Tag Archives: Book Review

Book Review: The Three Battles of Sand Creek

Posted on November 24, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Sand Creek. I’d been reading about the Civil War for probably a full ten years before I’d ever heard about it. Granted, it’s an incident that aligns more with the Plains Wars than the Civil War, but considering the event … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Johnsonville: Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Jon-Erik Gilot

How many Johnsonville experts do we have out there? Anyone? No no…not the sausage. To be honest the little I knew about Johnsonville, Tennessee related to the 100th USCT Infantry, a unit that included several men from my hometown and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Hymns of the Republic”

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Ryan Quint

When the topic of the Civil War’s turning points come up, the traditional answers have always included the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, or Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Recently, though, historians have advanced the idea of 1864 as … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Midnight Rising

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

…follow him they did, swearing allegiance to his revolutionary government and marching into Virginia to found a new order. Within two years, entire armies would cross the Potomac, and this obscured the magnitude of what happened in 1859. The street … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW – Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Derek Maxfield

I have long believed that Civil War prisoner of war facilities were the final frontier in Civil War scholarship.  Under-explored and under-appreciated, it has only been relatively recently that POW camps began to be researched and monographs written. A recent … Continue reading →

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Book Review—Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Posted on June 24, 2019 by ECW Guest Post

ECW welcomes back guest author Nathan Varnold. Understanding the life of the most famous and most outspoken black abolitionist in American history is no easy task, but David W. Blight has spent most of his career attempting to simplify a … Continue reading →

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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Meg Groeling

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War is a strong and enlightening new book by Joanne B. Freeman, professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. She is not necessarily known as a Civil … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “September Mourn: The Dunker Church of Antietam Battlefield”

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Kevin Pawlak

War transforms a landscape. It turns peaceful farm fields into battlefields and burial grounds. Homes and churches become riddled with shot and shell and serve as hospitals in the gruesome aftermath. Some of those landscapes and buildings were forever altered; some … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1861-1865

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Kevin Pawlak

In Ken Burns’ nine-part documentary The Civil War, Shelby Foote notably described Nathan Bedford Forrest as one of “two authentic geniuses” generated by the Civil War. At another point in the series, Foote lays out Forrest’s maxims of war after calling the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Shooting Lincoln: Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and the Race to Photograph the Story of the Century”

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Ryan Quint

Across the street from Ford’s Theatre and next to the Petersen House in Washington, D.C. there’s a museum dedicated to Abraham Lincoln’s legacy. The centerpiece of that museum is a three-and-a-half story tower of books written about the 16th president … Continue reading →

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