Category: Civil War Book Reviews
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Brett’s American Civil War Book Reviews Page Updated
I’m continuing the seemingly endless process of updating my Civil War Book Reviews site. Specifically, I’ve continued switching campaign pages to a new look while at the same time creating web pages for each individual book. Tonight I managed to convert the South Carolina Campaigns and Second Bull Run (Manassas) pages to the new look.
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Review: Lee Vs. McClellan: The First Campaign
Why Does Brett Review Older Books? http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Books/ACWEast/WestVirginia1861.htm Lee Vs. McClellan: The First Campaign. Clayton R. Newell. Washington, D.C: Regnery Publishing, Inc. (October 1996). 325 pp. 7 maps. The following is a review and summary of Clayton R. Newell’s Lee Vs. McClellan: The First Campaign. When I first started reading Lee Vs. McClellan, I did not […]
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Shock Troops of the Confederacy, Part 10
Shock Troops of the Confederacy, Part 10 Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia by Fred L. Ray ISBN-10 0-9649585-5-4 ISBN-13 978-0-9649585-5-5 6 x 9 inch hardback – 450 Pages 43 Maps, 59 Illustrations Footnoted / Indexed / Complete Bibliography Publication date: Winter 2005 Price $34.95 In my […]
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Blue & Gray, Spring 2006
Blue & Gray, Spring 2006 Vol. 23, Issue 1 Blue & Gray Web Site Page 6 Into the Mouth of Hell: Farnsworth’s Charge Revisited by Andie Custer Licensed Battlefield Guide Andie Custer sets out to revise the commonly held views of Farnsworth’s Charge late on July 3, 1863, during the third day of the Battle […]
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Review In Brief: The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863
Why Does Brett Review Older Books? Unit Histories and Other Non-Campaign Studies of the War in the East The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863. Eric J. Wittenberg. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, Inc. (September 2003). 432 pp. 15 maps. The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863 […]
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Review In Brief: The First Battle of Winchester: May 25, 1862
Why Does Brett Review Older Books? Books on the 1862 Valley Campaign Jackson’s Valley Campaign: The First Battle of Winchester: May 25, 1862. Brandon H. Beck and Charles S. Grunder. Lynchburg, VA: H.E. Howard, Inc. (1992). 111 pp. 8 maps. Jackson’s Valley Campaign: The First Battle of Winchester: May 25, 1862 is a rather short […]
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Review In Brief: Fiction As Fact: The Horse Soldiers & Popular Memory
Why Does Brett Review Older Books? Books on the Civil War and Film My Film History Books Fiction As Fact: The Horse Soldiers & Popular Memory. Neil Longley York. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press (May 2001). 176 pp. 1 map, many illustrations. I’ve been a film history buff almost as long as I’ve been […]