Book Reviews

The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 2: From the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain, May 20 – June 27, 1864. By David A. Powell. Maps, photographs…

Thunderbolt to the Rebels: The United States Sharpshooters in the Civil War. By Darin Wipperman. Maps, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, index.…

Relics: A Guide to Identification. By William Plummer. Author’s note, forward, acknowledgments, introduction, appendices, index, photographs, 434 pp…

A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Jonathan W. White and William J. Griffing. Photos…

The Forgotten Senator: The Life and Character of Preston B. Plumb, by Johanna D. Wickman. Forward, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, photographs…

Holding Charleston by the Bridle: Castle Pinckney and the Civil War. By W. Clifford Roberts, Jr. and Matthew A. M. Locke. Map, glossary…

Reviewed by John D. Fowler

Reviewed by Jonathan A. Noyalas

Reviewed by John D. Fowler

War in the Western Theater: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War. Edited by Sarah Kay Bierle and Chris…

The War that Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher.Edited by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, Aaron…

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Hoosier Spies and Horse Marines: A History of the Third Indiana Cavalry, East Wing. By James A. Goecker. Illustrated, Bibliography, Notes…

Reviewed by Joseph A. Derie

Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22-July 23, 1864. By Edwin C. Bearss, edited by David A. Powell. Maps, photographs…

A Wilderness of Destruction: Confederate Guerrillas in East and South Florida, 1861–1865. By Zack C. Waters. Illustrated, bibliography, index, Mercer…

‘If We Are Striking For Pennsylvania:” The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg, Volume 2, June 22- 30, 1863. By…

Burnside’s Boys: The Union’s Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East. By Darin Wipperman. Photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 510 pp., 2023.…

More Than Just Grit: Civil War Leadership, Logistics, and Teamwork in the West, 1862, by Richard J. Zimmermann, McFarland & Company Publishers.…

Toss of A Coin: The Life of a Private in the Civil War. By W. Alan Sprague. Illustrated, self-published, 2022, 219 pp. softcover.

The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (1), The First Day. By Timothy J. Orr. Illustrated, bibliography, index, Osprey Publishing, 2022, 96 pp., softcover…

Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail. By Candice Shy Hooper. Illustrated, Notes, Bibliography, Index, University of Nebraska…

This unique work contains a complete photographic record of Georgia’s memorials to the Confederacy, a full transcription of the words engraved upon…

The Confederate Detective Service. By Ransom N. Hundley. Illustrated, bibliography, 258 pp., Knucklesamich Publishing, 2022, softcover, $30.00. And…

The Carnage Was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain. August 9, 1862. By Michael E. Block. Maps, photos, illustrations, appendices, order of…

Dreams of Victory. General P.G.T. Beauregard in the Civil War. By Sean Michael Chick. Index, Appendices, photos, Illustrations, Savas Beatie, 2022…

Yours Affectionately, Osgood: Colonel Osgood Vose Tracy’s Letters Home from the Civil War, 1862–1865. Edited by Sarah Tracy Burrows and Ryan W.…

Reviewed by Salvatore Cilella

When the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was completed, it ran from Columbus, Ky., in the north to Mobile, Ala., on the Gulf coast. The connection, however…

Lieutenant General James Longstreet: Innovative Military Strategist. By F. Gregory Toretta. Illustrated, notes, bibliography, Casemate Publishers…

Old Glory at the Crossroads 1861–1865: The Original and Complete Tribune Newspapers Civil War Centennial Comic Strip. By Rick Fletcher and Athena…

Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town. By Jill Ogline Titus. Gallery, notes…

Reviewed by Joseph Truglio

Reviewed by Wayne L. Wolf

Francis Marion and the Snow’s Island Community- Myth, History, and Archaeology. By Steven D. Smith. Maps, Photos, Illustrations, Endnotes…

Reviewed by Joseph Truglio

Our Comfort in Dying: Civil War Sermonsby R. L. Dabney, Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff. Transcribed and edited by Jonathan W. Peters.…

The Union Blockade In The American Civil War: A Reassessment. By Michael Brem Bonner and Peter McCord. Bibliography, index, notes, University of…

A Volunteer in the Regulars: The Civil War Journal and Memoir of Gilbert Thompson, US Engineer Battalion. Edited by Mark A. Smith.Photographs and…

Embattled Capital—A Guide to Richmond During the Civil War. By Robert M. Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw. Maps, Photos, Illustrations, Bibliography. 177…

Bullets & Bandages: The Aid Stations And Field Hospitals At Gettysburg. By James Gindlesperger Appendices, Notes, and Index, 360pp., 2020. Blair/…

Suppliers To The Confederacy Volume Four: From Brass Pins, Pistols and Swords to Warships. By David C. Burt. Illustrated, bibliography, appendices…

Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Rage and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror. Edited by Stewart L. Winger and…

An Immigrant Story. By Kenneth E. Burchett. Illustrated, Index, Notes, Amity American Publishing, 2020, 167 pp., softcover. Amity America.

This book, one of the Concise Lincoln Library Series, analyzes Lincoln’s reliance on his interpretation the nation’s Founding Fathers’ intent to…

Abraham Among the Yankees: Lincoln’s 1848 Visit to Massachusetts. By William F. Hanna. Illustrated, Notes, Bibliography, Index, 2020, Southern…

The 6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. By Eric R. Faust. Illustrated, notes, appendices, index, bibliography, 2020, McFarland and…

Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War, 1861–1865. By Clint Crowe. Bibliography, footnotes, photographs, maps, index. 300 pp.…

Reviewed by Wayne L. Wolf

Generals Killed At Gettysburg: Battle Summary Included. Edit by Joe Mieczkowski. Illustrations, Photos, Appendix, Index, 2020, 152 pp., Pedia Press…

The River Was Dyed With Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow. By Brian Steel Wills. Illustrated, appendix, notes, bibliography, 288 pp.…

The Spirits of Bad Men Made Perfect: The Life and Diary of Confederate Artillerist William Ellis Jones. By Constance Hall Jones. Maps, Photos…

In this novel of historical fiction, the author uses the life of his distant ancestor, Thomas Hanner Lyle, Company B, 14th Tennessee (CSA) Infantry…

Continuing the recent, and much welcomed, trend of books looking at the American Civil War as a global event is this one that examines various…

Gunpowder on Their Skirts: Military Heroines for the Blue and Gray. By Stephanie H. Ford. Bibliography, index, notes, glossary, photographs, drawings…

Untouched by the Conflict: The Civil War Letters of Singleton Ashenfelter, Dickinson College. Edited by Jonathan W. White and Daniel Glenn. 35…

Sharps Firearms: The Percussion Era, 1848–1865. Bibliography, endnotes, index, 439 pp., 2019. Northwood Heritage Press. $100 hardcover. Reviewed by…

The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina. By Philip Gerard. Selected sources, bibliographical references, illustrations…

100 Significant Civil War Photographs: Atlanta Campaign. By Stephen Davis. Introduction, bibliography, index, 126 pp., 2019. Historical Publications…

Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery. By Joseph P. Reidy. Illustrations, notes, bibliography…

The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864. By Hampton Newsome. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendices…

Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War. By Brian Steel Wills. Notes, bibliography, index. 416 pages. University Press of…

Reviewed by Brian S. Wills

Upon the Fields of Battle: Essays on the Military History of America’s Civil War. Edited by Andrew S. Bledsoe and Andrew F. Lang. Notes, index, 304…

Reviewed by Christopher L. Kolakowski

Reviewed by Stephen Davis

Lincoln’s Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America’s Greatest President. By Kathryn Canavan. Photos, notes, index…

J. Howard Wert’s Gettysburg: A Collection of Relics from the Civil War Battle. By Bruce E. Mowday and G. Craig Caba. Map, photos, appendices…

Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861-2015. By Timothy B. Smith. Photos, notes…

Two Against Lincoln: Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal Opposition. By William C. Harris. Photographs, notes, bibliography…

Determined to Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864, by Ryan T. Quint. Illustrations, maps, photos, index, online footnotes…

Reviewed by James A. Percoco

Reviewed by Jay Jorgensen

Armies in Gray: The Organizational History of the Confederate States Army in the Civil War. By Dan C. Fullerton. Notes, 1,338 pp., 2017. Louisiana…

A Confederate in Congress-The Civil War Treason Trial of Benjamin Gwinn Harris. By Joshua E. Kastenberg. Notes, bibliography, index, 198 pp., 2016…

Summon Only the Brave! Commanders, Soldiers, and Chaplains at Gettysburg. By John W. Brinsfield Jr. Maps, photos, appendices, bibliography, index…

Reviewed by Robert L. Durham

A Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat From Fort Donelson Through the Vicksburg Campaign. Edited by Gene Barr. Illustrated…

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ATTENTION ALL bookworms: Forage Blue Acorn Press’ on-line catalog of Civil War and WWI titles. Heavy emphasis on Western Theatre subject matter.…

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849. By Sidney Blumenthal. Illustrated, photos, notes, bibliography, index, 556 pp.…

Fighting for General Lee: Confederate Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade. By Sheridan R. Barringer. Illustrated, photos, maps…

You have to really be interested in slavery to appreciate this book. Besides having that appreciation, you had better be prepared to pay $65 to show…

This is the second volume of the Nathan I. Huggins lectures at Harvard University that I have read. The first, as eminent as this volume…

Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel Gone With the Wind and its cinematic adaptation by David Selznick have become America’s iconic story of the…