Published: 7/8/20WOODWORTH & GREAR (eds.): Vicksburg Besieged (2020)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Vicksburg Besieged edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8093-3783-5. $29.50. Since 2018, the Vicksburg campaign bibliography has grown considerably. In addition...
Published: 7/1/20NELSON: The Three-Cornered War (2020)By: Benjamin E. ParkCategory: Book Reviews The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson. Scribner, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1591152542. $28.00. Since the origins of the...
Published: 6/24/20WOLZ: Grand Army Women (2020)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Grand Army Women: The GAR and Its Female Organizations by Robert J. Wolz. Key West Publishing, LLC, 2020. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-9778528-5-7. $39.95. As the largest fraternal order for Union veterans, the...
Published: 6/17/20MINGUS & WINGERT: Targeted Tracks (2019)By: Jason TerchaCategory: Book Reviews Targeted Tracks: The Cumberland Valley Railroad in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Scott L. Mingus, Sr., and Cooper H. Wingert. Savas Beatie, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611214611. $32.95. The Civil War is often...
Published: 6/10/20RICHARDSON: How the South Won the Civil War (2020)By: Ashleigh Lawrence-SandersCategory: Book Reviews How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson. Oxford University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0190900908. $27.95. At...
Published: 6/3/20BARNEY: Rebels in the Making (2020)By: Melissa DeVelvisCategory: Book Reviews Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy by William A. Barney. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-19007-608-5, $34.95. Rebels in the Making,...
Published: 5/27/20HANNA: Abraham Among the Yankees (2020)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews Among the Yankees: Lincoln’s 1848 Visit to Massachusetts by William F. Hanna. Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. Paper, ISBN: 978-0-8093-3779-8. $14.50. In September 1848, a virtually unknown, thirty-nine-year-old Illinois congressman named...
Published: 5/20/20STEWART: Pinkertons, Prostitutes, and Spies (2019)By: Thomas J. RyanCategory: Book Reviews Pinkertons, Prostitutes and Spies: The Civil War Adventures of Secret Agents Timothy Webster and Hattie Lawton by John Stewart. McFarland & Company, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476679075. $29.95. John Stewart seeks to...
Published: 5/13/20RYAN & SCHAUS: “Lee Is Trapped, and Must Be Taken” (2019)By: Dan WelchCategory: Book Reviews “Lee is Trapped, and Must Be Taken”: Eleven Fateful Days After Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863 by Thomas J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus. Savas Beatie, 2019. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-61121-459-8. $32.95. Historians have...
Published: 5/6/20CONNON: Iowa Confederates in the Civil War (2019)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews Iowa Confederates in the Civil War by David Connon. Arcadia Publishing, 2019. Paper, ISBN: 978-1634991551. $24.99. By most estimates, approximately three million soldiers served during the Civil War. The border states...