Category: Civil War Books – Authors
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Review: Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863
Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863 by Scott L. Mingus Sr. Product Details Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: Ironclad Publishing; 1ST edition (February 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0967377080 ISBN-13: 978-0967377087 Histories of the Gettysburg Campaign dismiss The Pennsylvanian response with no more than a page. The hapless state militia breaks at the first rumor […]
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Joseph R. Reinhart Responds to Chancellorsville and the Germans Review
I recently received a long and interesting email from TOCWOC reader Joseph R. Reinhart about my review of Christian Keller’s book Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. Mr. Reinhart has been researching German-American involvement in the Civil War for over 15 years. He is the editor of August Willich’s Gallant Dutchmen: […]
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Review: Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History
Maier, Larry B. and Stahl, Joseph W. Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History. McFarland (August 15, 2008). 222 pages, many illustrations, index. ISBN: 978-0786433100 $55.00 (Hardcover). Did Civil War soldiers have dog tags? Surprisingly, yes they did, and they are referred to today as “identification […]
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Review: The 13th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry C.S.A. by Mike Wadsworth
This is the third of four reviews scheduled for Tuesdays in March. Each review will cover one of the first four volumes of 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 […]
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An Interview With Author Jim Parrish
UPDATE: Drew Wagenhoffer has a complimentary review of Parrish’s book on Civil War Books and Authors. John Fox, the man behind Angle Valley Press, passed along this interview with Jim Parrish, author of the recently-released Wiregrass to Appomattox, a history of the 50th Georgia. I have a copy but have not yet had a chance […]
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Review: Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign
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Review: The 14th South Carolina by Robert K. Krick
This is the second of four reviews scheduled for Tuesdays in March. Each review will cover one of the first four volumes of 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 […]