Category: Civil War Books – Authors
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Books and Sales
People are talking about books and sales, so I may as well add my $.02. Drew Wagenhoffer is blogging about POD (Print on Demand) books. I had some advance copies of the sharpshooter book made up that way, which looked better than bound galleys, and was amazed to see how far the process has come. […]
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Review: Shock Troops of the Confederacy by Fred Ray
http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Books/ACWUnitHistories/ShockTroopsConfederacySharpshootersRay.html Note: For those of you who missed it, you might want to check out my multi-part summary of the book, starting with Part 1. Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia. Fred L. Ray. Asheville, NC: CFS Press (2006). 432 pp. 43 maps. Review Fred Ray’s Shock […]
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Book Purchases: May 23 to June 5, 2006
Michael A. Palmer. Lee Moves North : Robert E. Lee on the Offensive. Wiley, March 19, 1998. I’ve heard some good and some bad things about this one. The author apparently argues that Lee was at his best on the strategic defensive, and that the Confederacy had no need for a strategic offensive. He also […]
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Taken At The Flood: Robert E. Lee & Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862
Taken At The Flood: Robert E. Lee & Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Joseph L. Harsh Taken At The Flood picks up where Confederate Tide Rising left off. On September 2, 1862, Robert E. Lee had been in command of the Army of Northern Virginia for almost three months. In that […]
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Review In Brief: Thirty-Six Hours Before Appomattox, April 6 And 7, 1865
Books on the Appomattox Campaign Thirty-Six Hours Before Appomattox by Christopher M. Calkins 80 pp., 18 maps, numerous illustrations This little-known gem was self-published by the author in the 1980’s. It makes a perfect prequel to Calkins’ book Battles of Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House, April 8-9, 1865, an entry in the H.E. Howard […]
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Review: Confederate Tide Rising
Books On Civil War Strategy Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862. Joseph L. Harsh. Kent State University Press (January, 1998). 296 pp. 7 maps. This is a review and summary of Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh. […]