May was “Get Caught Reading” Monthhere at Emerging Civil War, and we caught some of our contributors with their noses in all sorts of books. Here is a quick recap of what titles our contributors were caught indulging in!
Darren Rawlings was reading The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy’s Greatest Icon by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White in May.
* * *Chris Mackowski was reading the first volume in Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy (in a convenient set that breaks those big books into smaller segments that are a little easier to handle!).
* * *Doug Crenshaw was caught reading The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson.
* * *Evan Portman caught up on some 20th Maine reading with Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine by Thomas A. Desjardin.
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Tonya McQuade was very busy reading Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri by Robert L. Dyer, John Brown’s Women: A Novel by Susan Higginbotham, and an Emerging Civil War series book, John Brown’s Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War, October 16-18, 1859 by Jon-Erik Gilot & Kevin Pawlak.
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Moe was even hard at work helping his mom, Cecily Nelson Zander, prepare to work on her talk for this year’s Emerging Civil War Symposium. They were using the following books as references: The Destructive War” by Charles Royster The March to the Sea and Beyond” by Joseph T. Glatthaar “Citizen Sherman” by Michael Fellman
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Patrick Kelly-Fischer was reading “The Three-Cornered War” by Megan Kate Nelson.
* * *Terry Rensel made The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea his reading choice of the month.
* * *Tim Talbott was reading True Jersey Blues: The Civil War Letters of Lucien A. Voorhees and William McKenzie Thompson, 15th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers by Dominick Mazzagetti.
* * *General Ulysses S. Grant (Curt Fields) displayed his excellent taste in books when he read Emerging Civil War’s “Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness” by Chris Mackowski.
* * *Frank Jastrzembski made “Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders” by Ezra J. Warner his choice for the month.
* * *Neil Chatelain caught up on some Civil War Naval history with The Confederate Privateers by William Robinson.
* * *Kevin Pawlak read some information on Bull Run in “The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861” by Edward G. Longacre.
* * *Richard Heisler read The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers’ Struggle for Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle by Jeffry D. Wert this month.
* * *Sean Michael Chick read The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union by George M. Fredrickson.
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Dwight Hughes took a dive into Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy by John Niven.
* * *Joshua Frye read Opothleyaholo and the Loyal Muskogee: Their Flight to Kansas in the Civil War by Lela J. McBride.
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We shared in the book fun throughout the month on the Emerging Civil War Facebook page. If you don’t follow us, please be sure to sign up. Then YOU can get caught reading with us!
Cool stuff, all! Shelby Foote and The Destructive War are my favorites here.