Published: 1/11/23MORGAN III: Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell (2022)By: A.J. BlaylockCategory: Book Reviews Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell: The Battle of Secessionville, June 16, 1862 by James A. Morgan III. Savas Beatie, 2022. Paper, IBSN: 978-1611216011. $16.95. James A. Morgan takes...
Published: 1/4/23FULLER & KNIGHT (eds.): Contemners and Serpents (2022)By: George C. RableCategory: Book Reviews Contemners and Serpents: The James Wilson Family Civil War Correspondence edited by Theodore Albert Fuller and Thomas Daniel Knight. Mercer University Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-88146-869-5. $45.00. Contemners and Serpents presents the...
Published: 12/28/22MINGUS, SR., & WITTENBERG: “If We are Striking for Pennsylvania” (2022)By: Codie EashCategory: Book Reviews “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg, Volume 1: June 3-21, 1863 by Scott L. Mingus, Sr., and...
Published: 12/21/22COBB: C. Vann Woodward (2022)By: Aaron David HyamsCategory: Book Reviews C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian by James C. Cobb. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469670218. $37.50. For anyone who teaches, writes, or reads Southern History, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999)...
Published: 12/14/22REDD: Hidden History of Civil War Florida (2022)By: Angela ZombekCategory: Book Reviews Hidden History of Civil War Florida by Robert Redd. The History Press, 2022. Paper, ISBN: 978-1467150873. $21.99. Volumes have been written about major Civil War battles, military and political leaders, and...
Published: 12/7/22PASLEY & HAMMOND (eds.): A Fire Bell in the Past (2021)By: Josh WaddellCategory: Book Reviews A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume I: Western Slavery, National Impasse edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond. University of Missouri Press, 2021. Cloth,...
Published: 11/30/22TURLEY: The Gospel of Freedom (2022)By: Caleb W. SouthernCategory: Book Reviews The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad by Alicestyne Turley. University Press of Kentucky, 2022. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0813195476. $40.00. Black Evangelical churches in Kentucky formed “an organized ‘underground’...
Published: 11/23/22GREEN, JR.: The Nashville and Decatur Railroad in the Civil War (2022)By: Scott Mingus, Sr.Category: Book Reviews The Nashville and Decatur Railroad in the Civil War: History of an Embattled Railroad by Walter R. Green Jr. McFarland, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1476688527. $39.95. The Civil War was the first...
Published: 11/16/22BROWNING & SILVER: An Environmental History of the Civil War (2020)By: Brett BagurCategory: Book Reviews An Environmental History of the Civil War by Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469655383. $32.50. Building on a growing body of scholarship, authors...
Published: 11/9/22LINK: The Last Fire-Eater (2022)By: Brian Matthew JordanCategory: Book Reviews The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity by William A. Link. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0-8071-7821-8. $30.00. This slender volume took...