Books and Discussions
Published: 4/4/18
FRAKER: Looking for Lincoln in Illinois (2017)
Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: A Guide to Lincoln’s Eighth Judicial Circuit by Guy C. Fraker. Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. Paper, IBSN: 978-0809336166. $21.95. This is a delightful journey along the highways and...
Published: 3/28/18
CHERNOW: Grant (2017)
Grant by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2017. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1594204876. $40.00. The standard interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant’s life usually recounts an undistinguished West Point and antebellum army career ended by alcohol abuse,...
Published: 3/21/18
KEATING: The Greatest Trials I Ever Had (2017)
The Greatest Trials I Ever Had: The Civil War Letters of Margaret and Thomas Cahill edited by Ryan W. Keating. University of Georgia Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820351551. $26.95. Good or even...
Published: 3/14/18
AYERS: The Thin Light of Freedom (2017)
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America by Edward Ayers. W.W. Norton, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0393292633. $35.00. At first glance, The Thin Light of Freedom appears...
Published: 3/7/18
QUINT: Determined to Stand and Fight (2017)
Determined to Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864 by Ryan T. Quint. Savas Beatie, 2017. Paper, ISBN 978-1-61121-346-1. $14.95. Nestled in the pastures southeast of Frederick, Maryland,...
Published: 2/28/18
SODERGREN: The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns (2017)
The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns by Steven E. Sodergren. Louisiana State Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0807165560. $47.95. In 1998, J. Tracy Power published Lee’s Miserables, a groundbreaking analysis...
Published: 2/21/18
SCALES: The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest (2017)
The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest 1861-1865 by John R. Scales. Savas Beatie, 2017. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1611212846. $32.95. In 1868, with the nation in the midst of a contentious political realignment...
Published: 2/14/18
PERRY: Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies (2016)
Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies: The Lincoln Foreign Policy, 1861–1865 by David Perry. Casemate, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 9781612003627. $32.95. In this book, the author takes on one of the more fascinating—and...
Published: 2/7/18
McKNIGHT & MYERS (eds.): The Guerrilla Hunters (2017)
The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts During the Civil War edited by Brian D. McKnight & Barton A. Myers. Louisiana State University Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0807164976. $49.95. Brian D. McKnight and Barton...
Published: 1/31/18
BICKNELL: Lincoln’s Pathfinder (2017)
Lincoln’s Pathfinder: John C. Frémont and the Violent Election of 1856 by John Bicknell. Chicago Review Press, Inc., 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1613737972. $26.99. John Bicknell is an accomplished journalist and author who should be...
Published: 1/24/18
POWELL: Barren Victory (2017)
The Chickamaugua Campaign: Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863 by David A. Powell. Savas Beatie, 2017. Paper,...
Published: 1/12/18
HESS: Civil War Logistics (2017)
Civil War Logistics: A Study of Civil War Transportation by Earl J. Hess. Louisiana State University Press, 2017. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0807167502. $45.95. Earl Hess is a Civil War Renaissance man. In a career spanning...
Published: 1/10/18
HUNT: Meade and Lee After Gettysburg (2017)
Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign from Falling Waters to Culpepper Court House, July 14-31, 1863 by Jeffrey Wm Hunt. Savas Beatie, 2017. Cloth,...
Published: 1/3/18
PECK: Making An Antislavery Nation (2017)
Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle Over Freedom by Graham A. Peck. University of Illinois Press, 2017. Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0252041365. $34.95. Graham Peck’s first book tackles big issues...
Published: 12/27/17
BERRY & ELDER (eds.): Practical Strangers (2017)
Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder. University of Georgia Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-0820351025....
Published: 12/20/17
ECELBARGER: Slaughter at the Chapel (2016)
Slaughter at the Chapel: The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864 by Gary Ecelbarger. University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8061-5499-2. $26.95. The Atlanta Campaign’s significance to the Union’s triumph in...
Published: 12/13/17
FREY: Failure to Pursue (2016)
Failure to Pursue: How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War by David Frey. McFarland and Company, 2016. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476666693. $39.95. Since the end of the American Civil War, a...
Published: 12/6/17
TUCKER: Pickett’s Charge (2016)
Pickett’s Charge: A New Look at Gettysburg’s Final Attack by Phillip Thomas Tucker. Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-63450-796-7. $27.99. Phillip Thomas Tucker’s examination of Pickett’s Charge begins with a bold...