America’s Civil War: January 2010

Inside this issue of America’s Civil War:

• in the news, somebody paid $39k for Confederate Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s gauntlets and sash, and the grave of Confederate financier Charles Kuhn Prioleau was “discovered” in England;
• an interview with Ed Bearss;
• Frank Van Der Linden on Confederate General Joe Johnston’s feud with President Jefferson Davis;
• Robert Behre on Why Cotton got to be King;
• Joan Waugh on Ulysses S. Grant, The Celebrity Soldier;
• Three Kunhardts examine The Burden of War on Lincoln through photographs;
• Blogger and author Michael Hardy on Irvin McDowell, The Most Unpopular Man in America (I’ll have a review of this here after I read it);
• Jon Guttman on The Man Who Shot A. P. Hill;
• my Six-Pack reviews pair up
  • No Peace for the Wicked: Northern Protestant Soldiers in the American Civil War (David Rolf) with The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 (Susannah Ural);
  • Lee in the Low Country: Defending Charleston and Savannah, 1861-1862 (Daniel J. Crooks, Jr) with Siege Train: The Journal of a Confederate Artilleryman in the Defense of Charleston (Arthur Manigault);
  • The Ship Killers: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat (Joe Hinds) with Ellet’s Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All (Chester Hearn).