Book Reviews - The Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia

INDEX/LINKS  TO BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS

(Click on any title to open the review)

War in the Mountains:

The Macbeth Light Artillery at Asheville, NC 1864-1865

By J. L. Askew; Review by Jim Gallen

Our Ancient Faith (Guelzo) &

Brought Forth on This Continent (Holzer)

Review by Ted Hirt

Brought Forth on This Continent:

Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

By Harold Holzer; Review by Henry M. Rivera

On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

By Ronald C. White; Review by Henry M. Rivera

The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

Edited by Janet Elizabeth Croon; Review by Clinton Shatzer

West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire

By Kevin Waite; Review by Henry M. Rivera

Make Way for Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War

By Jeff Kannel; Review by Jim Gallen

The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War that Divided Them

By Chris DeRose; Review by Jim Gallen

Old Abe: The War Eagle

Around the World with General Grant

John Russell Yuung; Edited by Michael Fellman

By Richard H. Zeitlin; Review by Jim Gallen

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Caleb Carr (Ed.); Review by Jim Gallen

A Victor, Not A Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius

By Edward H. Bonekemper III; Review by Jim Gallen

The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

By Ray C. Colton; Review by Jim Gallen

When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland's Freedom

By Chrisopher Klein; Review by Jim Gallen

The Irish in the South: 1815-1877

By David T. Gleeson; Review by Jim Gallen

Rough Enough:

Including Richard H. Clow's Letters and Diary from the Civil and Indian Wars, 1865-1875

By Richard H. McBee, Jr.; Review by Jim Gallen

The Civil War Years: 

A Day-by-Day Chroncle of the Life of a Nation 

By Robert E. Denney; Review by Jim Gallen

Guns, Grit and Glory: 

How the US and Mexico came together to defeat the last Empire in the Americas 

By Michael Hogan; Review by Jim Gallen

Congress at War:

How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America
By Fergus M. Bordewich; Review by Gordon Berg

Nance - The First Slave Freed by Lincoln
By Carl Adams

Wrestling with His Angel
By Sidney Blumenthal; ; Review by Fergus Bordewich

Grant

By Ron Chernow; Review by Joseph Goulden

Stanton:

Lincoln's Secretary of War
By Walter Stahr; Review by Joseph Goulden

Braxton Bragg:

The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy

By Earl J. Hess; Review by Gordon Berg

A Field Guide to Antietam:

Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

Carol Reardon & Tom Vossler; Review by Gordon Berg

The Civil War on the Mississippi:

Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and

the Campaign To Control the River

By Barbara Brooks Tomblin; Review by Gordon Berg

Waterloo:

The Battle of Four  Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

By Bernard Cornwell; Review by Carl Frank

The Battle of Ezra Church

and the Struggle for Atlanta

By Earl J. Hess; Review by Gordon Berg

Sherman's Ghosts:
Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
By Matthew Carr; Review by Gordon Berg

A Gunner in Lee's Army:
The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter
Edited by Graham T. Dozier; Review by Gordon Berg

As I Remember:

A Civil War Veteran Reflects on the War and Its Aftermath
through personal reminiscences, diaries, and correspondence 
Edited by Joseph Scopin, Jr.; Review by Gordon Berg

Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker:

The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs

Edited by Richard B. Williams; Review by Gordon Berg

Our One Common Country:

Abraham Lincoln and the

Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865

By James B. Conroy; Review by Gordon Berg

Bloody Spring:

Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate

By Joseph Wheelan; Review by Gordon Berg

Glorious War:

The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer

Thom Hatch; Review by Gordon Berg

Appomattox:

The Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
By Elizabeth H. Varon; Review by Gordon Berg

Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination:

The Untold Story of the Actors
and Stagehands at Ford's Theater
By Thomas A. Bogar; Review by Gordon Berg

Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri:
The Long Civil War on the Border
Edited by Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke; Review by Gordon Berg

Summer Lightning:

A Guide to the Second Battle of Manassas

By Matt Spruill III and Mat Spruill IV; Review by Gordon Berg

  

Barksdale's Charge:

The True High Tide of Confederacy

at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

By Phillip Thomas Tucker; Review by Gordon Berg

The Fall of the House of Dixie:

How the Civil War Remade the American South

Bruce Levine; Review by Gordon Berg

Kennesaw Mountain:

Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign

By Earl. J. Hess; Review by Gordon Berg

A Civil War RoundTable Quiz Book

By Dave Smith; Review by Gordon Berg

President Lincoln's Recruiter:

General Lorenzo Thomas and

the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War

By Michael A. Eggleston; Review by Gordon Berg

Rethinking Shiloh:

Myth and Memory

Timothy B. Smith; Review by Gordon Berg

The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot:

The Fort Stevens Story

By Benjamin Franklin Cooling III; Review by Gordon Berg

James M. Williams:

Civil War General and Indian Fighter

By Robert W. Lull; Review by Gordon Berg

Knights of the Golden Circle:

Secret Empire,Southern Secession, Civil War

By David C. Keehn; Review by Gordon Berg

A Field Guide to Gettysburg:

Experiencing the Battlefield

through its History, Places, and People

By Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler; Review by Gordon Berg

With a Sword in One Hand

& Jomini in the Other:

The Problem ofMilitary Thought in the Civil War North

By Carol Reardon; Review by Gordon Berg

Joshua L. Chamberlain: 

A Life in Letters

Edited by Thomas Desjardin

The Louisiana Scalawags:

Politics, Race, and Terrorism

During the Civil War and Reconstruction

By Frank J. Wetta; Review by Gordon Berg

Envisioning Emancipation: 

Black Americans and the End of Slavery

By Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer; Review by Gordon Berg

The Jackson County War:

Reconstruction and Resistance in Post-Civil War Florida

By Daniel R. Weinfeld; Review by Gordon Berg

Battle of Stones River:

The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army 

of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland

By Larry J. Daniel; Review by Gordon Berg

  

The Best Station of Them All:

The Savannah Squadron 1861-1865

By Maurice Melton; Review by Gordon Berg

This Wicked Rebellion:

Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home

Edited by John Zimm

When General Grant Expelled the Jews

By Jonathan D. Sarna; Review by Gordon Berg

George Henry Thomas:

As True As Steel

By Brian Steel Wills; Review by Gordon Berg

From Western Deserts to Carolina Swamps:

A Civil War Soldier's Journals and Letters Home

Edited by John P. Wilson; Review by Gordon Berg

Hood's Texas Brigade in the Civil War

By Edward B. Williams; Review by Gordon Berg

War Upon the Land:

Military Strategy and the Transformation

of Southern Landscapes During the American Civil War

By Lisa M. Brady; Review by Gordon Berg

To the Battles of Franklin

and Nashville and Beyond: 

Stabilization and Reconstruction

in Tennessee and Kentucky,1864-1866

By Benjamin Franklin Cooling; Review by Gordon Berg

John Brown’s Body:

Stephen Vincent Benetand Civil War Memory

Review by Gordon Berg

The Stones River

and Tullahoma Campaigns:

This Army Does Not Retreat

By Christopher L. Kolakowski; Review by Gordon Berg

Enduring Legacy:

Rhetoric and Ritual ofthe Lost Cause

By W. Stuart Towns; Review by Gordon Berg

America’s Great Debate:

Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas,

and the Compromise That Preserved the Union

By Fergus M. Bordewich;; Review by Publishers Weekly

Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray:

Faith Under Fire in the American Civil War

By Indigo Films Entertainment Group, Inc.; Review by Gordon Berg

Mosby’s Combat Operations

in Fairfax County, Virginia

By HMS Productions, Inc.; Review by Gordon Berg

Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally:

Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

By Elizabeth D. Leonard; Review by Gordon Berg

John Brown Descendant Looks Back

—and to the Future

Interview by Gordon Berg

I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island:

Life in a Civil War Prison

By David R. Bush; Review by Gordon Berg

Price’s Lost Campaign: 

The 1864 Invasion of Missouri

By Mark A. Lause; Review by Gordon Berg