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Category: Civil War Book Reviews

  • Review: Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign

    Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign by Lance Herdegen Product Details Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (October 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1932714480 ISBN-13: 978-1932714487 The Iron Brigade was one of the premier combat units of the Army of the Potomac.  Comprised of western regiments their distinctive headgear made them […]

  • Two Brothers: One North, One South

    David H. Jones new novel Two Brothers: One North,One South tells the true story of the Prentiss brothers William and Clifton whose familial love will be strained by the Civil War. The book opens in May 1865 with mortally injured William Prentiss admittance to the Armory Square Hospital. Despite being a Rebel the poet and […]

  • Review: Lincoln and His Admirals

    Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds Product Details Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 17, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0195310225 ISBN-13: 978-0195310221 If this book is not a finalist for a major award in Lincoln and Civil War history, we will have a gross injustice. This intelligent, interesting, readable book […]

  • Fiction Review: The Shenandoah Spy

    The Shenandoah Spy: Being the True Life Adventures of Belle Boyd, CSA, the ‘Confederate Cleopatra’ By Francis Hamit In his novel, The Shenandoah Spy, Francis Hamit weaves facts and fiction around the espionage activities of the legendary Confederate spy Belle Boyd, creating an entertaining storyline that includes her real-life encounters with other well known historical […]

  • Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea

    Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea Though I am a big fan of the War Between the States, I am not very knowledgeable about that part of the conflict that took place on the high seas. I found Southern Seahawk, the first novel in the Seahawk Trilogy, to be a great […]

  • Review: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

    Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James McPherson Product Details Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (October 7, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1594201919 ISBN-13: 978-1594201912 Lincoln is always right, the generals always wrong. “James M. McPherson is, without any second thoughts, the premier author of the civil war, the […]

  • Book Review-Nonfiction

    Gary Gallagher- Causes Won, Lost and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War; Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008; 274 pp, index, endnotes, illustrations; ISBN-978-08078-3206-6; $ Gary Gallagher’s latest book treads into some new territory for the prolific University of Virginia John L. Nau Professor of […]