Category: Civil War Books – Authors
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Review: Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations (The Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by Howard Jones Product Details Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (December 18, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807833495 ISBN-13: 978-0807833490 A different view of diplomacy American diplomacy during the Civil War […]
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Review: Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858
Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858 by Craig Miner Product Details Hardcover: 305 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (September 3, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700616128 ISBN-13: 978-0700616121 “Bleeding Kansas” stirs the blood and invokes images from our national memory over 150 years after the event. One of the first violent national […]
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Review: Virginia at War, 1863
Davis, William C. & Robertson, Jr., James I. (editors). Virginia at War, 1863 (2008). 232 pages, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-0-8131-2510-7 $35.00 (Hardcover). Virginia at War, 1863 is the third entry in a series of five essay books on Virginia in the Civil War. The book, edited by well known Civil War historians William C. Davis […]
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Review: Entrepot: Government Imports into the Confederate States
Entrepot: Government Imports into the Confederate States by C. L. Webster III Product Details Paperback: 396 pages Publisher: Edinborough Press (October 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1889020370 ISBN-13: 978-1889020372 They say military professionals talk logistics. Not all the discipline and courage in the world is a substitute for weapons, ammo, clothing and food. Armies ignore […]
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Review: No Prouder Fate: The Story of the 11th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry
This is the first review for the second release of titles in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set series from Broadfoot Publishing Company. A significant portion of each review will show you how this particular volume compared to the others in the series in terms of regimental history length, amount of annotation, depth and print size […]
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Review: Fields of Glory
Fields of Glory: A History and Tour Guide of the War in the West, the Atlanta Campaign, 1864, Second Edition By Jim Miles It can be fun traveling in the footsteps of history. In fact there has been a recent upswing in “Heritage Tourism,” and with the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War quickly approaching I […]
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Review: Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862
Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862 By Hank H. Cox For four young Sioux men returning home from an unsuccessful hunting trip August 17, 1862 was a day just like any other in Southwestern Minnesota. But what started as an ordinary Sunday ended in tragedy when juvenile taunts lead to the slaying of a […]