Category: Civil War Book Publishers

  • Civil War Book Review: THE IRON BRIGADE IN CIVIL WAR AND MEMORY: The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter

    THE IRON BRIGADE IN CIVIL WAR AND MEMORY: The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter by Lance J. Herdegen Product Details Hardcover: 696 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie; First Edition edition (August 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1611211069 ISBN-13: 978-1611211061   The best brigade history, I have ever read.   In 1957, John J. […]

  • November 2012 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! November 2012 James W. Durney *********************************************************** New in the stores   Larry J. Daniel’s book Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict Between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland due in stores on the fifth. The Civil War and American Art (Smithsonian American Art […]

  • Civil War Book Review: The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

    The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter Product Details Hardcover: 528 pages Publisher: Knopf (July 10, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 030727263X ISBN-13: 978-0307272638 A good political thriller. A young Black woman joins a Washington law firm as a clerk.  The firm is defending the impeached President of the United States.  The impeachment based […]

  • Civil War Book Review: War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

    War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by James M. McPherson Product Details Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (September 17, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807835889 ISBN-13: 978-0807835883 Civil War history tends to mention the Navy only at Hampton Roads and […]

  • Book Review: Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard & His Fellow Veterans

    Bernard, George S.  Newsome, Hampton (ed).  Horn, John (ed). Selby, John G. (ed). Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard & His Fellow Veterans. (University of Virginia Press: July 2012). 512 pages, 3 b&w illustrations, 16 maps, bibliography, footnotes, index. ISBN: 978-0-8139-3175-3 $35.00 (Hardcover). Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard […]

  • Civil War Book Review: THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OF SEPTEMBER 1862: Volume II, Antietam

    THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OF SEPTEMBER 1862: Volume II, Antietam by Ezra A. Carman & Thomas G. Clemens Product Details Hardcover: 696 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (September 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 161121114X ISBN-13: 978-1611211146   Ezra Carman commanded the 13th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry at Antietam.  After the war, he worked for the government becoming involved […]

  • October 2012 Civil War Book Notes

    Those that can’t write, Review! October 2012 James W. Durney *********************************************************** New in the stores James M. Schmidt’s newest from History Press Galveston and the Civil War: An Island City in the Maelstrom went from no firm date to on the shelves.   The Chattanooga Campaign edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear […]