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Category: Civil War Book Reviews

  • Review In Brief: Mine Run: A Campaign of Lost Opportunities

    Why Does Brett Review Older Books? Review In Brief: Mine Run: A Campaign Of Lost Opportunities Books on Bristoe Station & Mine Run Mine Run: A Campaign of Lost Opportunities October 21, 1863-May 1, 1864. Martin F. Graham & George Skoch. Lynchburg, VA: H.E. Howard, Inc., June 1987. 130 pp. 6 maps, including 1 large […]

  • Review: “What this Cruel War was Over”

    In the great debate of Slavery Vs. State’s rights, there is a new recruit on the field. One who immensely researched letters, diaries, and journals from soldiers on the front line to get, straight from their own mouths, what they as individuals were fighting over. Chandra Manning’s What This Cruel War was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, […]

  • Review in Brief: Melting Pot Soldiers by William L. Burton

    Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union’s Ethnic Regiments. William L. Burton. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1st Ed., 1988. 282 pp. No maps. Many people assume that immigrants coming to this country are often harassed and discriminated against solely by “Native” Americans until they assimilate, hence the “melting pot” analogy. William L. Burton sets out […]

  • Review: Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions by Eric Wittenberg

    Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions by Eric J. Wittenberg Thomas Publications: Gettysburg, PA, 1998. 132 pp., 8 maps Eric Wittenberg sets out to right several wrongs in his concise Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions. The increasingly prolific cavalry author here focuses on three separate but related cavalry actions on the south side of the Gettysburg Battlefield after […]

  • Review In Brief: “Among the Best Men the South Could Boast”: The Fall of Fort McAllister December 13, 1864

    “Among the Best Men the South Could Boast”: The Fall of Fort McAllister, December 13, 1864. Gary Livingston. Cooperstown, NY: Caisson Press, 1997. 156 pp. 5 maps, numerous illustrations. The end of Sherman’s March to the Sea has not received much attention in Civil War literature. Gary Livingston seeks in somewhat uneven fashion to partially […]

  • Review: Yankee Autumn in Acadiana by David C. Edmonds

    Yankee Autumn In Acadiana: A Narrative of the Great Texas Overland Expedition through Southwestern Louisiana October-December 1863. David C. Edmonds. Lafayette, LA: Center For Louisiana Studies, 2005. 495 pp. 21 maps, numerous illustarions. The term “narrative” is a fitting one for David C. Edmonds’ Yankee Autumn in Acadiana. This book is at its heart a […]

  • Review: Red River Campaign: Politics & Cotton in the Civil War

    http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Books/ACWWest/redriver.htm Red River Campaign: Politics & Cotton in the Civil War. Ludwell H. Johnson. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press; Reprint edition (April 1993). 317 pp. 11 maps. Nearly fifty years after the book was first written, by most accounts Ludwell Johnson’s Red River Campaign: Politics & Cotton in the Civil War remains the best […]