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Category: Civil War Book Reviews

  • Two New Reference Works: Kentuckians in Gray and Confederate Colonels

    Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt (Editors). Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers in the Bluegrass State. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky (November 14, 2008). 344 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0813124759 $40.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). Bruce S. Allardice. Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register.  Columbia, MO: The University of Missouri Press […]

  • Review: Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier’s Eye View of Civil War Battles

    Brent Nosworthy. Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier’s Eye View of Civil War Battles. New York: Basic Books (March 2008). 352 pages, notes, bibliography, index, 14 maps. ISBN: 978-1567923247 $27.95 (Hardcover w/DJ). Some very good things can result when an author has extra material left over from a previous book.  Such is the case with […]

  • February 2009 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! February 2009 James Durney ***************************************** Jacquie LeBel’s question on TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog has inspired this month’s column.  He is newly retired and wishes to study the Civil War but he is unsure where to begin.  I have seen this question many times and always try to respond […]

  • Fiction Review- Journey to Honor by James C. Buck

    Journey to Honor by James C. Buck, ISBN 978-1-60264-209-6, www.Virtualbookworm.com Jim Buck, a West Point graduate and former Washington State legislator, uncovered in his late father’s personal papers a diary compiled by a member of Company H of the 23rd New Jersey Volunteers. This was a 9-month unit hailing mainly from the Burlington County region […]

  • Review: One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863

    Eric J. Wittenberg, J. David Petruzzi, and Michael F. Nugent. One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863. New York: Savas Beatie LLC (June 2008). 576 pages, notes, bibliography, index, 16 maps. ISBN: 978-1932714432 $34.95 (Hardcover w/DJ). Who knows anything about Lee’s retreat from […]

  • Review: A Vermont Cavalryman in War & Love: The Civil War Letters of Brevet Major General William Wells and Anna Richardson

    A Vermont Cavalryman in War & Love: The Civil War Letters of Brevet Major General William Wells and Anna Richardson by Elliott W. Hoffman (Editor) Product Details Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Schroeder Publications (December 3, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1889246514 ISBN-13: 978-1889246512 A good Civil War history always includes some human-interest elements.  Some histories will […]

  • Review: Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington

    Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington by Benjamin Franklin Cooling Product Details Paperback: 344 pages Publisher: Fire Ant Books; 1 edition (January 28, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0817354751 ISBN-13: 978-0817354756 By the summer of 1864, the Army of Northern Virginia is pinned and slowly being bled to death.  Robert E. Lee understood that his army and […]