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Book Review: Decisions of the Vicksburg Campaign: The Eighteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation

Posted on January 30, 2025

Decisions of the Vicksburg Campaign: The Eighteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation. By Larry Peterson. Knoxville, TN: University of…

Book Review: Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race and Nineteenth Century Print Culture

Posted on January 28, 2025

Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture. By Susan J. Stanfield. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2022. Hardcover, 256…

Book Review: Hell by the Acre: A Narrative of the Stones River Campaign, November 1862-January 1863

Posted on January 28, 2025

Hell by the Acre: A Narrative of the Stones River Campaign, November 1862-January 1863. By Daniel A. Masters. El Dorado…

Book Review: The Lead Mine Men: The Enduring 45th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Posted on January 23, 2025

The Lead Mine Men: The Enduring 45th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. By Thomas B. Mack. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press,…

Book Review: Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War

Posted on January 23, 2025

Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on Brink of the Civil War. By Ian T. Iverson. Kent,…

Book Review: Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War

Posted on January 21, 2025

Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War. By Robert D. Hicks. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2024.…

Book Review: This Southern Metropolis: Life in Antebellum Mobile

Posted on January 21, 2025

This Southern Metropolis: Life in Antebellum Mobile. By Mike Bunn. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2024. Softcover, 162 pp. $27.95.…

Book Review: Yankees in the Hill City: The Union Prisoner of War Camp in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1862-1865

Posted on January 16, 2025

Yankees in the Hill City: The Union Prisoner of War Camp in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1862-1865. By Clifton W. Potter, Jr.…

Book Review: Robert E. Lee’s Reluctant Warrior: The Life of Cavalry Commander and Railroad Businessman Brigadier General Williams Carter Wickham

Posted on January 16, 2025

Robert E. Lee’s Reluctant Warrior: The Life of Cavalry Commander and Railroad Businessman Brigadier General Williams Carter Wickham. By Sheridan…

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