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

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

Jeff Kannel

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

Chris DeRose

Old Abe: The War Eagle

Around the World with General Grant

John Russell Yuung; Edited by Michael Fellman

Richard H. Zeitlin

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Caleb Carr (Ed.)

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

Edward H. Bonekemper III

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

Ray C. Colton

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

Chrisopher Klein

The Irish in the South: 1815-1877

David T. Gleeson

Rough Enough:

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

Richard H. McBee, Jr.

The Civil War Years: 

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

Robert E. Denney

Guns, Grit and Glory: 

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

Michael Hogan

Congress at War:

How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America
Fergus M. Bordewich

Nance - The First Slave Freed by Lincoln
Carl Adams

Wrestling with His Angel
Sidney Blumenthal

Grant

Ron Chernow

Stanton:

Lincoln's Secretary of War
Walter Stahr

Braxton Bragg:

The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy

Earl J. Hess

A Field Guide to Antietam:

Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

Carol Reardon & Tom Vossler 

The Civil War on the Mississippi:

Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and

the Campaign To Control the River

Barbara Brooks Tomblin 

Waterloo:

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

Bernard Cornwell

The Battle of Ezra Church

and the Struggle for Atlanta

Earl J. Hess

Sherman's Ghosts:
Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
Matthew Carr

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

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.

Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker:

The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs

Edited by Richard B. Williams

Our One Common Country:

Abraham Lincoln and the

Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865

James B. Conroy

Bloody Spring:

Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate

Joseph Wheelan

Glorious War:

The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer

Thom Hatch

Appomattox:

The Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
Elizabeth H. Varon

Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination:

The Untold Story of the Actors
and Stagehands at Ford's Theater
Thomas A. Bogar

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

Summer Lightning:

A Guide to the Second Battle of Manassas

Matt Spruill III and Mat Spruill IV

  

Barksdale's Charge:

The True High Tide of Confederacy

at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

Phillip Thomas Tucker

The Fall of the House of Dixie:

How the Civil War Remade the American South

Bruce Levine

Kennesaw Mountain:

Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign

 Earl. J. Hess

A Civil War RoundTable Quiz Book

Dave Smith

President Lincoln's Recruiter:

General Lorenzo Thomas and

the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War

Michael A. Eggleston

Rethinking Shiloh:

Myth and Memory

Timothy B. Smith

The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot:

The Fort Stevens Story

Benjamin Franklin Cooling III

James M. Williams:

Civil War General and Indian Fighter

Robert W. Lull

Knights of the Golden Circle:

Secret Empire,Southern Secession, Civil War

David C. Keehn

A Field Guide to Gettysburg:

Experiencing the Battlefield

through its History, Places, and People

Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler

With a Sword in One Hand

& Jomini in the Other:

The Problem ofMilitary Thought in the Civil War North

Carol Reardon

Joshua L. Chamberlain: 

A Life in Letters

Edited by Thomas Desjardin

The Louisiana Scalawags:

Politics, Race, and Terrorism

During the Civil War and Reconstruction

Frank J. Wetta

Envisioning Emancipation: 

Black Americans and the End of Slavery

Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer

The Jackson County War:

Reconstruction and Resistance in Post-Civil War Florida

Daniel R. Weinfeld

Battle of Stones River:

The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army 

of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland

Larry J. Daniel

  

The Best Station of Them All:

The Savannah Squadron 1861-1865

Maurice Melton

This Wicked Rebellion:

Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home

Edited by John Zimm

When General Grant Expelled the Jews

Jonathan D. Sarna

George Henry Thomas:

As True As Steel

Brian Steel Wills

From Western Deserts to Carolina Swamps:

A Civil War Soldier's Journals and Letters Home

Edited by John P. Wilson

Hood's Texas Brigade in the Civil War

Edward B. Williams

War Upon the Land:

Military Strategy and the Transformation

of Southern Landscapes During the American Civil War

Lisa M. Brady

To the Battles of Franklin

and Nashville and Beyond: 

Stabilization and Reconstruction

in Tennessee and Kentucky,1864-1866

Benjamin Franklin Cooling

John Brown’s Body:

Stephen Vincent Benetand Civil War Memory

The Stones River

and Tullahoma Campaigns:

This Army Does Not Retreat

Christopher L. Kolakowski

Enduring Legacy:

Rhetoric and Ritual ofthe Lost Cause

W. Stuart Towns

America’s Great Debate:

Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas,

and the Compromise That Preserved the Union

Fergus M. Bordewich

Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray:

Faith Under Fire in the American Civil War

Indigo Films Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Mosby’s Combat Operations

in Fairfax County, Virginia

HMS Productions, Inc.

Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally:

Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

Elizabeth D. Leonard

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

David R. Bush

Price’s Lost Campaign: 

The 1864 Invasion of Missouri

Mark A. Lause