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Category: Civil War Books – New

Book Excerpt: The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864, Part 1

Editor’s Note: This post was first posted at The Siege of Petersburg Online and has been crossposted here. This series of posts offer a look at Sean Chick’s new book The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864. The Battle of Petersburg was part of Grant’s First Offensive against Petersburg. Sean Michael Chick is a 33 […]

April 20, 2015
Civil War Book Review: Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi by Donald S. Frazier

Frazier, Donald S. Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi. (State House Press: March 2015). 500 pages, 125 illustrations, 30 maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-933337-63-0. $39.99 (Cloth) — Blood on the Bayou, the third installment in what is called Frazier’s Louisiana Quadrille, begins “This is not the book I intended to write.” […]

March 22, 2015
Civil War Book Review: The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood by Stephen Hood

Hood, Stephen M. The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood. (Savas Beatie: January 2015). 312 pages, 56 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-61121-182-5. $32.95 (Cloth) It’s not often that a significant cache of personal papers from a Confederate army commander is found. But that is exactly why the book being reviewed right now […]

March 9, 2015
Civil War Book Preview: Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters by Myron J. Smith, Jr.

Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters: 956 Confederate and Union Naval and Military Personnel, Contractors, Politicians, Officials, Steamboat Pilots and Others by Myron J. Smith, Jr. Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6967-3 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-1698-8 149 photos, appendices, bibliography, index 340pp. softcover (8.5 x 11) 2015 Price: $75.00 TOCWOC’s Take: Myron J. Smith’s name is well-known to […]

March 2, 2015
Civil War Book Preview: Jefferson Davis’s Flight from Richmond by John Stewart

Jefferson Davis’s Flight from Richmond: The Calm Morning, Lee’s Telegrams, the Evacuation, the Train, the Passengers, the Trip, the Arrival in Danville and the Historians’ Frauds by John Stewart TOCWOC’s Take: Despite the somewhat odd ending to the subtitle, this book appears to do what the author says it does, “examin[ing] all relevant source material—much of it newly […]

February 23, 2015
Civil War Book Preview: Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg,Port Hudson,and the Trans-Mississippi by Donald S. Frazier

Frazier, Donald S. Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi. (State House Press: February 2015). 469 pages, dozens of illustrations, 35 maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-933337-63-0. $39.99 (Cloth) Donald Frazier, author of the ongoing “Louisiana Quadrille” series published by State House Press, is on the verge of releasing volume 3, Blood […]

February 11, 2015
Interview: Road to Atlanta Author Brad Butkovich

I recently had the good fortune to review Brad Butkovich’s new wargame scenario book The Road to Atlanta: Regimental Wargame Scenarios for the Atlanta Campaign May-June 1864, a look at the first half of the Atlanta Campaign from a miniatures war gaming perspective. Major battles covered include Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Gilgal Church, and Kennesaw […]

February 9, 2015