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  • Review: Lee’s Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies by Philip Leigh

    Lee’s Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies By Phillip Leigh Illustrated, photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index, 224 pp. softcover $18.95 Westholme Publishing 2015 www.westholmepublishing.com Phillip Leigh, whose last book, Trading With the Enemy, I reviewed a while back, has produced another volume for the Civil War reader. This one is a series of essays […]

  • Was General Sherman Smeared?

    This being the 150th anniversary of Sherman’s March to the Sea, the venerable New York times has an article questioning just how bad Uncle Billy really was. Seems we have a new crop of historians who think that the Southern demonization of him was unwarranted, a sour grapes myth by the defeated Confederates perpetuated by […]

  • Review: War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta

    (Ed. Note: This review was of a prepublication proof of War Like the Thunderbolt, which is due out in September 2009.) War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta by Russell S. Bonds Product Details Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Westholme Publishing Language: English ISBN-10: 1594161003 ISBN-13: 978-1594161001 Atlanta is the focus This is […]