Category: Civil War Books – New

  • Civil War Book Acquisitions: January 2013, Part 3

    Editor’s Note: Civil War Book Acquisitions is an ongoing series which allows me to highlight new books I’ve recently acquired and give readers an idea of upcoming Civil War books. Harvest of Death: The Battle of Jenkins’ Ferry, Arkansas by Joe Walker 978-1461021902 158 pages, 9 maps, illustrations, bibliography, footnotes, order of battle appendix, index.  […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation

    Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation by Timothy B. Smith Product Details Hardcover: 472 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (May 9, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 070061852X ISBN-13: 978-0700618521   Railroads were the “super highways” of the Civil War.  Unlike today, railroads went into towns and/or towns went to railroads.  During the war, both sides expended […]

  • Civil War Book Acquisitions: January 2013, Part 2

    Editor’s Note: Civil War Book Acquisitions is an ongoing series which allows me to highlight new books I’ve recently acquired and give readers an idea of upcoming Civil War books. The Wilmington & Weldon Railroad in the Civil War by James C. Burke 978-0-7864-7154-6 272 pages, 41 photos, 2 maps, 5 graphs, charts, appendices, notes, […]

  • Civil War Book Acquisitions: January 2013, Part 1

    Editor’s Note: Civil War Book Acquisitions is an ongoing series which allows me to highlight new books I’ve recently acquired and give readers an idea of upcoming Civil War books. The Battle of Petersburg by Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War 0-527-17558-7 Published in 1977, reprint from original. Out of Print. Kraus Reprint […]

  • Civil War Book Review: Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln

    Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln by Jason Emerson Product Details Hardcover: 640 pages Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press; 1st Edition (March 27, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0809330555 ISBN-13: 978-0809330553   Only one of Abraham Lincoln’s sons live long enough to marry and have children.  Christened Robert Todd Lincoln, he was […]

  • January 2013 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! January 2013 James W. Durney *********************************************************** New in the stores James M. Schmidt newest from History Press Galveston and the Civil War: An Island City in the Maelstrom is the only book I can find on the battle in January 1863. Lincoln and McClellan at War by Chester G. Hearn […]

  • Civil War Book Preview: Morgan’s Cavalry 1861-1862 by Lanny K. Smith

    Lanny K. Smith, the author of two massive self-published small print run volumes on the Battle of Stones’ River (Murfreesboro), one volume for the Union and one for the Confederates, has produced another Civil War book along the same lines.  This one, titled Morgan’s Cavalry 1861-1862, follows the raids of John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate Cavalry.  […]