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A Confederate Dame: Cornelia Jones Pond's Reminiscence Captures A Vanished Grandeur, Karen Rae Mehaffey Jun 1999

A Confederate Dame: Cornelia Jones Pond's Reminiscence Captures A Vanished Grandeur, Karen Rae Mehaffey

Civil War Book Review

In the recent past, an excellent variety of biographies, diaries, and memoirs have been published about women during the Civil War period. Among those have been accounts of nurses, spies, and extraordinary women. Others recount the lives of ordinary women living in extraordinary times. In the latter....

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American Exceptionalism: Union Soldiers Revered Lincoln And His Merciful Leadership, Timothy S. Good Jun 1999

American Exceptionalism: Union Soldiers Revered Lincoln And His Merciful Leadership, Timothy S. Good

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William C. Davis, who has authored numerous fine works on American Civil War topics, has written another impressive one entitled, Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation, which helps us answer one of the most pertinent, and arguably one of the most fundament....

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Comparing Presidents: A Study Of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis Falls Short, William C. Davis Jun 1999

Comparing Presidents: A Study Of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis Falls Short, William C. Davis

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The problems with Two American Presidents are so all-pervasive that no sort of detailed critique can be offered in this brief compass. Carelessness with facts abounds, whether simple misidentifications -- historian James Rabun appears as Rabin -- or misstatements such as repeatedly giving Dav....

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Confederate Theology And Yankee Economics: If Slavery Was The South's Original Sin, Is Capitalism Its Penance?, C. Vann Woodward Jun 1999

Confederate Theology And Yankee Economics: If Slavery Was The South's Original Sin, Is Capitalism Its Penance?, C. Vann Woodward

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By the Christian South, Eugene Genovese means virtually the whole white population of the region. Catholics and Protestants are included with little attention to differences between them or to distinctions between the numerous sects of Protestantism. While representations of the squirearchy, the yeo....

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Four Seasons Of Work And Play: Two Civil War Families Take Children Through A Year Of Activities, Carolyn P. Yoder Jun 1999

Four Seasons Of Work And Play: Two Civil War Families Take Children Through A Year Of Activities, Carolyn P. Yoder

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Feel the past come alive and discover what it was like to grow up during the Civil War. David C. King's Civil War Days follows two families during 1862: the Parkhursts, a white family living in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Wheelers, a black family who escaped slavery and made their way....

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Divided Loyalty: Was California An Outpost Of Confederate Resistance?, John P. Langellier Jun 1999

Divided Loyalty: Was California An Outpost Of Confederate Resistance?, John P. Langellier

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Studies of Civil War history relative to the Trans-Mississippi West are not as extensive as for other regions of the United States. California particularly is neglected, at least in book-length treatments as Laurence Talbott asserts in California in the War for Southern Independence. Talbott ....

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Experiments At Sea: Early Subs On Both Sides Had Trouble Staying Afloat, Robert H. Fowler Jun 1999

Experiments At Sea: Early Subs On Both Sides Had Trouble Staying Afloat, Robert H. Fowler

Civil War Book Review

The average student of the Civil War should know that the H.L. Hunley, a Confederate submarine, sank the U.S.S. Housatonic in Charleston Harbor in February 1864, only to perish with its crew. He or she might know that submersible torpedo boats operated briefly and without success in th....

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Feather In Their Caps: Two Celebrated Units Were Forged In The Cauldron Of Battle, Noel Fisher Jun 1999

Feather In Their Caps: Two Celebrated Units Were Forged In The Cauldron Of Battle, Noel Fisher

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The fascination with Civil War soldiering continues to run wide and deep in American society. Evidence for this fact can be found in the popularity of Civil War films, television shows, histories, novels, and games, and by the numbers of Americans who spend their free time recreating Civil War battl....

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Grant's Gamble: Pemberton's Blunders Allowed Grant To Crack The Gibraltar Of The Confederacy', Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. Jun 1999

Grant's Gamble: Pemberton's Blunders Allowed Grant To Crack The Gibraltar Of The Confederacy', Arthur W. Bergeron Jr.

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Although much more important than the Battle of Gettysburg in determining the outcome of the Civil War, the Vicksburg Campaign has been the subject of far fewer books and articles. A three-volume work by Edwin C. Bearss remains the only detailed study of the operations against the "Gibraltar of the....

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History Counts: A New Medley Of Facts Challenges Some Older Accounts, Webb Garrison Jun 1999

History Counts: A New Medley Of Facts Challenges Some Older Accounts, Webb Garrison

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Frank Vandiver does an admirable job of placing in chronological order the many significant events of the Civil War in such short space. 1001 Things rarely wastes words and has achieved balance by treating naval, civilian, and medical matters in addition to purely military aspects of the war.....

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Lightning Rod': A Southern Unionist's Blustery Observations On War, Slavery, And The Free Press, David Madden Jun 1999

Lightning Rod': A Southern Unionist's Blustery Observations On War, Slavery, And The Free Press, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Parson Brownlow's Book, the familiar title printed on the spine even on its first publication, of Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession, with a Narrative of Personal Adventures among the Rebels, became, soon after publication in 1862, a major propaganda tool for the ....

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On The March: An Illinois Soldier's Letters Reflect Combat In Atlanta, Kentucky, And Tennessee, Earl J. Hess Jun 1999

On The March: An Illinois Soldier's Letters Reflect Combat In Atlanta, Kentucky, And Tennessee, Earl J. Hess

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Stephen F. Fleharty compiled a detailed and thoughtful chronicle of his unit's history during the Civil War by writing 55 letters to two newspapers in Rock Island, Illinois. Born in that state, of Irish ancestry, Fleharty began his letters in August 1862, right after the 102nd Illinois was organized....

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Song Of Hiwassee: The Serpent Of Rebellion' Re-Emerges In This Reconstruction Novel, Bob Summer Jun 1999

Song Of Hiwassee: The Serpent Of Rebellion' Re-Emerges In This Reconstruction Novel, Bob Summer

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Charles Price catapulted to the attention of Civil War readers three years ago with Hiwassee, an unusually well-received first novel that is based on the wartime experiences of his Southern Appalachian forebears and buttressed by an authenticating mastery of such documentary sources as editor....

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Reckoning With Antietam: Leading Historians Revisit The Bloodiest Day In American History', Stephen W. Sears Jun 1999

Reckoning With Antietam: Leading Historians Revisit The Bloodiest Day In American History', Stephen W. Sears

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This is the sixth in editor Gary Gallagher's series Military Campaigns of the Civil War, and once again he has overseen an eclectic mix of essays that explore the topic from various angles. Some among these ten essays bore in closely on that terrible Antietam battlefield on September 17, 186....

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The Promised Land: Just A Fraction Of Slaves Succeeded In Escaping, But Their Stories Are Compelling, Kent Gramm Jun 1999

The Promised Land: Just A Fraction Of Slaves Succeeded In Escaping, But Their Stories Are Compelling, Kent Gramm

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Henry David Thoreau said that historians show us the present more than the past, and nothing illustrates his statement better than Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger. The book's thesis is that "violence and cruelty . . . were inherent in the s....

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Virtual Tour Guide: A New Series Provides Visitors With Battlefield Excursions Around Chickamauga, Jerry L. Russell Jun 1999

Virtual Tour Guide: A New Series Provides Visitors With Battlefield Excursions Around Chickamauga, Jerry L. Russell

Civil War Book Review

The new series In This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil Battlefields started in 1998 with a guide to Gettysburg by Mark Grimsley and Brooks Simpson, two of the series editors. Now the third editor, Steven E. Woodworth, weighs in with his series contribution, which benefits greatly from his pr....

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Annotations, Cwbr_Editor Jun 1999

Annotations, Cwbr_Editor

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From Heart To Hearth: A Chronicle Of The Everyday Struggles Of Southern Ladies, Arlyn Danielson Jun 1999

From Heart To Hearth: A Chronicle Of The Everyday Struggles Of Southern Ladies, Arlyn Danielson

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The Women's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, is an engaging and lively compilation of 28 individual stories, diaries, letters, and personal recollections of women (and men) who experienced the Civil ....

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The Fiery Trail: The Events Of One Year Decided The Nation's Future, Robert Mann Jun 1999

The Fiery Trail: The Events Of One Year Decided The Nation's Future, Robert Mann

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The summer of 1863 was a cruel season for the 4,500 starving, beleaguered citizens of Vicksburg, Mississippi. For the Confederacy, the town was the most strategic spot in the West. The fate of Vicksburg -- now surrounded by the 77,000 men commanded by Union general Ulysses S. Grant -- might just det....

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Paper Chase: Texas Senate's Civil War Proceedings Reveal Ironic Twists', T. Michael Parrish Jun 1999

Paper Chase: Texas Senate's Civil War Proceedings Reveal Ironic Twists', T. Michael Parrish

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The second installment in an ambitious series that chronicles the history of the upper house of the Lone Star State's legislative branch, this massive volume covers the most tumultuous years in Texas history. The handiwork of a dozen or more members of the Senate Engrossing and Enrolling Departmen....

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Unflinching Personal Bravery: Bryan Grimes Was At Lee's Side From Manassas To Appomattox, Jeffry D. Wert Jun 1999

Unflinching Personal Bravery: Bryan Grimes Was At Lee's Side From Manassas To Appomattox, Jeffry D. Wert

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Bryan Grimes was a successful planter in Pitt County, North Carolina, when the Civil War began. An avowed secessionist, Grimes voted in the convention for his state's withdrawal from the Union and then resigned his political position to serve in its and the Confederacy's defense. Unschooled in mili....

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War Stories: Gettysburg And Chickamauga Anchor A Collection Of Graceful Summaries, Robert K. Krick Jun 1999

War Stories: Gettysburg And Chickamauga Anchor A Collection Of Graceful Summaries, Robert K. Krick

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Great Land Battles features the tautest imaginable encapsulation of great events. The complex, horrific six months of Stalingrad unfold in 22 closely man-aged and adroitly written pages. Such reduction of a mighty conflict to encyclopedia-entry size requires a special kind of aptitude -- ski....

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Capital Struggles: Montgomery Survived The War With Surprising Ease, Herman Hattaway Jun 1999

Capital Struggles: Montgomery Survived The War With Surprising Ease, Herman Hattaway

Civil War Book Review

Montgomery, Alabama -- the first capital of the Confederate States of America, as well as the capital of the state -- is an interesting example of a fairly major Southern city during the American Civil War. The populace was about evenly divided racially: half white and half black. There were 8,8....

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Class Warfare: Did Socioeconomic Divisions Undermine The South?, Daniel E. Sutherland Jun 1999

Class Warfare: Did Socioeconomic Divisions Undermine The South?, Daniel E. Sutherland

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There is no mistaking the theme of this passionate book: the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of the arrogance and avarice of the planter class. The planters started a conflict that they alone wanted, contends David Williams, and they did nothing during the course of the rebellion to win the ....

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Feverish Duty: Mysterious Ailments, Medical Innovations Emerged During The War, Janeen M. Smith Jun 1999

Feverish Duty: Mysterious Ailments, Medical Innovations Emerged During The War, Janeen M. Smith

Civil War Book Review

With a degree in medicine and a doctorate in American history, Frank Freemon brings a unique perspective to the topic of Civil War medicine, as he earlier demonstrated in Microbes and Minie Balls: An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine. His new work, Gangrene and Glory, cove....

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Coming Of Age: Thrasher Magee Discovers There Is More To Manhood Than Battle, Meg Galante-Deangelis Jun 1999

Coming Of Age: Thrasher Magee Discovers There Is More To Manhood Than Battle, Meg Galante-Deangelis

Civil War Book Review

In No Man's Land: A Young Soldier's Story, Susan Bartoletti introduces us to Thrasher Magee, a boy on the brink of manhood. His very name describes the way he lives his life. Nothing comes easy for Thrasher. In his chores and in his relationships, he plods along -- always doubting his abiliti....

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Quiet Competence: A New Biography Rediscovers The Confederate General Dubbed 'Old Straight', Terrence J. Winschel Jun 1999

Quiet Competence: A New Biography Rediscovers The Confederate General Dubbed 'Old Straight', Terrence J. Winschel

Civil War Book Review

Few names of Confederate officers who served in the Army of Tennessee come more quickly to mind than that of Alexander P. Stewart. "Old Straight," as he was affectionately called by his men, was an aggressive, hard-hitting, no-nonsense type of soldier who won renown on many bloody fields of battle. ....

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Playgrounds And Battlegrounds: Children In The North Performed Their Part For The War Effort, George Mcnamara Jun 1999

Playgrounds And Battlegrounds: Children In The North Performed Their Part For The War Effort, George Mcnamara

Civil War Book Review

Lessons of War is a must read for anyone with even the slightest inclination to understand and appreciate our history. Too often, we forget that while the politicians and armies were maneuvering, real battles were a daily part of home-front life. To survive, both mentally and physically, the ....

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Let The Rope Speak: Nat Turner's Revolt Became A Stirring Symbol For North And South Alike, Tony Horwitz Jun 1999

Let The Rope Speak: Nat Turner's Revolt Became A Stirring Symbol For North And South Alike, Tony Horwitz

Civil War Book Review

Nat Turner was hanged 30 years before the firing on Fort Sumter, but the slave rebellion that bears his name helped bring on the Civil War. In the course of a two-day rampage in August 1831, Turner and a band of fellow blacks, both free and slave, killed 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia, ....

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Nurse Laureate: Walt Whitman Was The Spirit Of Human Sympathy', Lewis P. Simpson Jun 1999

Nurse Laureate: Walt Whitman Was The Spirit Of Human Sympathy', Lewis P. Simpson

Civil War Book Review

Excluding his poetic record of the war years in Drum Taps and elsewhere, John Harmon McElroy in The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War offers a larger selection than has heretofore been made of Whitman's prose record of his life, thoughts, and....

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