Published: 9/1/21BYRD: A Holy Baptism of Fire & Blood (2021)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews A Holy Baptism of Fire & Blood: The Bible & the American Civil War by James P. Byrd. Oxford University Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-19-090279-7. $34.95. Historians of the U.S. Civil War have...
Published: 8/25/21HUGHES: Unlike Anything That Ever Floated (2021)By: J. Ross DancyCategory: Book Reviews Unlike Anything that Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8–9, 1862 by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes. Savas Beatie, LLC, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-61121-525-0. $14.95. From...
Published: 8/18/21GOSSE: The First Reconstruction (2021)By: Lucien HolnessCategory: Book Reviews The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War by Van Gosse. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6010-3. $39.95. The First Reconstruction provides a new account...
Published: 8/11/21STANLEY: Grand Army of Labor (2021)By: David A. ZondermanCategory: Book Reviews Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley. University of Illinois Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-0252043741. $30.00. The memory and meaning of...
Published: 8/4/21DRETSKE: The Bonds of War (2021)By: Damian ShielsCategory: Book Reviews The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit De Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry by Diana L. Dretske. Southern Illinois University Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8093-3820-7....
Published: 7/28/21WYNSTRA: No Place for Glory (2021)By: Robert L. GlazeCategory: Book Reviews No Place for Glory: Major General Robert E. Rodes and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg by Robert J. Wynstra. Kent State University Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-60635-410-0. $55.00. Robert J. Wynstra has...
Published: 7/21/21WAITE: West of Slavery (2021)By: Cecily N. ZanderCategory: Book Reviews West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire by Kevin Waite. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469663197. $29.95. As an historian of the Civil War’s westernmost...
Published: 7/14/21TRAMMELL & TERRELL: Civil War Richmond (2021)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Civil War Richmond: The Last Citadel by Jack Trammell and Guy Terrell. The History Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467145893. $21.99. In the vast realm of Civil War studies, few individual cities...
Published: 7/7/21STAHL & BORDERS: Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain & Harpers Ferry (2021)By: Eugene D. SchmielCategory: Book Reviews Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain & Harpers Ferry by Joseph Stahl and Matthew Borders. The History Press, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467147439. $21.99. Bell Irvin Wiley’s books, The Life of Johnny...
Published: 6/30/21BIELSKI: A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy (2021)By: Riley SullivanCategory: Book Reviews A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy: The Fall of New Orleans, 1862 by Mark F. Bielksi. Savas Beatie, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611214895. $14.95. When one thinks of the Civil War, they often...