Published: 1/26/22WHITE & GLENN (eds.): Untouched by the Conflict (2019)By: Gordon BergCategory: Book Reviews Untouched by the Conflict: The Civil War Letters of Singleton Ashenfelter, Dickinson College edited by Jonathan W. White and Daniel Glenn. Kent State University Press, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-383-7. $29.95. More than...
Published: 1/19/22GRASSO: Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy (2021)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Teacher, Preacher, Solider, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso by Christopher Grasso. Oxford University Press, 2021. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0197547328. $34.95. Born along the middle border in Franklin County, Ohio,...
Published: 1/5/22FOOTE: Rites of Retaliation (2021)By: Burrus M. CarnahanCategory: Book Reviews Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469665276. $22.95. By the fall of 1862, Jefferson Davis...
Published: 12/29/21RHEA: Stephen A. Swails (2021)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-8071-7626-9. $29.95. Among the many shelves of biographies...
Published: 12/22/21GUELZO: Robert E. Lee (2021)By: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1101946220. $35.00. “How do you write the biography of someone who commits treason?,” asks...
Published: 12/15/21SIMIONE, SCHMIEL, & SCHNEIDER: Searching for Irvin McDowell (2021)By: Frank JastrzembskiCategory: Book Reviews Searching for Irvin McDowell, Forgotten Civil War General by Frank P. Simione Jr., Gene Schmiel, and E.L. “Dutch” Schneider. Independently Published, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 979-8527312492. $19.99. While there are shelves of books about Ulysses...
Published: 12/8/21PATCHAN (ed.): Worthy of a Higher Rank (2021)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Worthy of a Higher Rank: The 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign Journal of Colonel Joseph Thoburn, Commander, First Infantry Division, Army of West Virginia edited by Scott C. Patchan. 35th Star Publishing,...
Published: 12/1/21PROCKO: Rebel Correspondent (2021)By: Sarah Kay BierleCategory: Book Reviews Rebel Correspondent by Steve Procko. Steve Procko Publications, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-7372834-0-9. $29.95. In 1901, Arba F. Shaw began writing a series of war reminiscences that were published in serialized form...
Published: 11/24/21MACKOWSKI & WELCH (eds.): The Summer of ’63: Vicksburg & Tullahoma (2021)By: Robert L. GlazeCategory: Book Reviews The Summer of ’63: Vicksburg & Tullahoma: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War edited by Chris Mackowski and Dan Welch. Savas Beatie, 2021. Cloth, ISBN:...
Published: 11/17/21SWARTZ: Passing Through the Fire (2021)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War by Brian F. Swartz. Savas Beatie, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611215618. $14.95. Savas Beatie’s popular Emerging Civil War series presents concise...