Book Reviews
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Judson Kilpatrick's failed raid on Richmond opened the way for a new and decidedly nasty kind of warfare.
By Phil NoblittIn the winter of 1864, Union cavalry commander Hugh Judson Kilpatrick visited the White House to propose a daring …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Lee the Soldier, edited by Gary W. Gallager, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1996, $45. America has produced more than her share of heroes. Some have even been called "beloved," but that title has usually beenreserved for those who also …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Outgunned and outsupplied, the fledgling Confederate Navy used technological ingenuity to level the playing field.
By Kenneth P. Czech When the Civil War erupted in 1861, the Confederate states were determined to protect their seacoasts and inland waterways. However, they …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Medical Histories of Union Generals, by Jack D. Welsh, Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, $35.Aside from the unwieldy records gathered in The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion and a handful of classics like …
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For Home and the Southland: A History of the 48th Georgia Infantry Regiment, by John Zwemer, NButternut & Blue, Baltimore, Md., 1999, $24.95. th Georgia Infantry Regiment went into action during the Peninsula campaign and fought in almost every significant …
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The Dulanys of Welbourne: A Family In Mosby's Confederacy, edited by Margaret Ann Vogtsberger, Rockbridge Publishing Company, Berryville, Va., $32. Civil War enthusiasts often get so caught up in the strategy and tactics of battles that they can lose sight …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln, by Douglas L. Wilson, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998, $30.Douglas L. Wilson's title, Honor's Voice, would seem to question the efficacy of monument-raising. The phrase "honor's voice" comes from Thomas Gray's …
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The Generals at Gettysburg: The Leaders of America's Greatest Battle, by Larry R. Tagg, avas Publishing Co., Mason City, Iowa, 1998, $29.95. After 136 years, the gallons of ink devoted to Gettysburg probably surpass the amount of blood spilled on …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, edited by Mark Grimsley and Todd D. Miller, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 2000, $38. The outpouring of Civil War-era diaries and memoirs …
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Sounding the Shallows: A Confederate Companion for the Maryland Campaign of 1862, by Joseph L. Harsh, The Kent State University Press, Ohio, 2000, $18 (paper). Joseph L. Harsh, a history professor at George Mason University, recently published Taken at the …
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Dark Days of the Rebellion, by Benjamin F. Booth and Steve Myer, Myer Publishing, Garrison, Iowa, 1995, $24.95. From the time the Civil War ended until around the 1960s, most material written on the war had a definite slant, eitherpro-North …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Chancellorsville: The Battle and its Aftermath, edited by Gary W. Gallagher, University of North CarolinaPress, Chapel Hill, N.C., $29.95. Mention the Battle of Chancellorsville to a group of Civil War buffs and a kaleidoscopic series of images will immediately flash …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Dancing Along the Deadline: the Andersonville Memoir of a Prisoner of the Confederacy, by Ezra Hoyt Ripple,edited by Mark Snell, Presidio Press, Novato, Calif., 1996, $19.95. Anyone with more than a passing interest in the Civil War knows that wartime …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
A magisterial new biography of Stonewall Jackson presents all sides of a complex, often inscrutable man.
By Richard F. Welch At the time of his death in May 1863, Lieutenant General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was the best-known Civil War …
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Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Civil War saved Walt Whitman, and in turn he helped save thousands of Civil War soldiers.
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Island No. 10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley, by Larry J. Daniel and Lynn N. Bock, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, $24.95.Because it was sandwiched between the major battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh, historians have relegated the action …
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