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Category Archives: Book Review
Book Review: “Death, Disease, and Life at War”
From the regimental camp of the 111th New York Infantry near Brandy Station, Virginia, Surgeon James Benton wrote to his parents, “The spring campaign will soon be upon us and in my opinion we have never seen any fighting which … Continue reading
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Tagged 111th New York, 98th New York, and Life at War, book reviews, Christoper E. Loperfido, death, disease, James D. Benton
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Book Review: “The Last Siege: The Mobile Campaign, Alabama 1865”
When Ulysses S. Grant looked back at the 1865 Mobile Campaign, he had an uncharitable view of the victory, writing that it was “eminently successful, but without any good result. Indeed much valuable property was destroyed and many lives lost … Continue reading
Review: Texans at Antietam
Fewer stories of the Civil War are more renowned than that of the fight for Miller’s cornfield at Antietam. It’s one of those locations that has been forever endowed with capital letters because of the intensity of combat there: The … Continue reading
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Tagged A Terrible Clash of Arms, Antietam, Fonthill Media, Joe Owen, Ted Alexander, Texans at Antietam
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“Grant” by Ron Chernow – A Review
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author James F. Epperson Many compelling tales come out of the history of the American Civil War. One of the most interesting is the story of the slouchy Ohio-born tanner’s son who progressed from leather-goods store … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, General Grant, James F. Epperson, Ron Chernow
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Book Review: “The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865”
nLet me say right up front that The War Outside My Window is NOT the feel-good book of 2018. In fact, it is just the opposite. The war is lost, the boy dies, and animals are harmed in the passing … Continue reading
Book Review: “The Limits of Loyalty: Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi”
Easy as it is to imagine the Confederacy made up of a solid group of Union-hating slave owners and their friends, the reality of the situation is much more complex. Jarrett Ruminski, a freelance writer, researcher, and consultant, investigates this … Continue reading
Book Review: “Emory Upton: Misunderstood Reformer”
Book Review by Emerging Civil War’s Derek Maxfield In the small Upstate New York city of Batavia, there are no historic heroes bigger than Emory Upton. You need look no farther than the larger than life statue honoring him … Continue reading
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Tagged Emory Upton, Harper Perennial, Misunderstood Reformer, Russell Weigley, Spotsylvania, Stephen E. Ambrose
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Book Review—That Bloody Hill: Hilliard’s Legion at Chickamauga
Author: Lee Elder Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 239 pages, $35.00 paper Endnotes, Bibliography, maps and photographs This review also appears on Chickamaugablog. It wasn’t that long ago that single-volume overviews of the battle of Chickamauga – let alone individual unit … Continue reading
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Book Review: “Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War”
There have been legions of studies done about the corps of the Army of the Potomac and its fighting units. Authors have filled shelves with monographs about the Iron and Irish Brigades, or the 20th Maine. Guides have told and … Continue reading
Book Review: The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1861-1865
In Ken Burns’ nine-part documentary The Civil War, Shelby Foote notably described Nathan Bedford Forrest as one of “two authentic geniuses” generated by the Civil War. At another point in the series, Foote lays out Forrest’s maxims of war after calling the … Continue reading
