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Tag Archives: Savas Beatie
Georgia Infantry Regiments Get New Attention in Research Resource
Our friends at Savas Beatie have been pumping out some interesting resource material lately. We told you recently about their index for the National Tribune. Their latest outing is a four-volume Biographical Roster of Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiments. The 7th, … Continue reading
Petersburg, the most researched battle of late?
The Petersburg Battlefields Foundation hosted its first stakeholders meeting yesterday to present its strategic plan to potential partners. As the organization’s tourism chair, I planned to spotlight a few new Petersburg publications to illustrate how scholarship on the campaign has … Continue reading
National Tribune Index Is a Civil War Researcher’s Newest Best Friend
Perhaps you’ve heard word from our friends at Savas Beatie about the recent release of a cool new research tool: Dr. Richard Sauers’ 3 volume study The National Tribune Civil War Index: A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, … Continue reading
Book Review: “Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War”
There have been legions of studies done about the corps of the Army of the Potomac and its fighting units. Authors have filled shelves with monographs about the Iron and Irish Brigades, or the 20th Maine. Guides have told and … Continue reading
Book Review: The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1861-1865
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
Book Review: “Double Canister At Ten Yards”
There’s a saying among Civil War historians, it might be old but no one is really sure of it’s earliest origins. The saying goes that if 10,000 books have been written on the American Civil War, 9,000 of them have … Continue reading
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Book Review: “Meade and Lee After Gettysburg”
On July 14, 1863, Federal cavalry clashed with a rearguard of Confederate infantry along the banks of the Potomac River. The action not too far from Williamsport, Maryland was quick and bloody before the Federal troopers retreated and the Confederate … Continue reading
Book Review: “Discovering Gettysburg”
Gettysburg seems a historical anomaly. Standing at the High Water Mark near the center of the Union battle line on Cemetery Ridge, one can peer south and west. With the exception of cars zooming by on the Emmitsburg Road, barely … Continue reading
Book Review: Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness
This latest offering from Savas Beatie is a reissue of Mark J. Crawford’s Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness, originally published by McFarland & Company, Inc. in 2000. As far as I can tell … Continue reading
ECW Weekender: ECW on the Road this Weekend
Emerging Civil War has a lot going on this weekend in Richmond, Gettysburg, and Frederick, including the launch of the newest book in the Emerging Civil War Series. Folks visiting Richmond National Battlefield on Saturday for the anniversary of the … Continue reading
