ECW Book Reviews

Book Review: The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War: The Struggle for Control of the Nation’s Longest Railway

Posted on October 10, 2023

The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War: The Struggle for Control of the Nation’s Longest Railway. By Dan…

Book Review: No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame’s Civil War

Posted on October 5, 2023

No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame’s Civil War. By Mike Pride. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2022. Hardcover,…

Book Review: Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade

Posted on October 3, 2023

Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade. By Jonathan W. White. Lanham, MD:…

Book Review: One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause

Posted on September 28, 2023

One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause. By Stephen…

Book Review: From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton’s Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment

Posted on September 26, 2023

From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton’s Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment. By Dewitt Clinton…

Book Review: Union General, Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West

Posted on September 19, 2023

Union General, Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West. William L. Shea. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2023.…

Book Review: New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky

Posted on September 14, 2023

New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky. Edited by John David Smith. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2023. 360…

Book Review: African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction

Posted on September 12, 2023

African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Ashley Towle.…

Book Review: On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Posted on September 7, 2023

On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. By Ronald C. White. New York: Random House,…

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