Category: Civil War Books
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Savas Beatie and the Siege of Petersburg
I was recently emailing back and forth with John Horn, author of several Civil War books on the Siege of Petersburg, and he let me know that he is working with Savas Beatie to produce an updated version of his look at the Siege of Petersburg’s Fourth Offensive in 1864. The original, The Petersburg Campaign: […]
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The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 5
Editor’s Note: After I’d posted my recent comments on Lee’s possible endorsement of John Bell Hood for army command in 1864, I started going back over a lengthy nine or ten part series I did on Eric Jacobson’s book For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin. I had totally […]
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Civil War Book Review: The Army of the Potomac: Order of Battle, 1861-1865
Collins, Darrell L. The Army of the Potomac: Order of Battle, 1861-1865, with Commanders, Strengths Losses and More. (McFarland & Company, Inc., August 2013). 328 pages, orders of battle, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0-7864-7346-5 $75.00 (Paperback). At first glance, Darrell Collins’ new book on the Army of the Potomac’s orders of battle throughout the Civil War looks to […]
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Civil War Book Review: Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65
Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65. (Osprey Publishing, September 20, 2013). 80 pages, illus., maps, orders of battle, select bibliography. ISBN: 978-1-78096-927-5 $18.95 (Paperback). Osprey’s Combat series takes a look at two opposing forces in a given war by looking at three combat situations in micro-tactical detail. In this volume […]
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Civil War Book Review: Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee
Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee Author: Roger D. Hunt TOCWOC’s Take: Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee is the fifth volume in Roger D. Hunt’s invaluable research series covering Union colonels of the Civil War. Hunt aims to collect as much information on each Federal colonel as possible, including photographs and other images. The […]
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The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 4
Editor’s Note: After I’d posted my recent comments on Lee’s possible endorsement of John Bell Hood for army command in 1864, I started going back over a lengthy nine or ten part series I did on Eric Jacobson’s book For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin. I had totally […]
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The Last ANV Offensive: Gordon’s Assault on Fort Stedman
Editor’s Note: The Siege of Petersburg Volume 2: The Western Front Battles, September 1864-April 1865 by Ed Bearss and Bryce Suderow is scheduled to be released in early 2014, according to publisher Savas Beatie. The publisher was kind enough to pass along this unedited, original version of a portion of the chapter on the March […]