America’s Civil War January 2011

28 10 2010

Inside this issue:

  • An interview with an American who conducts Civil War tours in England.
  • Red Soodalter on High Bridge
  • Mosby’s Confederacy by Teri Johnson
  • Iowa’s “Hairy Nation” goes to war  – Robert B. Mitchell
  • Harold Holzer on how some Southerner’s sought to abate secession fever
  • Cynthia Wachtell looks at how some men of letters considered the morality of war
  • Reviews
    • The Maryland Campaign of September, 1862, Vol. I by Ezra Carman, edited by Thomas Clemens
    • Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861, by Kenneth Noe
    • My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans, by Rusty Williams
    • Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front, by J. Matthew Gallman
    • The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta, by Gary Ecelbarger
    • Harry’s Just Wild About…
      • Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Redemption, by Shane Kastler
      • Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, ,by Timothy B. Smith
      • After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped, by David Hardin & Ivan Dee
      • Confederate Generals in the Western Theater: Classic Essays on America’s Civil War, Vol I, Lawrence Hewitt & Arthur Bergeron, editors

Actions

Information

4 responses

28 10 2010
Drew Wagenhoffer

Were you truly wild about the Forrest book?

Like

28 10 2010
Harry Smeltzer

I didn’t pick the title of the column ;-)

Like

29 10 2010
Chris Evans

I wish Pelican wouldn’t have put out such a controversial Forrest book after such excellent ’90s efforts such as Jack Hurst and Brian Steel Wills full length biographies.

Interestingly, the usually reliable Civil War reviewer James Durney gives the Forrest book fives stars on Amazon.

Chris

Like

14 02 2011
Did “that Devil Forrest” Go to Heaven? Does it Matter? « Dead Confederates

[…] brilliance as a cavalry officer, sum up to be a pretty odious excuse for a complicated human being. Civil War blogger Harry Smeltzer had a thumbnail review in of the book in a recent issue of America’s Civil […]

Like

Leave a comment