Category: Civil War Book Publishers
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Civil War Book Review: Birch Coulie: The Epic Battle of the Dakota War
Birch Coulie: The Epic Battle of the Dakota War by John Christgau Product Details Paperback: 152 pages Publisher: Bison Books (March 1, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0803236360 ISBN-13: 978-0803236363 The largest battle you will ever see is when you come under fire. This is an intensely personal experience you will never forget. Later, history might […]
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Civil War Book Preview: New Siege of Petersburg Diary from the 36th Wisconsin
Editor’s Note: This preview has been cross-posted at The Siege of Petersburg Online. Also be sure to check out the book’s permanent bibliography page. Taylor, Guy C. & Alderson, Kevin (ed) & Alderson, Patsy (ed). Letters Home to Sarah: The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. (University of Wisconsin Press: November […]
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First reactions to “The Chattanooga Campaign”
This week I was excited to get my hands on The Chattanooga Campaign, a collection of essays released by Southern Illinois University Press on August 27, 2012. Since writing back in May about Walker’s division at Chattanooga, I have wanted to blog some more about the fighting at the north end of Missionary Ridge. […]
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Reading the War September 1862
Reading the War September 1862 Tempest At Ox Hill: The Battle Of Chantilly by David A. Welker is one a very few books on this small battle. We are lucky that it is a very good book about a very nasty little battle that saved much of Pope’s army. Often lost in the rush […]
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Civil War Book Review: Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America’s Greatest President
Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America’s Greatest President by Roger Billings & Frank J. Williams Product Details Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky; Reprint edition (January 25, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0813136539 ISBN-13: 978-0813136530 Lore has Lincoln as a country lawyer riding the circuit. He wins cases by charming the […]
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Two Important New Antietam Books
If you’re looking for some good Antietam reading as the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam nears, you’re in luck. Not one but two promising new books on Antietam have recently become available. First, we have Tom Clemens’ long-awaited The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Vol. II: Antietam, which is a fully and exhaustively […]
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Civil War Book Review: Virginia at War, 1861
Virginia at War, 1861 edited by William C. Davis & James I. Robertson Product Details Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky (November 11, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 0813123720 ISBN-13: 978-0813123721 William C. Davis (Editor) This is the first in a series covering Virginia during each year of the war. The format of […]