Category: Civil War Book Reviews
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Civil War Book Review: This Great Struggle: America’s Civil War
This Great Struggle: America’s Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth Product Details Hardcover: 424 pages Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (April 16, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0742551849 ISBN-13: 978-0742551848 Write a one-volume history of the American Civil War. Be sure to consider the politics on both sides, the home fronts, personalities and objectives. Do not […]
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Civil War Book Review: Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina
Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina by Judkin Browning Product Details Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (February 10, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807834688 ISBN-13: 978-0807834688 Occupation is difficult for all parties. The civilian population is never fully trusted and the military often is high handed. The result […]
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June 2011 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! June 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list Sing Not War by James Marten looks at the experience of being a veteran of the Civil War. This is an excellent book on an often-ignored subject. The Won Cause by Barbara A. Gannon looks at Black and White comradeship […]
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Civil War Book Review: Civil War Voices from York County, Pa.: Remembering the Rebellion and the Gettysburg Campaign
Civil War Voices from York County, Pa.: Remembering the Rebellion and the Gettysburg Campaign Scott L. Mingus Sr. and James McClure Product Details Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Colecraft Industries; 1st edition (April 1, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0983364001 ISBN-13: 978-0983364009 In 1863, York County is not the epicenter of the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania. That […]
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McFarland Civil War Book of the Week: Confederate Torpedoes: Two Illustrated 19th Century Works with New Appendices and Photographs
Confederate Torpedoes: Two Illustrated 19th Century Works with New Appendices and Photographs Editor: Herbert M. Schiller TOCWOC’s Take: Confederate Torpedoes: Two Illustrated 19th Century Works with New Appendices and Photographs is a compilation of two 19th century works on Confederate torpedoes, the first by a Confederate and the second by a Union author: Torpedo Book […]
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Civil War Book Review: Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball
Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball edited by Donald S. Frazier & Andrew Hillhouse, Transcribed by Anne Ball Ryals Product Details Hardcover: 528 pages Publisher: State House Press; annotated edition edition (October 25, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 9781933337425 ISBN-13: 978-1933337425 ASIN: 1933337427 A family and a war […]
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McFarland Civil War Book of the Week: Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month
Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month Compiler: James B. Jones, Jr. TOCWOC’s Take: Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month strives to take the reader beyond Shiloh, Stones’ River, Fort Pillow, and other famous battles. This […]