The Bookshelf

Showalter's "was the name that became most associated in California with treason after the outbreak of the American Civil War."

Destined to become a staple for anyone seeking a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the Gettysburg Campaign's opening weeks.

Singelyn and Barnard have produced a useful volume of letters that detail an officer's perspective about military life and Custer.

Blount's dynamic prose moves with the celerity of Wilson's mounted columns.

The Dunker Church on the Antietam battlefield is one of the most iconic and distinctive buildings of the American Civil War.

Villard's newspaper dispatches are a rich resource for students of the Secession Winter.

A top-notch operational study that benefits from Gottfried's judicious insights and experience as a military historian.

Teters parses and explains well the complexity of how emancipation played out on the ground, making his book a valuable contribution to the literature.

...immediately takes its place on the short shelf of indispensable Civl War reference works.

[R]eveals how two members of the Civil War generation struggled with imprisonment...including that which did not take place behind prison walls.