ECW Book Reviews

Fort Sumter’s Cat Jack: the Cat that Went to War

Posted on March 11, 2014

I have often wondered exactly why the point of view of animals in any historical situation is of any interest…

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt by John Taliaferro

Posted on February 15, 2014

In my ongoing search for all things related to John Hay, George Nicolay, and Elmer Ellsworth, I read this book…

Review Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia

Posted on February 15, 2014

Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia J. Michael Cobb, Edward B. Hicks and Wythe Holt…

Review: Searching for George Gordon Meade by Tom Huntington

Posted on January 27, 2014

Guest post by Ryan Quint On December 7, 1863, Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade wrote a letter to his wife…

A Few Notes from Author Frank Varney

Posted on January 25, 2014

On Wednesday, I posted a review of Frank Varney’s General Grant and the Rewriting of History. While I don’t normally…

Review: General Grant and the Rewriting of History

Posted on January 22, 2014

One of Ulysses S. Grant’s greatest strokes of genius was to title his book The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.…

Smithsonian Civil War

Posted on January 2, 2014

How appropriate that a book about artifacts should be a beautiful artifact unto itself. Such is certainly the case with…

Top 15 Posts of 2013—Number 2: Review of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General by Stephen M. Hood

Posted on December 31, 2013

Newton’s second law of motion, roughly paraphrased, informs us that “an object at rest stays at rest, while an object…

And before 2013 ends, the #10 book Every Civil War Buff Ought To Own . . . Gore Vidal’s Lincoln: A Novel

Posted on December 30, 2013

Part of a Series: Books Every Civil War Buff Ought to Own The main reason this series has taken so…

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