ECW Book Reviews

The Resonance of The Field of Blood

Posted on July 6, 2020

I recently finished reading The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B.…

The Role of Governors in Governing

Posted on April 16, 2020

I have the pleasure of reviewing books for several entities, including Emerging Civil War. I have said here (and elsewhere)…

Book Review: “Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station”

Posted on April 16, 2020

Here’s an understatement: there have been a lot of books written about the American Civil War. Hundreds of them about…

Book Review: The Cornfield, Antietam’s Bloody Turning Point

Posted on April 3, 2020

Alongside Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle and Shiloh’s Hornet’s Nest, the fighting in David Miller’s Cornfield on the Antietam battlefield ranks as…

Book Review: Custer’s Gray Rival

Posted on March 17, 2020

Biographies abound of the Confederacy’s more well-known cavalry officers, especially J. E. B. Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest. But similar…

Book Review: The Three-Cornered War

Posted on March 6, 2020

1st Colorado, 1st New Mexico, Battle of Peralta, Juanita— names not usually and immediately associated with the American Civil War…

ECW Weekender: Put This Book In Your Travel Pack!

Posted on February 28, 2020

  Do you have ten pounds of books in your backpack? (And an additional twenty pounds of books in a…

Book Review: “Lincoln Takes Command: The Campaign to Seize Norfolk and the Destruction of the CSS Virginia.”

Posted on February 21, 2020

When the CSS Virginia steamed into Hampton Roads on March 8, 1862 and tore through the Federal ships there, naval…

Book Review: “The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January—May 1864”

Posted on February 13, 2020

The Confederacy faced a series of ever-increasing problems by the winter of 1863-1864. Logistically, they were running out of supplies.…

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