Book Reviews
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Theodore O'Hara: Poet Soldier of the Old South, by Nathan Cheairs Hughes, Jr., and Thomas Clayton Ware, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1998, $32. Few American poets are as widely quoted yet as little known as Kentucky-born Confederate soldier Theodore …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier, the Controversy, edited by R.L. DiNardo and Albert A. Nofi, Combined Publishing, Conshohocken, Pa., 1998, $27.95. When former Confederate general James Longstreet died in 1904, there was no great outpouring of grief throughout the …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Book Review: This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place, by Mark Bradley, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2000, $34.95. Jefferson Davis and his caravan of cabinet and family members escaped the fall of Richmond and fled through …
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An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman 153rd Regiment, New York Volunteers, 18621864, edited by Lauren Cook Burgess, Oxford University Press, New York, $9.95.During the Civil War years of 186165, countless letters were mailed home …
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Triumph and Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, by Terrence J. Winschel, Savas Publishing Co., Mason City, Iowa, 1999, $24.95. July 4, 1863, was known throughout the North as the "Glorious Fourth." On that day Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
In his provocative new book, The Confederate War, author Gary Gallagher revises the revisionists.
By Richard F. WelchOver the past 15 years an influential school of Civil War historians–now perhaps the dominant orthodoxy–has argued that class, race and gender …
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, introduction by Brooks D. Simpson, University of Nebraska Press (Bison Books), Lincoln, 1996, $26. For Civil War buffs and scholars alike, there are certain books that are required reading, as indispensable as ErnestHemingway's novels are …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The 1864 presidential election was the final crucial battle of the Civil War, and bullets, not ballots, decided the outcome.
By Roy Morris, Jr.Of all the presidential elections in American history, none was more crucial than the one that …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Lee's Last Major General: Bryan Grimes of North Carolina, by T. Harrell Allen, Savas Publishing Co., Mason City, Iowa, $24.95. The outbreak of the Civil War saw tens of thousands in both the North and the South answering the call …
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Amos Humiston, 'Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier,' comes to life in a touching new biography.
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
Old Enough to Die, by Ridley Wills II, Hillsboro Press, Franklin, Tenn., 1996, $24.95. For a state that saw thousands of its sons fight on both sides of the Civil War, diaries and memoirs from Tennessee soldiersaren't very numerous. This …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Pride of the Confederate Artillery: The Washington Artillery in the Army of Tennessee, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, $29.95.While the wartime experiences of four companies of the celebrated Washington Artillery of New …
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Ulysses S. Grant was an unremarkable man, except at the times when it mattered most.
By Richard F. WelchThe image of Ulysses Simpson Grant that has most endured with the American public is that of a brisk, no-nonsense general …
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Two volumes offer new interpretations and shatter some myths about the end of the Civil War.
By A. Wilson Green William Marvel knows how to tell a good story. He is also a master at debunking myths and reinterpreting historical …
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A new book on Robert E. Lee's Civil War generalship argues he was a victim of his own success.
By B. Keith Toney For more than 100 years, from the time of his death in 1870 until 1977, Confederate General …
Published: August 11, 2001 at 1:01 am
'Old Bald Head' Ewell was a much better general than his notoriously eccentric image sometimes suggested.
By B. Keith Toney With the possible exception of World War II, the American Civil War has been written about more often than any …
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