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Category: Civil War Book Reviews

  • September 2009 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! September 2009 James Durney *************************************************************** New Releases Due July 21 is No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 by Richard Slotkin.  The press review promises “An intellectually dazzling military history that recounts and reassesses one of the most devastating and dramatic battles of the Civil War”.  This 432-page book […]

  • Review: The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth

    Hess, Earl J. The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth. University Press of Kansas (September 9, 2008). 288 pages, tables, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0700616077 $29.95 (Hardcover). Did the widespread use of the rifle musket for the first time in the American Civil War lead to increased average combat ranges, increasingly destructive […]

  • Review: While In The Hands Of The Enemy: Military Prisons Of The Civil War

    While In The Hands Of The Enemy: Military Prisons Of The Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series) by Charles W. Sanders Product Details Hardcover: 390 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (October 2005) Language: English ISBN: 0807130613 Civil War Prisoner of War history is a very simple four-note song […]

  • Review: Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads and the Civil War’s Last Campaign

    Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads and the Civil War’s Last Campaign by Eric J. Wittenberg Hardcover: 366 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.18 x 9.06 x 6.36 Publisher: Savas Beatie; (April 15, 2006) ISBN: 1932714170 Eric Wittenberg solidifies his standing as our best Civil War Cavalry author continuing to produce high quality, well-researched, readable histories that […]

  • Review: The Rebel and the Rose

      The Rebel and the Rose: James A. Semple, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and the Lost Confederate Gold By Wesley Millett & Gerald White Did you know that John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States, was a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, and was later elected to the […]

  • Review: Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North

    Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North by Jennifer L. Weber Product Details Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English ISBN: 0195306686 I remember reading in the Sixties that the Viet Nam War was not the most unpopular war in our history.  The article stated that the American […]

  • Review: Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

    Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, Jenifer Frank Product Details Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 15, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0345467833 ISBN-13: 978-0345467836 Over stated, simplified and questionable This is history for people who do not read history and have little intention to change.  […]