Published: 2/3/21ARRINGTON: The Last Lincoln Republican (2020)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 by Benjamin T. Arrington. University Press of Kansas, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-7006-2982-4. $39.95. No period in U.S. history has invited more counterfactual...
Published: 1/27/21HOOD: Patriots Twice (2020)By: Ryan BixbyCategory: Book Reviews Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War by Stephen M. Hood. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-515-1. $32.95. In Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building...
Published: 1/20/21POWELL & WITTENBERG: Tullahoma (2020)By: Fred L. Johnson IIICategory: Book Reviews Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23 – July 4, 1863 by David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN:...
Published: 1/13/21SMITH: The Thin Gray Line (2019)By: Sarah Kay BierleCategory: Book Reviews The Thin Gray Line by Michel Kenneth Smith. Independently Published, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1-0987-4013-9. $13.99. Civil War fiction often focuses on battlefield scenarios or romantic tales. The Thin Gray Line offers a new...
Published: 1/6/21CURRAN: Women Making War (2020)By: Heather Carlquist WalserCategory: Book Reviews Woman Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809338030. $26.50. In Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union...
Published: 12/30/20SADLER: Absalom Hazlett (2020)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Absalom Hazlett: A Loyal Soldier in John Brown’s Army by Spencer Sadler. Arcadia Publishing, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-1634992794. $21.99. Of all the violent incidents foreshadowing the Civil War, few compare to...
Published: 12/23/20CHATELAIN: Defending the Arteries of Rebellion (2020)By: J. Ross DancyCategory: Book Reviews Defending the Arteries of Rebellion: Confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River Valley, 1861-1865 by Neil P. Chatelain. Savas Beatie, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611215106. $32.95. In April 1861, artillery batteries of...
Published: 12/16/20McDONOUGH: William Tecumseh Sherman (2016)By: Mitchell G. KlingenbergCategory: Book Reviews William Tecumseh Sherman, In the Service of My Country: A Life by James Lee McDonough. W. W. Norton, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-393-24157-0. $39.95. Can anything new be written of William Tecumseh...
Published: 12/9/20ZVENGROWSKI: Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology (2020)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870 by Jeffrey Zvengrowski. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 9780807170670. $55.00. Jeffrey Zvengrowski, a professor at the University of Virginia...
Published: 12/2/20HESS: Storming Vicksburg (2020)By: Robert GlazeCategory: Book Reviews Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863 by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-6017-2. $40.00. Vicksburg has fared well in recent...