From the time technology allowed for the mass-production of half-tone photographs, publisher…
Book Review Editor’s note: in the March 2018 issue of our newspaper, we wrote of Richard Barksdale Harwell’s In Tall Cotton: The 200 Most Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher and Collector (1978). In our article we referred to fifteen of them. For this November “Book Issue,…
Originally published in the November 2018 issue of Civil War News.
Since November is the Civil War News annual book review issue, publisher Jack Melton suggested that I nominate some classic Civil War firearms books that still deserve a place on the bookshelves of both scholars and enthusiasts. There are so many and I am necessarily limited in space, but ha…
For every reader of Civil War history there is always the challenge, upon completion of a good book, of what next to read. Since the field of …
Edited by Earl J. Hess. Photos, notes, index. 270 pp. Louisiana State University Press, 2022. www.lsupress.org. $45.
By J. Matthew Gallman. Notes, bibliography, index, University of Virginia Press, www.upress.virginia.edu. 399 pp., 2021, hardcover. $35.
By M. Chris Bryan. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, 393 pp., Savas Beatie, savasbeatie.com, 2022, $34.95.
Edited by Chris Mackowski and Dan Welch. Images, maps, 312 pp., 2022. El Dorado Hills, CA.: Savas Beatie. www.savasbeatie.com. ISBN 978-1-6112…
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Edited by Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker. Notes, index, 352 pp., 2021. Louisiana State University Press, lsupress.org. Hardcover. $45.
By Robert C. Conner, Illustrated, Bibliography, Index, Casemate Publishers, www.casematepublishers.com, 2022, 210 pp., hardcover, $34.95.
Editor Ben Nussbaum. Photos, illustrations, 96 pp., 2022. Fox Chapel Publishing (Revised edition of Gettysburg: 150th Anniversary Companion Ho…
By Rick Fletcher and Athena Robbins, compiled and edited by Thomas S. Suhs. Illustrated, index, 256 pp., 2021. Self-Published: tsuh@hotmail.co…
Strategies of North and South: A Comparative Analysis of the Union and Confederate Campaigns. by Gerald L. Earley. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland 2…
Our Comfort in Dying: Civil War Sermons by R. L. Dabney, Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff. Transcribed and edited by Jonathan W. Peters. Pho…
Lincoln and Native Americans. By Michael S. Green. Notes, Bibliography, and Index. 176 pp., 2021. Southern Illinois Press, www.siupress.com. H…
Civil War Witnesses And Their Books: New Perspectives On Iconic Works. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman. Notes, Contributors, I…
Matchless Organization: The Confederate Army Medical Department by Guy R. Hasegawa. Endnotes, Appendices, Bibliography, Index, Illustrations. …
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox. By Caroline E. Janney. Photos, maps, notes, index, 344 pp., 2021. University…
They All Wore a Star: In the Fight for the Four-Gun Battery During the Battle of Resaca, Georgia May 15, 1864. By Robert G. Miller. (Mauvaiste…
Slavery Interpreting American History, edited by Aaron Astor and Thomas C. Buchanan, Kent State University Press, 2021. www.kentstateuniversit…
Rebel Salvation: Pardon and Amnesty of Confederates in Tennessee. By Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius, Map, appendix, index, chapter endnotes, and …
