The Bookshelf

Ulysses Grant famously described the Battle of Lookout Mountain as "all poetry."

...an excellent addition to both western theater cavalry studies and the specifics of the battle of Stones River.

This is a delightful journey along the highways and byways of the circuit traveled by lawyer Lincoln...

...[I]f [Grant's] presidential ranking continues to rise, there is little question that Ron Chernow's exhaustive research and accessible writing style will be part of the reason.

Students of the war looking for insights into the connections between camp and home front will find the Cahills' letters to be quite rewarding.

Hindsight, Ayers understands, is often the enemy of understanding.

Early's daring raid is a colorful tale of retribution, diversion, anxiety, and shrewd political calculation.

Sodergren finds that the soldiers in the Army of the Potomac welcomed the change of pace afforded by the Petersburg trenches.

Forrest might say that Scales, while not getting there first, certainly got there with the most....

Often, the fate of separatist movements is decided not on the field of battle, but in the marble courts of diplomacy.