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Book Reviews — December 2018
Irregular Warfare in Appalachia Kirk’s Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge. By Michael C. Hardy. Appendix, notes, index, 189 pp., 2018. The History Press, www.hi…
Battlefield Recovers from Hurricane
NEW BERN, N.C.—Hurricane Florence battered New Bern in September and while a large tree hit the roof of the Visitors Center and dozens of trees were down on the b…
Battle of Richmond Kentucky Reenactment
RICHMOND, Ky.—Clear weather and a bright evening moon welcomed about 300 participants to the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, annual reenactment held on the ground o…
Appraisals
Question: Why should someone hire an appraiser to evaluate or authenticate Civil War memorabilia? What does an appraisal of a Civil War relic entail? What laws ap…
After the Storm in Harpers Ferry
Responding to reports received about the capture of the U.S. Arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Va., Lt. Israel Green, USMC, stationed at the Marine Barracks in Washington…
Wayne Wolf’s Top Five Must-Read Book Choices
Such Troops As These; The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. By Bevin Alexander. The Berkeley Publishing Group, maps, index, notes, 2…
The Union Bookshelf
The Union Bookshelf Publisher’s note: In this issue we have printed the names of the 200 book titles selected by the late Richard Barksdale Harwell for his In Tal…
The Emerging Civil War Series: Telling the Story of America’s Defining Event
By Chris Mackowski Editor-in-Chief, Emerging Civil War There’s an old saying about one door closing and another opening. We writers sometimes like to put a writer…
Second Annual CWRT Congress
Second Annual CWRT Congress Increasing membership. Raising money. Connecting with the public. Attracting interesting speakers. Improving advisory and governing bo…
New Tennessee Veterans Place of Honor adjoins Parker’s Crossroads Battlefield Park
By Gregory L. Wade PARKER’S CROSSROADS, Tenn.—A new acre Tennessee veterans cemetery situated on the greater Parker’s Crossroads Battlefield has been officially o…
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: War Papers (MOLLUS) – Michigan and Massachusetts
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: War Papers (MOLLUS) – Michigan and Massachusetts Covering only two volumes of the MOLLUS Papers, 50-51, t…
Meg Groeling’s Favorite Civil War Books
Meg Groeling 1861: The Civil War Awakening By Adam Goodheart (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-32198, 496 pp. $28.95. Hardcover. When I read…
Letters to the Editor — November 2018
TO THE EDITOR: In the September Civil War News on page 3, top left photo the caption reads “The Union Army enlisted Irish immigrants almost as soon as they arrive…
Juneteenth
Juneteenth By Gould Hagler Is Galveston in Texas, or Outer Mongolia? Last June I encountered a few newspaper articles on the Juneteenth holiday. One piece was in…
Jonathan Noyalas’ Top Ten Favorite Civil War Books
Jonathan A. Noyalas Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War. By Brian Matthew Jordan. 2014. Liveright Publishing. Having spent the better part…
John Michael Priest’s Top Civil War Book Picks
John Michael Priest The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Vol. I: South Mountain. By Ezra A. Carman. Edited and annotated by Thomas G. Clemens. Maps, footnotes…
Jeffry Wert’s Top Civil War Books
Jeffry D. Wert Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Notes, index, 664 pp., 19…
History of the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award
History of the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award By Gould Hagler Every year for three decades the Atlanta Civil War Round Table has presented the Richard Barksdale…
Harwell’s In Tall Cotton
Harwell’s In Tall Cotton By Roger Semplak and Marc Ramsey For every reader of Civil War history there is always the challenge, upon completion of a good book, of…
Harwell’s 200
Harwell’s 200 Book Review Editor’s note: in the March 2018 issue of our newspaper, we wrote of Richard Barksdale Harwell’s In Tall Cotton: The 200 Most Important…
George W. Morse Carbine Cartridge Belt
George W. Morse Carbine Cartridge Belt By Shannon Pritchard George Morse invented a brass framed breech loading .50 caliber carbine and eventually settled in to m…
Garry Adelman’s Selected Civil War Photography Books
Garry Adelman From the time technology allowed for the mass-production of half-tone photographs, publishers have offered Civil War photography books. Miller’s Pho…
From Cooke’s Books to Krick’s Licks
From Cooke’s Books to Krick’s Licks By Stephen Davis Book Review Editor’s note: I wish here to pay respect to the memory of my good friend of many years, Bob Mahe…
Eric J. Wittenberg’s Top Civil War Book Picks
Eric J. Wittenberg John J. Hennessy, Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993). This may very well be the…