Libby Prison was located in Richmond, Va., often considered one of the key cities of the Confederacy, and this Southern stronghold soon became famous for its absolutely horrendous conditions. The prisoners of war held there died often from starvation and disease, as more than 1,000 prisoners were forced into a former warehouse. Libby Prison in…
Soldiers’ aid societies began to form shortly after the Civil War began. Women – most from the upper classes – wanted to do something to help their husbands, brothers, children, friends, and neighbors that went off to fight in the war. Since they couldn’t fight on the front lines, and female nurses were discouraged from…
S.C. Gwynne’s study of the final year of the American Civil War illustrates the escalating brutality of the conflict as the Union sought to subdue the Confederacy by striking directly at the will of its population. Hymns of the Republic is an engrossing examination of the evolution of Union strategy during the Civil War, focusing…
Published by Casemate Publishers and Savas Beatie This weekend is the 159th anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg and thus it seems like an excellent time to review two new biographies of one of the most famous commanders who fought on that field, Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet. Longstreet commanded the First Corps of the…
As a jittery electorate endured the suspense of the 1860 election that would bring Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, Americans must have looked back upon their young nation’s history and wondered how their leaders had brought them to the Rubicon of civil war. North and South had been united in their fight for independence against…
Being there . . . . with Yuletide on the horizon cascading toward us at record speed, best weshop now lest we’re left with only socks and smiles to present as gifts on the joyous morning ofthe year. Truly good reads are still available, but evaporating, nay, vanishing, quickly becausesavvy-shrew buyers know which military publishers…
profited from them but escaped the gallows. Author Walter E. Wilson, a retired Navy Captainand former head of U.S. Naval Intelligence operations in Europe, has authored numerousarticles and reviews.“THE CHICAGO BOARD of TRADE BATTERY in the CIVIL WAR”, by Dennis W. Belcher. McFarland& Company, Inc., Publishers: 2022, 379 pages, 7”x 10”, softcover, $39.95. Visit,www.mcfarlandpub.com.In July…
While women were, obviously, not permitted to participate on an official level during the American Civil War, they did find ways to make their mark, as women have in numerous wars throughout history. There were specifically quite a few women who worked as spies for both sides during the conflict. From masters of disguise to former…
Michael Somerville examines the popular and long held belief that the American Civil War revealed the lessons of modern, industrialized warfare to the Western world (see Hagerman’s The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare, Indiana University Press, 1988). This argument goes on that European armies failed to study these campaigns throughout the…
Being there . . . to revel, i.e., take great or intense delight and satisfaction in the recent, almostsimultaneous, publication of three new American Civil War history books buffetiers andbufferettes yearn for – – peculiar nonfiction subjects so unusual, singular, strange, and hithertounresearched that other publishing houses reject out-of-hand. “No money to be made trying…
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