Category: Civil War Book Reviews
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Review In Brief: Grant’s Canal: The Union’s Attempt to Bypass Vicksburg
Civil War Books on Vicksburg and Port Hudson Grant’s Canal: The Union’s Attempt to Bypass Vicksburg by David F. Bastian In addition to doing my Back-To-Back Books and taking notes on other books, I’ll also be reading books without taking detailed notes. After reading these books, I hope to give “Reviews In Brief”. My purpose […]
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Review In Brief: The Port Hudson Campaign, 1862-1863
Civil War Books on the Vicksburg and Port Hudson Campaigns The Port Hudson Campaign, 1862-1863 by Edward Cunningham In addition to doing my Back-To-Back Books and taking notes on other books, I’ll also be reading books without taking detailed notes. After reading these books, I hope to give “Reviews In Brief”. My purpose is to […]
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Review In Brief: To The Sea: A History and Tour Guide of Sherman’s March
Civil War Books on the Atlanta Campaign & Sherman’s March To The Sea: A History and Tour Guide of Sherman’s March by Jim Miles In addition to doing my Back-To-Back Books and taking notes on other books, I’ll also be reading books without taking detailed notes. After reading these books, I hope to give “Reviews […]
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Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 5
After staring each other down on the 18th, with both catching a much needed breather, Lee finally withdrew his army from Sharpsburg and was able to cross the Potomac during September 19-20. Though McClellan did try to strike at Lee, most notably at Shepherdstown, Lee’s rear guard was formidable enough that officers throughout the Army […]
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Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 4
Although McClellan had largely stayed out of the political fray through 1862, Rafuse argued that McClellan’s most ardent supporters could not deny that McClellan actively worked to delay reinforcing Pope during the Second Manassas campaign once the Army of the Potomac was evacuated from the Peninsula. McClellan ultimately got what he wanted out of Pope’s […]
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Review: Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign, ed. by Gary Gallagher
http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Valley1864.htm Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign. Edited by Gary Gallagher. The Kent State University Press (1991). 137 pp. 5 maps. The following is a review and summary of Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign, edited by Gary Gallagher. Contributors to this collection of essays include Dennis […]
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Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 3
Part 2 of my review of Rafuse’s McClellan bio left off with the Army of the Potomac landing at Fort Monroe to begin the Peninsula Campaign. McClellan had already faced a number of issues in planning the campaign even before reaching the jumpoff point. The first option for the landing spot (Urbana) had been scrapped, […]