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Rethinking Shiloh
University of Tennessee Press 2013; US$ 38.95Ulysses S. Grant once remarked that the Battle of Shiloh “has been perhaps less understood, or, to state the case more accurately, more persistently misunderstood, than any other engagement . . . during the entire rebellion.” In Rethinking Shiloh , Timothy B. Smith seeks to rectify these persistent myths and misunderstandings,... more...
Fanny & Joshua
University Press of New England 2013; US$ 34.99The intimate history of Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his wife, Frances Caroline Adams more...
The Politics of Faith during the Civil War
LSU Press 2013; US$ 35.00In The Politics of Faith, Timothy L. Wesley examines the engagement of both northern and southern preachers in politics during the American Civil War, revealing an era of denominational, governmental, and public scrutiny of religious leaders. Controversial ministers risked ostracism within the local community, censure from church leaders, and arrests... more...
A Disease in the Public Mind
Da Capo Press 2013; US$ 26.99A distinguished historian and popular author explores why the United States became the only nation in the world to fight more...
Lee's Army during the Overland Campaign
LSU Press 2013; US$ 29.95The initial confrontation between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Virginia during the Overland Campaign has not until recently received the same degree of scrutiny as other Civil War battles. The first round of combat between the two renowned generals spanned about six weeks in May and early June 1864. The major... more...
Becoming Confederates
University of Georgia Press 2013; US$ 18.95In Becoming Confederates , Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early-three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many ways leading up to and during the war. Looking at... more...
The 6th United States Cavalry in the Civil War
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 39.95This is the first scholarly history of the only regular army cavalry regiment raised during the Civil War. Unlike volunteer regiments raised by individual states, the regular regiments drew soldiers from across the country. Although actively recruited in four states, by war's end 2,130 men and at least one woman from 29 states and 14 countries... more...
Knights of the Golden Circle
LSU Press 2013; US$ 29.95Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn?s study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sought to establish a slave-holding empire in the ?Golden Circle? region of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. Keehn reveals the origins, rituals,... more...
Citizen Sherman
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 30.00Bright, compulsively articulate, famous, loved, hated, and deeply troubled, William T. Sherman was perhaps one of the most compelling personalities in American history. This groundbreaking, in-depth portrait of this significant Civil War figure reveals much about Sherman--and about the concept of manliness in his culture. NOTE: This edition does... more...
President Lincoln's Recruiter
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 39.95Historians have often marginalized the effect of African American troops on the outcome of the Civil War. While many histories briefly mention the service of the blacks, few reveal their impact. Lorenzo Thomas was one of the most exceptional people to serve in that war, but no biography of his life has been written. Most of his career was spent as... more...









