Book Reviews
The digital home of book reviews and author interviews—and your source of the most up-to-date information on all things Civil War literature
Published: 1/16/19
Sixteenth President-in-Waiting (2018)
A detailed review of "Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860-1861," ed. by Michael Burlingame.
Published: 1/9/19
The Maps of Fredericksburg (2018)
A detailed review of "The Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign" by Bradley M. Gottfried.
Published: 1/2/19
Practical Liberators (2018)
A detailed review of "Practical Liberators: Union Officers In the Western Theater During the Civil War" by Kristopher A. Teters.
Published: 12/26/18
The National Tribune Civil War Index (2018)
A detailed review of "The National Tribune Civil War Index: A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943" by Richard Sauers.
Published: 12/19/18
Prison Pens (2018)
A detailed review of "Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863-1866," ed. by Timothy J. Williams and Evan A. Kutzler.
Published: 12/12/18
“This Infernal War” (2018)
A detailed review of "'This Infernal War': The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard," ed. by Timothy Mason Roberts.
Published: 12/5/18
Vicksburg (2018)
A detailed review of "Vicksburg: The Bloody Siege that Turned the Tide of the Civil War" by Samuel W. Mitcham.
Published: 11/28/18
Challenges of Command in the Civil War (2018)
A detailed review of "Challenges of Command in the Civil War: Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond" by Richard J. Sommers.
Published: 11/21/18
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations (2018)
A detailed review of "Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations," edited by Whitney Nell Stewart and John Garrison Marks.
Published: 11/14/18
Civil War Barons (2018)
A detailed review of "Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation" by Jeffry D. Wert.
Published: 11/7/18
General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky (2018)
A detailed review of "General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky: Assessing the “Reign of Terror” of the Summer of 1864" by Dieter C. Ullrich and Berry Craig.
Published: 10/31/18
In The Wake of War (2017)
A detailed review of "In The Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America" by Andrew F. Lang.
Published: 10/24/18
New Bern and the Civil War (2018)
A detailed review of "New Bern and the Civil War" by James Edward White III.
Published: 10/17/18
Frederick Douglass (2018)
A detailed review of "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" by David W. Blight.
Published: 10/10/18
The War Outside My Window (2018)
A detailed review of "The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865," edited by Janet Elizabeth Croon.
Published: 10/3/18
“Don’t tell father I have been shot at” (2018)
A detailed review of "'Don’t tell father I have been shot at': The Civil War Letters of Captain George N. Bliss, First Rhode Island Cavalry" edited by William C. Emerson with Elizabeth C. Stevens.
Published: 9/26/18
Wade Hampton’s Iron Scouts (2018)
A detailed review of "Wade Hampton’s Iron Scouts" by D. Michael Thomas.
Published: 9/12/18
Kirk’s Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge (2018)
A detailed review of "Kirk’s Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge" by Michael Hardy.