Book Reviews
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Raising Holy Hell, by Bruce Olds, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1995, $22.50. The story of John Brown is disturbing in a democracy. We comfort ourselves with the belief that, despite our differences, weare a humane and sensitive society …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Devil Knows How to Ride:The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and his Confederate Raiders, by Edward E. Leslie Random House, New York, $30).
By Richard F. Welch With the possible ex- ception of John S. Mosby, William Clarke …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, edited by Gabor S. Boritt, Oxford University Press, New York, $27.50.No battle in American history was more pivotal than Gettysburg. It is, without a doubt, the best-known engagement of the Civil War–and probably of all …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The women of the U.S. Sanitary Commission risked their own health to care for sick and wounded Union soldiers.
By William J. Miller In June 1862, a mere half-morning's ride from the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, Union Major General …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
General John Buford, by Edward Longacre (Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pa., $24.95). Union Brigadier General John Buford had his one brief moment of glory at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863. After fighting in Virginia at the first and …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Irish-born Confederate General Patrick Cleburne earned the high accolade, 'the Stonewall of the West.'
By John Wilson From Shiloh to Franklin, on some of the worst battlefields of the Civil War, Irish-born Confederate General Patrick Cleburne could always be counted …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Near the war's end, Confederate General Johnston struck one last, telling blow at Sherman's Union juggernaut.
By B. Keith Toney By March 1865, both North and South realized that the long, bloody Civil War that had raged for four years …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War, by Eric Mills, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., $29.95."On January 9, 1861–the same Wednesday that Mississippi quit the United States–thirty U.S. Marines came up from the Washington Navy Yard and garrisoned Fort McHenry at …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy, by Dennis J. Ringle, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 1999, $33. This book is the first in-depth study of all aspects of a common sailor's life in the Union Navy during the Civil War. It …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES: WARRIOR AND PRESIDENTIn the wake of the Northern victory in the Civil War, a nearly unbroken succession of bearded Republican war heroes enteredthe White House for the next three decades on the strength of their military …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $29.95.The Civil War caused severe upheavals in the lives of millions of Americans. After four …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Stuart's Tarheels: James B. Gordon and His North Carolina Cavalry, by Chris J. Hartley, Butternut and Blue Press, Baltimore, Md., $35.The image that immediately leaps to mind when someone says "Civil War cavalryman" is that of a dashing young …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
A new biography presents a fresh picture of General John Pope, and Robert Sneden's pictures are presented.
By Brooks D. Simpson If, as historian T. Harry Williams once put it, George B. McClellan was the "problem child" of the Civil …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Distant and authoritarian, Union general Don Carlos Buell lacked the common touch needed for effective command.
By Cowan Brew West Point-educated Don Carlos Buell should have been one of the Union's greatest Civil War generals. A spit-and-polish Regular soldier, a …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Confederates in the Attic, by Tony Horwitz, Pantheon Books, New York, 1998, $27.50. The Civil War looms large in the minds of Americans. Diverse groups have immersed themselves in the literature and regalia of the war. In Confederates in the …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 18201861, by Stephen B. Oates, HarperCollins, New York, 1997, $28.The vast pantheon of Civil War literature is graced with titles focusing on the underlying causes of America's bloodiest conflict. Politics and economics, …
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