Category: Civil War Book Reviews
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Civil War Book Review: The Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg’s Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865
Editor’s Note: This Civil War book review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater earlier today. Fox, John J., III. The Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg’s Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865. Angle Valley Press (April 3, 2010). 52 pages, 7 maps, 74 photos, 8 appendices, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-9711950-0-4 $34.95 […]
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Civil War Book Review: Over a Wide, Hot…Crimson Plain: The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863
Over a Wide, Hot…Crimson Plain: The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863 (Hardcover) by Elwood Christ Product Details Hardcover: 247 pages Publisher: Stan Clark Military Books; 2nd edition (April 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 0935523316 ISBN-13: 978-0935523317 They often say good things come in small packages and this book illustrates […]
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Civil War Book Review: Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd
Editor’s Note: This review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater earlier today. Jordan, Mary & Hatch, Joyce. Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd. Six Mile Creek Press (January 2011). 176 pp., 100+ illustrations, notes. ISBN: 978-1-57003-922-5 $34.95 (Cloth). Reading a collection of wartime soldier letters […]
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Civil War Book Review: The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur
The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur George G. Kundahl (Editor) Product Details Hardcover: 392 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (May 15, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807833738 ISBN-13: 978-0807833735 Stephen Dodson Ramseur was the youngest major general in the Confederate Army. An 1860 graduate of West Point, he […]
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Civil War Book Review: Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign
Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign by David Powell Product Details Hardcover: 408 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (November 19, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1932714871 ISBN-13: 978-1932714876 “Would you like to go on a battlefield walk in Chickamauga?” Answering “yes” to this question introduced the […]
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Civil War Book Review: The Rashness of That Hour by Robert Wynstra
The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson by Robert J. Wynstra 6×9, 360 pages, hardback, $32.95 32 photos, 6 maps ISBN 9781932714883 Savas Beatie, December 2010 The “banners and bugles” regimental history has fallen out of favor lately in favor of a more socially oriented narrative […]
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January 2011 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! January 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list I am reading Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 by Earl M. Maltz. This is a look at how the Supreme Court looked at slavery in the years leading up to the war. Unlike most books on legal history, this […]