Published: 6/23/21KENNING: Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama (2021)By: William BaileyCategory: Book Reviews Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama by Thomas Kenning. Arcadia Publishing, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-63499-283-1. $23.99. In Abandoned Coastal Defenses of Alabama, Thomas Kenning provides a brief history of Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines,...
Published: 6/16/21HESS: Civil War Supply and Strategy (2020)By: Evan C. RotheraCategory: Book Reviews Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies by Earl J. Hess. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-00807173329. $48.50. Earl J. Hess is an exceptionally productive historian...
Published: 6/9/21DUNKERLY & CRENSHAW: Embattled Capital (2021)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Embattled Capital: A Guide to Richmond During the Civil War by Robert M. Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw. Savas Beatie, 2021. Paper, ISBN: 978-1611214918. $14.95. Since the sesquicentennial of “America’s defining event”...
Published: 6/2/21HUNT: Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station (2021)By: Jonathan A. NoyalasCategory: Book Reviews Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863 by Jeffrey William Hunt. Savas...
Published: 5/26/21NOE: The Howling Storm (2020)By: Lindsay R.S. PrivetteCategory: Book Reviews The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8071-7320-6. $59.95. The Civil War was fought outside. This seems like...
Published: 5/19/21ASHDOWN & CAUDILL: Imagining Wild Bill (2020)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory by Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809337880. $26.50. Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill,...
Published: 5/12/21JEMISON: Christian Citizens (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South by Elizabeth L. Jemison. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5969-5. $29.95. In Christian Citizens, Elizabeth L. Jemison uncovers...
Published: 5/5/21TEMPLE: Whisperwood (2020)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews Whisperwood: A Confederate Soldier’s Story of War and Conscience by Van Temple. Independently Published, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1087921761. $16.99. Whisperwood’s protagonist, Private Anderson Flowers, is based on stories passed down about author...
Published: 4/28/21BUNN: The Assault on Fort Blakeley (2021)By: John C. WaughCategory: Book Reviews The Assault on Fort Blakeley: The Thunder and Lightning of Battle by Mike Bunn. History Press, 2021. Paper, IBSN: 978-1467148634. $21.99. In the four years of the Civil War, Mobile, Alabama, made itself into the...
Published: 4/21/21HARRIS: The Last Slave Ships (2020)By: Jonathan W. WhiteCategory: Book Reviews The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage by John Harris. Yale University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 9780300247336. $30. In 1808, the U.S. government made it...