Not. Just finished Rock Atkinson’s second book in his Revolutionary War trilogy, The Fate of the Day. Highly recommend it for the breadth of the narrative flow.
I just finished Dan Master’s new book “Hell by the Acre” about Stones River and am half-wat through “General Turner Ashby and Stonewall’s Valley Campaign by Millard K. Bushong.
I am on page 338 of “The Battle of Gaines’s Mill” volume 1 by Robert E. L. Krick. This will be the definitive study of this neglected battle. The research is exhaustive and Krick tells the story of the battle in a very balanced way from both the Union and Confederated perspectives. Krick carefully evaluates the performance of every commander in the battle from McClellan and Lee down to the regimental level. I really can’t say enough good things about this book. It is a model of how military history should be written. Can’t wait for volume 2!
The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves: about the Battle of the Wabash. I like to take breaks from the CW and dive into other things now and then. Its really good.
Just finished (1) Glorious Courage by Sarah Kay Bierle; and (2) Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan (Guy Gugliotta), the latter for an ECW book review. Soon starting The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (Calvin Schermerhorn).
I’m reading this question that asks “What am I reading?”
That said, I am reading (again) “My Wicked, Wicked Ways” by Errol Flynn. THE best autobiography ever IMHO! Then I want to get hold of Jeffry Wert’s “From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864”, seeing how we are planning to soon spend some time in the valley to check out some of that Civil War ‘stuff’. Oh, and also the wineries…
FYI on Errol Flynn, see “The Moon’s a Balloon” by David Niven. He hung out a little with Mr. Flynn. Niven doesn’t spend tons of pages on him, but you’ll get an associates’ opinion of the Flynn, they had common friends that you would read of, and it’s a good read, not heavy.
Just bought a copy of “The American War” by Gary Gallagher and Joan Waugh. This is more of an overall textbook look at the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, but it’s still a concise and easy read.
Just finished a new biography of Robert Anderson (commander of Fort Sumter) by Wesley Moody. And like John Pryor above, I just started reading Vol. 2 of Rick Atkinson’s Revolutionary War trilogy. Arguably America’s finest living military historian.
I’m reading “Artillery Of Antietam” by Jim Rosebrock. Excellent book! I’m a battlefield ambassador at Antietam and often volunteer at the artillery display near the visitor’s center. This book is definitely helping me better explain the artillery.
I finished Priest’s book on the First Corps on July 1 @ Gettysburg and Ellwood Christ’s book on the Bliss Farm in preparation for a three day trip to GNMP.
Just finished Tempest of Iron and Lead by Chris Mackowski, and now I’m reading The Fredericksburg Campaign by Frank O’Reilly
Custer by Jeffry Wert
Glorious Courage by Sarah Kay Bierle
Not. Just finished Rock Atkinson’s second book in his Revolutionary War trilogy, The Fate of the Day. Highly recommend it for the breadth of the narrative flow.
I just finished Dan Master’s new book “Hell by the Acre” about Stones River and am half-wat through “General Turner Ashby and Stonewall’s Valley Campaign by Millard K. Bushong.
I am on page 338 of “The Battle of Gaines’s Mill” volume 1 by Robert E. L. Krick. This will be the definitive study of this neglected battle. The research is exhaustive and Krick tells the story of the battle in a very balanced way from both the Union and Confederated perspectives. Krick carefully evaluates the performance of every commander in the battle from McClellan and Lee down to the regimental level. I really can’t say enough good things about this book. It is a model of how military history should be written. Can’t wait for volume 2!
I have almost finished Robert E.L. Krick’s new book on the Battle of Gaines’s Mill. It’s superb. 5 Stars.
The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves: about the Battle of the Wabash. I like to take breaks from the CW and dive into other things now and then. Its really good.
Does some one know where the Gaines Mill book can be purchased?
American Battlefield Trjust
Thanks
I am on the second of Timothy B. Smith’s five books on the Vicksburg Campaign.
Mark Twain’s biography by Ron Chernow
I just finished Stephen Sears excellent biography on George Mc Clellan. I started reading another biography by Walter Stahr on “Stanton”.
Not a book but I’m listening to tales from the tapestry 3 days of gettysburg
Currently finishing “Hell By the Acre”, and next up is “A Campaign of Giants, Volume 2”.
Just finished (1) Glorious Courage by Sarah Kay Bierle; and (2) Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan (Guy Gugliotta), the latter for an ECW book review. Soon starting The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (Calvin Schermerhorn).
I’m reading this question that asks “What am I reading?”
That said, I am reading (again) “My Wicked, Wicked Ways” by Errol Flynn. THE best autobiography ever IMHO! Then I want to get hold of Jeffry Wert’s “From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864”, seeing how we are planning to soon spend some time in the valley to check out some of that Civil War ‘stuff’. Oh, and also the wineries…
FYI on Errol Flynn, see “The Moon’s a Balloon” by David Niven. He hung out a little with Mr. Flynn. Niven doesn’t spend tons of pages on him, but you’ll get an associates’ opinion of the Flynn, they had common friends that you would read of, and it’s a good read, not heavy.
50 pages into “The Civil War Diary of Anne Frobel” reprinted by Friends of Fort Ward
I’m listening to I Dread the Thought of the Place
The Inland Campaign For Vicksburg by Timothy B Smith.
The Battle of Gaines’s Mill. Volume 1. To the Banks of the Chickahominy Krick, Robert L. Just finished Greene’s Campaign of Giants Volume 2
Tim Smith’s Champion Hill (Vicksburg)
Just bought a copy of “The American War” by Gary Gallagher and Joan Waugh. This is more of an overall textbook look at the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, but it’s still a concise and easy read.
Just finished a new biography of Robert Anderson (commander of Fort Sumter) by Wesley Moody. And like John Pryor above, I just started reading Vol. 2 of Rick Atkinson’s Revolutionary War trilogy. Arguably America’s finest living military historian.
Hell by the Acre. Really outstanding so far.
I’m reading “Artillery Of Antietam” by Jim Rosebrock. Excellent book! I’m a battlefield ambassador at Antietam and often volunteer at the artillery display near the visitor’s center. This book is definitely helping me better explain the artillery.
‘History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery,’ Luther E. Cowles, Editor.
‘History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps’ by J. R. Sypher.
I finished Priest’s book on the First Corps on July 1 @ Gettysburg and Ellwood Christ’s book on the Bliss Farm in preparation for a three day trip to GNMP.
Walt Whitman’s Civil War, Walter Lowenfels, Editor.
Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher. by Rod Gragg
I am reading a self-published book that is a diary of a Civil War wife of her husband’s account of the Battle of Antietam.