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Category: Civil War Book Reviews

  • October 2008 Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! October 2008 James Durney *************************************************************** Book News I have been able to find very few new books on the war. Most publishers seem to be on vacation after an active August/September. We may have to wait until Christmas for an active schedule again. There are a number of good new […]

  • Top 5 Most Important Civil War Books: Stephanie Farra

    Several Fridays ago, I posted Ian Spurgeon’s winning entry in the Roll Call to Destiny Book Contest.  Contestants had to answer the following two questions: What are the five most important books you have read on the Civil War? Why is each important? This week, Stephanie Farra’s entry in the contest is featured.  It appears […]

  • Fiction Review:The Wake of the Woonsocket by Les Eldridge

    The Wake of the Woonsocket: The Continuing Adventures of Rory Dunbrody, CSN and Tobias St. John, USN by Les Eldridge, ISBN 978-0-9794847-1-1, Leeward Coast Press-Softocver-$18.95 I must first admit that I have not read the first two installments of Lee Eldridge’s planned quartet of Civil War sea novels, so chronologically I am coming into the […]

  • Review: The Disagreement by Nick Taylor

    The Disagreement: A Novel by Nick Taylor, ISBN 978-1416550655, Simon & Schuster, © 2008, 360 Pages – Hardcover (7×10) – $24.95 It was a time of metamorphosis, when civilians became soldiers, boys changed into men, and the enslaved set free. A nation torn asunder, North from South, peacetime transformed into a time of war, the innocence […]

  • Review: The Women Will Howl by Mary Deborah Petite

    The Women Will Howl: The Union Capture of Roswell and New Manchester, Georgia, and the Forced Relocation of Mill Workers by Mary Deborah Petite ISBN 978-0-7864-3168-7 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2008 187 Pages – Hardcover (7 x 10) – $45 Photos & Illustrations, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index Information wanted: My widowed daughter, Eliza Ray, […]

  • Review: The 11th Wisconsin in the Civil War: A Regimental History by Christopher C. Wehner

    Christopher C. Wehner. The 11th Wisconsin in the Civil War: A Regimental History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (April 16, 2008). 248 pages, 16 maps, roster, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0786432103 $45.00 (Library Binding). What does one look for in a good regimental history? First person accounts? Check. Social breakdown of the regiment […]

  • Top 5 Most Important Civil War Books: Mark Kucinic

    Several Fridays ago, I posted Ian Spurgeon’s winning entry in the Roll Call to Destiny Book Contest.  Contestants had to answer the following two questions: What are the five most important books you have read on the Civil War? Why is each important? This week, Mark Kucinic’s entry in the contest is featured.  It appears […]