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Category: Civil War Units

  • Guide to Missouri Confederate Units vs. Sifakis’ Compendium (Missouri et al)

    James E. McGhee. Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press. (April 14, 2008). 240 pages., notes, index. ISBN: 978-1557288707 $34.95 (Hardcover w/DJ). I recently received a copy of James McGhee’s Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865, part of the University of Arkansas Press’ Civil War in the West book series. […]

  • Captured!

    In his seminal book Battle Tactics of the Civil War, author Paddy Griffith talks about the value of what he calls “tactical snippets”—excerpts from letters, reports, books, etc. that show something of the tactics in use at the time. Whereas he confined himself mainly to the line of battle, I prefer the skirmish line. Here’s […]

  • A Soldier’s Grave

    While poking around the web the other day I came across the grave of Sergeant Rice C. Bull of the 123rd New York, which has a nice bio. Born to a farming family in Wahington county in upstate New York, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 123rd New York Volunteer Infantry during the […]

  • Alabama Militia

    I came across a lengthy article on the Alabama militia and self-defense forces, with lots of good information about the prewar militia companies who formed the core of the Confederate army. We often hear that the armies of 1861 were composed only of amateurs but this wasn’t completely true. There were quite a number of […]

  • Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865 by James McGhee

    James E. McGhee. Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas PRess. (April 14, 2008). 240 pages., notes, index. ISBN: 978-1557288707 $34.95 (Hardcover w/DJ). I received my copy of James McGhee’s Guide to Missouri Confederates not to long ago. Rather than do my usual book review, I’m going to try something different […]

  • Review: Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller

    Christian B. Keller. Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. New York: Fordham University Press; First Edition (May 15, 2007). 244 pp., 4 maps, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0823226504 $65.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). How serious a blow was the Battle of Chancellorsville to the collective German-American psyche? Christian B. Keller attempts to answer precisely […]

  • Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller

    I received Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory in the mail on Tuesday from Fordham University Press.  As a German-American, this particular book has special meaning for me. Christian B. Keller ties the scapegoating of the predominantly German Union XI Corps after Chancellorsville to a slowed process of assimilation by German-Americans […]