Volume XXXI, Issue 4
Sherman in North Georgia: The Battle of Resaca, by Stephen Davis
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Lt. Nathaniel Howard Talbot, 58th Massachusetts Vol. Inf., Describes In Breathless Detail the Final Major Battle at Petersburg, Va.—The Union Assault on Fort Mahone
Driving Tour—The Battle of Resaca, by Dave Roth, with Ken Padgett, President, Friends of Resaca Battlefield
Book Reviews:
Lincoln’s Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, D.C., by Kenneth J. Winkle. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction, by John D. Smith. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege—A Sensory History of the Civil War, by Mark M. Smith. Reviewed Tom Elmore.
The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War, by James Oakes. Reviewed by Jonathan Newell.
The Fighting Fifteenth Alabama Infantry—A Civil War History and Roster, by James P. Faust. Reviewed by Justin Mayhue.
The Appomattox Generals: The Parallel Lives of Joshua L. Chamberlain, USA, and, and John B. Gordon, CSA, Commanders at the Surrender Ceremony April 12, 1865, by John W. Primomo. Reviewed by David Marshall.
“The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg, by Eric J. Wittenburg. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Volume XXXI, Issue 3
From Sailor’s Creek to Cumberland Church, April 6-7, 1865: Seventy-Two Hours Before Appomattox, by Chris Calkins
Driving Tour—Lee’s Retreat Toward Appomattox, April 3-7, 1865, by Dave Roth, with Chris Calkins
Book Reviews:
A Gunner in Lee’s Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter, by Graham T. Dozier. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman, by Robert L. O’Connell. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Abraham Lincoln: A Life, by Michael Burlingame. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
Hurricane from the Heavens: The Battle of Cold Harbor, May 26-June 5, 1864, by Daniel T. Davis. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Cowardice: A Brief History, by Chris Walsh. Reviewed by Jonathan Newell.
Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War, by Margaret Humphreys. Reviewed by Michael C. Hardy. Volume XXXI, Issue 2
The Last to Surrender—Indian Territory June 1865
They Fought Like Veterans: The Civil War in Indian Territory September 1863 - June 1865, by Michael J. Manning
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—(also featuring a weapon from his gun collection) - The Pistol That Killed Lincoln: New Insights On the Death of the President (with a War Letter by Capt. Henry Rathbone, Jan. 19, 1862.
Driving Tour—The Civil War in Indian Territory: From the Union Reoccupation of Fort Smith, Ark., in September 1863, to the Final Surrender, June 1865, by Dave Roth, with Mike Manning and Kevin Bennett.
Book Reviews:
Grant’s River Campaign: Fort Henry to Shiloh, by Jack H. Lepa. Reviewed by Lt. Col. Don Langley.
Confederate General William Dorsey Pender: The Hope of Glory, by Brian Steel Wills. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, by Charles R. Bowery, Jr. and Ethan S. Rafuse. Reviewed by Arthur B. Fox.
The Petersburg Campaign: Vol. II: The Western Front Battles, September 1864-April 1865, by Edwin C. Bearss. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Citizen-General Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War Era, by Eugene D. Schmiel. Reviewed by Justin T. Mayhue.
Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War and Emancipation, by T. Felder Dorn. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Living a Big War in a Small Place: Spartanburg, South Carolina, During the Confederacy, by Philip N. Racine. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism and the Imagined South in the Civil War, by Ian Bennington. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Walking the Line: Rediscovering and Touring the Civil War Defenses on Modern Atlanta’s Landscape, by Lawrence Krumenaker. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader: An Eyewitness History of the Civil War’s Greatest Battle, by Rod Gragg. Reviewed by Tom DeFranco.
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood’s First Sortie, 20 July 1864, by Robert D. Jenkins. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Stonewall’s Prussian Mapmaker: The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs, by Richard B. Williams. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
Abraham Lincoln: Beyond the American Icon, by Fred Reed.
The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms, by Barry Parker. Volume XXXI, Issue 1
The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 1864, by Herbert M. Schiller
Driving Tour—Ben Butler’s Campaign, May 1864, by Dave Roth, with Herb Schiller, George L. Fickett, Jr., and Scott Williams
Book Reviews:
No Turning Back: A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4-June 14, 1864, by Robert M. Dunkerly, Donald C. Pfanz, and David R. Ruth. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition From the Civil War to the Present, by John McKee Barr. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory, by Anne Sarah Rubin. Reviewed by Jonathan Newell.
Last to Join the Fight: The 66th Georgia Infantry, by Daniel Cone. Reviewed by Michael C. Hardy.
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, by James Oakes. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
The Untried Life: The 29th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, by James T. Fritsch. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, The Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care, by Scott McGaugh. Reviewed by Justin T. Mayhue.
Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South, by Libra R. Hilde. Reviewed by Arthur Fox.
Volume XXX, Issue 6
Tupelo - The Campaign and Battle of 1864, N.B. Forrest & S.D. Lee vs. A.J. Smith
The Battle of Tupelo (or Harrisburg), by Thomas E. Parson, Ranger, Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, Mississippi
Common Soldier—Lynchburg’s “Lame Lion” in the Stonewall Brigade: John W. Daniel in the”“Perfect Storm” of Manassas
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Iron Brigade Hero Lt. Col. Rufus R. Dawes, 6th Wisconsin Vol. Infantry, Writes in the Immediate Aftermath of Gettysburg Requesting A Leave of Absence For 12 Days to Go Home on Urgent Private Business
Driving Tour—Keeping Forrest Out of Tennessee: The Battle of Tupelo (or Harrisburg), Miss, by Dave Roth, with Tom Parson.
Book Reviews:
Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It, by Susannah J. Ural. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
The Tenth Minnesota Volunteers, 1862-1865: A History of Action in the Sioux Uprising and the Civil War, with a Regimental Roster, by Michael A. Eggleston. Reviewed by Gary Stevens.
Arkansas Late in the Civil War: The 8th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, April 1864-July 1865, by David E. Casto. Reviewed by Gary Stevens.
The Army of the Potomac: Order of Battle, 1861-1865m with Commanders, Strengths, Losses and More, by Darrell L. Collins. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation, by John Boyko. Reviewed by Arthur Fox.
Conflicting Memories on the “River Of Death”: The Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863- 1933, by Bradley S. Keefer. Reviewed by David A. Powell.
“Death Does Seem to Have All He Can Attend To”: The Civil War Diary of an Andersonville Survivor, by Ronald G. Watson. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Volume XXX, Issue 5
A Federal Opportunity Lost—The Battle of the Crater, by Emmanuel Dabney, Ranger, Petersburg National Battlefield
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Lieut. Frank M. Kelley, Ulysses S. Grant’s Staff Officer, Gives Vivid Details of Grant’s Hurried Trip to Deep Bottom, Va., on July 27, 1864. The General Wanted to Decoy Robert E. Lee Into Thinking Richmond Would be Attacked
Snake Bit—Perpetuated Error: No Snake Bites to Civil War Soldiers, by Mark Laubacher
Driving Tour—The Battle of the Crater, by Dave Roth, with Chris Bryce, Chief of Interpretation, Petersburg National Battlefield
Book Reviews:
Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War: Annotated Edition, by Judith Brockenbrough McGuire. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Lincoln’s Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, D.C., by Kenneth J. Winkle. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
James D. Bulloch: Secret Agent and Mastermind of the Confederate Navy, by Walter E. Wilson and Gary L. McKay. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Lincoln and McClellan at War, by Chester G. Hearn. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union, by Louis P. Masur. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro: The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865, by Robert M. Dunkerly. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Civil War Soldiers of Greater Cleveland: Letters Home to Cuyahoga County, by Dale Thomas. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War, by Frank P. Varney. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp. A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden, by W. Eric Emerson. Reviewed by Jonathan Newell.
Volume XXX, Issue 4
John Bell Hood in Tennessee, 1864
Hood’s Tennessee Campaign
From the Fall of Atlanta to the Battle of Franklin, September 2 to November 30, 1864, by Eric A. Jacobson
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Confederate Captain J. Hanson Thomas of Maj. Gen. William W. Loring’s Staff Graphically Depicts the Murderous Battle of Franklin. Written Only Four Days After the Fighting, Captain Thomas’ Letter Reveals the Extent of Tragedy
Driving Tour—The Battle of Franklin, Including the March from Columbia and the Action at Spring Hill, by Dave Roth, with Eric Jacobson
Book Reviews:
Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields, by J. Christian Spielvogel. Reviewed by John Michael Priest.
The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy’s Greatest Icon, by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
General Edwin Vose Sumner: A Civil War Biography, by Thomas K. Tate. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
North Carolina Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated History, by Douglas J. Butler. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
William Gilmore Simms’ Unfinished Civil War - Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters, by David Moltke-Hansen. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign, by Earl J. Hess. Reviewed by Gary Stevens.
America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union, by Fergus M. Bordewich. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
Horses and Mules in the Civil War, by Gene C. Armistead. Reviewed by Justin T. Mayhue.
The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball, by Donald S. Frazier and Andrew Hillhouse. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
“A Punishment on the Nation”: An Iowa Soldier Embraces the Civil War, by Brian C. Miller. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Letters Home to Sarah: The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, Thirty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, by Kevin Anderson and Patty Alderson. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Volume XXX, Issue 3
Gettysburg’s Town Fight Gettysburg - The Town Fight, by David G. Martin
Driving Tour—The Gettysburg Town Fight, by Dave Roth, with Gary Kross
Book Reviews:
Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans, by Hampton Newsome, John Horn, and John G. Selby. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
Confederate Incognito: The Civil War Reports of “Long Grabs,” a.k.a. Murdoch John McSween, 26th and 35th North Carolina Infantry, by E.B. Munson. Reviewed by John Michael Priest.
No Freedom Shrieker: The Civil War Letters of Union Soldier Charles Freeman Biddlecom, 147th Regiment, New York State Volunteer Army, by Katherine M. Aldridge. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Bully for the Band!: The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band, by James G. Davis. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Connecticut Yankees at Antietam, by John Banks. Reviewed by Justin T. Mayhue.
Freedom Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War, by Guy Gugliotta. Reviewed by Jonathan Newell.
To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, by D. Scott Hartwig. Reviewed by Arnold Blumberg.
Volume XXX, Issue 2
The Great Escape, November 1863
Morgan’s Great Raid! Kentucky - Indiana - Ohio, by James Ramage
A Perfect Storm of Contingencies, Morgan’s Great Raid, 1863 by James A. Ramage
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Confederate Private William H.H. Winston, Co. G, 11th Virginia Infantry, Kemper’s Brigade, Pickett’s Division Reveals His Eager Anticipation of Invading Pennsylvania in June 1863. He Vengefully Expects to Destroy “Everything He Can”
Driving Tour—Morgan’s Great Raid and Prison Escape, by Dave Roth
Book Reviews:
A Civil War Correspondent in New Orleans, by Gary L. Dyson. Reviewed by Lawrence Lee Hewitt.
Alonzo’s War: Letters from a Young Civil War Soldier, by Mary Searing. Reviewed by John Michael Priest.
Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864, by Hampton Newsome. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Abraham Lincoln and White America, by Brian R. Dirck. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War, by James A. Ramage. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Divided Loyalties: Kentucky’s Struggle for Armed Neutrality in the Civil War, by James W. Finck. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Maryland’s Civil War Photographs: The Sesquicentennial Collection, by Ross J. Kelbaugh. Reviewed by Justin T. Mayhue.
Confrontation at Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, A Cause Lost, by John David Hoptak. Reviewed by Jonathan Newell.
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Jim Downs. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi, by Earl J. Hess. Reviewed by Gary Stevens. An Illustrated Guide to Virginia’s Confederate Monuments, by Timothy S. Sedore. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Allstons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry, by William Kauffman. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Sauer’s Book Note:
A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, by George W. Williams.
Volume XXX, Issue 1
East of Chancellorsville, Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, Including the Action on May 4, 1863, by Erik F. Nelson
Driving Tour—Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, by Dave Roth, with Erik Nelson
Reading the Landscape, by Erik Nelson
Book Reviews:
Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder, by Kevin M. Levin. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
With a Sword in One Hand & Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North, by Carol Reardon. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
Reconstructing the Campus—Higher Education and the American Civil War, by Michael David Cohen. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Battle of Carthage, Missouri: First Trans-Mississippi Conflict of the Civil War, by Kenneth E. Burchett. Reviewed by Gary Stevens.
The Union Forever: Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War, by John Y. Simon. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War, by Gail Stephens. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
The Civil War in Pennsylvania: A Photographic History, by Michael G. Kraus, David M. Neville, and Kenneth C. Turner. Reviewed by Dr. Richard A. Sauers. Volume XXIX, Issue 6
The Fight for Chattanooga by Wiley Sword
Sherman’s Debacle at Tunnel Hill
Missionary Ridge, by Wiley Sword
Driving Tour—Sites Related to Sherman’s Movements Against the Confederate Right and the Battle of Missionary Ridge, by Dave Roth, with Jim Ogden, Historian, Chickamauga & Chattanooga NMP
Book Reviews:
The Letters of General Richard S. Ewell, by Donald C. Pfanz, ed. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
John Dooley’s Civil War: An Irish American’s Journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment, by Robert Emmett Curran. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Fateful Lightening: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Allen C. Guelzo. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America, by Harold Holzer. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
Shadows of Antietam, by Robert J. Kalasky. Reviewed by Justin T. Mayhue.
USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage, by John D. Broadwater. Reviewed by Jonathan Newell.
Volume XXIX, Issue 5
Chancellorsville: Action May 3-6, 1863, by Frank A. O’Reilly
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Chief Engineer John W. Moore of the USS Richmond Tells the Fascinating “Inside” Story of the Capture of New Orleans in 1862
Driving Tour—Chancellorsville: Action on May 3-6, 1863, by Dave Roth, with Frank O’Reilly
Book Reviews:
Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man, by Walter Stahr. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
A Secret Society History of the Civil War, by Mark A. Lause. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Battle of Pea Ridge: The Civil War Fight for the Ozarks, by James R. Knight. Reviewed by Gary Stevens.
Going Back the Way They Came: The Phillips’ Georgia Legion Cavalry Battalion, by Richard M. Coffman. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Captain Joseph Boyce and the 1st Missouri Infantry, C.S.A., by Joseph Boyce. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom, by Glenn David Brasher. Reviewed by David L. Richards. Civil War Sketch Book: Drawings from the Battlefront, by Harry L. Katz. Reviewed by Richard A. Sauers.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
New Jersey at Gettysburg Guidebook, by David G. Martin.
Civil War Rockets, by Dr. Thomas P. Lowry.
Volume XXIX, Issue 4
Chancellorsville: Action from April 28 - May 2, 1863
Danger in the Dark Woods by Frank A. O’Reilly
Driving Tour—Events from April 28 - May 2, 1863, Including: Hooker Steals a March - Opening Actions Along the Orange Turnpike - Stonewall Jackson’s Flank Attack, and his Wounding and Death, by Dave Roth, with Frank A. O’Reilly
Book Reviews:
Chasing Jeb Stuart and John Mosby: The Union Cavalry in Northern Virginia from Second Manassas to Gettysburg, by Robert F. O’Neill. Reviewed by Arnold Blumberg.
Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation, by Timothy B. Smith. Reviewed by Gary Stevens.
From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature, by Randall Fuller. Reviewed by Helen P. Trimpi.
Price’s Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri, by Mark A. Lause. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
Placenames of the Civil War: Cities, Towns, Villages, Railroad Stations, Forts, Camps, Rivers, Creeks, Fords and Ferries, by John D. Bennett. Reviewed by Jonathan Newell.
A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community, by Nicole Etcheson. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
XXIX, Issue 3
Second Manassas, The Fighting on August 30, 1862, by Scott Patchan
A Story About A Book—Who Wrote Corporal Si Klegg, and Which One? By Allan R. Millett
Driving Tour—The Second Battle of Manassas (or Bull Run) Porter’s and Longstreet’s Attacks, by Dave Roth, with Scott Patchan and Jamie Ryan
Book Reviews:
The Battle of Antietam: The Bloodiest Days, by Ted Alexander. Reviewed by Arnold Blumberg.
Andersonville: Civil War Prison, by Robert S. Davis. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry. Joshua L. Chamberlain: A Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War, by Thomas Desjardin. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
The First Shot, by Robert N. Rosen and Richard W. Hatcher III. Reviewed by Justin T. Mayhue.
On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War, by Mercedes Graf. Reviewed by Roland R. Maust.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
The Fifty-Eighth North Carolina Troops: Tar Heels in the Army of Tennessee, by Michael C. Hardy.
Lincoln in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.
XXIX, Issue 2
Second Manassas. Throughfare Gap to Kearny’s Attack, August 28-29, 1862, by Scott Patchan
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Captain Samuel W. Saxton of Maj. Gen. John Pope’s Staff Writes on the Eve of Taking the Field in July 1862, That Pope Is More Than a Match for Stonewall Jackson
Driving Tour—The Second Battle of Manassas (or Bull Run), Action on August 28-29, 1862, by Dave Roth, with Scott Patchan
Book Reviews:
Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia, by Brian D. McKnight. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers, by Steven R. Boyd. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
A Hoosier Quaker Goes to War: The Life and Death of Major Joel H. Elliott, 7th Cavalry, by Sandy Barnard. Reviewed by Arnold Blumberg.
General Jo Shelby’s March, by Anthony Arthur. Reviewed by Tom DeFranco.
Victors in Blue: How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War, by Albert Castel with Brooks D. Simpson. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops 1862-1867, by William A. Dobak. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
XXIX, Issue 1
From Harper’s Ferry to Cross Keys: The Pursuit of Stonewall Jackson Up the Shenandoah Valley, by Gary Ecelbarger
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Abraham Lincoln “Rocket Man”: An Obscure Story of President Lincoln and His Brush With Death
Who Killed Turner Ashby, by Gary Ecelbarger Driving Tour—Jackson and Fremont in the Shenandoah Valley, and the Battle of Cross Keys, by Dave Roth, with Gary Ecelbarger
Book Reviews:
General Abner M. Perrin, C.S.A.: A Biography, by Ron V. Killian. Reviewed by Lawrence Lee Hewitt.
Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight: The Civil War Diary of Brigadier General Daniel Harris Reynolds, 1861- 1865, by Daniel H. Reynolds. Reviewed by Lawrence Lee Hewitt.
Colonization After Emancipation—Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement, by Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The 26th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry: The Groundhog Regiment, by Jeffrey A. Hill. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
Memoirs of the Civil War Between the Northern and Southern Sections of the United States of America, 1861-1865, by William W. Chamberlaine. Reviewed by Terry R. Tuley.
You’ll Be Scared. Sure—You’ll Be Scared: Fear, Stress, and Coping in the Civil War, by Phillip. M. Cole. Reviewed by John M. Priest.
XXVIII, Issue 6
The Battle of Stones River: A Hard Earned Victory for Lincoln, by Jim Lewis, Ranger, Stones River National Battlefield
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—James’“Old Pete” Longstreet’s Temper Gets the Best of Him. Evander Law’s “Lost Resigation Letter” of December 17, 1863
Common Soldier—From Haw’s Shop to Woodburn Hall: Two Days in the Life of St. George Tucker Brooke
Driving Tour—The Battle of Stones River, by Dave Roth, with Jim Lewis, Stones River National Battlefield
Book Reviews:
America on the Eve of the Civil War: A Virginia Sesquicentennial Signature Conference, by Edward L. Ayers and Carolyn R. Martin (editors). Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Boys of Diamond Hill: The Lives and Civil War Letters of the Boyd Family of Abbeville County, South Carolina, by J. Keith Jones (editor). Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Cincinnati Germans in the Civil War, by Gustav Tafel. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North, by Michael Thomas Smith. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. (editors). Reviewed by Tom DeFranco.
Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War, by Andrew M. Bell. Reviewed by Andrew Lindsay.
Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State, by Anne E. Marshall. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry. XXVIII, Issue 5
Bursting of the Storm: Action at Petersburg, March 25, 1865, by William C. Wyrick
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Maj. Willis F. Jones, C.S.A., Reveals to Maj. Gen John C. Breckinridge the Failures of Bragg’s 1862 Kentucky Campaign. When Jones Is Killed, His Widow Writes President Lincoln
Driving Tour—Action on Two Fronts: Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865, by Dave Roth, with Bill Wyrick, and Tracy Chernault of Petersburg National Battlefield
Book Reviews:
Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War, by Stanley Harrold. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America, by Gordon S. Barker. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served Under Robert E. Lee, by Joseph T. Glatthaar. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medical Photography, by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. Reviewed by John Michael Priest.
Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison, by Joseph Wheelan. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
Images of America: Remembering Virginia’s Confederates, by Sean M. Heuvel. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
XXVIII, Issue 4
Forts Henry and Donelson, Disastrous and Almost Without Remedy, by James Jobe, Historian, Fort Donelson National Battlefield
After Donelson: The Battles of Dover, Tennessee, by John Walsh
Driving Tour—Forts Henry, Heiman and Donelson, and the Battles of Dover, Tennessee, by Dave Roth, with Jim Jobe and John Walsh
Book Reviews:
Recollections of War Times: By An Old Veteran While Under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet, by William A. McClendon. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Tinclads in the Civil War: Union Light-Draught Gunboat Operations on Western Waters, 1862-1865, by Myron J. Smith. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Mississippi River Campaign, 1861-1863, by Benton Rain Patterson. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Perfect Lion: The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham, by Jerry H. Maxwell. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp. Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina, by Judkin Browning. Reviewed by Rick Sauers.
XXVIII, Issue 3
They Fought Like Veterans: The Civil War in Indian Territory April 1861 - September 1, 1863, by Michael J. Manning
Lieutenant Averell’s Escape Through Indian Territory, by Michael J. Manning
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—A’“Good Samaritan” Letter Softens the Blow of A Mortal Wound in the Aftermath of the Battle of Piedmont, Va.
Preservation—B& G Article Leads to Battle of Unison Recognition
Driving Tour—The Civil War in Indian Territory From the Union Evacuation of Fort Smith, Ark., in April ‘61, to the Union Reoccupation in September ‘63, by Dave Roth, with Mike Manning and Jason Roth.
Book Reviews:
The Union War, by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
A Hard Trip: A History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry, CSA, by Ben Wynne. Reviewed by Lawrence Lee Hewitt.
Moss Bluff Rebel, A Texas Pioneer in the Civil War, by Philip Caudill. Reviewed by John Michael Priest.
American Civil War Guerrilla Tactics, by Sean McLachlan. Reviewed by John Michael Priest.
Tinclads in the Civil War: Union Light-Draught Gunboat Operations on Western Waters, 1862-1865, by Myron J. Smith, Jr. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Mississippi River Campaign, 1861-1863, by Benton Rain Patterson. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Abner Doubleday—A Civil War biography, by Thomas Barthel. Reviewed by Justin T. Mayhue.
Starving the South - How the North Won the Civil War, by Andrew F. Smith. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga and the Organizations Engaged, by Henry V. Boynton. Reviewed by Jane Richardson.
The Campfire Chronicles: The Words and Deeds of the 88th Pennsylvania, 1861-1865, by Michael N. Ayoub. Reviewed by Rick Sauers.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the West, by Steven E. Woodworth.
A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray.
XXVIII, Issue 2
The Luray Valley Campaign of 1862 The Road to Port Republic, by Gary Ecelbarger
Wiley Sword’s War Letters—Colonel Grenville M. Dodge, 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Tells Iowa Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood of His Accidental Wounding In the Leg By His Own Pistol
Driving Tour—James Shields’ Campaign in the Luray Valley, 1862, and the Battle of Port Republic, by Dave Roth, with Gary Ecelbarger
Book Reviews:
Virgina at War—1864, by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Every Day of the Civil War: A Chronological Encyclopedia, by Bud Hannings. Reviewed by Andrew Wagenhoffer.
A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country: The Civil War Reminiscences of a Union General, by Halbert Eleazer Paine, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., editor. Reviewed by Lawrence Lee Hewitt.
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
Deliver Us from This Cruel War: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Joseph J. Hoyle, 55th North Carolina Infantry, by Jeffery M. Girvan, editor. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas during the Civil War, by Kenneth W. Howell, editor. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
Mississippi In The Civil War: The Home Front, by Dr. Timothy B. Smith. Reviewed by Tom DeFranco.
Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida, by Daniel L. Schafer. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Into The Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg, by Earl J. Hess. Reviewed by David Ward.
XXVIII, Issue 1
The Struggle for Port Hudson, Louisiana, August 17, 1862 - July 9, 1863, by Lawrence Lee Hewitt
Port Hudson Confederate River Batteries Reference, file notes by the late Art Bergeron
The Heart of the Lion: The Medical Maladies of Joshua L. Chamberlain, by C. Kenneth McAllister, MD
Driving Tour—The Battles and Siege of Port Hudson, May 22 - July 9, 1863, by Dave Roth, with Ronnie McCallum, Michael Fraering, and Kevin Bennett
Book Reviews:
Soldiers North and South: The Everyday Experiences of the Men Who Fought America’s Civil War, by Paul A. Cimbala. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Yankee Warhorse: A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861, by Kenneth W. Noe. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Faith, Valor, and Devotion: The Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose, by W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes. Reviewed by Earl J. Hess. A Palmetto Boy: Civil War-Era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman, by Bobbie Swearingen Smith, editor. Reviewed by Earl J. Hess.
Volume XXVII, Issue 6
Maneuver and Mud: The Battle of Spotsylvania C.H. May 13-20, 1864, by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Amid the Fighting at Columbia, Tenn., Nov. 24, 1864, Sarah Martin and Her Family Listen to “Minie Balls Falling On the Roof Like Hail” and Hear “Wounded Yankees Passing Through the Yard, Bleeding and Screaming With Pain”
The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery at the Battle of Harris Farm: The Hometown Press Reports Their Baptism of Fire, by Chris Mackowski
Driving Tour—The Battle of Spotsylvania C.H., May 13-20, 1864, by Dave Roth, with Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White
Book Reviews:
God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War, by George C. Rable. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Sharpshooters: The Men, Their Guns, Their Stories, 1750-1900, by Gary Yee. Reviewed by Helen P. Trimpi.
Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union, by Roger Pickenpaugh. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields: Letters of the Heyward Family, 1862-1871, by Margret Belser Hollis and Allen H. Stokes. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Good Men Who Won the War: Army if the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory, by Robert Hunt. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War, by Michael Halleran. Reviewed by Br. Benet Exton.
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth: About the “Lost Cause” by James W. Loewen and Edward H. Sebesta, editors. Reviewed by Rick Sauers
XXVII, Issue 5
First Manassas (or Bull Run), July 21, 1861, by Henry P. Elliott, Ranger, Manassas National Battlefield Park
Driving Tour—The First Battle of Manassas, by Dave Roth, with Ranger Henry P. “Hank” Elliott, Manassas NBP
Book Reviews:
The Battles of New Hope Church, by Russell W. Blount Jr. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
The Second United States Sharpshooters in the Civil War: A History and Roster, by Gerald L. Earley. Reviewed by Don Wickman. General George H. Thomas: A Biography of the Union’s “Rock of Chickamauga.” by Robert P. Broadwater. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal, by Thomas M. Settles. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Those Damn Black Hats!: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign, by Lance J. Herdegen. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
The Quest for Annihilation: The Role & Mechanics of Battle in the American Civil War, by Christopher Perello. Reviewed by Lawrence Lee Hewitt.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
New Jersey Goes to War: Biographies of 150 New Jerseyans Caught Up in the Struggle of the Civil War, Including Soldiers, Civilians, Men, Women, Heroes, Scoundrels - and a Heroic Horse, by Joseph G. Bilby, editor.
Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas, by Kelly McMichael.
XXVII, Issue 4
The Florida Brigade at Gettysburg: “Our men fell fast and thick”, by Stuart R. Dempsey
The Other Florida Brigade, by Stuart R. Dempsey
Brockenbrough’s Virginia Brigade at Gettysburg: “We stood there to be shot at and that was about all that we did”, by George Newton
The First Union Infantryman Killed in the Pursuit of Lee, by Gary Kross
Driving Tour—The Florida Brigade and Brockenbrough’s Brigade at Gettysburg, And, Corporal Schuh’s Pursuit of Lee’s Army, by Dave Roth, with Stuart Dempsey, George Newton and Gary Kross
Book Reviews:
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders, by Felice Flanery Lewis. Reviewed by Tom DeFranco.
The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan, by Thomas W. Cutrer, editor. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp.
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant, by Carol Berkin. Reviewed by Br. Benet Exton.
Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army, by Steven J. Ramold. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
Troubled Commemoration: The Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965, by Robert J. Cook. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Jayhawkers: The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane, by Bryce D. Benedict. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
Pathway to Hell: A Tragedy of the American Civil War, by Dennis W. Brandt.
The Essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence, by Orville V. Burton. XXVII, Issue 3
Thwarting Grant’s First Drive on Vicksburg: Van Dorn’s Holly Springs Raid, by Thomas E. Parson
Where Was Julia Grant During the Raid? by Tom Parson
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—A Massachusetts Socialite Gets A V.I.P. Tour of the Custis-Lee Mansion in April 1864, and Tells All In A Letter Home, Including Lee Family Items Taken As Souvenirs and Her Views on Emancipation
Driving Tour—The Holly Springs Raid, by Dave Roth, with Tom Parson
Book Reviews:
Fitz-John Porter, Scapegoat of Second Manassas: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the General Accused of Disobedience, by Donald R. Jermann. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
The 25th North Carolina Troops in the Civil War: History and Roster of a Mountain-Bred Regiment, by Carroll C. Jones. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
General Lee’s Army: From Victory to to Collapse, by Joseph T. Glatthaar. Reviewed by Alan Cate.
Confederate Ironclad vs. Union Ironclad: Hampton Roads 1862, by Ron Field. Reviewed by Mike Cavanaugh.
The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863, by Scott L. Mingus, Sr. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War - Letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore Families 1853-1865, by Tom Moore Craig, ed. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
XXVII, Issue 2
Opequon Creek: The Third Battle of Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864, by Scott C. Patchan
On The Back Roads: Jefferson Barracks and the Missouri Civil War Museum, by Gary Stevens
Driving Tour—The Third Battle of Winchester, Va., by Dave Roth, with Scott Patchan
Preservation at Third Winchester, by W. Denman Zirkle, Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation
Book Reviews:
West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace, by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858-1867, by Ginny McNeill Raska and Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Josie Underwood’s Civil War Diary, by Nancy Disher Baird. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
John Bell Hood and the Fight for the Civil War Memory, by Brian Craig Miller. Reviewed by Stephen Davis. Upton’s Regulars: The 121st New York Infantry in the Civil War, by Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr. Reviewed by David A. Ward.
Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry, by Robert Patrick Bender, ed. Reviewed by David A. Ward.
A Southern Spy in Northern Virginia: The Civil War Album Laura Ratcliffe, by Charles V. Mauro. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Lee’s Bold Plan for Point Lookout: The Rescue of Confederate Prisoners that Never Happened, by Jack E. Schairer. Reviewed by Andrew Wagenhoffer.
The State of Jones, by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer. Reviewed by Roland R. Maust.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
Loyal Hearts: Histories of American Civil War Canines, by Michael Zucchero.
Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front, by J. Matthew Gallman.
XXVII, Issue 1
Tullahoma: The Wrongly Forgotten Campaign, by Michael R. Bradley
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—In the Aftermath of Chancellorsville, Sgt. William I. Frost, 1st Michigan Infantry, Expresses His Frustration and Dismay With the Army of the Potomac’s Incompetent Generals
Common Soldier—Lt. Richard Kennon and Big Indian Take A Night Ride In the Potomac: An Episode During Jeb Stuart’s Ride to Gettysburg, by James Robbins Jewell
The Battle of Shelbyville: Turning Point For the Union Cavalry in the West, by Greg Biggs
Driving Tour—The Tullahoma Campaign, by Dave Roth, with Mike Bradley and Greg Biggs
Book Reviews:
The American Civil War: A Military History, by John Keegan. Reviewed by Lawrence Lee Hewitt.
The Confederate Soldier’s Pocket Manual of Devotions Including Balm for the Weary and the Wounded, by Quintard, Charles Todd. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861, by Harold Holzer. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
Orlando M. Poe: Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer, by Paul Taylor. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Wiregrass to Appomattox: The Untold Story of the 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment, by James W. Parrish. Reviewed by Dave Richards.
Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign, by William L. Shea. Reviewed by David A. Powell. XXVI, Issue 6
Stoneman’s 1865 Raid in Central North Carolina “Driving Dixie Down”, by Chris J. Hartley
Wiley Swords War Letters Series—Joe Hooker Attempts to Save the Day at Chancellorsville - Amid the Crisis, Lt. Col. Alexander S. Webb Is Sent to Bring Up Ammunition to Hold the Fairview Line
Common Soldier—The Religious Trickster: Father Joseph Bixio, S.J., by Fr. Robert J. Miller
Driving Tour—Stoneman’s Raid in Central North Carolina, 1865, by Dave Roth, with Chris Hartley
Preservation—Remembering the Salisbury Prison, by Ed and Sue Curtis, with Chris Hartley
Book Reviews:
War, Politics, and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana, by Henry Clay Warmoth. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, by Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War, by David Williams. Reviewed by Richard F. Miller.
The Fourth Louisiana Battalion in the Civil War: A History and Roster, by Terry G. Scriber and Theresa Arnold-Scriber. Reviewed by Dave Powell.
Virginia at War, 1863, by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and his East Tennessee Cavalry, by Larry Gordon. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
XXVI, Issue 5
The Luray Valley Campaign of 1862: The Road to Front Royal, by Gary Ecelbarger
Wiley Sword’s War Letters—The Hardee’s Tactics Conspiracy: U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, Adjutant General Samuel Cooper, and Lt. Col. William J. Hardee Outmaneuver the Chief of Ordnance, Col. Henry K. Craig, In the Writing of Hardee’s Famous Army Manual In the 1850’s
Common Soldier—Faces of the Florence Stockade, by J. Michael Martinez
Driving Tour—Jackson’s Luray Valley Campaign 1862, by Dave Roth, with Gary Ecelbarger
Book Reviews:
The London Confederates: The Officials, Clergy, Businessmen, and Journalists Who Backed the American South During the Civil War, by John D. Bennett. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist: Selected Writings on Revolution, Recognition, and Race, by Lonnie A. Burnett. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Voices of the Confederate Navy: Articles, Letters, Reports, and Reminiscences, by R. Thomas Campbell. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause—A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart, by Jeffry D. Wert. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina, by Edmond L. Drago. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Southern Boots and Saddles: The Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry C.S.A., by Arthur E. Green. Reviewed by David Powell.
The 11th Wisconsin in the Civil War: A Regimental History, by Christopher C. Wehner. Reviewed by David Powell.
The 28th North Carolina Infantry: A Civil War History and Roster, by Frances H. Casstevens. Reviewed by David Powell.
The Gettysburg Battlefield: A Guide to the Battlefield Sites of the Union Regimental Commanders Who Were Casualties, by Ethan Bishop. Reviewed by Steven J. Wright.
Welcome the Hour of Conflict: William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama, by John C. Carter. Reviewed by Mike Cavanaugh.
Guide to the Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain, by Jay Luvaas and Harold W. Nelson. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
Custer and the Front Royal Executions of 1864, by Jay W. Simson. Reviewed by Jeffry D, Wert.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
One Honored Dead: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in the American Civil War, by Arthur B. Fox.
Historic Photos of the Siege of Petersburg, by Emily J. and John S. Salmon.
XXVI, Issue 4
Hancock’s Line at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863: “This is going to be a hot place” by Blake Magner
Thunder On the Mountain: The Battle of Monterey Pass, by Eric J. Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi
On The Back Roads: Iowa’s Fort Dodge and Its Most Famous Character, Lewis A. Armistead, by Dave Roth
Driving Tour—Hancock’s Line on July 3, and the Battle of Monterey Pass, by Dave Roth, with Blake Magner, Gary Kross, Eric J. Wittenberg, and J. David Petruzzi
Book Reviews:
Invisible Hero: Patrick R. Cleburne, by Bruce H. Stewart. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President, by Edward Steers, Jr. Reviewed by John Deppen.
Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, by Clint Johnson. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War, by Dora L. Costa. Reviewed by Arthur B. Fox.
Men of Granite: New Hampshire’s Soldiers in the Civil War, by Duane E. Shaffer. Reviewed by Robert Grandchamp. XXVI, Issue 3
Sherman’s Winter of Despair, by Terrence J. Winschel
George Custer’s Ascension to Command the Wolverines, by Robert F. O’Neill, Jr.
On The Back Roads: The Thomas R.R. Cobb House, Athens, Georgia, by Jim Miles
Driving Tour—The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, by Terry Winschel, with Dave Roth
Book Reviews:
Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, by Ethan S. Rafuse. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Confederate Struggle for Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West, by Alexander Mendoza. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Guardian of Savannah: Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond, by Roger S. Dunham. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Soldiering For Glory: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Frank Schaller, Twenty-Second Mississippi Infantry, by Mary W. Schaller and Martin M. Schaller. Reviewed by David Powell.
Kentuckians In Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State, by Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt. Reviewed by David Powell.
Cobb’s Legion Cavalry: A History and Roster of the Ninth Georgia Volunteers in the Civil War, by Harriet Bey Mesic. Reviewed by Andrew Wagenhoffer.
XXVI, Issue 2
The Battles of Bristoe Station, by J. Michael Miller
Wiley Sword’s War Letters—Before and After: Sergeant Martin V. Miller, 7th Illinois Infantry, Experiences the Balmy Leisure and Then the Awful Despair
Driving Tour—The Battles at Bristoe Station, Aug. 26-27, 1862 and Oct. 14, 1863, by Dave Roth, with Mike Miller
Book Reviews:
Irish Americans in the Confederate Army, by Sean Michael O’Brien. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Bloody Shirt—Terror After Appomattox, by Stephen Budiansky. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, by William J. Cooper, Jr. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
The Irish General—Thomas Francis Meagher, by Paul R. Wylie. Reviewed by John Deppen.
Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience, by Kevin Dougherty. Reviewed by Dave Powell.
The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader, by Larry M. Logue and Michael Barton. XXVI, Issue 1
The Battle of the Bloody Angle, or “Mule Shoe”
Spotsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864, by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White
On The Back Roads: Sacramento’s Civil War Legacy, by Robert Bandy
Driving Tour—The Bloody Angle at the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield, by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White, with Dave Roth
Book Reviews:
The Ninth Vermont Infantry: A History and Roster, by Paul G. Zeller. Reviewed by Richard F. Miller.
A Heart Divided: Letters of Sally Baxter Hampton 1853-1862, by Ann Fripp Hampton. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Vital Rails: The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina, by H. David Stone, Jr. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Jones-Imboden Raid, by Darrell L. Collins. Reviewed by Dave Powell.
America’s Civil War: The Operational Battlefield, 1861-1863, by Brian Holden Reid. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
Colonels in Blue: Union Army Colonels of the Civil War - The Mid-Atlantic States: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, by Roger D. Hunt. Reviewed by Rick Sauers.
Volume XXV, Issue 6
“A Victory Brilliant and Complete”, by B. Kevin Bennett
Collectibles—Union Idenitification Discs, by Joseph W. Stahl
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Two Days Prior to the First Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee Writes to His Brother Carter Advising Him of His Personal Views About the War
The Last Casualty of the Battle of Richmond, by B. Kevin Bennett
Driving Tour—The Battle of Richmond, Ky. and Related Actions, August 23-30, 1862, by Dave Roth, with Kevin Bennett and local Battle of Richmond guides Robert C. Moody and Phillip Seyfrit, battlefield superintendent
Book Reviews:
Brother To The Eagle: The Civil War Journal of Sgt. Ambrose Armitage, 8th Wisconsin Infantry, by Alden C. Carter (editor). Reviewed by Dave Powell.
Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph Bailey, by T. Lindsay Baker. Reviewed by Dave Powell.
Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients: A Complete Illustrated Record, by Robert P. Broadwater. Reviewed by Richard F. Miller. Keep Up the Good Courage-A Yankee Family and the Civil War: The Correspondence of Cpl. Lewis Q. Smith, of Sandwich, New Hampshire, Fourteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers 1862-1865, by Alan Fraser Houston. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction, by William Warren Rogers. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Volume XXV, Issue 5
Stonewall Jackson, Prospect Hill, and the Slaughter Pen, by Frank A. O’Reilly
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Confederate Senator Landon C. Haynes of Tennessee Describes the Despair at Richmond in the Aftermath of Hood’s Devastating Defeat at Nashville
On The Back Roads: Museum of the immigrants and Campos Cemetery, by Charles E. Wolfe
Driving Tour—Fredericksburg: Action on the Confederate Right, by Dave Roth, with Frank O’Reilly
Book Reviews:
Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency, by William C. Harris. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Rebel and the Rose—James A. Semple, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and the Lost Confederate Gold, by Wesley Millett and Gerald White. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier’s Eye View of Civil War Battles, by Brent Nosworthy.
In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee—The Wilderness Through Cold Harbor, by Gordon C. Rhea. Reviewed by John Deppen.
The Civil War’s First Blood, Missouri 1854-1861, by James Denny and John Bradbury. Reviewed by James H. Nottage.
Images of Civil War Medicine, A Photographic History, by Gordon E. Dammann and Alfred Jay Bollet. Reviewed by James H. Nottage.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War, by Robert E. Bonner.
Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863-The Tide Turns at Gettysburg, by Glenn W. LaFantasie.
Civil War Almanac, by John Fredriksen.
Volume XXV, Issue 4
Lee’s Most Resounding Victory, by Frank O’Reilly
Wiley Sword’s War Letters—Major Frank S. Bond of William S. Rosecrans’ Staff Vividly Describes the Grisly Death of Lt. Col. Julius P. Garesche, Rosecrans’ Chief of Staff, At the Battle of Stones River
Collectibles—Four Very Rare Inscribed or Identified Civil War Revolvers, by Jerry Pitstick
Driving Tour—Fredericksburg: The Town Fight and Assaults on the Confederate Left, by Dave Roth, with Frank O’Reilly
Book Reviews:
Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign, by Scott C. Patchan. Reviewed by John Deppen.
Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death, by Mark S. Schantz. Reviewed by Richard F. Miller.
The Spirit Divided: Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains-The Union, edited by Benedict R. Maryniak and John Wesley Brinsfield Jr. Reviewed by Terry A. Johnson, Jr.
Soldier of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters of Captain John Preston Sheffey, edited by James I. Robertson, Jr. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails, by Erik Calonius. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Abraham Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography in Postcards, by James D. Ristine. Reviewed by Rick Sauers.
Volume XXV, Issue 3
The 145th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Twenty-Five Hours at Gettysburg, by Timothy H. Smith
Lincoln’s Host—David Willis and his Wife Catherine, by Tim Smith
The Gettysburg Cyclorama, by Don Johnson and Sue Boardman
“The Heaviest Skirmishing I Have Ever Witnessed”: The Fight for “Smith’s Ridge”, by Stuart R. Dempsey
Driving Tour—Lincoln at Gettysburg, and Skirmish Action on “Smith’s Ridge”, by Dave Roth, with Tim Smith and Stuart Dempsey
Book Reviews:
The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, The Civil War’s Cruelest Mission, by Alan Axelrod. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign that Decided the Civil War, by Jack Hurst. Reviewed by Dave Powell.
Confederate Army Uniforms at Gettysburg, by Michael J. Winey. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
An Unvarnished Tale: The Public and Private Civil War Writings of Porter Farley, 140th N.Y.V.I., edited by Brian A. Bennett. Reviewed by Rick Sauers.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
“Friends in Peace and War”: The Russian Navy’s Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco, by Douglas Kroll. Shipwrecks, Sea Riders, and Maritime Disasters Along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004, by Donald G. Shomette.
Volume XXV, Issue 2
The Battle of Chickamauga, Day 2, September 20, 1863, by William Glenn Robertson
Driving Tour—Chickamauga, Day 2, Sept. 20, 1863, by Dave Roth, with Jim Ogden, Historian, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP, and Dr. William Glenn Robertson
Book Reviews:
Army of the Potomac, Volume II: McClellan Takes Command, September 1861-February 1862, by Russell H. Beatie. Reviewed by Alan C. Cate.
Rebel Chief: The Motley Life of Colonel William Holland Thomas, C.S.A., by Paul A. Thomsen. Reviewed by Dave Powell.
Mr. Lincoln’s Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron, by Gary D. Joiner. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
LeRoy Fitch: The Civil War Career of a Union River Gunboat Commander, by Myron J. Smith. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865, by Richard R. Duncan. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Fighting Words: An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War, by Andrew S. Coopersmith. Reviewed by James H. Nottage.
Volume XXV, Issue 1
The Attack on Fort Stedman, March 25, 1865, by William C. Wyrick
Wiley Swords War Letters Series—Corporal Levi Miller of the 7th New Hampshire Infantry Tells How He Nearly Lost His “Privates” In The Famous Assault Across the Beach At Battery Wagner
Driving Tour—Lee’s Assault on Fort Stedman, by Dave Roth, with Bill Wyrick, and Chris Calkins and Grant Gates of Petersburg NB
Book Reviews:
Sherman’s Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum, by Brian C. Melton. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Confederate Naval Cadet: The Diary and Letters of Midshipman Hubbard T. Minor, with a History of the Confederate Naval Academy, edited by R. Thomas Campbell. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry. A Cavalryman Under Custer ‘64-’65, Reminiscences of the Civil War, by E. M. Johnson, with notes by his granddaughter, Janet Carson. Reviewed by James H. Nottage.
Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment During the American Civil War, edited by Clarence R. Geier, David G. Orr and Matthew B. Reeves. Reviewed by James H. Nottage.
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, by Clarissa W. Confer. Reviewed by Tom Elmore. With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
At Lincoln’s Side: John Hay’s Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings, edited by Michel Burlingame. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Women Who Dare: Women of the Civil War, by Michelle A. Krowl. Reviewed by Jane DuPree Richardson.
Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Civil War Prison, by Kelly Pucci. Reviewed by Justin T. Mayhue.
Volume XXIV, Issue 6
The Battle of Chickamauga, Day 1, September 19, 1863, by William Glenn Robertson
Driving Tour—Chickamauga, Day 1, Sept. 19, 1863, by Dave Roth, with Jim Ogden, Historian, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP, and Dr. William Glenn Robertson
Book Reviews:
Never For Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia, by C.L. Bragg, Charles D. Ross, Gordon A. Blaker, Stephanie A. T. Jacobe, and Theodore P. Savas. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Meade’s Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman, edited by David W. Lowe. Reviewed by Earl J. Hess.
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows, by Gabor Boritt. Reviewed by Alan Cate.
Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, by Douglas L. Wilson. Reviewed by Alan Cate.
Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy, by Roger Pickenpaugh. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
Volume XXIV, Issue 5
The Battle of Fisher’s Hill, September 22, 1864, by Scott C. Patchan
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Youthful Confederate Private J. P. Graves of Swett’s Mississippi Battery Finds Fighting With Pat Cleburne’s Division More Than He Anticipated
Driving Tour—The Battle of Fisher’s Hill, by Dave Roth, with Scott C. Patchan
Book Reviews:
Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, Vol. 2 by Terrence J. Winschel. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
“No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar”: Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign from Fayetteville to Averasboro, by Mark A. Smith and Wade Sokolosky. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
McClellan and Failure: A Study of Civil War Fears, Incompetence and Worse, by Edward H. Bonekemper, III. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign, by Earl J. Hess. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862, by O. Edward Cunningham. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
“Fear Was Not in Him”: The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A., edited by Christian G. Samito. Reviewed by David A. Ward.
Volume XXIV, Issue 4
Hell On The Hatchie, The Fight At Davis Bridge, Tennessee, by Tom Parson, Ranger, Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Private Fred Root of the 16th Vermont Infantry Describes In Vivid Detail the Capture of Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton by John S. Mosby at Fairfax Court House, Va., March 9, 1863
Driving Tour—Confederate Retreat from Corinth and the Fights at the Bridges, by Dave Roth, with Tom Parson, Ranger, Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center
The Tale of Willie Price, Armand Pallissard, and Other Dead from the Fall 1862 Corinth Campaign, by Tom Parson
Book Reviews:
The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862-1863, by Jack H. Lepa. Reviewed by David Powell.
The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 Days That Changed the Nation, by Howard Means. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
Wade Hampton III, by Robert K. Ackerman. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics, by James Oakes. Reviewed by Andy Waskie.
The Forgotten Hero of Gettysburg, by David W. Palmer. Reviewed by John Deppen.
Other Noted Guerrillas (Of the Civil War in Missouri) , by Larry Wood. Reviewed by James H. Nottage.
Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico, by Flint Whitlock. Reviewed by James. H. Nottage.
Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia, by Fred L. Ray. Reviewed by James H. Nottage.
Ironclads at War: The Monitor vs. the Merimac, text by Dan Abnett. Reviewed by Ted Alexander.
Shermanís March to the Sea, 1864: Atlanta to Savannah, by David Smith. Reviewed by Ted Alexander.
Sauersí Book Notes:
Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete History from Secession to Reconstruction, by Neil Kagan and Stephen G. Hyslop.
Abe Lincoln’s Legacy of Laughter: Humerous Stories By and About Abraham Lincoln, edited by Paul M. Zall. Volume XXIV, Issue 3
The Chickamauga Campaign, The Armies Collide, Bragg Forces His Way Across Chickamauga Creek, by William Glenn Robertson
Wiley Swordís War Letters Series—General Alexander S. Webb, Medal of Honor Hero of Pickettís Charge, Recom- mends an Officer For Promotion, and With This Letter Perhaps Save His Life
Driving Tour—The Armies Collide, Sept. 12-18, 1863, by Dave Roth, with Jim Ogden, Historian, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP
Book Reviews:
Duty, Honor and Country: The Civil War Experiences of Captain William P. Black, Thirty-Seventh Illinois Infantry, edited by Michael E. Banasik. Reviewed by Earl J. Hess.
Boy Soldier of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Johnnie Wickersham, edited by Kathleen Gorman. Reviewed by Earl J. Hess.
Pittsburgh During the American Civil War, 1860-1865, by Arthur B. Fox. Reviewed by Andy Waskie.
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power, by Richard Carwardine. Reviewed by John Deppen.
Volume XXIV, Issue 2
Gettysburg: A Collection of Articles by Gettysburg Historians
A dreadful Buzzing of Bullets: De Trobriandís Brigade Defends the Union Left by Stuart R. Dempsey
Philippe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand by Stuart R. Dempsey
A Twin Sacrifice: The Tragic Tale of Thomas and George Dennen by Michael A. Dreese
The Shelling of Carlisle by Eric J. Wittenberg
Farnsworth’s Charge: The Traditional vs. Revised Interpretation, Responses by Eric J. Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi, and Andie Custer
Driving Tour—Wheatfield and Peach Orchard Action, The Shelling of Carlisle, More on Farnsworthís Charge, and Gettysburgís Visual Battle Damage, by Dave Roth et al
Gettysburg’s Visual Battle Damage: The Shell Has Never Been Removedî by Timothy H. Smith
On The Back Roads:
Confederate Capt. Granville H. Ouryís Grave, Adamsville Cemetary, Arizona by MARK Bond
Battle of Picacho Pass, Pinal County, Arizona by Mary K. Arensberg
Book Reviews: Rise and Fall of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Senator William S. Oldham, by Clayton E. Jewett. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
New York’s Historic Armories: An Illustrated History, by Nancy L. Todd. Reviewed by Bruce S. Bazelon.
Gone With the Glory: The Civil War In Cinema, by Brian Steel Wills. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor, by Russell S. Bonds. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard, Jr., edited by Thomas P. Nanzig. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster, by Neil H. Radford.
A History of Ironclads: The Power of Iron Over Wood, by John V. Quarstein.
Volume XXIV, Issue 1
The Battle of Cedar Creek October 19,1864 by Scott C. Patchan
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—The Simon B. Buckner-Ulysses S. Grant Relationship in War And Peace: A Remark- able Letter From General Bucknerís Son
Driving Tour—The Battle of Cedar Creek by Dave Roth, with Scott C. Patchan
Book Reviews:
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864, by Earl J. Hess. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Command and Communication Frictions in the Gettysburg Campaign, by Philip M. Cole. Reviewed by John Deppen.
Dixie Betrayed, by David J. Eicher. Reviewed by David Powell.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
Rogue: A Biography of Civil War General Justus McKinstry, by John K. Driscoll.
ìThose Damn Horse Soldiersî: True Tales of Civil War Cavalry, by George Walsh.
Volume XXIII, Issue 6 McLemore’s Cove: Rosecrans’ Gamble, Bragg’s Lost Opportunity by William Glenn Robertson
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Medal of Honor Recipient Capt. Hazard Stevens Describes the Confederate Assault at Cedar Creek, Va., Where the Union Line Broke Away ìLike the Falling of A Row of Bricksî
On The Back Roads: The Search for Elizabeth Wirz by Peggy Sheppard
The Co.C, 47th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers Monument by John E. Deppen
Driving Tour—McLemore’s Cove: Rosecran’s Gamble, Bragg’s Lost Opportunity by Dave Roth, with Jim Ogden, Historian, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP
Book Reviews:
Sherman’s Mississippi Campaign, by Buck T. Foster. Reviewed by David Powell.
While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War, by Charles W. Sanders. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Cannoneers, To Your Posts!î: James H. Cooperís Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery at Gettysburg, by Frank J. Piatek. Reviewed by Andy Waskie.
Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War, by Edwin C. Bearss. Reviewed by Michael Cavanaugh.
The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865, by Andrew Masich. Reviewed by James R. Jewell.
Volume XXIII, Issue 5
The Battle of Weldon Railroad, by Chris Calkins.
Hancock the (Not So) Superb, by Bruce M. Venter.
On The Back Roads: The Grave of General Charkles C. Harker by Ben Carlton
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Prelude to Pat Cleburne’s Slaves-As-Soldiers Proposal: General Hardee’s “Memeroial” Sets the Stage for Increasing the Southern Army’s Manpower With Blacks As Noncombatants
Driving Tour—Weldon Railroad Actions: Globe Tavern and Reams’ Station by Dave Roth, with Chris Calkins and Bruce Venter
Book Reviews:
The Fighting McCooks: Americaís Famous Fighting Family, by Charles and Barbara Whalen. Reviewed by David Powell.
A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-64, edited by Mary A. Giunta. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Figting for Liberty and Right: The Civil War Diary of William Bluffton Miller, Company K, Seventy-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, edited by Jeffery L. Patrick and Robert J. Willey. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Emma Spaulding Bryant: Letters and Diaries, 1860-1900, edited with narrative by Ruth Douglas Currie. Reviewed by Jane DuPree Richardson.
From Conquest to Conciliation: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin, by George C. Bradley. Reviewed by Rick Sauers.
The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865, by Mark R. Wilson. Reviewed by Rick Sauers.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
The Officers of the CSS Shenandoah, by Angus Curry.
The American Civil War: A Hands-On History, by Christopher J. Olsen.
America’s Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida, by Thomas Reid.
Volume XXIII, Issue 4
The Fall of Chattanooga, by William Glenn Robertson
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Lt. Col. Judson Kilpatrick Complains to President Lincoln of the Harsh Injustice of Col. Lafayette C. Baker, Who Threw “Kill-Cavalry” Into Prison
Driving Tour—The Fall of Chattanooga by Dave Roth with Jim Ogden
Book Reviews:
The Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads and the Civil War’s Final Campaign, by Eric J. Wittenberg.
Harvard’s Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, by Richard F. Miller.
The Devil’s Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America, by Barnet Schecter.
Incidents of the War: The Civil War Journal of Mary Jane Chadick, edited and annotated by Nancy M. Rohr.
Volume XXIII, Issue 3
Grant and Lincoln Realize the Need for A New Commander in the Valley, by Scott C. Patchan
The Death and Burial of James A. Mulligan, by Scott C. Patchan
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—An Amazed Staff Officer Describes Nathan Bedford Forrest’s “Horse Marines” In Action During the Johnsonville Raid
Driving Tour—The Shenandoah Valley, July 1864, by Dave Roth and Scott Patchan
Book Reviews:
Minnesota in the Civil War: An Illustrated History, by Kenneth Carley. Reviewed by Steve Wright.
To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illustrated Light Artillery, edited by Kurt H. Hackemer. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Whip The Rebellionî Ulysses S. Grantís Rise to Command, by George Walsh. Reviewed by John Deppen.
Sauers’ Book Notes:
Jeff Shaara’s Civil War Battlefields: Discovering Americaís Hallowed Ground.
The Battle of Hampton Roads: New Perspectives on the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, edited by Harold Holzer and Tim Mulligan.
Clarksonís Battalion C.S.A.,: A Brief History and Roster, by David L. Haimerl.
In Search of Confederate Ancestors: The Guide, by J.H. Segars.
Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War, edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean.
Volume XXIII, Issue 2
Civil War Veterans Die on the Plains, by Neil Magnum
Galvanized Yankees: Rebels Trade Prisons and Guards for the Plains and Indians
Civil War Biographies: (Benteen, Cooke, Clan, Keogh, Moylan, Reno, Smith, Sturgis Family, Yates)
Driving Tour—Civil War Veterans Die on the Plains, by Dave Roth The Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876 The Battle of the Rosebud, June 17, 1876 A Brief History of Red Cloud’s War As Told Through the Lives of Five
Book Reviews:
The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis, by Kevin Dougherty with J. Michael Moore. Reviewed by Russell S. Bonds.
Basil Wilson Duke, CSA: The Right Man in the Right Place, by Gary Robert Matthews. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Soldier of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters of Captain John Preston Sheffey, edited by James I. Robertson, Jr. Reviewed by Sam Elliott.
Volume XXIII, Issue 1
Gettysburg: A Collection of Articles by Gettysburg Historians
Into the Mouth of Hell: Farnsworth’s Charge Revisited, by Andie Custer.
Captain Parsons’ Battles and Leaders Account, by Andie Custer.
Skirmish at Fountaindale, Sunday, June 28, 1863, by Timothy H. Smith. The Bullets Came Thick and Close: The 137th New York Infantry on Culp’s Hill, by John Archer.
Driving Tour—Farnsworth’s Charge, Colonel Ireland Saves the Union Right, and the Skirmish at Fountaindale, by Dave Roth, with Andie Custer, Tim Smith, John Archer and Gary Kross.
The Wells Monument: Bas Relief of Farnsworth Charge, by Andie Custer.
Monuments Revise History, by Andie Custer.
Volume XXII, Issue 6
Romney in the Civil War, Including Stonewall Jackson’s 1862 Campaign, by Dr. Richard A. Sauers
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Sgt. Miles G. Turrentine, 1st Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A., Depicts the Vicious Fighting in Shiloh’s Hornet’s Nest
On The Back Roads: Fort Norfolk: Guardian of the Elizabeth, by Charlie Knight; Camp Nelson: Union Army Supply Depot and USCT Recruiting Center in Kentucky, by Jackie Sheckler Finch; A Tune Before Dying: “Cold Mountain” Reality, by Geoffrey Cantrell.
Common Soldier—Ira B. Dutton, 13th Wisconsin Infantry: Soldier and Saint, by Peter J. Skelly.
Driving Tour—Romney, W.Va., During the War, Including Stonewall Jackson’s Operations Against Dam No. 5 and Hancock, Md, by Dave Roth, with Rick Sauers, Gary Gimbel, and Dan Oates; “The Dam Trip”: Jackson’s Attempts to Breach Dam No. 5, by Gary Gimbel; Stonewall Jackson’s Romney Campaign, Jan. 1-10, 1862, by Dr. Richard A. Sauers.
Book Reviews:
Brigadier Genereal Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest’s Fighting Lieutenant, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., with Connie Walton Moretti and James Michael Browne. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Black Jack Logan: An Extraordinary Life in Peace and War, by Gary Ecelbarger. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
Richmond’s Wartime Hospitals, by Rebecca Barbour Calcutt. Reviewed by Jack D. Welsh.
A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant’s Overlooked Military Genius, by Edward H. Bonekemper III. Reviewed by Michael B. Ballard.
Spartan Band: Burnett’s 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War, by Thomas Reid. Reviewed by Anne J. Bailey.
Sherman’s March to the Sea, by John F. Marszalek. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861, by David Detzer. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
The Tennessee Brigade, by Randy Bishop. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XXII, Issue 5
The 1862 Kentucky Campaign and The Battle of Perryville, by Stuart Sanders.
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—A New Perspective on the Death of Gen. James B. McPherson at Atlanta. Driving Tour—The Battle of Perryville
Book Reviews:
Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee, edited by Peter S. Carmichael. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
Vicksburg: The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi, by Michael B. Ballard. Reviewed by Matt Atkinson.
Mountaineers in Gray: The Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., by John D. Fowler. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
In The Saddle with the Texans: Day-by-Day with Parsons’ Cavalry Brigade, 1862-1865, edited by Anne J. Bailey. Reviewed by Dr. Laurence D. Schiller.
Volume XXII, Issue 4
The End of Innocence: The Battle of Falling Waters by Gary Gimbel
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Where in the Name of God is Grant? Ulysses S. Grant’s Field Order at Iuka, Miss., Creates Confusion and Also a Bitter Rival, by William S. Rosecrans.
On The Back Roads: Lawrence, Kansas: Symbol of a Abolition, Target of Border Ruffians, by Michael O’Brien.
Heros Von Borcke’s Home and Grave in Poland, by Stefan Slivka.
Driving Tour—The Battle of Falling Waters and the 1861 Valley Campaign, by Gary Gimbel, with Dave Roth.
Book Reviews:
Charlestons in War: The Charleston Battalion, by W. Chris Phelps. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
The Struggle for the Life of the Republic: A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, edited by Stewart Bennett and Barbara Tillery. Reviewed by Mark L. Bradley.
Red Clay to Richmond: Trail of the 35th Georgia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., by John J. Fox III. Reviewed by C.L. Bragg.
Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America, by Jane Schultz. Reviewed by Jack D. Welsh.
Now for the Contest: Coastal and Naval Operations in the Civil War, by William G. Roberts. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Army of the Potomac, Volume II,: McClellan Takes Command, September 1861-February 1862, by Russel H. Beatie. Reviewed by Alan C. Cate, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.).
Volume XXII, Issue 3
Herding Yankee Cattle The Beefsteak Raid, September 14-17, 1864 by Horace Mewborn The Apple Jack Raid, December 7-12, 1864, “For This Barbarism There Was No Real Excuse” by Chris Calkins
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Sergeant Herschel Felton, 37th Illinois Infantry, Describes the Grisly Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas
Driving Tour—Action in the Petersburg Campaign (The Beefsteak & Apple Jack Raid) by Dave Roth, with Chris Calkins, Horace Mewborn and Scott Mauger.
Book Reviews:
The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem, by John M. Coski. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
The New Annals of the Civil War, edited by Peter Cozzens an Robert I. Girardi. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Maxims of Robert E. Lee for Young Gentlemen, edited by Richard G. Williams, Jr. Reviewed by Charles C. DiVincenti, Jr.
The Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park, by Timothy B. Smith. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XXII, Issue 2
A Collection of Articles by Gettysburg Historians
The Knight of Romance: General Alfred Pleasonton in the Gettysburg Campaign, by Andie Custer
When the General Fell: The Monumental Death of John F. Reynolds, by Kalina Ingham Hintz
“Every Discharge Made Sad Havoc in our Line” Scales’ Brigade at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, by Christopher J. Army
“His Merit Was Recognized By All the Old Boys” Lt. Col. John D. Musser, 143rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, by David L. Richards
Two Veterans Leave Their Mark, by David L. Richards
An Unlikely Reunion: The Story of Lt. Charles O. Hunt and Mary Carson, by Michael A. Dreese
Driving Tour—General Pleasonton at Gettysburg and First Day Attacks, by Dave Roth, with Andie Custer, Chris Army, Dave Richards and Gary Kross
Book Reviews:
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, by Harold Holzer. Reviewed by William Lee Miller.
Life and Death in Civil War Prisons: A Story of Hardship, Horror—And Extraordinary Courage, by J. Michael Martinez. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Chimborazo: The Confederacy’s Largest Hospital, by Carol C. Green. Reviewed by Jack D. Welsh.
“Always Very Daring and Restless: Private William J. Knight and the Andrews Raid” by James Leeke. Reviewed by Col. James G. Bogle. Volume XXII, Issue 1
For all Anguish, For Some Freedom
Fredericksburg In the War, by John Hennessy
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Lt. John G. Crawford, Adjutant, 2nd Michigan Cavalry, Recalls the Battle of Perryville, Ky., and Comments on Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
On The Back Roads: The Florence Stockade in South Carolina, by J. Michael Martinez The Battle of Washington, by Russell H. Booth, Jr. The Grave of General John Sedgwick, by Peter C. Vermilyea
Driving Tour—Fredericksburg In The War, by John Hennessy
Book Reviews:
“We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, by David Herbert Donald. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.
Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home, by Matthew Pinsker. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman, by Walter Brian Cisco. Reviewed by Tom Elmore.
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. Reviewed by John D. Fowler.
Walker’s Texas Division C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Mississippi, by Richard Lowe. Reviewed by Buck T. Foster.
The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for Charleston News and Courier, edited by Giselle Roberts. Reviewed by Mauriel Joslyn.
Volume XXI, Issue 6
The Iron Brigade Earns Its Name: John Gibbon’s Brigade in the Maryland Campaign, 1862, by Alan T. Nolan and Marc Storch
Controversy—The Strange Story of the 6th Wisconsin’s Flag at Antietam, by Alan T. Nolan and Marc Storch
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Pvt. Thomas C. Potter, Standart’s Battery B, 1st Ohio Light Artillery Vividly Describes the Battle of Stones River
Common Soldier—Pvt. James W. Porterfield, Co. E, 37th Georgia Infantry, Army of Tennessee, CSA
On The Back Roads: Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Boyhood Home in Chapel Hill, Tennessee AND Disaster on the Ohio River—The Story of the Argosy III
Driving Tour—The Iron Brigade In the Maryland Campaign, by Marc Storch, with Alan T. Nolan and Dave Roth
Book Reviews: Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War, by Michael Bennett. Reviewed by Craig L. Symonds.
A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, by Jeffrey N. Lash. Reviewed by Sam Elliott.
A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, A Confederate Soldier from Maine, edited by Roger S. Durham. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
Yankee Rebel: The Civil War Journal of Edmund DeWitt Patterson, edited by John G. Barrett. Reviewed by J. Michael Martinez.
Lincoln’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Greatest President as Commander in Chief, by Geoffrey Perret. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.
Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865, by Larry J. Daniel. Reviewed by Timothy B. Smith.
Volume XXI, Issue 5
The Battle of Prairie Grove War in the Ozarks, April ’62— January ’63, by Scott Sallee
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Capt. Josiah C. Fuller, 32nd Massachusetts Infantry, Describes the Failed Frontal Assault at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864, Telling How He Lost and Found His Sword Amid the Chaos
On The Back Roads: General William Mahone’s Birthplace
Common Soldier—Samuel Everhard, 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Driving Tour—The Civil War In the Ozarks, April ’62— January ’63, by Dave Roth, with Scott Sallee and Don Mont- gomery (Historian, Prairie Grove BHSP)
Book Reviews:
Three Years With Wallace’s Zouaves: The Civil War Memoirs of Thomas Wise Durham, edited by Jeffrey L. Patrick. Reviewed by Charles F. Larimer.
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign in 1864, by Jack H. Lepa. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory, by Thomas A. Desjardin. Reviewed by Colonel Alan C. Cate.
The New York Times Pictorial Lincoln History and, Lincoln: Original News Coverage from the New York Times. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XXI, Issue 4
General Gouverneur K. Warren and the Fighting at Laurel Hill During the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 1864
Profile—Major General William B. Bate, C.S.A. Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—A Virginian Reveals His Depression Over Losing So Many Comrades in Pickett’s Charge
On The Back Roads: The Battle of Round Mountain- First Bloodshed of the Civil War in Indian Territory
Common Soldier—Sergeant James K. Sturdevant, Co. F., 8th Iowa Infantry
Driving Tour—The Fighting at Laurel Hill and the Spindle Field, by Dave Roth, with Greg Mertz
Book Reviews:
Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of War, by Herman Hattaway. Reviewed by John F. Marszalek.
Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, edited by G. Ward Hubbs. Reviewed by Nat S. Turner.
The Camden Expedition of 1864 and the Opportunity Lost by the Confederacy to Change the Civil War, by Michael J. Forsyth. Reviewed by ArthurW. Bergeron.
Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders and Others, by Larry G. Eggleston. Reviewed by Janet Saugstad.
A Legacy of Valor: The Memoirs and Letters of Captain Henry Newton Comey, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, edited by Lyman Richard Comey. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XXI, Issue 3
“The Army is Moving” Lee’s March to the Potomac, 1863 Rodes Spearheads the Way, by Clark B. “Bud” Hall
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Union Colonel James Peckham Describes the Sacking of Jackson, Mississippi, Following Operations Against Vicksburg
Common Soldier—The Fighting Scott Brothers of Iowa
On The Back Roads: Port Washington, Wisconsin: 1862 Draft Riot
Driving Tour—Lee’s March to the Potomac, 1863: Rodes Spearheads the Way, Historical information provided by Bud Hall. Maps by Dave Roth.
Book Reviews:
The 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War, by Michael Schellhammer. Reviewed by Rick Sauers.
Gentleman and Soldier: The Extraordinary Life of General Wade Hampton, by Edward G. Longacre. Reviewed by Myers Brown.
Civil War Explosive Ordnance: A Guide to Large Artillery Projectiles, Torpedos, and Mines, by Jack Bell. Reviewed by Gordon Jones.
Vicksburg is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River, by William L. Shea and Terrence J. Winschel. Reviewed by Wiley Sword.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 11: September 1864—May 1865, edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist, Barbara J. Rozek and Kenneth H. Williams. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XXI, Issue 2
The Burning of Columbia South Carolina, February 17, 1865, by Tom Elmore
A Still Raging Controversy—Who Burned Columbia?, by Tom Elmore
Common Soldier—Private Charles E. Bickmore, Co. I, 20th Maine Volunteers
On The Back Roads: ”Glencoe,” Home of Gen. Gabriel C. Wharton, CSA
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Col. Frederick Townsend, 3rd New York Infantry, Defends His Conduct at the Battle of Big Bethel
Driving Tour—The Burning of Columbia, Part I: A Confederate Capital Part II: Sherman’s Entry Into Columbia, by Tom Elmore
Book Reviews:
Beneath A Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign, by Steven E. Woodworth. Reviewed by Benedict A. Maryniak.
Louisianians in the Civil War, edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. Reviewed by Charles Carlos DiVincenti.
A Southern Soldier’s Letters Home: The Civil War Letters of Samuel A. Burney, Cobb’s Georgia Legion, Army of Northern Virginia, edited by Nat S. Turner. Reviewed by C.L. Bragg.
The 16th Mississippi Infantry: Civil War Letters and Reminiscences, edited by Robert G. Evans. Reviewed by Sam D. Elliott.
A Hard Trip: A History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry, CSA, by Ben Wynne. Reviewed by Sam D. Elliott.
Stand Firm and Fire Low: The Civil War Writings of Colonel Edward E. Cross, edited by Walter Holden. Reviewed by David L. Richards.
When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front, by Jacqueline Glass Campbell. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XXI, Issue 1
A Collection of Articles by Gettysburg Battlefield Historians
“Benner’s Hill was Simply a Hell Infernal”: Ewell’s Demonstration, July 2, 1863, by Charlie Fennell
The Strange Tale of Ephraim Wisler, by Timothy H. Smith In Defense of Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson and His Division at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863: “Is There Anywhere a Sadder Story of the War Than This?”, by Don Walters
“War History by a Farmer”: The Story of Nathaniel Lightner, by Timothy H. Smith
Before and After Hanover: Tracing Stuart’s Cavalry Movements of June 30, 1863, by John Krepps
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—An Angry Union Cavalry Commander Fights for His Job in the Wake of Early Federal Failures
Common Soldier—Private George Washington Hewitt, Company I, 64th Illinois Infantry
On The Back Roads: Ulysses S. Grant’s Birthplace, Point Pleasant, Ohio
Driving Tour—Ewell’s Demonstration, Anderson’s Attack, Before and After Hanover, Lightner and Wisler Stories, by Dave Roth, with the Battlefield Guides
Book Reviews
The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster, by Neil Hunter. Reviewed by Richard M. Coffman.
Lone Star Confederate: A Gallant and Good Soldier of the Fifth Texas Infantry, edited by George Skoch and Mark W. Perkins. Reviewed by Sam Hood.
Confederate Seadog: John Taylor Wood in War and Exile, by John Bell. Reviewed by Richard Owen.
The Finishing Stroke: Texans in the 1864 Tennessee Campaign, by John Lundberg,. Reviewed by Charles Carlo DiVincenti, Jr.
Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen and Albert S. Hanser. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XX, Issue 6
Forrest’s West Tennessee Campaign of 1862 and the Battle of Parker’s Cross-Roads, by Ed Bearss
On The Back Roads: Major General Fitz-John Porter Statue
Common Soldier—Private Joseph Frederick Haas, Co. H, 150th Pennsylvania “Bucktail” Regiment: “A Faided Flower of the North”
Driving Tour—Forrest In West Tennessee, 1862, by Dave Roth, with Steve McDaniel and Jim Weaver
Battlefield Preservation Parker’s Crossroads Battlefield, by Steve McDaniel Salem Cemetery Battlefield, by Malcolm D. Wilcox
Book Reviews:
The Flags of Civil War North Carolina, by Glenn Dedmondt. Reviewed by Greg Biggs.
Joseph Wheeler: Uniting the Blue and the Gray, by Anders M. Kinney. Reviewed by Myers Brown. The Civil War: Ironweed Newspapers and Periodicals Project, edited by Brayton Harris. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
“No Disgrace to my Country”: The Life of John C. Tidball, by Eugene C. Tidball. Reviewed by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
Stonewall Jackson’s Book of Maxims, edited by James I. Robertson, Jr. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XX, Issue 5
The Battle of McDowell The Opening of the Valley Campaign, by Richard L. Armstrong
“Big Pete” McCullough: The Hanging Judge of Andersonville
On the Back Roads: The Battlefield at Thompson’s Station, Tenn.
Common Soldier—Corporal Isaac McCoy Liston, Co. K, 85th Indiana Infantry
Driving Tour—The Battle of McDowell, by Dave Roth, with Richard Armstrong and Dana MacBean
Book Reviews:
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee: The Memoir and Civil War Diary of Charles Todd Quintard, edited by Sam Davis Elliott. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Gettysburg: Memory, Market, and an American Shrine, by Jim Weeks. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War, edited by Susan-Mary Grant and Peter J. Parish. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XX, Issue 4
The Siege of Vicksburg, by Terry Winschel, Vicksburg National Military Park
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Three 127th Illinois Infantry Soldiers Describe the Vicious Fighting at Vicksburg
On The Back Roads: The Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common
Common Soldier—Adjutant Anthony McDermott, 69th Pennsylvania
Driving Tour—The Siege of Vicksburg, by Terry Winschel
Book Reviews:
Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage, by Noah Andre Trudeau. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock, by Francis Augustin O’Reilly. Reviewed by Michael C. C. Adams. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26— June 3, 1864, by Gordon C. Rhea. Reviewed by John M. Priest.
Lee’s Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, by Edward G. Longacre. Re- viewed by Major Charles R. Bowery, Jr.
One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign of 1864, by Gary Dillard Joiner. Reviewed by John F. Marszalek.
Colors and Blood: Flag Passions in the Confederate South, by Robert E. Bonner. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XX, Issue 3
The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond, February 28— March 4, 1864, by Bruce Venter
On The Back Roads: The Smitherman Building, Selma, Alabama
Common Soldier—Lt. Col. Ezekiel Field Clay, CSA Kentucky Mounted Rifleman and Breeder of Kentucky Derby Winners
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Admiral John A. Dahlgren Defends His Son the Day After Ulric’s Public Memorial Service
Driving Tour—The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, by Dave Roth, with Bruce M. Venter
Book Reviews:
Virginians at War: The Civil War Experiences of Seven Young Confederates, by John G. Selby. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Stillwell Letters: A Georgian in Longstreet’s Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, edited by Ronald Moseley. Re- viewed by J. Tracy Power.
Lee’s Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox, by William Marvel. Reviewed by Keith Bohannon.
Defend this Old Town: Williamsburg during the Civil War, by Carol Kettenburg Dubbs. Reviewed by Jay Hemphill.
“Old Waddy’s Coming”: The Military Career of Brigadier General James S. Wadsworth, by John F. Krumwiede. Re- viewed by Wiley Sword.
War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign, by Anne J. Bailey. Reviewed by Mauriel P. Joslyn.
The Bombardment of Charleston 1863-1865, by W. Chris Phelps. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XX, Issue 2
A Collection of Articles by Gettysburg Battlefield Historians
George Greene’s Defense of Culp’s Hill, by Charlie Fennell, Licensed Battlefield Guide
Kershaw and Semmes Attack at Rose Farm, by David L. Richards, Licensed Battlefield Guide Josephine Miller: A Heroine of the Battle, by Timothy H. Smith, Licensed Battlefield Guide
Forgotten Boy General and the Fight at South Cavalry Field, by Andie Custer, Licensed Battlefield Guide
Pardee Field and the Tale of Two Classmates, by Susan M. Boardman, Licensed Battlefield Guide
The Mortal Wounding of General Paul J. Semmes, by David L. Richards, Licensed Battlefield Guide
The Brooke-Richards Rock, by David L. Richards, Licensed Battlefield Guide
White Farm Near Gettysburg, by Timothy H. Smith, Licensed Battlefield Guide
On The Back Roads: Stand Watie’s Grave
Common Soldier—Private James Peek, Co. F, 8th Tennessee Cavalry, A Soldier Under Forrest an Wheeler
Driving Tour—Culp’s Hill, Rose Farm, South Cavalry Field, by Dave Roth, with the Battlefield Guides
Book Reviews:
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War, by James M. McPherson. Reviewed by Noah Andra Trudeau.
Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel, by Peter Bridges. Reviewed by Robert K. Krick.
Cathy Williams-From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier, by Phillip Thomas. Reviewed by Janet Saugstad.
From Rail-splitter to Icon: Lincoln’s Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865, by Gary L. Bunker. Reviewed by Josh Karlen.
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, by David W. Blight. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XX, Issue 1
Antietam Stories of Human Interest and Sites Off the Beaten Path, by Ted Alexander, Historian, Antietam National Battlefield
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—A Haunted Confederate Soldier Confronts Thoughts of His Imminent Death
Lost Images—Never Before Published Photographs of St. Albans Raider Samuel E. Lackey
On The Back Roads: Camp Moore, Louisiana—Training to Be A Soldier
Common Soldier—Riley B. Hatley of the Union’s 13th Tennessee Cavalry, Witness to “The Thunderbolt’s” Demise
Book Reviews:
The Fiery Trial: The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, by William E. Gienapp. Reviewed by Joseph Garrera.
Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural by Ronald C. White. Reviewed by Joseph Garrera.
November—Lincoln’s Elegy at Gettysburg, by Kent Gramm. Reviewed by Benedict R. Maryniak. Jefferson Davis in Blue: The Life of Sherman’s Relentless Warrior, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. and Gordon D. Whitney. Reviewed by Anne J. Bailey.
All’s for the Best: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Daniel W. Sawtelle, Eighth Maine Volunteer Infantry, edited with and introduction by Peter H. Buckingham. Reviewed by Garold L. Cole.
A Short History of the civil War at Sea, by Spencer C. Tucker. Reviewed by Robert Holcombe.
Campbell Brown’s Civil War: With Ewell and the Army of Northern Virginia, edited with an introduction by Terry L. Jones. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
Volume XIX, Issue 6
Corinth, Mississippi, Crossroads Of The Western Confederacy, by Stacy D. Allen, Historian, Shiloh National Military Park
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Pvt. Marcus Nelson Conveys the Fighting Spirit of Birge’s Western Sharpshooters
Driving Tour—Corinth and Iuka, and Related Actions in Northeast Mississippi, by Dave Roth, with Stacy D. Allen
Book Reviews:
Texas Flags, by Robert Maberry. Reviewed by Greg Biggs.
The Sixth United States Infantry Regiment, 1855 to Reconstruction, by Clifford L. Swanson. Reviewed by Capt. Charles R. Bowery, Jr.
The Red River Campaign of 1864 and the Loss by the Confederacy of the Civil War, by Michael K. Forsyth. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Lee’s Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade, by Earl K. Hess. Reviewed by Robert K. Krick.
The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend, by Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XIX, Issue 5
Cavalry On The Peninsula For Monroe to the Gates of Richmond, March to May, 1862, by Robert F. O’Neill
Driving Tour—Cavalry on the Peninsula, March to May 1862, by Dave Roth, with Robert F. O’Neill
Book Reviews:
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable. Reviewed by Mark Crawford.
Random Acts of Kindness: True Stories of America’s Civil War, compiled and edited by David Evans. Reviewed by Richard Owen.
Retreat to Victory? Confederate Strategy Reconsidered by Robert G. Tanner. Reviewed by Steven H. Newton.
The Fourth Battle of Winchester: Toward a New Civil War Paradigm, by Richard M. McMurry. Reviewed by Steve Davis
Lee at Chattanooga by Dennis P. McIntire. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XIX, Issue 4
The Battle of Mobile Bay and the Campaign for Mobile, Alabama 1864-65, by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
Wiley Sword’s War Letters Series—Army General George Greene Attempts to Solve the Navy’s Problem with Rebel Torpedoes
On The Back Roads: Few Escaped from Fort Delaware, by David Healey
Common Soldier—Captain Charles Kronmeyer, 52nd New York Inf. by John Kaelin
Driving Tour—The Battle of Mobile Bay and the Campaign for Mobile, 1864-1865 by Dave Roth, with Norman A. Nicolson and Bill Barkley
Book Reviews:
Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives, edited by Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon. Reviewed by Mauriel Joslyn.
Clashes of Cavalry: The Civil War Careers of George Armstrong Custer and Jeb Stuart, by Thom Hatch. Reviewed by Melissa Delcour.
Dear Friends at Home: The Civil War Letters and Diaries of Sergeant Charles T. Bowen, Twelfth United States Infantry, 1861-1864, edited by Edward K. Cassedy. Reviewed by John M. Priest.
Civil War St. Louis by Louis Gerteis. Reviewed by David C. Hinze.
Richmond’s Monument Avenue, by Sarah Shields Driggs. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XIX, Issue 3
Sheridan’s Second Raid and The Battle of Trevilian Station, by Eric J. Wittenberg.
Where Did the Depot Stand at Trevilian Station? by Eric Wittenberg.
On The Back Roads: The Lincoln Memorial Shrine, Redlands, CA, by Richard Hanks.
Common Soldier—Private Fielden Cox, CSA, by Thomas R. Cox.
Driving Tour—Sheridan’s Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station, by Dave Roth, with Eric Wittenberg & Jerry Meyers.
Book Reviews:
“Happiness Is Not My Companion”: The Life of General G.K. Warren, by David M. Jordan. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse. Bound to be a Soldier: The Letters of Private James T. Miller, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861-1864, by Jedediah Mannis and Galen R. Wilson. Reviewed by Anne J. Bailey.
On Campaign with the Army of the Potomac. The Civil War Journal of Theodore Ayrault Dodge, by Stephen W. Sears. Reviewed by Richard Sauers.
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison, by Michael P. Gray. Reviewed by William Marvel.
Repairing the “March of Mars”, by John Herbert Roper. Reviewed by Jack D. Welsh.
The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier: William Wiley of the 77th Illinois Infantry, by Terrence J. Winschel. Re- viewed by Stephen P. Engle.
Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by Edward Steers, Jr. Reviewed by Joseph E. Garrera.
Volume XIX, Issue 2
Gary Kross’s Gettysburg Vignettes #7, The XI Corps Gettysburg, by Gary Kross, Licensed Battlefield Guide, Gettysburg NMP. —Problems with Command at Chancellorsville —The March from Emmitsburg —The XI Corps’ Fight: “Deja Vu All Over Again” —The Barlow-Gordon Incident —The Humiston Children
On The Back Roads: ”No Fitter Resting-Place” The Ball’s Bluff National Cemetery, by James Morgan III
Driving Tour—The XI Corps at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, by Dave Roth, with Gary Kross.
Book Reviews:
Grant’s Lieutenants, From Cairo to Vicksburg, by Steven E. Woodworth. Reviewed by Wiley Sword.
April 1865: The Month That Saved America, by Jay Winik. Reviewed by John McKay.
All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862, by Gerald J. Prokopowicz. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth.
Sherman: A Soldier’s Life, by Lee Kennett. Reviewed by Kenneth E. Kopecky.
Confederate Generals: Life Portraits, by George Cantor. Reviewed by Richard Owen.
Fiction as Fact: “The Horse Soldiers” and Popular Memory, by Neil Longley York. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XIX, Issue 1
The Operations of Mosby’s Rangers: Railroad Raids and the End of the War, by Horace Mewborn.
Video Review—Riding with Mosby on 1950s tv, by Stephen Davis.
A Camp Talk Exclusive—Bearss Archives Go Public Driving Tour—Mosby’s Railroad Raids and the End of the War, by Dave Roth, with Horace Mewborn.
Book Reviews:
Too Young to Die: Boy Soldiers of the Union Army, 1861-1865, by Dennis M. Keesee. Reviewed by Stephen M. Klugewicz.
The Flags of Civil War South Carolina, by Glenn Dedmondt. Reviewed by Greg Biggs.
The Blue In Gray: The Civil War Journal of William Daniel Dixon and the Republican Blues Daybook, by Roger S. Durham. Reviewed by Myers Brown.
South Carolina in the Civil War: The Confederate Experience in Letters and Diaries, by J. Edward Lee and Ron Chepesiuk. Reviewed by Robert N. Rosen.
Volume XVIII, Issue 6
Upton’s Attack And the Defense of Doles’ Salient, Spotsylvania Court House, Va., May 10, 1864, by Gregory A. Mertz.
On The Back Roads: Croxton’s Raid on Tuscaloosa and the Burning of the University of Alabama.
Common Soldier—Pvt. Fielding Jenkins Smith, 31st Missouri Infantry
Driving Tour—Upton’s Attack at Spotsylvania C.H., May 10, 1864, by Dave Roth, with Greg Mertz.
Book Reviews:
One of Custer’s Wolverine’s: The Civil War Letters of Brevet Brigadier General James H. Kidd, 6th Michigan Cavalry, by Eric J. Wittenburg. Reviewed by Wiley Sword.
Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign, by Thomas A. Desjardin. Reviewed by Benedict Maryniak.
The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon, by Gabor Boritt. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth.
Homeward Bound: The Demobilization of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1865-1866, by William B. Holberton. Reviewed by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
Gettysburg—The First Day, by Harry W. Pfanz. Reviewed by Eric J. Wittenberg.
Tom Taylor’s Civil War, by Albert Castel. Reviewed by Doris A. Walker.
Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles 1986-1996, by Garold L. Cole. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XVIII, Issue 5
The Vicksburg Campaign: Grant Marches West, The Battles of Champion Hill and Big Black Bridge, by Ed Bearss.
Driving Tour—The Vicksburg Campaign: Grant Marches West, by Terry Winschel. Book Reviews:
Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915, by Rod Andrew, Jr. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion: The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign, by A. Wilson Greene. Reviewed by Chris Calkins.
Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey Written and Illustrated by Private Robert Knox Sneden, by Charles F. Bryan, Jr. Reviewed by Myers Brown.
Mr. Lincoln’s Bridge Builders: The Right Hand of American Genius, by Phillip M. Thienel. Reviewed by Melissa Delcour.
Lost for the Cause: The Confederate Army in 1864, by Steven H. Newton. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XVIII, Issue 4
Retreat to Appomattox, by William Marvel.
Final Bloodshed: The Hospital System During the Appomattox Campaign, by Chris Calkins.
Mystery Diarist Identified, by William Marvel.
Driving Tour—Lee’s Retreat to Appomattox, by Dave Roth, with Chris Calkins and Bill Marvel.
Book Reviews:
Fighting with the Eighteenth Massachusetts: The Civil War Memoir of Thomas H. Mann, by John J. Hennessy. Reviewed by Garold L. Cole.
The Jewish Confederates, by Robert Rosen. Reviewed by Mel Young.
This Astonishing Close: The Road To Bennett Place, by Mark L. Bradley. Reviewed by Doris A. Walker.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley: Confederate, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Confederate Symbols in the Contemporary South, by J. Michael Martinez. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XVIII, Issue 3
April 2, 1865: Day of Decision at Petersburg, by A. Wilson Greene.
Driving Tour—Day of Decision at Petersburg, by Dave Roth, with Will Greene.
Book Reviews:
A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865, by Russell F. Weigley. Reviewed by James A. Ramage. The Right Hand of Command: Use and Disuse of Personal Staffs in the Civil War, by R. Stevens Jones. Reviewed by Colonel William S. Gross.
Under the Southern Cross: Soldier Life with Gordon Bradwell and the Army of Northern Virginia, by Pharris Deloach Johnson. Reviewed by Donald C. Pfanz.
Brothers ‘till Death: The Civil War Letters of William, Thomas, and Maggie Jones 1861-1865, by Richard M. Trimble. Reviewed by Michael P. Gray.
Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It, by William G. Piston and Richard W. Hatcher. Reviewed by David C. Hinze.
Volume XVIII, Issue 2
The Battle Above The Clouds: The Fight for Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1863, by Wiley Sword.
On The Back Roads: The Soldiers Field, Brighton, Massachusetts
Common Soldier—Private David Culp, Company F 87th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Driving Tour—Battle Above the Clouds, by Dave Roth, with Jim Ogden and Rick Manion.
Book Reviews:
The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days, by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Gordon C. Rhea.
Third Alabama! The Civil War Memoir of Brigadier General Cullen Andrews Battle, CSA, by Brandon H. Breck. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
The Civil War in Kentucky, by Kent Masterson Brown. Reviewed by L. Michael Trapasso.
Confederate Corsair: The Life of Lt. Charles W. “Savez” Read, by Robert A. Jones. Reviewed by Henry S. Pogodzinski.
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy, by Richard M. McMurry. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Volume XVII, Issue 6
The Operations of Mosby’s Rangers: The Shenandoah Valley, by Horace Mewborn.
Common Soldier—Pvt. Charles Ryals, 1st Arkansas Cavalry, USA, by Charles D. Ernst.
On The Back Roads: Newtonia: Civil War Site in Southwest Missouri, by Rex Jackson.
Driving Tour—Mosby in the Shenandoah Valley, by Dave Roth, with Horace Mewborn.
Book Reviews:
Burnside’s Bridge: The Climactic Struggle of the 2nd and 20th Georgia at Antietam Creek, by Phillip Thomas Tucker. Reviewed by John M. Priest. First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A., by Robert J. Driver, Jr. Reviewed by Jonathan A. Noyalas.
Appomattox: The Passing of the Armies, by James W. Wensyel. Reviewed by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
The Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War North by Mark E. Neely Jr. Reviewed by William Marvel.
Gettysburg Vignettes: Attack from the West, by Gary Kross.
The Major, Molly, and the Money, Concerning an Exhibit at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum, by John Mills Bigham.
On The Back Roads: The Controversial Wirz Monument, by Peggy Sheppard.
Common Soldier—The 2nd Wisconsin’s Luther Martin Preston, by Tim Pletkovich.
Driving Tour—Gettysburg: Attack from the West, by Dave Roth, with Gary Kross.
Book Reviews:
Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War, by Earl B. McElfresh. Reviewed by Benedict R. Maryniak.
A Light and Uncertain Hold: A History of the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, by David T. Thackery. Reviewed by David C. Hinze.
The Antietam Campaign, by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse.
History Goes to the Movies: A Viewer’s Guide to the Best (and Some of the Worst) Films Ever Made, by Joseph Roquemore. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XVII, Issue 4
The Operations of Mosby’s Rangers: Mosby’s Confederacy, by Horace Mewborn.
An Interview with Ed Bearss: The Making of A Historian (Interviewed by Kieran McAuliffe)
Driving Tour—Mosby’s Confederacy, by Dave Roth, with Horace Mewborn.
Book Reviews:
Captain James Penfield: 1863-1865 Civil War Diary, 5th New York Volunteer Cavalry, Company H, by James Allen Penfield. Reviewed by Garold L. Cole.
Taking a Stand: Portraits from the Southern Secession Movement, by Walter Brian Cisco. Reviewed by Mauriel P. Joslyn.
A Texas Cavalry Officer’s Civil War, by Richard Lowe. Reviewed by Jack D. Welsh.
Letters to Amanda: The Civil War Letters of Marion Hill Fitzpatrick, Army of Northern Virginia, by Jeffrey C. Lowe and Sam Hodges. Reviewed by Anne J. Bailey.
Volume XVII, Issue 3 Porter’s Campaign in Northeast Missouri, 1862— Including the Palmyra Massacre, by Scott E. Sallee.
An Interview with Ed Bearss—The Making of A Historian (Interviewed by Kieran McAuliffe)
A Spark From The Blue & Gray Campfire— The G.A.R. Souvenir Sporting Guide from 1895.
Driving Tour—Porter’s Campaign In Northeast Missouri and the Palmyra Massacre, by Dave Roth, with Scott E. Sallee.
Book Reviews:
This Wilderness of War: The Civil War Letters of George W. Squier, Hoosier Volunteer, by Julie A. Doyle, John David Smith, and Richard M. McMurry. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War, by Michael Golay. Reviewed by Wiley Sword.
Joshua Chamberlain: A Hero’s Life and Legacy, by John J. Pullen. Reviewed by Eric J. Wittenberg.
Joshua Chamberlain: The Soldier and the Man, by Edward G. Longacre. Reviewed by Eric J. Wittenberg.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis Volume 10: October 1863— August 1864, by Lynda Lasswell Crist, Kenneth H. Williams and Peggy L. Dilliard. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XVII, Issue 2
Little Mac’s Last Stand: Autumn 1862 in Loudoun Valley, Virginia, by Patrick J. Brennan.
The Travels of A Fallen General: Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, USA, by Jeffrey L. Patrick.
On The Back Roads: The Ben-Hur Museum and General Lee Wallace Study, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Camp Talk Feature Story: Controversial New Gettysburg Visitor Center Approved by NPS.
Common Soldier—Dr. John Kennerly Farris, Confederate Surgeon, Army of Tennessee, by Shirley Farris Jones.
Driving Tour—Little Mac’s Last Stand, Autumn 1862, by Dave Roth, with Patrick J. Brennan.
Book Reviews:
Fredericksburg & Chancellorsville: The Dre Mark Campaign, by Daniel E. Sutherland. Reviewed by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
Conrad Wise Chapman, Artist & Soldier of the Confederacy, by Ben L. Bassham. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.
A Rising Star of Promise: The Civil War Odyssey of David Jackson Logan, 17th South Carolina Volunteers, 1861-1864, by Samuel N. Thomas, Jr. Reviewed by John C. Whatley.
Lincoln As I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies, by Harold Holzer. Reviewed by Steve Davis. Volume XVII, Issue 1
The Road To Bennett Place, North Carolina, 1865: Sherman & Johnston and “The Final Scene of the Drama”, by Mark L. Bradley.
Kilpatrick’s “Shirttale Skedaddle”: The Cavalry Engagement at Monroe’s Crossroads, by Mark L. Bradley.
On The Back Roads: The William J. Jones House, Petersburg, Va, by Bob Richey.
Common Soldier—John Williams Patterson, 102nd Pennsylvania, and Robert Edwin Miles, 21st Virginia Cavalry, by Bill Phillis and L.C. Angle.
The Flight of Jefferson Davis.
Driving Tour—The Road to Bennett Place, by Dave Roth, with Mark Bradley.
Book Reviews:
The Odyssey of a Southerner: The Life and Times of Gustavus Woodson Smith, by Leonne M. Hudson. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac, by Stephen W. Sears. Reviewed by Brooks D. Simpson.
Recollections of a Southern Daughter: A Memoir of Cornelia Jones Pond of Liberty County, by Lucinda H. MacKethan. Reviewed by Frank T. Wheeler.
For Honor, Glory & Union: The Mexican and Civil War Letters of Brig. General William Haines Lytle, by Ruth C. Carter. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth.
William H. Emory: Soldier-Scientist, by L. David Norris, James C. Milligan, and Odie B. Faulk. Reviewed by Don E. Alberts.
Volume XVI, Issue 6
The Battle of Brice’s Cross Roads: Forrest Gets the “Bulge” on the Yankees and Keeps the “Skeer” on ‘Em, by Edwin C. Bearss.
Where was Lee’s Last Council of War? An Annotated Correction to the History of the surrender at Appomattox Court House, by William Marvel.
Driving Tour—The Battle of Brice’s Cross Roads, by Dave Roth, with Ed Bearss, Edwina Carpenter, Cowan Hunter and Larry Hutcheson.
Book Reviews:
Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War, by Harold A. Winters with General E. Galloway, Jr. Reviewed by Gordon L. Jones.
Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, by Steven E. Woodworth. Reviewed by Zack C. Waters.
Giants In Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade, by Alan T. Nolan and Sharon Eggleston Vipond. Reviewed by Wiley Sword. Hoosiers’ Honor: The Iron Brigade’s 19th Indiana Regiment, by William Thomas. Reviewed by Wiley Sword.
As If It Were Glory, by Robert Beecham. Reviewed by Noah Andre Trudeau.
Thank God My Regiment an African One: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels, by C.P. Weaver. Re- viewed by Noah Andre Trudeau.
Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863, by Roger Pickenpaugh. Reviewed by James G. Bogle.
Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War, by Frank R. Freemon. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XVI, Issue 5
Gary Kross’ Gettysburg Vignettes: Pickett’s Charge! Including Supporting Actions on Culp’s Hill
July 3rd Action at Culp’s Hill, by Gary Kross
“Pickett’s Charge”, by Gary Kross
On The Back Roads: The Pickett House: Hidden History in Bellingham, WA, by Terrell E. Holmes.
Common Soldier—William J. Nolan, 66th Indiana Volunteers, by Alan T. Nolan.
Driving Tour—Pickett’s Charge and Action at Culp’s Hill, July 3, 1863, by Dave Roth, with Gary Kross.
Book Reviews:
The Confederate War, by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Nat C. Hughes, Jr.
The Battle of Resaca, by Phillip L. Secrist. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Civil War Medicine, 1861-1865, by C. Keith Wilbur, MD. Reviewed by Jack D. Welsh, MD.
“Written In Blood”: A History of the 126th New York Infantry in the Civil War, by Wayne Mahood. Reviewed by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
Confederate Soldier Artists: Painting the South’s War, by Lauralee Trent Stevenson. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.
Volume XVI, Issue 4
VMI at the Battle of New Market and, Sigel’s Defeat in the Shenandoah Valley, by Jerry Holsworth.
Introduction to New Market—An Orientation for Youth, by Lt. Col. Keith Gibson, Virginia Military Institute.
Virginia Military Institute 1864 Roster
The Patton Family at New Market, by Jerry W. Holsworth. New Market Order of Battle & Numbers and Losses
Driving Tour—The Battle of New Market, by Dave Roth with Lt. Col. Keith Gibson, VMI.
Book Reviews:
A Guide to Civil War Sites in Maryland: Blue and Gray in a Border State, by Susan Cooke Soderburg. Reviewed by John Michael Priest.
James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier, the Controversy, edited by R.L. DiNardo and Albert A. Nofi. Reviewed by Richard F. Selcer.
Volume XVI, Issue 3
The Battle of Secessionville Yankee Debacle at Charleston, South Carolina, by Patrick Brennan, author of Secessionville: Assault on Charleston.
She Remembered: The Dying Wish of General William Lytle, by Bryan Lane.
Fraternal Fight at Secessionville, The Story of Alexander and James Campbell, by Terry A. Johnston, Jr.
Driving Tour—The Battle of Secessionville, by Dave Roth with Patrick Brennan and Dana MacBean.
Killed at Secessionville! The bloody uniform of James Wiley Gibson, 1st So. Carolina Artillery.
Book Reviews:
Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life, by Donald C. Pfanz. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying-Union Chaplains in the Civil War. Reviewed by Benedict R. Maryniak.
Theodore O’Hara: Poet-Soldier of the Old South, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. Reviewed by Michael C.C. Adams.
Assault and Logistics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations 1861-1865, by Charles Dana and E. Kay Gibson. Reviewed by Stephen R. Wise.
Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail, Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868, by Charles Dana and E. Kay Gibson. Reviewed by Stephen R. Wise.
With Ballot and Bayonet: The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers, by Joseph Allan Frank. Reviewed by Anne J. Bailey.
Campaigning with “Old Stonewall”: Confederate Captain Ujanirtus Allen’s Letters to His Wife, edited by Randall Allen and Keith S. Bohannon. Reviewed by David Casciello.
Kennesaw Mountain June 1864: Bitter Standoff at the Gibraltar of Georgia, by Richard A. Baumgartner and Larry M. Strayer. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XVI, Issue 2 Artillery Hell! The Guns of Antietam, by Paul Chiles.
Special Artillery Supplement, by Paul Chiles.
Artillery Related Medals of Honor in the Maryland Campaign, by Paul Chiles.
Tables of Organization
Driving Tour—Artillery Hell at Antietam, by Dave Roth, with Paul Chiles.
Book Reviews:
A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn. Reviewed by Edith Elizabeth Pollitz.
“My Sons Were Faithful and They Fought”: The Irish Brigade at Antietam, An Anthology, edited by Joseph G. Bilby and Stephan D. O’Neill. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth.
Generals at Rest: The Grave Sites of the 425 Official Confederate Generals, by Richard Owen and James Owen. Re- viewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XVI, Issue 1
Old Reliable’s Finest Hour, The Battle of Averasboro, North Carolina, by Mark L. Bradley.
The Corn Exchange Regiment’s Baptism of Fire, The Battle of Sheperdstown, Sept. 20, 1862, by Thomas McGrath.
John Bell Hood’s “Addictions” In Civil War Literature, an opinion piece by Stephen Davis.
Buffington Island Preservation Update, guest editorial by George P. Wilson.
On The Back Roads: The Rosecrans House in Homer, Ohio, by E. Chris Evans.
Common Soldier—Pvt. Jack Hanks, 14th Kentucky Cavalry, by Scott E. Sallee.
Driving Tour—The Battle of Averasboro, by Dave Roth.
Volume XV, Issue 6
A Wonderful Exploit: Jeb Stuart’s Ride Around the Army of the Potomac, June 12-15, 1862, by Horace Mewborn.
A Most Unusual GAR Post, Bruce Catton and E.P. Case Post #372, Benzonia, Michigan, by Peggy Rockwell Hall.
The Tragic Story of the Farnham Brothers of Vermont, A Glimpse of Andersonville, by James G. Bogle.
Driving Tour—Stuart’s Ride Around the Army of the Potomac, by Dave Roth with Horace Mewborn. Book Reviews:
“One of the Most Daring of Men”: The Life of Confederate General William Tatum Wolford, by Gerald J. Smith. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
Shades of Blue & Gray: An Interesting Military History of the Civil War, by Herman Hattaway. Reviewed by David C. Hinze.
Collis’ Zouaves: The 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War, by Edward J. Hagerty. Reviewed by Earl J. Hess.
The Price and Patriotism: Indiana County, Pennsylvania and the Civil War, by W. Wayne Smith. Reviewed by Earl J. Hess.
The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, edited by Gabor S. Boritt. Reviewed by Thomas B. Buell.
A Stupendous Effort: The 87th Indiana in the War of the Rebellion, by Jack K. Overmeyer. Reviewed by Stephen D. Engle.
Volume XV, Issue 5
To Die Like Soldiers: The Retreat from Sickle’s Front, July 2, 1863, by Gary Kross.
Vignette #1—Devil’s Den Vignette #2—The Wheatfield Vignette #3—Across the Emittsburg Road
Camp Talk Feature—Wilderness Headquarters Opens to Public.
Book Reviews:
The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War, by Edwin C. Fishel. Reviewed by Stacy D. Allen.
Portals to Hell, by Lonnie R. Speer. Reviewed by David G. Martin.
72 Days at Gettysburg: Organization of the Tenth Regiment, New York Volunteer Cavalry & Assignment to the Town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (December 1861 to March 1862), by George A. Rummel, III. Reviewed by David Evans.
The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research, edited by Steven E. Woodworth. Reviewed by Edward G. Longacre.
Make the Fur Fly: A History of a Union Volunteer Division in the American Civil War, by Timothy B. Mudgett. Re- viewed by Mark H. Dunkelman. Reviewed by Mark H. Dunkelman.
Guide to Civil War Periodicals, Vol. II, compiled by Lee W. Merideth. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XV, Issue 4
Morgan’s Luck Runs Out: The Battle of Buffington Island, July 19, 1863, by Kevin Bennett. Deceiving No One But Himself: Private Robert McKinlay and His War Stories of “Riding With Custer”, by Byron Stinson.
Among the First Confederates to Fall at Gettysburg, by Don T. Griffin.
Camp Talk Feature—James Longstreet’s Grave Vandalized.
Driving Tour—by Kevin Bennett and Dave Roth.
Buffington Island Preservation Update, by George P. Wilson.
Book Reviews:
The Wilmington Campaign: The Last Rays of Departing Hope, by Chris E. Fonvielle. Reviewed by David M. Sullivan.
The Young Lions: Confederate Cadets at War, by James Lee Conrad. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Custer and His Wolverines: The Michigan Cavalry Brigade 1861-1865, by Edward G. Longacre. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President, by Geoffrey Perret. Reviewed by Benedict R. Maryniak.
The Wilderness Campaign, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by John M. Priest.
Volume XV, Issue 3
Howell Cobb’s Brigade at Crampton’s Gap, by Timothy J. Reese.
Civil War Tactics: The Last Hurrah, by Neal Meier.
Camp Talk Feature—Sherman-Johnny Clem Statue Projects Underway.
Crampton’s Gap Driving Tour.
Book Reviews:
Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne & the Civil War, by Craig L. Symonds. Reviewed by Anne J. Bailey.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Vol. 9, edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist, Mary Seaton Dix, and Kenneth H. Williams. Reviewed by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn.
Yankee Correspondence: Civil War Letters between New England Soldiers an the Home Front, edited by Nina Silber and Mary Beth Sievens. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth.
The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka & Corinth, by Peter Cozzens. Reviewed by Lawrence Lee Hewitt.
Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Gettysburg: An Alternate History, by Peter G. Tsouras. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Volume XV, Issue 2 Quiet Courage: Winchester, VA., in the Civil War, by Jerry Holsworth.
Camp Talk Feature—Irish Brigade Monument Dedicated at Bloody Lane.
Last Letters, by Gene Eric Salecker.
Winchester Driving Tour.
Book Reviews:
Lincoln’s Abolitionist General: The Biography of David Hunter, by Edward A. Miller, Jr. Reviewed by Noah Andre Trudeau.
Sherman’s Horseman: Union Cavalry Operations in the Atlanta Campaign, by David Evans. Reviewed by Joe Kirby.
Echoes of Battle: The Struggle for Chattanooga, by Richard A. Baumgartner and Larry M. Strayer. Reviewed by Geoffrey R. Walden.
The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat, by Earl J. Hess. Reviewed by Brooks D. Simpson.
Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry During the Civil War, by Chester G. Hearn. Reviewed by B. Franklin Cooling.
The Emergence of Total War, by Daniel E. Sutherland. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XV, Issue 1
Haunted Places of the Civil War: Things that go bump in the night.
The Irish Brigade at Bloody Lane: Faugh-a-Ballagh.
Pry House Boots: Things that go “thump” on the steps.
Thalian Hall’s Phantom Actors: I know what I saw.
Colonel Shy of Tennessee: The cruel hole in his brow.
The Spirits of Beemer’s Woods.
The B.B. Sams House, Beaufort, So. Carolina.
The Spectral Stage of the Shenandoah Valley.
Phantom Defenders of Fort McAllister.
Old Pete and the Piedmont Hotel.
The Kelton House: A Sad Tale of Insanity and Deah.
Gettysburg Ghosts: Still Hearing the Guns.
Book Reviews:
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, by James M. McPherson. Reviewed by Richard Rollins. Chancellorsville, by Stephen W. Sears. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.
The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor’s Civil War, by William Marvel. Reviewed by Robert Holcombe.
Charlotte’s Boys: Civil War Letters of the Branch Family of Savannah, edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn. Reviewed by Gordon L. Jones.
Grant’s Cavalryman: The Life and Wars of General James H. Wilson, by Edward G. Longacre. Reviewed by James A. Ramage.
Blue Lighting: Wilder’s Mounted Infantry Brigade at Chickamauga, by Richard A. Baumgartner. Reviewed by Nathaniel C. Hughes, Jr.
Admiral David Dixon Porter: The Civil War Years, by Chester G. Hearn. Reviewed by William Marvel.
The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy, by William C. Davis. Reviewed by Michael C. C. Adams.
Volume XIV, Issue 6
William B. Cushing Commando at the Cape Fear, by Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.
A Time to Acquit: The Court Martial of the “Late” William O. Douglas, by Arthur Candenquist.
Shot from the Saddle! The Death of Confederate General John Chambliss, by Arnold Blumberg.
Book Reviews:
R. E. Lee The Soldier, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Keith S. Bohannon.
“Kill Cavalry”-Sherman’s Merchant of Terror: The Life of Union General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, by Samuel J. Martin. Reviewed by David Evans.
Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Lawrence Frederick Kohl.
Volume XIV, Issue 5
Gary Kross’ Gettysburg Vignettes: Action on the Eastern Flank, by Gary Kross.
The “Long Arm” of Lee on Benner’s Hill.
Culp’s Hill—Action on the Lesser Summit.
Tigers and Tarheels Attack Cemetery Hill.
True Cavalry-Jeb Stuart and George Custer at Gettysburg.
Driving Tour—Action on the Eastern Flank, by Gary Kross and Dave Roth.
Pamplin Park Civil War Site: A Breakthrough in Civil War History, by A. Wilson Greene. Book Reviews:
Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer, by Jeffry D. Wert. Reviewed by Theodore C. Mahr.
Island No. 10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley, by Larry J. Daniel and Lynn N. Bock. Reviewed by Michael L. Gillespie.
General Robert F. Hoke: Lee’s Modest Warrior, by Daniel W. Barefoot. Reviewed by Craig L. Symonds.
Volume XIV, Issue 4
Shiloh! The Second Day’s Battle and Aftermath, by Stacy D. Allen.
Driving Tour—The Shiloh Campaign.
Book Reviews:
The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill, by Edward E. Leslie. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
Quantrill’s War: The Life and Times of William Clarke Quantrill, by Duane Schultz. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
From Huntsville to Appomattox: R.T. Coles’ History of the 4th Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A., Army of Northern Virginia, edited by Jeffrey D. Stocker. Reviewed by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes.
Gray Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy, by R. Thomas Campbell. Reviewed by Henry S. Pogodzinski.
The Civil War In Books: An Analytical Bibliography, by David J. Eicher. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Volume XIV, Issue 3
Shiloh! The Campaign and First Day’s Battle, by Stacy D. Allen.
Book Reviews:
Winning and Losing in the Civil War: Essays and Stories, by Albert Castel. Reviewed by Thomas Goodrich.
Leadership and Command in the American Civil War, edited by Steven E. Woodworth. Reviewed by Benjamin F. Cooling.
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, by James M. McPherson. Reviewed by John F. Marszalek.
Rebel Brothers: The Civil War Letters of the Truehearts, edited by Edward B. Williams. Reviewed by Geoff Walden.
Volume XIV, Issue 2
New York City and the Civil War: The City that Lincoln Never Won and the Rebels Couldn’t Burn, by E. A. “Bud” Livingston.
Editorial—The Irony of Grant’s Tomb.
The Bravest Man I Ever Knew: A Story of the Battle of Kernstown, by Gary L. Ecelbarger.
Selected Civil War Sites in New York City (Manhattan), by Bud Livingston and Dave Roth.
Book Reviews:
Lee’s Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865, edited by R. Lockwood Tower with John S. Belmont. Reviewed by Judith Lee Hallock.
Put the Vermonters Ahead: The First Vermont Brigade in the Civil War, by George W. Parsons. Reviewed by Richard A. Sauers.
Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville, by Mark L. Bradley. Reviewed by Craig L. Symonds.
Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes. Reviewed by Craig L. Symonds.
Davis and Lee at War, by Steven E. Woodworth. Reviewed by William Garrett Piston.
More Generals in Gray, by Bruce S. Allardice. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Volume XIV, Issue 1
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek: The “Damnedest Yankee’ Saves Missouri for the Union, by Richard W. Hatcher III and William Garrett Piston.
Beverly H. Robertson and the Battle of Brandy Station: An Examination of General Robertson’s Conduct in the Great Cavalry Battle, by Patrick A. Bowmaster.
Camp Talk Extra—More Great News from Brandy Station, by Michael F. Bergman.
Book Reviews:
A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt, edited by Thomas D. Cockrell and Michael B. Ballard. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
Pickett, Leader of the Charge: A Biography of General George E. Pickett, C.S.A., by Edward G. Longacre. Reviewed by Richard F. Selcer.
War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II, edited by Gabor S. Boritt. Reviewed by Wiley Sword.
Guide to Civil War Books: An Annotated Selection of Modern Works on the War Between the States, by Domenica M. Barbuto. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XIII, Issue 6
Uncommon Valor: Hood’s Texas Brigade in the Maryland Campaign, by Jerry Holsworth. Lost Victories: Johnston and Sherman at Cassville, by John Aubrey Bonin.
Camp Talk Extra—Preservation Superhighway Threatens Moorefield, Corrick’s Ford, by Michael F. Bergman.
Driving Tour—Hood’s Texas Brigade in the Maryland Campaign, by Jerry Holsworth, with Dave Roth.
Book Reviews:
The Capture of New Orleans, by Chester G. Hearn. Reviewed by William L. Shea.
Shrouds of Glory, From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War, by Winston Groom. Reviewed by Perry D. Jamieson.
Sumter is Avenged! The Siege & Reduction of Fort Pulaski, by Herbert M. Schiller. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Lee’s Young Artillerist, William R.J. Pegram, by Peter S. Carmichael. Reviewed by J. Michael Priest.
From Selma to Appomattox, The History of the Jeff Davis Artillery, by Lawrence R. Laboda. Reviewed by J. Michael Priest.
Volume XIII, Issue 5
Grant’s March Through Louisiana: “The Highest Examples of Military Energy and Perseverance”, by Terrence J. Winschel.
In Search of the CSS Hunley: A Twenty-three Year Mission Ends in Success, by Christopher Chase.
“Say It Ain’t So”: Debunking the Myth of Butterfield’s Twins, by James G. Ryan.
Driving Tour—Grant’s March Through Louisiana: Opening Phase of the Vicksburg Campaign, by Terrence J. Winschel.
Book Reviews:
Reflections on Lee: A Historian’s Assessment, by Charles P. Roland. Reviewed by Brooks D. Simpson.
Atlanta and the War, by Webb Garrison. Reviewed by James Lee McDonough.
Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War, by Ivan Musicant. Reviewed by Royce Shingleton.
The Civil War Memoir of Phillip Daingerfield Stephenson, D.D., edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. Reviewed by Larry J. Daniel.
Marching through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians during Sherman’s Campaign, by Lee Kennett. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Volume XIII, Issue 4
A Glimpse of Wartime Washington, by Stephen M. Forman.
A Fatal Full Moon: Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville, by Donald W. Olson, with Laurie E. Jasinski and Russell L. Doescher.
Camp Talk Extra—Racetrack Dead at Brandy Station B&G Readers Praised for their Support, by Michael F. Bergman.
Driving Tour—Sits to See in Washington, by Stephen M. Forman.
Book Reviews:
The 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Unit in the Civil War, by Richard E. Matthews. Reviewed by Richard A. Sauers.
Our Campaigns: The Second Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers, by Evan M. Woodward, edited by Stanley W. Zamonski. Reviewed by Richard A. Sauers.
Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865, by Daniel E. Sutherland. Reviewed by Clark B. “Bud” Hall.
Campfires of Georgia’s Troops 1861-1865, by William S. Smedlund. Reviewed by William R. Scaife.
Blood & Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest, by Donald S. Frazier. Reviewed by Archie P. McDonald.
Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy, by Robert A. Taylor. Reviewed by Canter Brown.
Seven Story Mountain: The Union Campaign at Vicksburg, by Phillip M. Thienel. Reviewed by Alan C. Downs.
Volume XIII, Issue 3
Three Mini Towers of Sites on the Southern Portion of the Gettysburg Battlefield, by Gary Kross. #1- The Confederate Approach to Little Round Top, A March of Attrition. #2- Farnsworth’s Charge, “Cavalry Could Fight Anywhere, Except at Sea” #3- The Alabamian’s Attach on Little Round Top, “A Cheeky Piece of Work on Both Sides”
Fortnight as a Confederate, Mark Twain’s Missouri Campaign, by William Marvel.
Camp Talk Extra—Museum of the Confederacy Celebrates Its Centennial in ’96, by Michael F. Bergman.
Book Reviews:
Robert E. Lee: A Biography, by Emory M. Thomas. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Nowhere to Run: The Wilderness, May 4th & 5th, 1864, by John Michael Priest. Reviewed by Noah Andre Trudeau.
Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western, 1861-1865, by Thomas Goodrich. Reviewed by William Garrett Piston.
Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas, edited by Mark K. Christ. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
Pickett’s Charge: Eyewitness Accounts, edited by Richard Rollins. Reviewed by John S. Peterson.
The Railroad War: N.B. Forrest’s 1864 Raid Through Northern Alabama & Middle Tennessee, by Robert Dunnavant. Reviewed by David Evans.
A Unerring Fire: The Massacre at Fort Pillow, by Richard Fuchs. Reviewed by Steve Davis. Volume XIII, Issue 2
Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville, March 19-21, 1865, by Mark L. Bradley.
The Man Who Shot John Sedgwick The Tale of Charles D. Grace, A Sharpshooter in the Doles-Cook Brigade, by Roger S. Durham. Intro by Robert K. Krick.
Camp Talk Extra—Hancock’s Tomb Restored, by Michael F. Bergman.
Driving Tour—The Battle of Bentonville.
Book Reviews:
Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863 by Wiley Sword. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth.
Westerners in Gray: The Men and Missions of the Elite Fifth Missouri Infantry Regiment, by Phillip Thomas Tucker. Reviewed by Larry J. Daniel.
The Gettysburg Soldiers’ Cemetery and Lincoln’s Address, by Frank L. Klement. Reviewed by Benedict R. Maryniak.
The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, by Michael Burlingame. Reviewed by David E. Long.
The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by John J. Hennessy.
Volume XIII, Issue 1
Forgotten Valor: Off the Beaten Path at Antietam, by Ted Alexander.
Col. Fletcher Webster’s Last Letter: I Shall Not Spare Myself, by Wiley Sword.
The Strange Case of Lieutenane Colley, 10th Marine Infantry, by Thomas J. Evans and John M. Morton.
Replanting History: The Reforestation of the West Woods.
Book Reviews:
Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam, by Curt Johnson and Richard C. Anderson, Jr. Reviewed by John M. Priest.
A Guide to Civil War Washington, by Stephen M. Forman. Reviewed by David E. Roth.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Vol. 8:1862, edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist, Mary Seaton, and Kenneth H. Williams. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XII, Issue 6
Return to Jackson, July 5-25, 1863: Finishing Stroke to the Vicksburg Campaign, by E. Chris Evans. Driving Tour—Sites Related to the Return of Jackson.
Order of Battle—Forces in the Return to Jackson.
The Crippling of the Sultana: The Real Picture, by Gene Salecker
The Field Glasses of Robert E. Lee: What the Legendary commanders saw at Gettysburg, by Robert E. Zaworski, MD.
Captain DeGress and the Best Guns in the World, by E. Chris Evans.
Book Reviews:
War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville, by James Lee McDonough. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth.
Ironclad of the Roanoke: Gilbert Elliott’s Albemarle, by Robert G. Elliott. Reviewed by Maurice Melton.
Charlie Mosher’s Civil War, edited by Wayne Mahood. Reviewed by Warren Wilkinson.
Lincoln’s Generals, edited by Gabor S. Boritt. Reviewed by Lawrence L. Hewitt.
Volume XII, Issue 5
The Battle of the Wilderness: No Turning Back ...Part II
The Fighting on May 6, 1864, by Gregory A. Mertz.
Gentle Annie Goes Home: Robert E. Lee’s Daughter Returns to Virginia after 132 Years, by Elizabeth W. Roberson.
A Memorial Dirge for Lincoln: ...a roof-top tribute to the 16th President, by Hudson Alexander.
Driving Tour of the Wilderness Campaign: The Fighting on May 6, 1864.
Book Reviews:
Andersonville: The Last Depot, by William Marvel. Reviewed by Tom Watson Brown.
The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battle for Chattanooga, by Peter Cozzens. Reviewed by James J. Cooke.
Marching to Cold Harbor: Victory and Failure, 1864 , by R. Wayne Maney. Reviewed by Robert E.L. Krick.
Gate of Hell, Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863, by Stephen R. Wise. Reviewed by Robert N. Rosen.
The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election and the End of Slavery, by David E. Long. Reviewed by Michael W. Kauffman.
Saber and Scapegoat: J.E.B. Stuart and the Gettysburg Controversy, by Mark Nesbitt. Reviewed by Theodore C. Mahr.
Volume XII, Issue 4 The Battle of the Wilderness: No Turning Back ...Part I
The Fighting on May 5, 1864, by Gregory A. Mertz, Historian.
Twenty-Seven Kinds of Drunk: A Sampling of Drunken Tales from Union Court Martial Records, by Thomas P. Lowry.
Mr. Grant Goes to Washington, by Thomas D. Gilbert.
Driving Tour of the Wilderness Campaign: The Fighting on May 5, 1864.
Book Reviews:
The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864, by Gordon C. Rhea. Reviewed by Noah Andre Trudeau.
The Third Day At Gettysburg & Beyond, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
To The Manner Born: The Life of General William H.T. Walker, by Russell K. Brown. Reviewed by Christopher Losson.
The Campaign for Atlanta & Sherman’s March to Sea, series editors Theodore P. Savas and David A. Woodbury. Reviewed by Edwin Cole Bearss.
Volume XII, Issue 3
Three Mini-Tours of Sites on the Gettysburg Battlefield Related to the Fighting on July 1, 1863, that are Unmarked or Seldom Visited, by Gary Kross.
#1-Fight Like the Devil to Hold Your Own General John Buford’s Cavalry at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863.
#2-That One Error Fills Him with Faults Gen. Alfred Iverson and His Brigade at Gettysburg.
#3-At the Time Impracticable Dick Ewell’s Decision on the First Day at Gettysburg With Excerpts from Campbell Brown’s Journal.
Driving Tour Vignettes
The Trials and Tribulations of Fountain Branch Center and His Franklin, Tennessee, Home, by Hudson Alexander.
On The Back Roads: The Final Resting Place of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, by Mark McKenna.
Camp Talk Extra—The Next Big Preservation Battle Will Be Truth, and editorial by Dave Roth.
Book Reviews:
Full Duty: Vermonters In the Civil War, by Howard Coffin. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
No Middle Ground: Thomas Ward Osborn’s Letters from the Field (1862-1864), edited by Herb S. Crumb and Katherine Dhalle. Reviewed by Phillip N. Racine.
The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., and Roy P. Stonesifer, Jr. Reviewed by Michael L. Gillespie. HighSeas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Maffitt, by Royce Shingleton. Reviewed by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War, by Thomas P. Lowry. Reviewed by Herbert M. Schiller.
Introduction to Field Artillery Ordnance 1861-1865: A Pictorial Study of Civil War Artillery Projectiles, by Jack W. Melton, Jr., and Lawrence E. Pawl. Reviewed by Dean S. Thomas.
An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864, edited by Lauren Cook Burgess. Reviewed by Holly A. Robinson.
The Supplement to the Official Records, Vols. 1-3, edited by Janet B. Hewitt, Noah Andre Trudeau, Bryce A. Studerow. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XII, Issue 2
The Last Rays of Departing Hope: The Fall of Wilmington, Including Campaigns Against Fort Fisher, by Chris Fonvielle.
Total War Comes to New Manchester, by Carole E. Scott
A Study in Valor: George L. Hartsuff, Major General, USA., by Charles A. Lowe.
Driving Tour of the Wilmington Campaign.
Hosea and Jacob Horne: Brother Against Brother, by Chris Fonvielle.
Book Reviews:
Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander, by Kent Masterson Brown. Reviewed by William Marvel.
With A Flash of His Sword: The Writings of Major Holman S. Melcher, 20th Maine Infantry. Edited by William B. Styple. Reviewed by Richard Rollins.
Mapping For Stonewall: The Civil War Service of Jed Hotchkiss, by William J. Miller. Reviewed by Archie P. McDonald.
Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President. Edited by Harold Holzer. Reviewed by Michael C.C. Adams.
General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Soldier-A Biography, by Jeffry D. Wert. Reviewed by Steven W. Woodworth.
Microbes and Minie Balls: An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine, by Frank R. Freemon. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XII, Issue 1
I Might As Well Try to Get Out of Hell: John Hunt Morgan’s Escape from the Ohio Penitentiary, by Dave Roth.
Arnold vs. Arnold: The Strange and Hitherto Untold Story of the Divorce of Stonewall Jackson’s Sister, by Albert Castel. On The Back Roads: Fort Towson: Indian Territory Post that Played a Part in the Peace, by Evelin Sanders.
Camp Talk Extra—The Kaplan Lincoln, by Michael F. Bergman.
Book Reviews:
The Mutiny at Brandy Station: The Last Battle of the Hooker Brigade, by Frederick B. Arner. Reviewed by John M. Priest.
Gettysburg-Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill, by Harry Pfanz. Reviewed by Wayne E. Motts.
A Captain’s War: The Letters and Diaries of Captain W.H.S. Burgwyn, edited by Herbert M. Schiller. Reviewed by Ben Smith.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga: The Battles that Doomed the Confederacy, by John Bowers. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XI, Issue 6
McCausland’s Raid and the Burning of Chambersburg, by Ted Alexander.
‘Old Jube’ Fools the Yankees: Jubal Early’s Diversions to Support McCausland’s Raid, by Ted Alexander.
A Most Voluntary Gathering: The Battle of West Point, Ga., April 16, 1865, by Randall Allen.
Guest Editorials-Disney’s America, by James M. McPherson.
Driving Tour—McCausland’s Raid and the Burning of Chambersburg, by Ted Alexander and Dave Roth.
Book Reviews:
Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee, by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein. Re- viewed by Frank R. Freemon.
Gettysburg: A Meditation on War & Values, by Kent Gramm. Reviewed by Richard Pindell.
Upon the Tented Field, edited by Bernard A. Olsen. Reviewed by Chris Calkins.
Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Cartobibliography of the Northern Daily Press, compiled by Daved Bosse. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas, by David Bosse. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XI, Issue 5
The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico, by Paul I. Kliger.
A Wife’s Devotion: The Story of James and Fanny Ricketts, by Linda G. Black.
Lost Image of A Southern Hero, by E.J. Neeley. Driving Tour—Touring Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign Sites
Camp Talk Extra—Disney’s America: The Mouse in the South?, by Neal Meier.
Book Reviews:
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, edited by Harold Holzer. Reviewed by Scott W. Smith.
Patriots in Disquise: Women Warriors of the Civil War, by Richard Hall. Reviewed by Lauren Cook.
Mobile Bay and the Mobile Campaign: The Last Great Battles of the Civil War, by Chester G. Hearn. Reviewed by Stephen R. Wise.
Iron Brigade General: John Gibbon, A Rebel in Blue, by Dennis S. Lavery & Mark H. Jordan. Reviewed by A. Wilson Greene.
The Civil War Reminiscences of Major Silas T. Grisamore, C.S.A., edited bt Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. Reviewed by Gordon Jones.
Volume XI, Issue 4
Grant & Lee 1864: From the North Anna to the Crossing of the James, by the Historian Staff of Richmond National Battlefield Park.
Report of the Battle of Atlanta, by Capt. Francis DeGress, Commanding Battery H, 1st Illinois Light Artillery, edited by Chris Evans.
The Gray Ghost Story, by Greg Biggs.
Camp Talk Extra—Disaster at Brandy Station, by Neal Meier.
Driving Tour—North Anna to the Crossing of the James.
Book Reviews:
Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition, by Thomas W. Cutrer. Reviewed by Anne J. Bailey.
Douglas Southall Freeman On Leadership, edited with commentary by Stuart W. Smith. Reviewed by Peter S. Carmichael.
The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers, by Richard Moe. Reviewed by Theodore P. Savas.
Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order, by John F. Marszalek. Reviewed by Dennis Kelly.
Lincoln’s Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy, by Richard Nelson Current. Reviewed by Earl J. Hess.
Volume XI, Issue 3
Grant’s Beachhead for the Vicksburg Campaign: The Battle of Port Gibson, May 1, 1863, by Terry Winschel. Mathew B. Brady: A Man with A Vision, by Warren E. Motts.
Camp Talk Extra—Gettysburg: A Lesson in Foreign Policy, a guest editorial by Col. Allan Millett.
Driving Tour—Battle of Port Gibson, Miss., by Terry Winschel and Dave Roth.
Morgan’s Bloody Shirt, a Rare Item from the Collection of William Stier.
Book Reviews:
Jubal: The Life and Times of General Jubal A. Early, CSA, by Charles C. Osborne. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
They Followed the Plume: The Story of J.E.B. Stuart and His Staff, by Robert J. Trout. Reviewed by John Hennessy.
Lincoln the War President, The Gettysburg Lectures, edited by Gabor S. Boritt. Reviewed by John F. Marszaleck.
Leslie’s Illustrated Civil War, reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume XI, Issue 2
The Battle of Nashville: The Desperation of the Hour, by Wiley Sword.
Area Map—Middle Tennessee Tour/Battle Map—Battle of Nashville Order of Battle—Hood’s Army, CSA Order of Battle—Thomas’ Forces, USA That Cruel Hole in His Brow: The Death of Col. William Shy Civil War Sites in Nashville
Camp Talk Extra—More Trouble at Brandy Station, by Neal Meier.
‘Killer Angels’ Comes to Cashtown: Scenes from the Making of Gettysburg, by Dave Roth.
Book Reviews:
The Civil War Years: Day by Day Chronicle of the Life of a Nation, by Robert E. Denney. Reviewed by Lawrence Frederick Kohl.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 7, 1861, edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist. Reviewed by Judith Lee Hallock.
Sanitary Fairs: A Philatelic and Historical Study of Civil War Benevolences, by Alvin Robert Kantor and Marjorie Sered Kantor. Reviewed by Christopher Losson.
Volume XI, Issue 1
The Fight for the Loudoun Valley—Aldie, Middleburg and Upperville, Va.: Opening Battles of the Gettysburg Cam- paign, by Robert F. O’Neill, Jr.
The Only Medal of Honor Earned in the Loudoun Valley Fighting Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola, by Robert F. O’Neill, Jr. Those Are the Sisters...They are Not Afraid of Anything Sisters and Nuns who were Nurses during the Civil War, by Jeane Heimberger Candido.
Milton Bush: Reluctant and Unlucky Soldier, by Mark H. Dunkelman.
Camp Talk Extra—Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun and the Politics of Symbolism
Prussian Giant in Gray: Maj. Johann Heinrich Heros Von Borcke, by Neal Meier.
TOURING Loudoun Valley Battle Sites
Book Reviews:
Blood Brothers: A Short History of the Civil War, by Frank E. Vandiver. Reviewed by James A. Ramage.
The Battle of Cedar Creek: Showdown in the Shenandoah, October 1-30, 1864, by Theodore C. Mahr. Reviewed by Jeffry D. Wert.
35 Days to Gettysburg: The Campaign of Two American Enemies, by Mark Nesbitt. Reviewed by D. Scott Hartwig.
Mapping the Civil War: Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress, by Christopher Nelson. Reviewed by Paul Kallina.
Abraham Lincoln the Orator: Penetrating the Lincoln Legend, by Lois Einhorn. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.
Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, edited by Russell Duncan. Reviewed by Warren Wilkinson.
Volume X, Issue 6
The Northwestern Virginia Campaign of 1861
McClellan’s Rising Star-Lee’s Dismal Debut, by Martin K. Fleming.
The Andersonville Artist: The A.J. Riddle Photographs of August 1864, by William Marvel.
The True Story of Taps, by Joseph L. Whitney and Stephen W. Sears.
Colonel Heg Memorial Park, by Nels J. Monson.
Preserving Beverly and the Rich Mountain Battlefield Including Information on Touring 1861 Campaign Sites, by Phyllis Baxter of the Rich Mountain Battlefield Foundation.
Book Reviews:
Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West, by William L. Shea and Earl J. Hess. Reviewed by Leo E. Huff.
This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga, by Peter Cozzens. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth.
To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign, by Stephen Sears. Reviewed by Judith L. Anthis.
Yankee Tigers: Through the Civil War With the 125th Ohio, by Ralsa C. Rice. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
The Confederacy’s Fighting Chaplain-Father John B. Bannon, by Phillip Thomas Tucker. Reviewed by Benedict R. Maryniak.
Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas’ Rangers and Rebels, by David P. Smith. Reviewed by William L. Shea.
Hard Marching Every Day: The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865 [2nd Vermont Infantry], edited by Emil and Ruth Rosenblatt. Reviewed by Theodore P. Savas.
The Civil War Diaries of Col. Theodore B. Gates, 20th New York Militia, edited by Seward R. Osborne. Reviewed by Theodore P. Savas.
Volume X, Issue 5
Grierson’s Raid, April 17-May 2, 1863
A Cavalry Raid at Its Best, by Dave Roth.
Driving Tour—Following Grierson Today
The Sword and the Cross of Giles B. Cooke A Christian Soldier with Lee and Jackson, by Royce Shingleton.
Audio/Video Reviews—The Horse Soldiers, by Greg Biggs.
Book Reviews:
The Custer Reader, edited by Paul Andrew Hutton. Reviewed by Neil C. Mangum.
A Civil War Treasury, by Albert A. Nofi. Reviewed by Rod Gragg.
Gettysburg—A Battlefield Atlas, by Craig L. Symonds. Reviewed by William A. Young.
Advance the Colors!: Pennsylvania Civil War Battle Flags, Vol. II, by Richard A. Sauers. Reviewed by Paul Ellingson.
Still More Confederate Faces, by D.A. Serrano. Reviewed by Jai S. Cochran.
Volume X, Issue 4
Strike Them A Blow: Lee and Grant At the North Anna River, by J. Michael Miller.
Preservation Message North Anna River: The Past Reclaimed, by John F. Cummings, III, President, National Heritage Preservation Association
The Track Is Clear to Shohola: Disaster On the Road to Elmira, by Diana S. Berger.
The Battle of Britton’s Lane: The Climax of Armstrong’s Raid, by Capt. James D. Brewer.
Book Reviews:
With Fire and Sword, by S.H.M. Byers. Reviewed by Wiley Sword.
The Sultana Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster, by Jerry O. Potter. Reviewed by William Marvel. Hard Dying Men: The Story of General W.H.L. Wallace, General T.E.G. Ransom, and Their “Old Eleventh” Illinois Infantry in the American Civil War (1861-1865), by Jim Huffstodt. Reviewed by B. Franklin Cooling.
Footprints of a Regiment: A Recollection of the1st Georgia Regulars, by W.H. Andrews. Edited by Richard M. McMurry. Reviewed by Robert E.L. Krick.
In Deadly Earnest: History of the First Missouri Brigade, C.S.A., by Phil Gottschalk, foreward by Edwin C. Bearss. Reviewed by Jerry Russell.
Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864, by Albert Castel. Reviewed by Larry J. Daniel.
Volume X, Issue 3
The Campaign and Battle of Mill Springs, by Roger Tate.
The Cavalry Clash at Quebec Schoolhouse: Cobb’s Legion, CSA, and Medill’s Union Horseman Fight In the Shadow of South Mountain, Maryland, September 13, 1862, by Timothy J. Reese.
On The Back Roads: A Visit With Uncle Remus: Joel Chandler Harris Museum, Eatonton, Georgia, by James Stanley.
Controversy—Reflections On Gettysburg: Or, Rethinking the Big One, by Terry Shulman.
Preservation—Conditional Surrender: The Death of U.S. Grant, and the Cottage on Mount McGregor, by Leonard Poggiali.
Book Reviews:
Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie, by T. Michael Parrish. Reviewed by Richard McMurry.
Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War, by Jacquelyn S. Nelson. Reviewed by Benedict R. Maryniak.
With Porter In North Missouri, by Joseph A. Mudd. Reviewed by Donald J. Stanton.
Black Troops, White Commanders, and Freedmen During The Civil War, by Howard C. Westwood. Reviewed by Richard Rollins.
In The Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War, by Alice Rains Trulock. Reviewed by Eric J. Wittenburg.
A Battle From The Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, by Brian Steel Willis. Reviewed by James J. Cooke.
A Frontier State at War: Kansas, 1861-1865, by Albert Castel. Reviewed by Thomas Goodrich.
Volume X, Issue 2
Monocracy: The Battle That Saved Washington, by Benjamin Franklin Cooling.
My Friend, the Enemy: The Tale of An Illinois Lieutenant, Wade Hampton’s Chaplain, and the Burning of Columbia, by Lydia Colee Filzen.
Audio/Video Reviews, by Greg Biggs. Three Roads to Andersonville, by William Marvel.
Lincoln’s Gratitude Regained, by W. Emerson Reck.
Battle of Monocacy Preservation Message, by John M. Gibson, Jr., President, The Friends of Monocracy Battlefield.
Book Reviews:
Ted Barclay, Liberty Hall Volunteers: Letters from the Stonewall Brigade, edited by Charles W. Turner. Reviewed by James I. Robertson, Jr.
Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour, by William C. Davis. Reviewed by Judith Lee Hallock.
History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps: A Complete Record of the Organization; and of it’s Different Companies, Regiments, and Brigades...by J.R. Sypher. Reviewed by Steven J. Wright.
Weep Not For Me, Dear Mother, edited by Elizabeth Whitley Roberson. Reviewed by Garold L. Cole.
Sherman: Merchant of Terror, Advocate of Peace, by Charles Edmund Vetter. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume X, Issue 1
The Deception of Braxton Bragg: The Tullahoma Campaign, June 23-July 4, 1863, by William B. Feis.
Anniversary Message to Blue & Gray readers
A Camp Talk Extra—Hollywood Focuses On the Civil War, by Dave Roth.
The Steadiest Body of Men I Ever Saw: John T. Wilder and the Lightning Brigade, by Roy Morris, Jr.
Jeb Stuart and His Reluctant Cavalryman: Gunner Tom Rosser Is Forced to “Jine the Cavalry”, by Gustav S. Faeder.
The Art of Rea Redifer: Interpretations of Lincoln, by Gabor S. Boritt.
Book Reviews:
From Desert to Bayou: The Civil War Journal and Sketches of Morgan Wolfe Merrick, edited by Jerry Thompson. Nat C. Hughes, Jr.
No Turning Back, The Beginning of the End of the Civil War: March-June 1864, by Don Lowry. Reviewed by Richard A. Sauers.
Confederate Mobile, by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. Reviewed by Florence Fleming Corley.
States Rights Fist: A South Carolina General of the Civil War, by Walter Brian Cisco. Reviewed by Christopher Losson.
Why the Confederacy Lost, edited by Gabor S. Boritt. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume IX, Issue 6 The Second Battle of Manassas: Lee Suppresses the ‘Miscreant” Pope, by John Hennessy.
Book Reviews:
Embrace An Angry Wind—The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville, by Wiley Sword. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
Burnside, by William Marvel. Reviewed by Lawrence A. Kohl.
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat, Vol II, by Judith Lee Hallock. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Gray Raiders of the Sea: How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union’s High Seas Commerce, by Chester G. Hearn. Reviewed by A. Robert Holcombe, Jr.
A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War, by Parthenia Antoinette Hague. Reviewed by Maxine Turner.
Pemberton: A Biography, by Michael B. Ballard. Reviewed by Lawrence L. Hewitt.
Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in A Confederate Army, by Larry J. Daniel. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume IX, Issue 5
Stonewall Jackson: Molding the Man and Making A General, by James I. Robertson, Jr.
Common Soldier—Two Corporals: A Tale of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Attack At Sulphur Branch Trestle, Alabama, by Col. Donald H. Steenburn, US Army, Retired.
Naval History—A Long War and A Sickly Season: Yellow Fever and the East Gulf Blockading Squadron Specifically: The Case of the USS James S. Chambers, by Edward S. Miller.
Book Reviews:
Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre, by Thomas Goodrich. Reviewed by Harris D. Riley, Jr.
Echoes of Battle: The Atlanta Campaign, edited by Larry M. Strayer, and Richard A. Baumgartner. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868, by Brooks D. Simpson. Reviewed by Michael C.C. Adams.
Guide to Civil War Periodicals, Volume 1, 1991, compiled by Lee W. Merideth. Reviewed by The Editors of Blue & Gray Magazine.
Volume IX, Issue 4
The Battle of Five Forks: Final Push For the South Side, by Chris Calkins, Historian, Petersburg National Battlefield.
Adventure—Yankee Captain Daniel Ellis: The Old Red Fox of East Tennessee, by Allen Ellis. Back Roads—Lee’s Last U.S. Army Post, by Mark McKenna.
Book Reviews
The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. Reviewed by Michael L. Gillespie.
The Last Citadel, Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865, by Noah Andre Trudeau. Reviewed by Neal Meier.
The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan, edited by Charles East. Reviewed by Judy Anthis.
Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott, edited by Robert Garth Scott. Reviewed by John M. Priest.
None Died In Vain: The Saga of the American Civil War, by Robert Leckie. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
Volume IX, Issue 3
Forts Henry & Donelson: Union Victory on the Twin Rivers, by Benjamin Franklin Cooling.
Winter Camp—A Wedding In Camp, by James M. Madden & Ronald P. McGovern.
Common Soldier—A Matter of Injustice: The Summers-Koontz Incident, by Robert H. Moore II.
Audio/Video Reviews—Strange Bedfellows: Waylon Jennings and the United States Military Academy Band, by Greg Biggs.
Book Reviews:
Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History, by Alan T. Nolan. Reviewed by Dennis E. Frye.
Kirby Smith’s Confederacy: The Trans-Mississippi South, 1863-1865, by Robert L. Kerby. Reviewed by Thomas Goodrich.
A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy: The Diaries and Letters of Belle Edmondson, edited by William and Loretta Galbraith. Reviewed by Anne J. Bailey.
Mosby’s Rangers, by Jeffry D. Wert. Reviewed by Maynard Schrock.
Financial Failure and Confederate Defeat, by Douglas B. Ball. Reviewed by James F. Morgan.
The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour. Edited by Terry L. Jones. Reviewed by Donald Pfanz.
Fort Lyon to Harpers Ferry: On the Border of North and South with “Rambling Jour.” Edited by Lee C and Karen D. Drickamer. Reviewed by Dave Roth.
An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War, by Charles P. Roland. Reviewed by Brian C. Pohanka.
Destroyer of the Iron Horse: General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Rail Transport, 1861-1865, by Jeffrey N. Lash. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume IX, Issue 2 Much to Sadden and Little to Cheer: The Civil War Years at West Point, by Alan and Barbara Aimone
An Album of Civil War Era Cadets and Professors
Roster of West Point Graduates 1861-1865
Profile—Robert F. Beckham: The Man Who Commanded Stuart’s Horse: Artillery After Pelham Fell, by Clark B. Hall.
Audio/Video Reviews—Songs of the Sixties Are Hot!, by Greg Biggs.
Book Reviews:
General John H. Winder, CSA., by Arch F. Blakey. Reviewed by R. Frank Saunders.
We Need Men: The Union Draft in the Civil War, by James W. Geary. Reviewed by Frank J. Welcher.
America’s National Battlefield Parks: A Guide, by Joseph E. Stevens. Reviewed by Jerry L. Russell.
Volume IX, Issue 1
13 Haunted Places of the Civil War, II: Just When You Thought It Was Save to Read About the Civil War Again ...
Introduction—Spirits of the Parks, by Priscilla R. Baker
From the Editors of Blue & Gray ... Number 1—McRaven of Mississippi Number 2—The Phantom Army of Harpers Ferry Number 3—A Presence At Perryville Number 4—Fall Hill Specters Number 5—Carnton at Franklin Number 6—The Kind Ladies of Old Camp Chase Number 7—Stones River Slaughter Pen Number 8—The Haunting of Cashtown Inn Number 9—Jesse James’ Farm Number 10—Savannah Ghosts Number 11—The Chickamauga Curse: “River of Death” Number 12—Spirits of Drum Barracks Number 13—Gettysburg Exorcism, or Buried Alive!
Book Reviews:
Diary Of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman OF The Orphan Brigade, edited by William C. Davis. Reviewed by Larry J. Daniel.
Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher, by Rod Gragg. Reviewed by Stephen R. Wise.
Lincoln On Democracy, edited and introduced by Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer. Reviewed by John S. Peterson.
The Confederate Regular Army, by Richard P. Weinert Jr. Reviewed by Robert K. Krick. Volume VIII, Issue 6
The Battle of Saltville: Massacre or Myth? by William Marvel.
Rebel Ingenuity—Rebels inthe Sky: The Confederate Balloon Corps, by Judith Anthis & Richard M. McMurry.
Krick’s Bookish Notes—General Nat Harris’ Diary: The Rarest Army of Northern Virginia Book? by Robert K. Krick.
Reflections—Did Anybody Really Know What Time It Was? by Arthur Candenquist.
Common Soldier—Sergeant Edwin B. Bigelow’s Exciting Adventures, with Excerpts from the Wolverine Cavalryman’s Civil War Diary, by Frank L. Klement.
Book Reviews:
Sumter: The First Day of the Civil War, by Robert Henderson. Reviewed by David R. Ruth.
Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers, by Joseph T. Glatthaar. Reviewed by Lawrence L. Hewitt.
The Confederate High Command and Related Topics, edited by Roman J. Heleniak and Lawrence L. Hewitt. Reviewed by Steven E. Woodworth.
Confederate Florida: The Road To Olustee, by William H. Nulty. Reviewed by Arch Fredric Blakey.
Georgia in the War, 1861-1865: A Compendium of Georgia Participants, by Charles Edgeworth Jones. Reviewed by William Harris Bragg.
Volume VIII, Issue 5
Missouri! One Last Time: Sterling Price’s 1864 Missouri Expedition, ‘A Just and Holy Cause’, by Scott E. Sallee.
Personality Profile—The Meanest Bushwhacker: Bloody Bill Anderson, by Dino A. Brugioni.
Reflections—The B.H. Teague Collection of Confederate Relics and Curios, by John Mills Bigham.
Audio/Video Reviews—A Leg Up On John Bell Hood, by Greg Biggs.
Book Reviews:
The Training of an Army: Camp Curtin and the North’s Civil War, by William J. Miller. Reviewed by Richard A. Sauers.
Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster, by William O. Bryant. Reviewed by Jerry O. Potter.
Carolina Cavalier: The Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew, by Clyde N. Wilson. Reviewed by William Garrett Piston.
Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon, by Christopher Phillips. Reviewed by John S. Peterson.
Volume VIII, Issue 4 Season of Change: The Winter Encampment of the Army of the Potomac, December 1, 1863-May 4, 1864, by Clark B. Hall.
West Of The Mississippi—Idaho Shoot-out, by Katherine Doty.
Reflections—The Civil War’s First Monument: Bartow’s Marker at Manassas, by Robert E.L. Krick.
On The Back RoadS: On the Road to Gettysburg: Cashtown Inn, by George F. Skoch.
Audio/Video Reviews—The Civil War Is On A Roll, by Greg Biggs.
Book Reviews:
The Great American Myth, by George S. Bryan. Reviewed by Michael W. Kauffman.
The Civil War Round Table: Fifty Years of Scholarship and Fellowship, by Barbara Hughett. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Hearth and Knapsack: The Ladley Letters, 1857-1880, edited by Carl M. Becker and Ritchie Thomas. Reviewed by Dave Roth.
Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West, by Steven E. Woodworth. Re- viewed by James L. McDonough.
The Siege of Suffolk: The Forgotten Campaign April 11-May 4, 1863, by Steven A. Cormier. Reviewed by Keith Bohannon.
The Plymouth Pilgrims: A History of the Eighty-Fifth New York Infantry in the Civil War, by Wayne Mahoud. Reviewed by E.A. Livingston.
Personal Recollection of the War of 1861, by Charles A. Fuller. Reviewed by Mark Dunkelman.
The Civil War Journal of Billy Davis: From Hopewell, Indiana to Port Republic, Virginia. Edited by Richard S. Skidmore. Reviewed by Paul Kallina.
George N. Barnard: Photographer of Sherman’s Campaign, by Keith F. Davis. Reviewed by Frank J. Welcher. Reviewed by William Glenn Robertson.
Mother, May You Never See The Sights I Have Seen—The Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Last Year of the Civil War, by Warren Wilkinson. Reviewed by Benedict R. Maryniak.
Volume VIII, Issue 3
Savannah: Mr. Lincoln’s Christmas Present, by Roger S. Durham.
Unsolved Mysteries—The Shelton Laurel Massacre: Murder in the North Carolina Mountains, by James O. Hall.
Controversy—The Great Impostors, by William Marvel.
Audio/Video Reviews—Jefferson Davis’ Greatest Mistake, by Greg Biggs.
Book Reviews:
Cadets in Gray: The Story of the Cadets of the South Carolina Military Academy and the Cadet Rangers in the Civil War, by Gary R. Baker. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry. Civil War Chief of Sharpshooters: Hiram Berdan, Military Commander and Firearms Inventor, by Roy M. Marcott. Reviewed by Geoff Walden.
The Illustrated Confederate Reader, selected and edited by Rog Gragg. Reviewed by Garold L. Cole.
The Civil War—An Aerial Portrait, by Sam Abell and Brian Pohanka. Reviewed by William D. Matter.
Volume VIII, Issue 2
The St. Albans Raid: Rebels in Vermont! October 19, 1864, by Jon Woodard.
Preservation Bulletin—Brandy On the Brink of Demise! by Clark B. “Bud” Hall.
Gettysburg—If Peaches Could Talk .., by Jennie Lulu Peirsol.
Reflections—Lincoln’s First Gettysburg Address: A Little Known Impromptu Speech Perhaps Best Forgotten, by Frank L. Klemont.
Audio/Video Reviews—Van Heflin’s Raid to Ken Burns’ Classic, by Greg Biggs.
Book Reviews:
Personal Reminiscences of General Robert E. Lee, by the Rev. J. William Jones. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
With Sheridan up the Shenandoah Valley in 1864: Leaves from a Special Artist’s Sketchbook and Diary, by James E. Taylor. Reviewed by Thomas A. Lewis.
The Most Famous Soldier In America: A Biography of Lt. Gen. Nelson A. Milesm 1839-1925, by Arthur J. Amchan. Reviewed by John S. Peterson.
Tennessee’s Forgotten Warriors: Frank Cheatham and His Confederate Division, by Christopher Losson. Reviewed by Dennis Kelly.
Volume VIII, Issue 1
Brandy Station: The Civil War’s Bloodiest Arena of Mounted Combat, by Gary W. Gallagher.
Controversy—The Truth About Wise’s Well: Setting the Record Straight on South Mountain, by Steven R. Stotelmyer.
Audio/Video Reviews—From Glory to Echoes of the Blue & Gray, by Greg Biggs.
Reflections—Will the Real “Mudwall” Jackson Please Stand Up? by Geoffrey R. Walden.
Guest Editorial—Preserving Brandy Station, by Clark B. “Bud” Hall, Secretary, Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites.
Book Reviews:
Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain, by Robert K. Krick. Reviewed by John Hennessy. Abandoned by Lincoln: A Military Biography of General John Pope, by Wallace J. Schultz and Walter N. Trenerry. Reviewed by William Marvel.
No Better Place To Die: The Battle of Stones River, by Peter Cozzens. Reviewed by Christopher Losson.
The Confederate States Marine Corps: The Rebel Leathernecks, by Ralph W. Donnelly. Reviewed by David M. Sullivan.
Volume VII, Issue 6
The Sultana Disaster: Conspiracy of Greed, by Jerry Potter.
Camp Talk Extra—Chicago Round Table Turns 50! by Barbara Hughett.
Battle—With Shouts of Triumph and Trumpets Blowing: George Custer Versus Rufus Barringer at Namozine Church, April 3, 1865, by Chris Calkins.
Primer—Civil War Naval Vessels, by Donald L. Canney
Reflections—Tennessee Remembers Her Boys in Blue, by Norman C. Shaw, by Norman C. Shaw.
Book Reviews:
Gettysburg Crisis of Command, by Harry Albright. Reviewed by Wayne E. Motts.
An Irishman In Dixie: Thomas Conolly’s Diary of the Fall of the Confederacy, edited by Nelson D. Lankford. Reviewed by Paul Kallina.
Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait, edited by Herbert Mitgang. Reviewed by Hal W. Fulmer.
Antietam: Essays on the 1862 Maryland Campaign, by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by John Michael Priest.
The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew’s Regiment of Mounted Rifles, by W. Craig Gaines. Reviewed by Kenny A. Franks.
A Caspian Sea of Ink: The Meadesickles Controversy, by Richard A. Sauers. Reviewed by D. Scott Hartwig.
“Seeing the Elephant”: Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh, by Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reaves. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume VII, Issue 5
Booth’s Escape Route: Lincoln’s Assassin On the Run, by Michael W. Kauffman.
Common Soldier—Black Soldier of the Confederacy: The Life and Legacy of Peter Vertrees, A Kentucky “Orphan,” by Scott E. Sallee.
Reflections—A Georgia Major’s Souvenir of Captivity: The Signature Album of Confederate Major Charles L. White- head, A Prisoner of War at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, by John Mills Bigham.
Preservation—The Camp Chase project, by Dave Roth. Book Reviews:
John B. Gordon: Soldier, Southerner, American, by Ralph Lowell Eckert. Reviewed by Tom Watson Brown.
Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington, 1864, by Benjamin Franklin Cooling. Reviewed by Robert K. Krick.
The Battle of the Crater: “The Horrid Pit,” June 25-August 6, 1864, by Michael A. Cavanaugh and William Marvel. Reviewed by Chris Calkins.
Volume VII, Issue 4
John Wilkes Booth and the Murder of Abraham Lincoln, by Michael W. Kauffman.
Common Soldier—A Virginian In the Iron Brigade: The Civil War Experiences of Lewis Amiss Kent of Blacksburg, Virginia, byWilliam J.K. Beaudot.
On The Back Roads: McPherson’s Memorial, by Wayne Motts.
Homefront—Until Death Us Do Part: A Civil War Romance, by Walter S. Griggs, Jr.
Reflections—True Glory, with introduction by Alan D. Gaff.
Book Reviews:
Guide to Louisiana Military Units, 1861-1865, by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. Reviewed by Robert K. Krick.
The Fort Pillow Massacre: The Reason Why, by Gregory J. Macaluso. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
Volume VII, Issue 3
The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, October 21, 1861, by Kim B. Holien.
Controversy—Deflowering A Myth: Rose O’Neal Greenhow and the Battle of First Manassas, by Robert Johnson.
Reflections—In Lasting Tribute: The U.S. Army and Gettysburg, Since 1863, by Major Mark A. Snell, United States Military Academy at West Point.
Common Soldier—The Life and Times of James A. Wheeler, A Tennessee Confederate, by Michael D. Jones.
On The Back Roads: Defending California: The Drum Barracks, by Greg Biggs.
Driving Tour—The Battlefield of Ball’s Bluff
A Camp Talk Extra—Johnny Clem Vindicated!
Book Reviews:
Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War, by Michael Fellman. Reviewed by Thomas Goodrich.
Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated, Bibliography of Books and Articles, 195501986, by Garold L. Cole. Reviewed by Michael B. Ballard.
Fighting For The Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Larry J. Daniel.
Antietam: The Soldiers’ Battle, by John M. Priest. Reviewed by Dennis E. Frye.
Volume VII, Issue 2
Sherman’s March to the Sea: Events from September 3 to December 21, 1864, Including the Occupation of Atlanta, More Battles With the Unpredictable John Bell Hood, the Burning of Atlanta, “Marching Through Georgia,” and the Fall of Savannah, by William R. Scaife.
Reflections—Gone With the Wind, But Not Forgotten, a photo essay by Dave Roth to commemorate the 50th Anniver- sary of the movie’s premiere
Controversy—Was Sherman Really A Brute? by John F. Marszaleck.
Book Reviews:
Rise of the Ironclads, by George F. Amadon. Reviewed by Maxine Turner.
Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln, by William A. Tidwell, with James O. Hall and David Winfred Gaddy. Reviewed by George L. Kackley.
Volume VII, Issue 1
Beast In A Bottle: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 1864, by Herbert M. Schiller.
Controversy—Was Butler ‘Bottled Up’? opinions by two Bermuda Hundred historians, Herbert M. Schiller (YES) and William Glenn Robertson (NO)
Reflections—Witness to History, a photo essay by Gabor S. Boritt.’
History—Lincoln Finds A Rebel General: The Unusual Tale of Rufus Barringer’s Encounter With the Yankee President, by Mary B. Daughtry.
Book Reviews:
George Wythe Randolph and the Confederate Elite, by George Green Shackelford. Reviewed by Gary W. Gallagher.
The Bermuda Hundred Campaign: Operations on the South Side of the James River, Virginia-May 1864, by Herbert M. Schiller. Reviewed by J. Britt McCarley.
The Civil War in Fayette County, West Virginia, by Tim McKinney. Reviewed by Joseph Ferrell.
The Civil War Reminiscences of General M. Jeff Thompson, edited by Donal Stanton, Goodwin F. Berquist, and Paul C. Bowers. Reviewed by Michael L. Gillespie. Volume VI, Issue 6
Atlanta Campaign: Hood Fights Desperately. The Battles for Atlanta. Actions From July 10 to September 2, 1864, by Stephen Davis.
Hood Is A Bold Fighter: John Bell Hood and the ‘Present Emergency’
An Assessment of Hood’s First Attack: The Battle of Peachtree Creek
An Assessment of Hood’s Second Attack: The Battle of Atlanta
An Assessment of Hood’s Third Attack: The Battle of Ezra Church
Medals of Honor Earned During the Battles for Atlanta, compiled by Dave Roth.
An Assessment of Hood’s Generalship
Troubled Times In A City Under Fire
Volume VI, Issue 5
Atlanta Campaign: Mountains to Pass, A River to Cross. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, And Related Actions From June 10 to July 9, 1864, by Dennis Kelly
The Death of Bishop Polk, by Stephen Davis.
Hooker & Hood—Thorns in the Side?
The Defender of Cheatham Hill, by Christopher Losson.
Yankees Come to Roswell.
Epilogue—’Gen’l J. Is Not the Man We Thought Him”
In Memoriam—Joseph Timothy Smith (1946-1989)
Audio/Visual/Game Software—From Homespun Songs to Siege Artillery, reviews by Joseph T. Smith.
On The Back RoadS: Some Good Ole Rebel Ingenuity: The Guano Oven of New Braunfels, Texas, by Mark McKenna.
Book Reviews:
The Brothers’ War: Civil War Letters To Their Loved Ones From The Blue & Gray, by Annette Tapert. Reviewed by Larry J. Daniel.
Abraham Lincoln, Public Speaker, by Waldo W. Braden. Reviewed by William Marvel.
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia-A Biography, by Thomas E. Schott. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
“This Awful Drama”: General Edwin Gray Lee, C.S.A., an His Family, by Alexandra Lee Levin. Volume VI, Issue 4
Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face to the Dallas Line, the Battles of May 1864, by Richard M. McMurry.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad and Its Boom Town, by Colonel James G. Bogle.
Pet Cleburne’s Emancipation Proposal, by Stephen Davis.
Action at Dug Gap
Dan Sickles ...?
The Battle of Pickett’s Mill, by Jeff Dean.
Controversy—Confederate Losses at Gettysburg: Debunking Livermore, by Colonel Joseph B. Mitchell.
Book Reviews:
If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania, by William D. Matter. Reviewed by A. Wilson Greene.
Soldiers Blue & Gray, by James I. Robertson Jr. Reviewed by Reid Mitchell.
Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier’s Life, by David M. Jordan. Reviewed by William D. Matter.
The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated History, by Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr. Reviewed by Louis J. Baltz III.
Volume VI, Issue 3
The Battle of Stones River: Tragic New Years Eve in Tennessee, by Charles M. Spearman.
A Heroic Crossing
An Unlikely Hero
Reflections—Santa Claus’ Father, by Dick O’Donnell
Book Reviews:
Francis T. Nicholls: A Biographical Tribute, by Evans J. Casso. Reviewed by W. E. Meneray.
Pictorial Encyclopedia of Civil War Medical Instruments and Equipment, by Dr. Gordon Dammann. Reviewed by Laurence M. Lesser.
The Civil War Campaign Medal, edited by John M. Carroll. Reviewed by David E. Roth.
Civil War Era Etiquette, edited by R. L. Shep. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Cities Under the Gun: Images of Occupied Nashville and Chattanooga, by James A. Hoobler. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume VI, Issue 2 Return Of A Legend: Morgan’s Last Raid—Kentucky, 1864, by Albert Castel.
James Witherspoon on Trial, by Frank G. Rankin, Jr.
The Controversy Over Morgan’s Death, by David E. Roth
Common Soldier—The Strangest Hero of All, by Edward F. Murphy
Audio/Visual/Game Software—From Miniatures on Video to Programming Your Own Battles, reviews by Joseph T. Smith.
Krick’s Bookish Notes—A Fire Book, by Robert K, Krick.
Book Reviews:
A History of the Forty-Forth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by Captain Eugene A. Nash. Reviewed by Mike Cavanaugh.
The Battles of Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House, April 8-9, 1865, by Chris M. Calkins. Reviewed by William Marvel.
Civil War Relics of the Western Campaigns 1861-1865, by Charles S. Harris. Reviewed by Lon W. Keim.
Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland, by Benjamin Franklin Cooling. Reviewed by Tim Burgess.
George B. McClellan: The Young Napolean, by Stephen W. Sears. Reviewed by Lawrence Frederick Kohl.
Volume VI, Issue 1
Gettysburg Cavalry Operations June 27-July 3, 1863, by Ted Alexander.
Horsemen in Blue
Horsemen in Gray
25 Miles Behind Confederate Lines: Ulric Dahlgren’s Greencastle Forays, by Ted Alexander.
The General and the Politician: Custer & Bingham, by Erving E. Beauregard.
Tenting Tonight, Boys!: Gettysburg, 1938—Last Reunion of the Blue & Gray, by Anna Jane Moyer.
Book Reviews:
The Truth About Chikamauga, by Archibald Gracie. Reviewed by Neal J. Ahern.
Confederate Navy Chief: Stephen R. Mallory, by Joseph T. Durkin. Reviewed by Stephen R. Wise.
From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, by Jeffry D. Wert. Reviewed by Gary W. Gallagher.
Lee’s Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry In The Army of Northern Virginia, buy Terry L. Jones. Reviewed by John B. Dunlap, Jr. Irish Green and Union Blue: The Civil War Letters of Peter Welsh, edited by Lawrence Frederick Kohl with Margaret Crosse’. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Fightin’ With Forrest—An Historical Novel, by Charles Gordon Yeager. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume V, Issue 6
Gettysburg—The Third Day, July 3, 1863
‘Ridges of Grim War,’ by Kathleen Georg Harrison.
The Medal of Honor at Gettysburg
If Mortal Man Can: Lewis Armistead at Gettysburg, by Wayne Motts.
In A Sea of Anguish, by Jim Goldy, Sr.
Volume V, Issue 5
Laurels for Burnside: The Invasion of North Carolina, January-July 1862, by Richard A. Sauers.
Preservation—Third Battle of Manassas, a guest editoria by John Hennessey.
On The Back Roads: Massacre at Baxter Springs, by Larry Wood.
Reflections—Major Cache of Confederate Memorabilia Makes National Headlines, by Steve Davis
Audio/Visual/Game Software—We’re In A New Age, reviews by Joseph T. Smith.
Book Reviews:
The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause, by Mark E. Neely, Jr., Harold Holzer and Gabor S. Boritt. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
War So Terrible: Sherman and Atlanta, by James Lee McDonough and James Pickett Jones. Reviewed by William R. Scaife.
Lee’s Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History, by William Garrett Piston. Reviewed by Robert K. Krick.
Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War, by Gerald F. Linderman. Reviewed by Geoffrey R. Walden.
Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi, by Lawrence Lee Hewitt. Reviewed by Larry J. Daniel.
Henry Hopkins Sibley: Confederate General of the West, by Jerry Thompson. Reviewed by Harris D. Riley, Jr.
Back Door to Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, April-June 1864, by William Glenn Robertson. Reviewed by Chris Calkins. Volume V, Issue 4
The Second Day, July 2, 1863: ‘Rebel Yells’ on Both Flanks, by Gary Kross
This Whole Damn Battlefield is My Monument: Daniel E. Sickles (1819-1914)
Controversy: The True High Water Mark of the Confederacy—Pickett’s Charge ...or Little Round Top? by Richard Pindell.
The Medal of Honor at Gettysburg
Gettysburg’s ‘Rebel Church’
Controversy: Sickles—Right or Wrong? by Richard A. Sauers
Book Reviews:
Brief History of The Thirtieth Georgia Regiment, by Augustus P. Adamson. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
Texas in the War, 1861-1865: An Encyclopedia of Texas in the Confederacy, by Marcus J. Wright. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
The Second Texas Infantry, From Shiloh to Vicksburg, by Joseph E. Chance. Reviewed by Michael A. Hughes.
Volume V, Issue 3
A Forgotten Battle in a Region Ignored . . . Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas—March 7-8, 1862: The Campaign, The Battle, and the Men Who Fought For the Fate of Missouri, by Michael A. Hughes
Book Reviews:
General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior, by James I. Robertson, Jr. Reviewed by William W. Hassler.
Joe Brown’s Army: The Georgia State Line, 1862-1865, by William Harris Bragg. Reviewed by Dennis Kelly.
A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, by Lee A. Wallace, Jr. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Advance the Colors: Pennsylvania Civil War Battle Flags, Vol. I, by Richard A. Sauers and members of the Capitol Preservation Committee. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume V, Issue 2
Gettysburg—The First Day, July 1, 1863
The Union Command: Decisions That Shaped a Battle, by Marshall D. Krolick
The Tour begins Gettysburg Weather Reports
Marcellus Jones’ Proudest Moment, by Marshall D. Krolick.
The Medal of Honor at Gettysburg
Book Reviews:
They Lie Forgotten, The United States Military Academy, 1856-1861, Together With A Class Album for the Class of May1861, by Mary Elizabeth Sergent. Reviewed by Charles Hooper.
Travels to Hallowed Ground: A Historian’s Journey to the American Civil War, by Emory M. Thomas. Reviewed by Herb S. Crumb.
Volume V, Issue 1
Stonewall Attacks!—The Siege of Harpers Ferry, by Dennis E. Frye.
The Cowards of Harpers Ferry, by Bruce Westerdahl.
The 126th’s Fighting Parson: Pastor Winfield Scott, by Richard F. Wehr.
Reflections—Skirmishing In A Lousy War (From the Pediculus to the Ridiculous), by Roger Long.
On The Back Roads: The Admiral’s Watery Grave, by Dianne Byers
Tribute to James V. Murfin (1929-1987)
National Park Service Civil War Publications, by James Murfin
Book Reviews:
The Cavalry At Gettysburg, by Edward G. Longacre. Reviewed by Tex Alexander.
Civil War on the Western Border, by Jay Monaghan. Reviewed by Archie P. McDonald.
C.S.S. Alabama: Builder, Captain, and Plans, by Charles Grayson Summersell. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads, by William N. Still. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
For the Glory of the Union: Myth, Reality, and the Media in Civil War New Jersey, by Alan A. Siegel. Reviewed by Michael C.C. Adams.
Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861-1865. Compiled by Mamie Yeary. Reviewed by Jay S. Hoar.
Army Life in a Black Regiment, by Thomas W. Higginson. Reviewed by Terry H. Jones.
My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era, by Jena-Charles Houzeau. Reviewed by John F. Marszaleck.
Volume IV, Issue 6 The Great Locomotive Chase or, The Andrews Raid, by James G. Bogle.
Who Was James Smith?
The Andrews Raid on Film, by Steve Davis.
The Medal of Honor, by Edward F. Murphy.
Controversy Claims & Counter-claims, by Roger Long.
Profile—’Old Stars’: Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel at the Gates of the Confederacy, by Kevin J. Weddle.
Reflections—It was a Full Moon When ...: A Researcher’s Guide to Civil War Moon Phases
On The Back Roads: Professor Jackson Visits Ansted, by Tim McKinney.
Book Reviews:
Why the South Lost The Civil War, by Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones and William N. Still Jr. Reviewed by Harold B. Simpson.
History of the First Regiment Delaware Volunteers, by William P. Seville. Reviewed by Mike Cavanaugh.
The Campaign for Vicksburg. Vol. II: Grant Strikes a Fatal Blow, by Edwin Cole Bearss. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Civil War Cinema: A Pictorial History of Hollywood and the War Between the States, by John M. Cassidy. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War, by George Worthington Adams. Reviewed by James O. Breeden.
Surveys of the Confederate Postmasters’ Provisionals, edited by Francis J. Crown, Jr. Reviewed by Herman Hattaway.
Volume IV, Issue 5
A Beastly, Comfortless Conflict: The Battle of Chantilly, September 1, 1862, by Joseph W.A. Whitehorne.
Bookish Notes—Virginia’s Confederate Maurys—Especially Betsy, by Robert K. Krick.
Profile—I Am A Rip-Squealer And My Name Is FIGHT: M. Jeff Thompson of Missouri, by Steve Davis.
Book Reviews:
Brave Men’s Tears: The Iron Brigade at Brawner Farm, by Alan D. Gaff. Reviewed by John Hennessy.
History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades, by R.S. Bevier. Reviewed by Michael L. Gillespie.
The Battle in the Bayou Country, by Morris Raphael. Reviewed by Elden E. “Josh” Billings. Volume IV, Issue 4
Johnson’s Island Prison, by Roger Long Part I—The Prison: ‘Hell Has Torments of Cold” Part II—The Conspiracy: Pirates on Lake Erie
Reflections—The Stonewall Brigade Medallion, by William W. Hassler.
Preservation—ENDANGERED! The Antietam Battlefield, by Dennis E. Frye.
Book Reviews:
Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerrilla Warfare In The West 1861-1865, by Richard S. Brownlee. Reviewed by Barry J. Crompton.
All For the Union, A History of the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Great Rebellion, As Told by the Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes. Edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes. Reviewed by George Skoch.
History of the Campaign of Gen. T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, by William Allan. Reviewed by Robert G. Tanner.
Infernal Machines: The Story of Confederate Submarine and Mine Warfare, by Milton F. Perry. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
A Master’s Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald, edited by William J. Cooper, Jr., Michael F. Holt and John McCardell. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, by Richard Wheeler. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Wendell Phillips: Liberty’s Hero, by James Brewer Stewart. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume IV, Issue 3
Fire On The Mountain: The Battle of South Mountain, September 14, 1862, background text by Stephen W. Sears.
Reflections—Tennessee Homecoming
Histroy—Censorship and the Northern Reporter, by John F. Marszaleck.
On The Back Roads: Jo Shelby’s Grave, by Scott E. Sallee
Book Reviews:
Reminiscences of the Civil War, by General John B. Gordon. Reviewed by Robert E. L. Krick.
Rock of Chickamauga: The Life of General George H. Thomas, by Freeman Cleaves. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence, by Heros Von Borcke. Reviewed by Emory M. Thomas.
Chickamauga: Bloody Battle in the West, by Glenn Tucker. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan, by James A. Ramage. Reviewed by James Lee McDonough. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: Volume 13 (November 16, 1864-February21-April 30, 1865). Edited by John Y. Simon. Reviewed by Richard J. Sommers.
U.S. Grant: The Man and His Image, by James G. Barber and John Y. Simon. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
1st Virginia Infantry, by Lee A. Wallace, Jr.; 2nd Virginia Infantry, by Dennis E. Frye; 30th Virginia Infantry, by Robert K. Krick. Reviewed by Herbert M. Schiller, M.D.
Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose, by Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf. Reviewed by Elbert L. Watson.
A Pictorial History of Civil War Era Musical Instruments and Military Bands, by Robert Garofalo and Mark Elrod. Reviewed by Frank Hoogerwerf.
North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster. Volume IX, Infantry (32nd-35th and 37th Regiments). Compiled by Weymouth T. Jordon, Jr., with unit histories by Louis H. Manarin. Reviewed by Thomas V. Moseley.
History of the Eighty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, by Amos M. Judson. Reviewed by James I. Robertson.
James Longstreet: Lee’s War Horse, by H.J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Old Abe the War Eagle: A True Story of the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Richard H. Zeitlin. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
General George Crook: His Autobiography. Edited and annotated by Martin F. Schmitt. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume IV, Issue 2
13 Haunted Places of the Civil War: “It Was A Dark and Stormy Night. . .”
Fiction—Miranda, by John Jakes.
History—”Badges of Woe” and “Testaments of Grief”: Image Publishers Respond to the Tragedy of Lincoln’s Death, by Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt and Mark E. Neely Jr.
Reflections—Sam Clemens and the Yellow Mule, by Roger Long.
On The Back Roads: North Elba: Where John Brown Lies A-moulderin’, by Sanford Boyer.
Book Reviews:
Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart, by Emory M. Thomas. Reviewed by James A. Ramage.
The Hardtack Regiment: An Illustrated History of the 154th Regiment, New York State Infantry Volunteers, by Mark H. Dundelman and Michael J. Winey. Reviewed by Kathy Steckelberg.
Infantry Tactics, by Gen. Silas Casey. Reviewed by Ben Maryniak.
Confederate Forts, by Zed H. Burns. Reviewed by Robert B. DeBlieux.
Flawed Victory: A New Perspective on the Civil War by William L. Barney. Reviewed by J. Tracy Power.
Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners, by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Reviewed by Steve Davis. Bugger Saga: The Civil War Story of Guerilla and Bushwacker Warfare in Lauderdale County, Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee, by Maurice Pruitt. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume IV, Issue 1
The Battle of Sabine Pass, Texas: Prelude, Victory, Aftermath, Including the Effects of War on Jefferson County, Texas.
Historical Notes on Jefferson County, Texas, by W.T. Block
The Civil War Comes to Jefferson County, Texas, by W.T. Block
The Battle of Sabine Pass, September 8, 1863, by Ernest Jones
The Aftermath of Dowling’s Victory, by W.T. Block
Profile—Without Fear, Without Reproach: The Life of General George D. Bayard, by David V. Finnell.
Reflections—The Last Gray Witness to Sabine Pass: Thomas B. Iden, February 18, 1847-January 5, 1950, by Jay S. Hoar.
On The Back Roads: Lincoln in Alaska, by Henry W. Ludman.
Book Reviews:
September Blood: The Battle of Carnifex Ferry, by Terry Lowry. Reviewed by Jeffrey D. Wert.
“Dear Friends at Home ....” The Letters and Diary of Thomas James Owen, Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineer Regiment, During the Civil War. Edited by Dale E. Floyd. Reviewed by Arthur B. Fox.
Liddell’s Record: St. John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General, CSA, Staff Officer and Brigade Commander, Army of Tennessee, by St. John R. Liddell. Edited by Nathaniel C. Hughes. Reviewed by Harris D. Riley.
Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862-1877, by Ted Tunnell. Reviewed by Paul A. Cimbala.
The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command, by Edwin B. Coddington. Reviewed by Ted Alexander.
Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Civil War Journals of A.B. Peticolas, edited by Don E. Alberts. Reviewed by Joseph E. Derie, II.
From Antietam to Fort Fisher: The Civil War Letters of Edward King Wightman, 1862-1865. Edited by Edward G. Longacre. Reviewed by Gould B. Hagler, Jr.
The Union Cavalry in the Civil War; Volume III: The War in the West, 1861-1865, by Stephen Z. Starr. Reviewed by Edward G. Longacre.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Volume 5: 1853-1855. Edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist and Mary Seaton Dix. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume III, Issue 6 Stonewall Jackson’s Only Defeat: The Battle of Kernstown (or, First Winchester), March 23, 1862
Controversy—The Army of Northern Virginia’s Most Notorious Court Martial: Jackson Vs. Garnett, by Robert K. Krick.
Reflections—”I Didn’t Want to Get Caught Out ...,” or GONE WITH THE WIND As History, by Albert Castel.
Preservation—The Fight to Save the C.S.S. Georgia, by Stephen T. Lindell
Book Reviews:
Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow Mary Anna Jackson, by Mary Anna Jackson. Reviewed by Gary W. Gallagher.
Into the Wilderness with the Army of the Potomac, by Robert Garth Scott. Reviewed by Chris Calkins.
The Long Surrender, by Burke Davis. Reviewed by Royce Shingleton.
Custer Victorious—The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer, by Gregory J.W. Urwin. Reviewed by Jim Mundie.
The Boy Colonel of the Confederacy, The Life and Times of Henry King Burgwyn, Jr., by Archie K. Davis. Reviewed by John S. Peterson.
Chattanooga—A Death Grip on the Confederacy, by James Lee McDonough. Reviewed by James P. Jones.
The American Plains Indians, by Jason Hook.
Maine in the Civil War: A Bibliographic Guide. Compiled by William B. Jordan, Jr.
The Living History Sourcebook, by Jay Anderson.
Colonel Coggeshall: The Man Who Saved Lincoln.
Volume III, Issue 5
Panic on the Ohio! Confederates March on Cincinnati: I. Introduction, by Geoffrey R. Walden II. Panic in Cincinnati, by James A. Ramage III. “Squirrel Hunters” to the Rescue, by David E. Roth IV. The Defenses of Cincinnati, by Geoffrey R. Walden
Reflections—James Edward Monroe (July 4, 1815— June 28, 1949): Another of Professor Jay S. Hoar’s Incredible Old Rebs.
Common Soldier—The Devotion and Death of DeWitt Jobe: A Sorting of the Facts, by Hugh F. Walker.
History—The Great Gainesville Hanging, October, 1862: Rebel Colonel Bourland’s ‘Witch Hunt’ in North Texas, by Pete A.Y. Gunter.
Living History—Hope Springs Eternal at Natchez: A Color Portfolio, photography by J. Frank McAneny.
Book Reviews:
Cannoneers in Grey: The Field Artillery if the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865, by Larry J. Daniel. Reviewed by Dennis Kelly.
A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary, edited by Gerald Schwartz. Reviewed by Drew Gilpin Faust.
Vicksburg is the Key: The Campaign for Vicksburg. Volume 1 by Edwin Cole Bearss. Reviewed by Grady McWhiney.
The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah: The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer, by Private John W. Hailey. Edited by Ruth L. Silliker. Reviewed by William W. Hassler.
Going to Meet the Yankees: A History of the “Bloody Sixth” Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A., by H. Grady Howell. Re- viewed by Tim Burgess.
Custer in Photographs, by D. Mark Katz. Reviewed by John Gordon.
The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries. Edited by C. Vann Woodward and Elizabeth Muhlenfield. Reviewed by Richard Pindell.
General Officers of the Confederate Army, by General Marcus J. Wright. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume III, Issue 4
The Battle of Olustee (or Ocean Pond), February 20, 1864, background text by Richard J. Ferry.
History—Lt. Thomas P. Bell, C.S.A., and the Action at Trent’s Reach, by Dale S. Snair.
Reflections—Among the Yanks: A Look at Confederates Buried in National Cemeteries, by Dennis Kelly.
Common Soldier—”Had a Pleasant Time”: Excerpts From The Diary Of A Yankee In Dixie, edited by Albert Castel.
Book Reviews:
Libby Life, by Frederic F. Cavada. Reviewed by Michael Joseph Pauley.
Journal of a Secesh Lady: The Diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston 1860-1866, edited by Beth Gilbert Crabtree and James W. Patton. Reviewed by Elizabeth Roberson.
Dark Lanterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War, by Frank L. Klement. Reviewed by Gordon B. McKinney.
The Last Review: The Confederate Reunion, Richmond, 1932, by Virginius Dabney. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
The Confederate Collapse at the Battle of Missionary Ridge: The Reports of James Patton Anderson and his Brigade Commanders, by John Hoffmann. Reviewed by Roy Morris, Jr.
Lincoln, by George Tice. Reviewed by Lloyd Ostendorf.
John Wilkes Booth Himself, by Richard J.S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman. Reviewed by Lloyd Ostendorf.
The Iron Brigade, by Alan T. Nolan. Reviewed by Kent Masterson Brown.
Abstract, Review and Notes Regarding Principal Sword Contractors During the American Civil War, by Leonard J. Garigliano. Reviewed by Les Jensen. Volume III, Issue 3
Andersonville: The Story of an American Tragedy ...
Controversy—Partisan Comments on Andersonville, Northern Comment by Ohioan Roger Long and Southern Comment by Mississippian James West Thompson
Bookish Notes by Robert Krick—Some Rich New Confederate Bio’s
Reflections—James Pierpont And His ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ by Margaret Wayt Debolt and Milton H. Rahn
Book Reviews:
The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies, Being an Account of the Hatred Felt by Many Americans for President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and the First Complete Examination and Refutation of the Many Theories, Hypothesis, and Speculations Put Forward since 1865 Concerning Those Presumed to Have Aided, Abetted, Controlled, or Directed the Murderous Acts of John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theater the night of April 14, by William Hanchett. Reviewed by Harold Holzer.
The Confederate Governors, edited by W. Buck Yearns. Reviewed by Mark M. Boatner III.
The Guns of Port Hudson. Vol. I: The River Campaign (February-May, 1863), and Vol. II The Investment, Siege, and Reduction, by David C. Edmonds. Reviewed by Ludwell H. Johnson, III.
Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company, by Andrew Lytle. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume III, Issue 2
Antietam, Part II: McClellan at Antietam, September 17, 1862
Profile—Chatham Roberdeau Wheat and His Louisiana Tigers, by Michael D. Jones.
Common Soldier—’The Biggest Yankee in the World’: David Van Buskirk, Hoosier Patriot and Yankee Giant, by Roger S. Durham.
Living History—The 10th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Then & Now, submitted by Robert J. Beck
Book Reviews:
Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee’s Gallant General, by Gary W. Gallagher. Reviewed by Dennis E. Frye.
Berden’s United States Sharpshooters In The Army Of The Potomac, 1861-1865, by Captain Charles A. Stevens. Reviewed by Michael Andrus.
Margaret Mitchell, A Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee 1919-1921, edited by Jane Bonner Peacock. Reviewed by Robert M. Willingham, Jr.
Four Years in the Saddle: History of the First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, War of the Rebellion—1861-1865. Compiled by William Curry. Reviewed by Albert Castel.
Confederate Sheet-Music Imprints, by Frank W. Hoogerwerf. Reviewed by Steve Davis. John Hill Hewitt: Sources and Bibliography, by Frank W. Hoogerwerf. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Volume III, Issue 1
Antietam, Part I: Along Antietam Creek, September 17, 1862
Homefront—’Ye Know Not What hour Your Lord Doth Come’: Tragedy at the U.S. Allegheny Aresnal, edited by John L. Carnprobst.
Book Reviews:
Books and Libraries in Camp and Battle: The Civil War Experience, by David Kaser. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Robert E. Lee, by Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens. Reviewed by William J. Miller.
Atlas of Antebellum Southern Agriculture, by Sam Bowers Hilliard. Reviewed by John Gordon.
The Second Wisconsin Infantry, by George H. Otis. Reviewed by Ben Fanton.
Volume II, Issue 6
Bookish Notes by Robert K. Krick—A Great Rarity With A Modest Price Tag
History—The Brief But Illustrious Career of the Ram Albemarle, And the Daring Young Officer Who Ended Her Dominance of the Roanoke by Chester G. Hearn III.
Preservation—Gettysburg: A History of Intrusions, by Ben Fanton.
Living History—They’ve Done It Again At Olustee: A Portfolio photography by Patrick McDonald.
Book Reviews:
Religion in the Rebel Ranks, by Sidney J. Romero. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
The History of a Brigade of South Carolinians, First Known as “Gregg’s,” and Subsequently as “McGowan’s Brigade,” by J.F.J. Caldwell. Edited by Lee A. Wallace. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
The Web of Victory: Grant at Vicksburg, by Earl S. Miers. Reviewed by Larry J. Daniel.
Volume II, Issue 5
The Final Road: Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9-12, 1865
Common Soldier—Our Last Civil War Veterans, And Oh!...The Stories They Told! by Jay S. Hoar.
History—In the Shadow of Appomattox: The Surrender at Bennett Place, by William M. Vatavuk. Book Reviews:
John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence, by Richard M. McMurry. Reviewed by Ronald E. Marinucci.
A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War, by Craig Symonds. Reviewed by Rowena Reed.
Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship, by Major General J.F.C. Fuller. Reviewed by David W. Hogan, Jr.
Volume II, Issue 4
Civil War Sites in Eastern Ohio, historical background by David E. Roth.
Homefront—The Tribe of Dan ...and Martha, edited by Velma Griffin.
History—The Bushwackers’ War: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in West Virginia, edited by Richard O. Curry and F. Gerald Ham.
Common Soldier—James Theaker Joins the Army, by Paul E. Rieger and David E. Roth.
Living History—Kentucky Boys in Blue: The Seventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (Reactivated), by Nicky Hughes, Susan Lyons and Robert Newsome.
Profile—Eastern Ohio Quaker in Gray: Bushrod Johnson’s Strange Career, by Roy Morris, Jr.
Book Reviews:
The Battle of Scary Creek, by Terry Lowry. Reviewed by Don Amos.
Fightin’ Tom Rosser, C.S.A., by Millard K. Bushong and Dean M. Bushong. Reviewed by Steve Davis.
Ten More Texans in Gray, edited by W.C. Nunn. Reviewed by Alwyn Barr.
Volume II, Issue 3
Port Republic, Virginia: Stonewall Jackson’s Narrow Escape (June 8, 1862). Including the Battles of Cross Keys (June 8, 1862) and Port Republic (June 9, 1862).
History—Balloons Over the Peninsula: Fitz John Porter and George Custer Become Reluctant Aeronauts, by Dr. Lawrence A. Frost.
Collectibles—Where Are They Now?: Hunting the Burial Places of Confederate Generals, by Stephen Davis.
War Games—Painting by the Millimeter, by Joseph Calabro.
Homefront—Miss Sallie Conrad: Kyd Douglas’s Inspiration, by Ben Ritter.
Living History—A “Real” Confederate” Goes to England, by Michael Grossi.
Book Reviews: The Seven Gray Brothers of the Confederate Cavalry, 1861-1865, by Katherine Gray King. Reviewed by Tedd Trimbath.
Life and Campaigns of Lt. General T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson, by R.L. Dabney. Reviewed by Hal W. Fulmer.
Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin, by James Lee McDonough and Thomas L. Connelly. Reviewed by Lawrence B. Goodheart.
Volume II, Issue 2
The Mysteries of Spring Hill, Tennessee, historical background text by David E. Roth
Controversy—Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, and Two Myths, by Frank L. Klement.
History—Brooks’s Battalion: The Experiment That Failed, by J.J. Fox
Common Soldier—One Man’s War, by Marge Lee
Living History—”The 16th Shall be Remembered,” by Allyn R. Vannoy.
Homefront—Ball Gowns to Bullets: Women in Civil War Living History.
Book Reviews:
The Saints and the Union: Utah Territory during the Civil War, by E. B. Long. Reviewed by Thomas R. Hietala.
Major General George Henry Thomas: The Dependable General, by Frank A. Palumbo. Reviewed by Howard Popowski.
Volume II, Issue 1
The Battle at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864, historical background text by James Lee McDonough
History—Forrest’s Memphis Raid, by David Mallinson.
Profile—Lt. Colonel William Shy, C.S.A., by David E. Roth.
Homefront—Belle Boyd: The Star of Southern Spies, by Patricia Rorie.
Living in History—California: The Civil War’s Real Western Theater—Living History at San Francisco’s Fort Point, by Chuck Wullenjohn.
Common Soldier—TheLots of War, by John Sledge.
Book Reviews:
The Army of Northern Virginia, by William Allan. Reviewed by James I. Robertson.
Stones River: Bloody Winter in Tennessee, by James Lee McDonough. Reviewed by Lawrence B. Goodheart.
How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War, by Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones. Reviewed by Michael Mullins. Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson’s Raid through Alabama and Georgia, by James Pickett Jones. Reviewed by Stephen Davis.
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, reviewed by William J. Miller.
Volume I, Issue 6
Preservation—Brunswick, Maine’s Unique House on a House, by Joseph T. Smith.
History—”We’ve Met Once Before ...In Mexico,” by Howard J. Popowski.
Collectibles—The Army Will Forage Liberally on the Country During the March, by Everett Cooper.
Profile—A Blue & Gray Profile: Frank Williams, by Harold Holzer
Homefront—Barbara Fritchie: Patriotic Symbol of the Homefront, by Judy A. Gowan
Controversy—The Orange Blossom Regiment at Chancellorsville, by Co. A, 124th New York State Volunteers, Reacti- vated.
Living History—A Living Histoy Profile-The 43rd North Carolina Infantry: Then and Now
The Generals Tour—The Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, VA. May 8-21, 1864.
Book Reviews:
Confederate Receipt Book, edited by E. Merton Coulter. Reviewed by Rowena Reed.
Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby, by Kevin H. Siepel. Reviewed by David Hogan.
A Carolinian Goes to War: The Civil War Narrative of Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General, C.S.A., edited by R. Lockwood Tower. Reviewed by Harold Wilson.
Unto This Hour, a novel by Tom Wicker. Reviewed by William M. Vatavuk.
Route Step March: Edwin M. Stanton’s Special Military Units and the Prosecution of the War 1862-1865, by Robert G. Mangrum. Reviewed by Alwyn Barr.
Volume I, Issue 5
Relic Hunting—Salvaging the Guns of Fort Branch, by Elizabeth Roberson.
History—They Called Him “Tiger John”: The Story of General John McCausland, C.S.A., by Michael J. Pauley.
War Games—A Scenario Design System for Civil War Miniature Wargaming, by Christopher J. Palmer.
The General’s Tour—Charleston, South Carolina.
Their Names Live On—The Lesson of U.S. Grant’s Life: “Never Give Up”—An Interview with the Grants of Lancaster.
Homefront—Kate ...None outshone Her, by Roger Long. Living History—Reenacting: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, by Roger S. Durham.
A Living History Profile—The 1st U.S. Engineer Battalion: Then and Now, by Gene Delzingaro.
Book Reviews:
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, by Stephen W. Sears. Reviewed by Rowena Reed.
Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War, by James C. Hazlett, Edwin Olmstead and M. Hume Parks. Reviewed by Tedd M. Trimbath.
Fighting for Time, edited by William C. Davis. Reviewed by David W. Hogan, Jr.
Civil War Guitar: Campfire Memories, reviewed by The General.
Volume I, Issue 4
History—Abraham Lincoln: Total Warrior, by Stephen B. Oates.
Controversy—Our Second Declaration of Independence: An Interpretation of the Emancipation Proclamation, by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Collectibles—The Lincoln Coffin Photograph, by Mark Katz.
The Generals Tour—The Life of Lincoln.
History—Lincoln at the Front: Abraham Lincoln Visits the Battlefields of the Civil War, by Harold Holzer.
Homefront—The Other Mary, by Robin P. Roth.
Living History—Lincoln Lives-At Least on Weekends.
Book Reviews:
Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, by A.L. Long. Reviewed by Hal W. Fulmer.
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward. Reviewed by John T. Hubbell.
A Matter of Hours: Treason at Harper’s Ferry, by Paul R. Teetor. Reviewed by Rowena Reed.
When War Passed This Way, by W.P. Conrad and Ted Alexander. Reviewed by Frank L. Byrne.
Stonewall Jackson and the Virginia Military Institute: The Lexington Years, by Lenoir Chambers. Reviewed by William J. Miller.
Volume 1, Issue 3
History—The True High-Water Mark of the Confederacy, by Richard Pindell.
Collectibles—The Lost Order Book, by Roger Long. War Games—Behind the Scenes...The Creation of a War Game, by Richard H. Berg.
The General’s Tour—The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862.
Homefront—Emma LeConte and the Burning of Columbia, by Roger Long.
Living History—North & South Side by Side, the North-South Skirmish Association, by Carol I. Smith.
Book Reviews:
The Confederate Navy in Europe, by Warren F. Spencer. Reviewed by Harold Wilson.
Sherman’s Other War: The General and the Civil War Press, by John F. Marszaleck. Reviewed by Thomas Hietala.
Ruggle’s Regiment: The 122nd New York Volunteers in the American Civil War, by David B. Swinfen. Reviewed by Don Amos.
The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War, edited by James C. Mohr. Reviewed by CPT Joseph A. Derie II.
The U.S. Gunboat Carondelet, 1861-1865, by Myron J. Smith, Jr. Reviewed by David W. Hogan, Jr.
Volume I, Issue 2
Re-Enacting—Magic Moments, by Mike Williams.
History—Patton Anderson, Major General C.S.A., by Richard McMurry.
Relic Hunting—Brierfield Ironworks Recovery, by Martin L. Everse.
The General’s Tour Guide—The Battle of Perryville.
War Games—The Basic Civil War Game Library, by Richard H. Berg.
Homefront—Recipes and Reflections
The Powers Sisters of Gettysburg, by David E. Roth.
Civil War Dress Competition—1983, by Heidi Marsh.
Book Reviews:
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, by James M. McPherson. Reviewed by Waldo Chamberlin.
Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns, 1864-1865, by William A. Frassanito. Reviewed by Michael Mullins.
The Union Bookshelf: A Selected Civil War Bibliography, compiled by Michael Mullins. Reviewed by Patricia L. Faust.
Attack and Die: Civil War Miliarty Tactics and the Celtic Heritage, by Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson. Reviewed by Rowena Reed. Volume I, Issue 1
ESCAPE! Confederate General John Hunt Morgan’s escape from the Ohio Penitentiary in 1863, by William E. Metzler.
Their Names Live On—A Daughter-in-law talks about “Old Pete”
The Generals Tour Guide—Harpers Ferry, the John Brown Raid
War Games—Another Form of Re-enacting, by Don Greenwood.
Homefront—Recipes and Reflections
The Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln, by James A. Rhodes and Dean Jauchius
Collectibles—Stonewall Jackson’s Cipher, by James Murfin.
Re-Enacting—Living Textbooks, by Joseph Smith
Book Reviews:
The Civil War. Brother Against Brother: The War Begins, by William C. Davis and the editors of Time-Life Books. Reviewed by Richard M. McMurry.
Richmond During the War, by Sallie B. Putnam. Reviewed by Capt. Jeffrey J. Neal USAF.
The Image of War, 1861-1865. Volume III: The Embattled Confederacy, edited by William C. Davis. Reviewed by Rowena Reed.