Civil War Times February 2011

Inside this issue:

Letters

• Ethan Rafuse and Ron Baumgarten each wrote in to comment on the Bonekemper McClellan article from the December 2010 issue.  For an expansion on Rafuse’s letter, see here.
• Kevin Levin is criticized for “excusing” the execution of Colored Troops after the Crater – how bizarre is that?

Blue & Gray

• Gary Gallagher challenges modern Civil War “PCness” and considers if perhaps the war was actually won in the east.

Field Guide

• Our nation’s capital’s Civil War monuments

Collateral Damage (by your host)

• The Jacob Weikert farm behind Little Round Top on the battlefield of Gettysburg.  I’ll have more on this later.

Interview

• Garry Adelman and the Center for Civil War Photography

Features

• Judging George Custer – Stephen Budiansky
• Lee to the Rear – R. K. Krick
• Hell on Water (slave ships) – Ron Soodalter
• Lee’s Armored Car (rail mounted guns) – David Schneider
• Super Spy from Wales (Union agent Pryce Lewis) – Gavin Mortimer

Reviews

• Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict – Susannah Ural (ed.)
• The 111th New York Volunteer Infantry: A Civil War History – Martin Husk
• American Civil War Guerilla Tactics – Sean McLachlan
• The Lincoln Assassination: Crime & Punishment, Myth & Memory – Holzer, Symonds, Williams (eds.)
• At the Precipice: Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis – Shearer Davis Bowman
• Recollections of War Times: By an Old Veteran While Under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet – by William McClendon
• The Grand Design: Strategy and the U. S. Civil War – by Donald Stoker (see his interview here)