Published: 6/6/12MCWHIRTER: Battle Hymns (2012)By: Randy FinleyCategory: Book Reviews Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War by Christian McWhirter. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth, ISBN: 0807835500. $39.95. In Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity...
Published: 5/30/12REARDON: With a Sword in One Hand (2012)By: John R. NeffCategory: Book Reviews With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North by Carol Reardon. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cloth,...
Published: 5/23/12PATCHAN: Second Manassas (2011)By: Lawrence Kreiser, Jr.Category: Book Reviews Second Manassas: Longstreet’s Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge by Scott C. Patchan. Potomac Book, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1597976873. $26.95. The fighting around Manassas Junction in northern Virginia during the...
Published: 5/16/12SCARBOROUGH: The Allstons of Chicora Wood (2011)By: Alex MacaulayCategory: Book Reviews The Allstons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry by William K. Scarborough. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807138436.$35.00. The Allstons of Chicora Wood is an...
Published: 5/16/12CARNEY: Ministers and Masters (2011)By: John J. Langdale IIICategory: Book Reviews Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood, and Honor in the Old South by Charity R. Carney. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 080713886X. $35.00. Over the last several decades, scholars of...
Published: 5/9/12LAUSE: A Secret Society History of the Civil War (2011)By: Matt GallmanCategory: Book Reviews A Secret Society History of the Civil War by Mark A. Lause. University of Illinois Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0252036557. $35.00. When historians of the Civil War think about wartime “secret...
Published: 5/2/12McKnight: CONFEDERATE OUTLAW (2011)By: William FeisCategory: Book Reviews Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia by Brian D. McKnight. Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0807137693. $34.95. Scholarly interest in Civil War guerrillas has burgeoned...
Published: 5/2/12MILLER: John Bell Hood (2010)By: James MartenCategory: Book Reviews John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory by Brian C. Miller. University of Tennessee Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 1572337028. $37.95. The Civil War destroyed John Bell Hood’s life....
Published: 4/25/12LOEWEN & SEBESTA (eds.): The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader (2010)By: Jon D. BohlandCategory: Book Reviews The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause edited by James Loewen and Edward Sebesta. The University Press of Mississippi, 2010. Paper, ISBN: 1604732199. $25.00. The great...
Published: 4/25/12FOLLETT, FONER, JOHNSON (eds.): Slavery’s Ghost (2011)By: Joshua D. RothmanCategory: Book Reviews Slavery’s Ghost: The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation edited by Richard Follett, Eric Foner, and Walter Johnson. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 1421402351. $45.00. A...