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Category Archives: Book Review
Book Review: “Top Ten at Gettysburg”
When it comes to Gettysburg, there is no doubt that it is the Civil War’s most famous battle. With that fame comes legions of authors who pour out a staggering amount of material covering the campaign in the summer of … Continue reading
Book Review: Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness
This latest offering from Savas Beatie is a reissue of Mark J. Crawford’s Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness, originally published by McFarland & Company, Inc. in 2000. As far as I can tell … Continue reading
Book Review: The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address
The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften Savas Beatie, LLC 2016 On November 19, 1863, after a two hour oration by featured speaker Edward Everett at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in … Continue reading
Book Review: “Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865 and the Controversy that Brought Down a General”
It is difficult to choose a dissertation topic in military history, especially about the American Civil War. No matter how good an idea seems at first, a little digging around and one finds that others have also been intrigued by … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Book Review, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Cavalry, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities, Politics, Primary Sources
Tagged Army of the Potomac, Confederate Waterloo, Gouverneur Warren, Memory, Michael McCarthy, Phil Sheridan. Battle of Five Forks, Ulysses S. Grant, Warren Court of Inquiry
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Book Review: “The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume III: Shepherdstown Ford and the End of the Campaign”
Mere months after the bloodletting subsided on the Antietam battlefield, participant Ezra Carman began collecting materials for a history of the Maryland Campaign. It proved to be his life’s work. When Carman died in 1909, his 1,800 page handwritten tome … Continue reading
Book Review: “The Civil War Diary of Father James Sheeran: Confederate Chaplain and Redemptorist”
James Sheeran, a chaplain for the 14th Louisiana Infantry, wrote in his collection of diary and letters, “If perchance this manuscript should fall into the hand of any person unacquainted with me, I ask as a favor, that it may … Continue reading
Book Review: Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln & the Union’s War Governors by Stephen D. Engle
The study of the American Civil War is changing. Of course, there will always be battle studies and biographies of generals, but there is a pivot away from this strictly military point of view. Scholars are examining the war in … Continue reading
Book Review: “Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign: His Supposed Charge from Fort Hell, his Near-Mortal Wound, and a Civil War Myth Reconsidered”
To most of those who study the Civil War, the mention of Joshua L. Chamberlain conjures images of the 20th Maine’s stand atop Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg. Chamberlain’s bayonet charge has certainly made him famous, but … Continue reading
Book Review: “Decision at Tom’s Brook: George Custer, Thomas Rosser and the Joy of the Fight”
In the autumn of 1864, Maj. Gen. Phillip Sheridan and Lt. Gen. Jubal Early engaged one another in an effort to control Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. A Union defeat might well have offset gains made by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Book Review, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Cavalry, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory
Tagged Battle of Tom's Brook, George Custer, Jubal Early, Philip Sheridan, Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, Thomas Rosser, Wesley Merritt
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Review: Jeff Shaara’s The Smoke at Dawn
When I originally heard that Jeff Shaara was writing a trilogy of books about the Western Theater, but that he intended to cover only Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Sherman’s March to the Sea, I was a bit put out that he … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Civil War in Pop Culture
Tagged A Blaze of Glory, A Chain of Thunder, Chattanooga, The Smoke at Dawn
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