Category: Civil War Books – Now Reading
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Civil War Book Review: The Maps of Antietam by Brad Gottfried
Gottfried, Bradley M. The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, September 2-20, 1862. (Savas Beatie: June 2012). 360 pages, 124 full color, full page maps), bibliography, endnotes, index. ISBN: 978-1-611210-86-6 $39.95 (Hardcover). WOW. I’ve never started a review with that word, but I’ll write it again. WOW. The Maps of Antietam: […]
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Civil War Book Review: No Freedom Shrieker: The Civil War Letters of Union Soldier Charles Biddlecom
Aldridge, Katherine M. (editor). No Freedom Shrieker: The Civil War Letters of Union Soldier Charles Biddlecom (Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., December 5, 2011). 292 pages, illustrations, bibliography, endnotes, index. ISBN: 078-0-9830436-7-6 $24.95 (Paperback). Imagine rummaging through what is essentially junk on a new property you just bought. Then imagine finding hundreds of Civil War letters […]
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July 2012 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! July 2012 James W. Durney *********************************************************** New books with July publication dates or in the stores Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battles of the Civil War is 544 pages with 740 period engravings. Lincoln’s Senior Generals: Photographs and Biographical Sketches of the Major Generals of the Union Army is […]
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Civil War Book Review: Lee and His Generals: Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams
Hewitt, Lawrence Lee (ed). Schott, Thomas E. (ed). Lee and His Generals: Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams (The University of Tennessee Press, June 15, 2012). 368 pages, illustrations, maps, bibliography, endnotes by essay, index. ISBN: 978-1-57233-850-0 $45.95 (Hardcover). Who was Robert E. Lee’s worst corps commander during the Civil War? How has Robert […]
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Virginia At War, 1864 – Edited by William C. Davis & James I. Robertson, Jr
Virginia at War, 1864 edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr. As a native of Tennessee, the focus of my reading has always been, for the most part, on the western theatre of the war so I was pleased with the opportunity to get into something concerning the events in the East. Don’t […]
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June 2012 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! June 2012 James W. Durney *********************************************************** New books with June publication dates or in the stores Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation by Timothy B. Smith will fill the void between Shiloh and Vicksburg. Corinth, critical to the Confederacy’s survival, was a major objective in the West. Smith brings considerable knowledge […]
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Praise for Thunder
I recently acquired Thunder Across the Swamp by Donald Frazier. This is his second book on the Civil War in Louisiana and covers just a four-month time frame from February to May 1863. I suspect that most who are interested in the Civil War know little about the action in southern Louisiana during early 1863. […]