Book Reviews
Published: January 12, 2012 at 11:10 am
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt, 2011, $29)
Tony Horwitz is one of today's keenest commentators on the American character. In Midnight Rising, he turns his intuitive eye …
George Skoch |
Published: August 30, 2011 at 11:53 am
Two new books celebrate, in mostly commendable fashion, Michigan's contributions to the Civil War. Rick Liblong's Answering the Call to Duty: Saving Custer, Heroism at Gettysburg, POWs and Other Stories of Michigan's Small Town Soldiers in the Civil War (Arbutus …
Gordon Berg |
Published: July 20, 2011 at 10:11 am
Historynet ImageJudkin Browning's new book examines the Union occupation of eastern North Carolina
The residents of New Bern, N.C., awoke on the morning of March 14, 1862, to what sounded like thunder rolling up the Neuse River. It was …
Jon Guttman |
Published: May 20, 2011 at 10:25 am
Stunning photos dominate these coffee table tomes
The Civil War sesquicentennial has spawned a new—and not-so-new—wave of literature designed to introduce a new generation to the nation's seminal conflict. Among the first such books are three profusely illustrated volumes that …
Ethan S. Rafuse |
Published: September 08, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Remembering the Confederates' last stand at Petersburg: The Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg's Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865
by John J. Fox III
Angle Valley Press, 2010, $34.95
Although it typically doesn't attract the attention it merits, April 2, …
Robert K. Krick |
Published: February 24, 2010 at 6:02 pm
John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal
It would be hard to imagine a more vivid biographical subject than John Bankhead Magruder. The colorful, emotional and controversial Confederate general, a notable figure during the Army of Northern Virginia's 1862 defense of …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the Civil War, by James M. McPherson, Oxford University Press, New York,1996, $25. There are some books that you feel you ought to read, and there are other books that you can enjoy reading. …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Gunfire Around the Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaign of the Civil War, by Jack D. Coombe, Bantam Books, New York, 1999, $23.95. In most published accounts, the history of the Civil War is the history of massive land armies …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
New books tackle the 1864 Virginia bloodletting, Walt Whitman and campaigns in the Confederate heartland.
By Donald C. Pfanz On May 4, 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan River in northern Virginia, inaugurating what may have …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background, Tactical Use and Modern Collecting and Shooting, by Joseph G. Bilby, Combined Books, Inc., Conshohocken, Pa., $34.95.This artfully crafted book was honored by the 1997 Small Press Book Awards as a runner-up in …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Secret War for the Union, by Edwin C. Fishel, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, $35. This book provides the serious reader of Civil War history with another overlay through which to study the events of the war. In this …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
A look at the Civil War's second big battle, and an Iowan of General Ulysses S. Grant's western army airs his views.
By Earl J. Hess Historians are finally beginning to accept the battles west of the Mississippi River as …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
War Along the Bayous: The 1864 River Campaign in Louisiana, by William Riley Brooksher, Batsford-Brassey's, Dulles, Va., $24.96. Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' Red River campaign was undertaken to cut off Texas from the rest of the Confederacy, to …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Lincoln's Foreign Legion: The 39th New York Infantry, The Garibaldi Guard, by Michael Bacarella, White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., Shippensburg, Pa., $34.95.The Irish and Germans are the two nationalities that spring to mind whenever the subject of immigrants or …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Civil War in southern Louisiana involved much more than merely the capture of New Orleans.
By Kevin M. Hymel The Union occupation of New Orleans in April 1862, while very damaging to the Southern cause, did not bring an …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey, by Robert Sneden, The Free Press, New York, 2000, $37.50. In 1994, the Virginia Historical Society announced the purchase of four scrapbook albums of Civil War watercolors by Union soldier and cartographer …
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