Civil War Times Book Reviews
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Confederate Cookbook: Family Favorites from the Sons of Confederate Veterans, edited by Lynda Moreau, Pelican, (504) 368-1175, 382 pages, $25.
There's something about the Civil War that makes people want to travel back in time to find out what …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
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Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Civil War in Depth: History in 3-D, Bob Zeller, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 120 pages, $24.95
Nowadays, 3-D photography is a special effect used chiefly in science fiction movies. But 135 years ago and through the turn of the …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Everyday Life during the Civil War: A Guide for Writers, Students and Historians, by Michael J. Varhola, Writer's Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1-800-289-0963, 274 pages, softcover, $16.99.
One hundred and thirty-five years after the last shots were fired, public fascination …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
THE CIVIL WAR TRUST'S OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE CIVIL WAR DISCOVERYTRAILThe Civil War Trust's Official Guide to the Civil War Discovery Trail, Macmillan Travel, New York, 267 pages, $11.95, available directly from the Trust at 888-CWTRAIL. Provides brief descriptions …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
STEVEN CRANE'S NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR: THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE: AN HISTORICALLY ANNOTATED EDITIONStephen Crane's Novel of the Civil War: The Red Badge of Courage: An Historically Annotated Edition, edited by Charles J. LaRocca, Purple Mountain, Fleischmanns, …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend, by Lesley J. Gordon, University of North Carolina Press, P.O. Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC 27515, 269 pages, $29.95.
George E. Pickett is a demanding subject for a biographer. He left behind …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War, by Duane Schultz, W.W. Norton, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110, 298 pages, $25.95.
With his book The Dahlgren Affair, Duane Schultz, an adjunct professor of psychology at the …
Published: August 12, 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, 213 pages, $24.95).
Island No. 10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley is the first book ever to be devoted entirely …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
CUSTER REDEEMEDGeorge Armstrong Custer, the controversial Civil War cavalier and perennialbad boy of Western history, will not go away. It has been asserted thatmore ink has been spilled over his famed 1876 last stand, in Montana, thanover any other …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
THE ARMIES OF U.S. GRANT The Armies of U.S. Grant by James R. Arnold, Arms and Armour, London, distributed by Sterling, New York, 320 pages, $29.95. Arnold traces Ulysses S. Grant's lineage of Civil War commands from colonel of the …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
THE TRUTH IN FICTIONAmbrose Bierce's writing is not for the squeamish. Describing a soldier he saw dying at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, in April 1862, he wrote: "He lay face upward, taking his breath in convulsive, rattling snorts, and blowing …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
LINCOLN'S UNKNOWN PRIVATE LIFE: AN ORAL HISTORY BY HIS BLACK HOUSEKEEPER, MARIAH VANCE, 1850-60 Lincoln's Unknown Private Life: An Oral History by His Black Housekeeper, Mariah Vance, 1850-60, edited by Lloyd Ostendorf and Walter Oleksy, Hastings House, Mamaroneck, New York, …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865, by Brooks Simpson, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 523 pages, $35.
In Let Us Have Peace (1991), Brooks Simpson's first book about Ulysses S. Grant, Simpson told us what we already knew about his …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
MORE GENERALS IN GRAYMore Generals in Gray by Bruce S. Allardice, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 319 pages, hardcover, $19.95. Allardice presents biographical information on 137 Confederate officers who didn't ascend beyond the rank of colonel but in …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Shades of Blue and Gray: An Introductory Military History of the Civil War, by Herman Hattaway, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 295 pages, $29.95.
No book answers a question that is not asked. Herman Hattaway obviously has benefited from his …
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