CIVIL WAR BOOKS and AUTHORS

New Arrival: • Decisions of the Galveston Campaigns: The Twenty-One Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations by Edward T. Cotham, Jr. (U Tenn Press, 2024). Currently sitting at twenty vol...

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Though confident in the conclusions presented in his award-worthy book High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor, Edwin Rutan recognized that his study of late-war Union ...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/11/late-to-fight-another-late-war-union.html

New Arrival: • The Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through Chantilly, June 26-September 1, 1862 by Bradle...

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New Arrival: • Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games edited by Patrick A. Lewis & James Hill Welborn III (LSU Press, 2024). If you're a Gen X wargamer like me you gre...

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New Arrival: • A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam’s Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age by Frank W. Garmon, Jr. (LSU Press, 2024) In a reading culture that continues to d...

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Scheduled for NOV 20241: • Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents by Nigel Hamilton. • The Forgotten Battles of the Chancellorsville Campaign: Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Banks’...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/coming-soon-november-24-edition.html

One of the opportunities that these unpredictable gaps between new releases is affording me is the chance to finally get to some far too long neglected titles from the collection. Intrigued at th...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/snapshot-from-collection-man-and-his.html

I don't have any numbers to back this up, just twenty years of close observation, but it's become pretty clear that the total number of Civil War titles published each year is currently in an ext...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/fallwinter-2024-catalogs-civil-war.html

Back in 2015, University of North Carolina Press's classic Military Campaigns of the Civil War anthology series reemerged from a decade-long hiatus with the publication of Cold Harbor to the Crat...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/update-on-uncs-military-campaigns-of.html

Mistrust, even outright disdain, forced upon fresh replacements by grizzled army veterans has probably been around as long as war

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-high-bounty-men-in-army-of.html

Robert E.L. Krick's Gaines's Mill and Frank O'Reilly's Malvern Hill books are two of CWBA's most highly anticipated releases. Both have been gestating for a very long time, but we've finally rece...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/update-on-kricks-gainess-mill-study.html

New Arrival: • The 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters at Gettysburg: Like A Perfect Hornet's Nest by Mark W. Allen (McFarland, 2024). From the description: "The many works on the Battle of Gettysburg have ...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/booknotes-2nd-us-sharpshooters-at.html

R. Gregory Lande's United States Military Justice in the Civil War: Court-Martial Practices and Administration is a descriptive and

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-united-states-military-justice.html

New Arrival: • Sherman's Other Army: The Second Army of the Ohio 1863-1865 by Michael J. Klinger (Little Miami Pub, 2023). The first iteration of the Union Army of the Ohio (1861-62) was dissol...

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New Arrival: • Robert E. Lee’s Reluctant Warrior: The Life of Cavalry Commander and Railroad Businessman, Brigadier General Williams Carter Wickham by Sheridan R. Barringer (Fox Run Pub, 2024...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/booknotes-robert-e-lees-reluctant.html

New Arrival: • High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor by Edwin P. Rutan II (Kent St UP, 2024). It is a common enough suggestion in both the popular and scholarly lit...

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Kenneth Burchett's The Battle of Carthage, Missouri: First Trans-Mississippi Conflict was published back in 2012. While it is unstated whether the

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-massacre-at-st-louis-road-to.html

New Arrival: • Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Andrew Sillen (JHU Press, 2024). From the description: "David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, ...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/booknotes-kidnapped-at-sea.html

New Arrival: • United States Military Justice in the Civil War: Court-Martial Practices and Administration by R. Gregory Lande (McFarland, 2024). Opposing Civil War armies were filled with indi...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/10/booknotes-united-states-military.html

Scheduled for OCT 20241: • Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan’s Civil War African Americans by Jack Dempsey. • Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Uni...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/09/coming-soon-october-24-edition.html

New Arrival: • Abraham Lincoln on Screen, Third Edition: Live-Action Portrayals on Film and Television by Mark S. Reinhart (McFarland, 2024). Abraham Lincoln is one of the most written about in...

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New Arrival: • A Tempest of Iron and Lead: Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864 by Chris Mackowski (Savas Beatie, 2024). This is the third major Spotsylvania battle study, with William Matt...

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/09/booknotes-tempest-of-iron-and-lead.html

Given the vast scale of opposing forces and the high military and political stakes involved in the western theater's central conflict of 1864,

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/09/review-atlanta-campaign-volume-1-dalton.html

It is generally agreed upon that Union cavalry forces navigated the early Civil War period in an unfavorable position. By traditional

https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/09/review-cavalry-of-army-of-ohio-civil.html

New Arrival: • Yankees in the Hill City: The Union Prisoner of War Camp in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1862-1865 by Clifton W. Potter, Jr. (McFarland, 2024). When it comes to Civil War Virginia, the R...

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