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Category: Civil War Book Reviews

  • Review: Northern Roses and Southern Belles

    Northern Roses and Southern Belles By Various Authors of the Wild Rose Press The Wild Rose Press has released an anthology of six Civil War romance stories in a collection which they have titled “Northern Roses and Southern Belles.”  Between its covers are tales of Union and Confederate soldiers and the women who loved them, […]

  • Review: Preserve It Reader In Remembrance Of Me

    Preserve It Reader In Remembrance Of Me: The Writings and Saga of American Civil War Soldier George W. Belles By Ron Bardnell In my twenty-one years of doing genealogical research I have documented 59 Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate.  In all my research I have never been fortunate enough to find even one […]

  • Review: Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals

    Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals (Modern War Studies) by Clay Mountcastle Product Details Hardcover: 202 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (September 2, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700616683 ISBN-13: 978-0700616688 Confederate guerrillas are the subject of many books on the Civil War.  Mosby, Quantrill, the sack of Lawrence, Bloody Bill Anderson or Missouri […]

  • October 2009 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! October 2009 James Durney *************************************************************** New Releases This one got by me and I discovered it in the bookstore.  Noah Andre Trudeau has written Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership for The Great Generals Series from Palgrave Macmillan.  Mr. Trudeau is one of our best authors and none of his […]

  • Review: Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership (Great Generals)

    Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership (Great Generals) by Noah Andre Trudeau Product Details Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (September 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0230613667 ISBN-13: 978-0230613669 This is a difficult review for me to write.  I have the highest respect for the author and have enjoyed his books for years.  He consistently […]

  • Review: Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly: The Short but Controversial Life of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren

    Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly: The Short but Controversial Life of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren by Eric J. Wittenberg Product Details Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Edinborough Press (June 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1889020338 ISBN-13: 978-1889020334 Those that follow Eric Wittenberg’s work know this is a pet project that has been years in the making.  We […]

  • Review: Calculating the Value of the Union

    Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War (Civil War America) by James L. Huston Product Details Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (November 1, 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807828041 ISBN-13: 978-0807828045 What caused the Civil War?  Debates on this question occur, […]