Published: 3/7/12LUBRECHT: New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War (2011)By: Scott ManningCategory: Book Reviews New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War: The Hussars of the Union Army by Peter T. Lubrecht. The History Press, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1609491327. $19.99. In New Jersey Butterfly Boys, Peter...
Published: 2/29/12WITTENBERG: Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry ActionsBy: A. Wilson GreeneCategory: Book Reviews Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions: Farnsworth’s Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg. Savas Beatie, 2011. Paper, ISBN: 1611210704. $17.95. This is the...
Published: 2/28/12Weird Essay WinnerBy: Frank GrzybCategory: Book Reviews This winning entry was submitted by Mr. Frank Grzyb of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, to The Civil War Monitor’s “Weirding the War Essay Contest”—an event held in honor of Weirding the War:...
Published: 2/22/12MARTEN (ed.): Children and Youth During the Civil War Era (2012)By: Catherine M. WrightCategory: Book Reviews Children and Youth During the Civil War Era edited by James Marten. New York University Press, 2012. Paper, ISBN: 0814796087. $25.00. Despite the explosion of social history since the 1970s, few...
Published: 2/21/12BLIGHT: American Oracle (2011)By: David SilkenatCategory: Book Reviews American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era by David W. Blight. Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0674048555. $27.95. David Blight’s Race and Reunion (2001) established him as...
Published: 2/15/12DAVIS & ROBERTSON (eds.): Virginia at War, 1865By: Michael B. ChessonCategory: Book Reviews Virgina at War, 1865 edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson. University of Kentucky Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0813134684. $40.00. The fifth and final volume of Virginia at War is the...
Published: 2/15/12FARMER-KAISER: Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau (2010)By: Carolyn ChesarinoCategory: Book Reviews Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation by Mary Farmer-Kaiser. Fordham University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0823232115. $80.00. “If women-whippers and negro shooters...
Published: 2/8/12MARSHALL: Creating a Confederate Kentucky (2010)By: Anne Sarah RubinCategory: Book Reviews Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State by Anne E. Marshall. University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 080783436X. $35.00. Nowhere is...
Published: 2/8/12ABRUZZO: Polemical Pain (2011)By: James Hill Welborn IIICategory: Book Reviews Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism by Margaret Abruzzo. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN: 0801898528. $55.00. Long before Americans, North and South, commenced to shooting...
Published: 2/1/12WILSON: The Business of Civil War (2010)By: Brooks D. SimpsonCategory: Book Reviews The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865 by Mark R. Wilson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Paper, ISBN: 080189820X. $25.00. At its core, Mark R. Wilson’s volume...