Category: James Durney’s Book Notes
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Civil War Book Review: STRANGLING THE CONFEDERACY: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War
STRANGLING THE CONFEDERACY: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War by Kevin Dougherty Product Details Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Casemate (April 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935149245 ISBN-13: 978-1935149248 An important area of the war War like anything else has a main ring and sideshows. The main ring is what people watch and what historians write […]
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Civil War Book Review: God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War
God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War by George C. Rable Product Details Hardcover: 624 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (November 25, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807834262 ISBN-13: 978-0807834268 Religion, Civil War & America At the time of the Civil War America was a Christian Protestant nation. […]
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Civil War Book Review: The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta
The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta by Gary Ecelbarger Product Details Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (November 23, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 031256399X ISBN-13: 978-0312563998 The Battle of Atlanta is assuming the status of a major event in American history. Modern historians are looking at the battle as a crucial event […]
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Civil War Book Review: Railroads of the Civil War: An Illustrated History
Railroads of the Civil War: An Illustrated History by Michael Leavy Product Details Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Westholme Publishing; 1 edition (December 15, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1594161194 ISBN-13: 978-1594161193 To a world moving by muscle, wind or river current steam changed everything, freeing and speeding movement in ways we cannot image. While riverboats captured […]
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April 2011 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! April 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina by David Silkenat, is an excellent social history looking these events in North Carolina from about 1840 to 1905. Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in […]
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Civil War Book Review: Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath
Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath (New Directions in Southern History) edited by Andrew L. Slap Product Details Hardcover: 390 pages Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky (May 4, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0813125812 ISBN-13: 978-0813125817 Reconstruction is one of the most contentious areas in American history, depending on who is talking: Reconstruction is the […]
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Civil War Book Review: Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg
Editor’s Note: For more information on the Siege of Petersburg, be sure to visit The Siege of Petersburg Online: Beyond the Crater! *** Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg by Earl J. Hess Product Details Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: University of South Carolina Press (September 30, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1570039224 ISBN-13: 978-1570039225 […]