Category: James Durney’s Book Notes
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Review: Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era by Nicole Etcheson Product Details Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (January 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700612874 ISBN-13: 978-0700612871 “Bleeding Kansas”, 150 years after the event this phrase still causes strong feelings. Very few are neutral on Kansas even now. In trying to solve […]
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Review: Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine
Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine by Guy R. Hasegawa & James M. Schmidt Product Details Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Edinborough Press (October 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1889020354 ISBN-13: 978-1889020358 Challenges our assumptions We tend to look at 19th Century medical care as almost nonexistent. Drugs, treatments & equipment […]
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Review: The Army of Tennessee by Thomas L. Connelly
Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862 by Thomas Lawrence Connelly Product Details Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (September 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 080712737X ISBN-13: 978-0807127377 Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865 by Thomas Lawrence Connelly Product Details Paperback: 576 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (September 2001) […]
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November 2009 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! November 2009 James Durney *********************************************************** New Releases A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers should be in the stores this month. Reconstruction policy after the Civil War is shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears–often-unreasonable fears of […]
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Review: A Crisis In Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, And The Army Of The Trans-Mississippi
A Crisis In Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, And The Army Of The Trans-Mississippi (Hardcover) by Jeffery S. Prushankin Product Details Hardcover: 308 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (December 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807130885 ISBN-13: 978-0807130889 Who is the enemy? The war between general officers can be as interesting as the war […]
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Review: Grant’s Lieutenants: From Chattanooga to Appomattox
Grant’s Lieutenants: From Chattanooga to Appomattox (Modern War Studies) Edited by Steven E. Woodworth Product Details Hardcover: 263 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (June 19, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 070061589X ISBN-13: 978-0700615896 Doing a book of essays is challenging. Each essay needs to contribute to a central theme while being able to standalone. The […]
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Review: A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction
A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (Civil War America) by Mark Wahlgren Summers Product Details Hardcover: 344 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (September 10, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807833045 ISBN-13: 978-0807833049 People who read history know how the story ends. We have read the last chapter of the […]