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Book Review: The Surgeon’s Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War

Posted on December 4, 2025

The Surgeon’s Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War. By Lindsay Rae Smith Privette. Chapel…

Book Review: Fighting With the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War

Posted on December 2, 2025

Fighting With the Past: How Seventeenth-Century English History Shaped the American Civil War. By Aaron Sheehan-Dean. Chapel Hill: University of…

Book Review: After the Fire: Richmond in Defeat

Posted on December 2, 2025

After the Fire: Richmond in Defeat. By Nelson D. Lankford. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2025. Hardcover, 368 pp., $32.95.…

Book Review: If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and A Cause in the Civil War

Posted on November 25, 2025

  If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and A Cause in the Civil War.…

Book Review: The Invincible Twelfth: The 12th South Carolina Infantry of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia

Posted on November 20, 2025

The Invincible Twelfth: The 12th South Carolina Infantry of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. By Benjamin L. Cwayna. El…

Book Review: The Kinship of War: Stories of the United States Colored Troops

Posted on November 18, 2025

The Kinship of War: Stories of the United States Colored Troops. By Jerilyn James Lee. Lakeway, TX: Sentia Publishing 2025.…

Book Review: Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867

Posted on November 13, 2025

Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867. By Erika Pani. Chapel Hill, NC:…

Book Review: Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War

Posted on November 4, 2025

Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War. By Amanda Laury Kleintop. Chapel Hill:…

Book Review: Unreconstructed: Slavery and Emancipation on Louisiana’s Red River, 1820-1880

Posted on October 30, 2025

Unreconstructed: Slavery and Emancipation on Louisiana’s Red River, 1820-1880. By Carin Peller-Semmens. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2025. Hardcover,…

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