Category: James Durney’s Book Notes
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Civil War Book Review: Patriotism Limited, 1862-1865: The Civil War Draft and the Bounty System
Patriotism Limited, 1862-1865: The Civil War Draft and the Bounty System by Eugene Converse Murdock Product Details Hardcover: 270 pages Publisher: Kent State University Press; 1st edition (1967) Language: English ASIN: B0006BS8YS Building the military for a major war is an expensive time consuming process. The purchase, checking and distribution of thousands of items are […]
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Civil War Book Review: The New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865
The New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865 edited by Harold Holzer & Craig L. Symonds Product Details Hardcover: 512 pages Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Har/Dvdr edition (October 13, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1579128459 ISBN-13: 978-1579128456 Events as they happen The New York Times is one of America’s oldest daily newspapers, being […]
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Civil War Book Review: Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861
Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 by Earl M. Maltz Product Details Hardcover: 362 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (November 3, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700616667 ISBN-13: 978-0700616664 Given a choice of spending an afternoon reading legal history or in the dentist’s chair, many would have to think which would be worse. I approached […]
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Civil War Book Review: Creating a Confederate Kentucky
Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State by Anne Elizabeth Marshall Product Details Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (November 29, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 080783436X ISBN-13: 978-0807834367 Becoming Confederate E. Merton Coulter said Kentucky “waited until after the war was over to […]
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March 2011 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! March 2011 James W. Durney *********************************************************** My “to read” list God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War by George C. Rable looks at religion during the war.George C. Rable (Author) Strangling the Confederacy by Kevin Dougherty is not a new book but one that needs […]
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Civil War Book Review: Rashness of That Hour
Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson by Robert Wynstra Product Details Hardcover: 360 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (November 19, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 193271488X ISBN-13: 978-1932714883 Politics over performance? In the 1800s, the Spoils System is in power. Politics controls Civil Service with elections causing massive […]
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An Interview With The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook Collaborators J.D. Petruzzi and Steven Stanley
A chat with Civil War author J. David Petruzzi and cartographer Steven Stanley about their new book project with Savas Beatie Q: I’m familiar with Savas Beatie’s The New Civil War Handbook and The New American Revolution Handbook, but can you explain the books and their format for those of our readers who are not? […]