Published: 4/15/24The Myth of the Civil War SniperBy: Scott HippensteelCategory: Science of War What do Union generals John Reynolds, William Sanders, Stephen Weed, and John Sedgwick have in common? According to traditional historiography, each man was killed by a sharpshooter who targeted him,...
Published: 4/10/24OVIES: The Boy Generals (2023)By: Jonathan A. Noyalas Category: Book Reviews Adolfo Ovies's fine study will appeal widely to those interested in Merritt, Custer, and all things related to the Union cavalry.
Published: 4/8/24Extra Voices: Losing ComradesBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line In the Voices section of our Winter 2023 issue we highlighted quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about the loss of a comrade. Unfortunately, we didn’t have room to include all that we found. Below are those that just missed the cut.
Published: 4/3/24WALLACE: The Aftermath of the Battle of Little BighornBy: Aaron David HyamnsCategory: Book Reviews This is the second installment of author Wendy Ann Wallace’s multivolume, “iconoclast” history of George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Published: 4/1/24Lincoln’s Imagined WestBy: Cecily ZanderCategory: War in the West In the midst of World War II, T.S. Eliot finished a series of poems that were collected in 1943 as Four Quartets. A prominent theme in the last poem, “Little Gidding,” is time and the place of humanity in history. In the penultimate stanza Eliot attests that “to make an end is to make a beginning.
Published: 3/27/24FIELDS-BLACK: Combee (2024)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Edda L. Fields-Black’s "Combee" is so much more than a campaign study of the June 1-3, 1863, raid led by the Underground Railroad conductor, nurse, and spy Harriet Tubman.
Published: 3/20/24BORDEWICH: Klan War (2023)By: Riley SullivanCategory: Book Reviews Fergus Bordewich's "Klan War" adds greatly to the growing literature on the Civil War's aftermath.
Published: 3/13/24WAUGH: Unforgettables (2024)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews In "Unforgettables," John C. Waugh draws short biographical sketches of the characters who have stood out to him personally during his many decades of study.