Books and Discussions
Published: 8/29/18
HARDY: General Lee’s Immortals (2018)
General Lee’s Immortals: The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Michael C. Hardy. Savas Beatie, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611213621.$34.95. Civil War history and...
Published: 8/22/18
PFANZ: Where Valor Proudly Sleeps (2018)
Where Valor Proudly Sleeps: A History of Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 1866-1933 by Donald C. Pfanz. Engaging the Civil War Series at Southern Illinois University Press, 2018. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809336456. $26.50. Today, the Fredericksburg...
Published: 8/21/18
COLLINS: A Crooked River (2018)
A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861-1877 by Michael L. Collins. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0806160085. $29.95. “It has often been said,” Michael L....
Published: 8/15/18
LLOYD: Harbor of Spies (2018)
Harbor of Spies: A Novel of Historic Havana by Robin Lloyd. Lyons Press, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1493032266. $24.95. Regardless of what skeptics claim, the Civil War was fought over the issue of...
Published: 8/8/18
LOPERFIDO (ed.): Death, Disease, and Life at War (2018)
Death, Disease, and Life at War: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865 edited by Christopher E. Loperfido. Savas Beatie, 2018. Paper, IBSN: 978-1611213591. $16.95. The...
Published: 7/25/18
TAGG: The Generals of Shiloh (2017)
The Generals of Shiloh: Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862 by Larry Tagg. Savas Beatie, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1611213690. $32.95. The Generals of Shiloh is designed to be a companion for anyone reading one...
Published: 7/18/18
MALAVASIC: The F Street Mess (2017)
The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act by Alice Elizabeth Malavasic. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-1469635521. $29.95. As a catalyst for party realignment, trigger...
Published: 7/11/18
HESS: The Battle of Peach Tree Creek (2017)
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood’s First Effort to Save Atlanta by Earl J. Hess. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469634197. $37.50. On the night of July 17, 1864,...
Published: 7/4/18
GREENE: A Campaign of Giants (2018)
A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater by A. Wilson Greene. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4696-3857-7....
Published: 7/2/18
The Best Gettysburg Books
Uncover the best books on the Battle of Gettysburg recommended by Civil War historians. Explore both nonfiction and fiction accounts of this pivotal moment in history.
Published: 6/27/18
FRENCH: Phantoms of the South Fork (2017)
Phantoms of the South Fork: Captain McNeill and His Rangers by Steve French. Kent State University Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1-60635-309-7. $39.95. In this narrative history, Steve French sheds light on...
Published: 6/20/18
CUTRER: Theater of a Separate War (2017)
Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865 by Thomas W. Cutrer. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1469631561. $40.00. As the subject evidenced in...
Published: 6/13/18
BALLARD: William Edmondson “Grumble” Jones (2017)
William Edmondson “Grumble” Jones: The Life of a Cantankerous Confederate by James Buchanan Ballard. McFarland & Company, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476670768. $39.95. On June 8, 1864, three days after the Confederate...
Published: 6/6/18
WILLIAMS: Georgia’s Civil War (2017)
Georgia’s Civil War: Conflict on the Home Front by David Williams. Mercer University Press, 2017. Cloth, IBSN: 978-0881466317. $35.00. The Civil War was as much a conflict within the Union and Confederacy as...
Published: 5/30/18
CONNOLE: The Civil War and the Subversion of American Indian Sovereignty (2017)
The Civil War and the Subversion of American Indian Sovereignty by Joseph Connole. McFarland & Company, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-1476670737. $35.00. In 1865, the Republican Party controlled most all levers of power...
Published: 5/23/18
WILLS: Inglorious Passages (2017)
Inglorious Passages: Non-Combat Deaths in the American Civil War by Brian Steel Wills. University Press of Kansas, 2017. Cloth, ISBN: 978-0700625086. $34.95. In October 1862, one month after the single bloodiest day...
Published: 5/16/18
COOK: Civil War Memories (2017)
Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865 by Robert J. Cook. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-1421423494. $24.95. On June 17, 2015, white nationalist Dylann Roof...
Published: 5/9/18
MACKOWSKI & WHITE (eds.): Turning Points of the American Civil War (2017)
Turning Points of the American Civil War edited by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. Paper, ISBN: 978-0809336210. $24.50. In his forward to this finely crafted anthology...