2023

‘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…

(P-53) and the various “short rifles” (P-56/58/60), much less the exact model of short rifle. In the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion…

Confederates refusing these terms “will immediately be declared outlaws, and no terms thereafter granted them.”

He was so depressed that, referring to his work, he confided to his longtime friend, “I would consign every line of it to eternal oblivion for one…

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.…

size caps and loose powder). Nor did he realize that afterwards... by the time he had done his duty faithfully and well with the arms the government…

division in the III Corps, fell dead in the area over which Pender’s men attacked. Berry, who had risen in rank from colonel to major general without…

reports from “Southern sources” denied that Lee had surrendered and asserted that “Grant had lost in battle and by desertion 100,000 men.” In this…

Those behind them went madly rushing on, the drivers being quite indifferent whether glory or disgrace led the way, provided they could find it. In…

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

a pioneer in the oyster canning business going back at least to 1851, according to the Boston City directory.

destroyed captured supplies of “salt, oil, whisky, leather, stationery, wool cards, percussion caps, boots, shoes, clothing and many other articles…

of the political maneuvering is beyond the scope of this brief column, but it is an interesting story that readers may want to learn more about. We…

General Cooper reported to President Davis that he counted 233,586 men present for duty. No one knew the Yankees’ numbers, but they could be guessed…

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

in New York have been ordered to you.”

times during the day must have annoyed Morris and his men.

inefficient redistribution system compounded the depletion of supply. The disparate groups granting contracts, submitting requisitions, and having a…

when “Dixie” came around. “The whole ship would be in an uproar of enthusiasm” he recalled, “sometimes as many as a hundred voices joining in the…

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

Farragut, Winfield Scott, John Gibbon, Edmund Davis, and William R Terrill. Nevertheless, when Thomas stayed in the Union Army his true loyalties…

Stackhouse reported that evening “the enemy attempted several times to advance on our position, but succeeded only in reaching a defile 200 yards in…

towards the enemy. Within two or three shots a spent bullet hit his chest, sending Hovey staggering from the blow. Hovey plucked the bullet out and…

outright, wounding many more & taking 11 to 1200 prisoners—A brilliant & important victory, achieved by ⅓ of our force & with comparatively light…

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

Celebrate America’s History with Beer, that the beer ration on the Mayflower was a gallon per day for every man, woman, and child. This was not…

they would end up captured, or thought cowards who ducked the fight, Melcher believed “Our only chance was to cut our way through.” Finding a lightly…

Chapultepec Castle, a formidable obstacle three miles southwest of Mexico City. The castle stood on a hill about 200 feet above the plain and guarded…

Soon “he grew more than usually loquacious. The truth is,” Douglas noticed, “the General was incipiently tight.”

Inspection, ARMS! by Tim Prince, from the July 2023 issue of Civil War News.

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

by a gentleman possessing a true sense of the artistic, a deep reverence for the ingredients and a proper appreciation of the occasion. It is a rite…

Brothers Irby and Bud Scott served in the 12th Georgia Infantry, a regiment in Gen. George P. Doles’ brigade. (Public domain)

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

traveled to Montgomery and let Dick Taylor in on the plan. (Taylor didn’t like it either.)3

Inspection, ARMS! by Tim Prince, from the June 2023 issue of Civil War News.

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

It probably goes without saying that Dr. Salisbury was not married at the time of these experiments. He subsequently settled down and got married in…

Chancellor’s house for a visit. He was not home, but Mrs. Chancellor invited them in. Above the fireplace were images of Gen. Lee, Gen. Jackson, and…

Contemners and Serpents: The James Wilson Family Civil War Correspondence. Edited by Theodore Albert Fuller and Thomas Daniel Knight. Bibliography…

Lo Armistead is famous for leading his brigade to the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge in the third day of Gettysburg. Lesserknown is the charge the day…

gives me double reasons, beyond just my reading addiction, to read obscure books. I will be reviewing the 1855 version of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass…

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

of cloth is manufactured weekly, and about 450 blankets. The latter, of which large numbers have already been furnished to the army, are quite equal…

dense woods limited artillery to the roadway. Some Federal infantrymen started building improvised breastworks, but the Vermonters soon received an…

Each brigade, therefore, “bore the brunt of the massed enemy fire along a narrow front.” With 4,000 infantry and 16 cannon the Confederates repelled…

which has been won by the smaller over the larger force, where the inequality in numbers was so great that every participant in the struggle must…

Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War.

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

instances of smuggling personal necessities like soap and other items into the Southern states by Confederate sympathizers in the North, supply never…

Haupt and his Construction Corps again began repairing the RF&P. Haupt discovered that the damage done by Burnside’s soldiers in August was more…

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

who had opposed secession. In talking with him Fanny worked at being considerate. Once, after such a conversation, she confided privately,

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

At age 15 Crosby left for New York City, which at that time meant Manhattan, to attend the New York Institute for the Blind. She used her gift of…

Central Virginia Battlefields Trust’s latest preservation campaign involves a two-acre property that witnessed retreating XI Corps soldiers conduct a…

Mountain passes, rivers, fords, roads and (in modern times) railroads often determine how armies move and consequently influence where armies…

May 19-21, Virginia. Period Firearms Competition The North-South Skirmish Association 147th National Competition near Winchester. Over 3,000…

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A debate on a well-known Civil War internet forum centered around the American Civil War provenance of any 1853 British Enfield long rifles with a…

“It was the most destructive Artillery fire of the war,” claimed Capt. Thomas Henry Carter, who commanded a battery of Confederate guns at…

A grand Confederate monument stands on Broad Street in Augusta, Ga. It towers over the cars and people below and, at 76 feet, is taller than most…

General Scott was surely disappointed, as Dowdey observes, “It was known that Scott was finagling to hold a number of Southern officers in the army…