Category: Civil War Book Reviews

  • Review: Entrepot: Government Imports into the Confederate States

    Entrepot: Government Imports into the Confederate States by C. L. Webster III Product Details Paperback: 396 pages Publisher: Edinborough Press (October 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1889020370 ISBN-13: 978-1889020372 They say military professionals talk logistics.  Not all the discipline and courage in the world is a substitute for weapons, ammo, clothing and food.  Armies ignore […]

  • Review: No Prouder Fate: The Story of the 11th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

    This is the first review for the second release of titles in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set series from Broadfoot Publishing Company.  A significant portion of each review will show you how this particular volume compared to the others in the series in terms of regimental history length, amount of annotation, depth and print size […]

  • Review: Fields of Glory

    Fields of Glory: A History and Tour Guide of the War in the West, the Atlanta Campaign, 1864,  Second Edition By Jim Miles It can be fun traveling in the footsteps of history.  In fact there has been a recent upswing in “Heritage Tourism,” and with the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War quickly approaching I […]

  • Review: Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862

    Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862 By Hank H. Cox For four young Sioux men returning home from an unsuccessful hunting trip August 17, 1862 was a day just like any other in Southwestern Minnesota. But what started as an ordinary Sunday ended in tragedy when juvenile taunts lead to the slaying of a […]

  • Review: THE MAPS OF CHICKAMAUGA: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 – September 23, 1863

    THE MAPS OF CHICKAMAUGA: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 – September 23, 1863 by David Powell Product Details Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (November 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1932714723 ISBN-13: 978-1932714722 The Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series is one of the few “must have” sets in a […]

  • Review: Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home

    Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home Walter D. Kamphoefner (editor), Wolfgang Helbich (editor) Susan Carter Vogel (Translator) Product Details Hardcover: 560 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (October 11, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807830445 ISBN-13: 978-0807830444 The song “I Goes to Fight Mit Sigel” encapsulates our understanding of Germans […]

  • Reviews: The Fort Pillow Massacre

    An Unerring Fire: The Massacre at Fort Pillow by Richard L. Fuchs Product Details Hardcover: 190 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 9.50 x 0.75 x 6.50 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; (October 1994) ISBN: 083863561X Mr. Fuchs has tried to prove the case against Nathan Bedford Forrest for ordering the massacre at Fort Pillow.  He has […]