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  • Civil War Talk Radio: June 6, 2008

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  • Review: Three Days in the Shenandoah by Gary Ecelbarger

    Gary Ecelbarger. Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester (Campaigns and Commanders). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press (April 30, 2008). 273 pp., order, of battle, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0806138862 $29.95 (Hardcover w/DJ). Were Union troops even involved in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign? From reading many sources focusing […]

  • Review: The London Confederates

    The London Confederates: The Officials, Clergy, Businessmen and Journalists Who Backed the American South During the Civil War John D. Bennett ISBN 978-0-7864-3056-7 photos, gazetteer, chronology, appendices, notes, bibliography, index 214pp. hardcover (7 x 10) 2008 $55 McFarland & Company, Inc. Jefferson, NC Former reference librarian John D. Bennett, who lives in Leicester, England, has […]

  • Review: Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3 by Russel H. Beatie

    Russel H. Beatie. Army of the Potomac, Volume 3: McClellan’s First Campaign March 1862-May 1862. New York: Savas Beatie LLC; First Edition (2007). 723 pp., 36 maps, notes, index. ISBN: 1-932714-25-1 $45.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). Note: I’m getting around to viewing this one a little late. I thought I’d give readers some links to other reviews […]

  • Review: Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller

    Christian B. Keller. Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. New York: Fordham University Press; First Edition (May 15, 2007). 244 pp., 4 maps, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0823226504 $65.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). How serious a blow was the Battle of Chancellorsville to the collective German-American psyche? Christian B. Keller attempts to answer precisely […]

  • Campaign Antietam Screen Shots: Groveton and Second Bull Run

    Several weeks ago, I showed readers some South Mountain screen shots of HPS‘ newly released Campaign Antietam. As I explained there, despite being given the name “Campaign Antietam”, the game actually covers quite a few more battlefields, including First Bull Run (including Blackburn’s Ford, Henry Hill, and Matthews Hill), Second Bull Run (including Cedar Mountain, […]

  • Dave Powell Comments on The Hard Hand of War

    Dave Powell posted an excellent and lengthy response to my recent review of Mark Grimsley’s The Hard Hand of War in the comments section following the entry.  Dave brings up a great point about the lack of studies examining Confederate soldiers’ destruction of their own civilian property.  In order to allow the most people to […]