Shelby Foote Estate Sale

An estate sale at, and of, Shelby Foote’s house in midtown Memphis is coming up.  Check out this article, and these photos, one of which is at left.

That old boy had some really cool stuff! In addition to this sheet music, he had lots and lots of…butterflies?

Thanks to Facebook friend Russ Bonds.

America’s Civil War May 2011

Inside this issue:

Field Notes:

• Wilderness battlefield preservation victory
• The Lowry controversy
• Budget woes affect sesqui efforts
• Monitor restoration
• Georgia Dept of Agriculture removes controversial murals

5 Questions:

• Daniel Weinberg of the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop

Cease Fire:

• Harold Holzer discusses historical honesty

Legends

• Ron Soodalter points out some surprising lyrics in state songs that are unchanged to this day

Features

• Jackson, Johnston and Conflicting Interests – Dennis Frye: differing opinions on holding Harper’s Ferry in 1861
• Looking for a Few Good Men: recruiting poster photo essay
• An Omen a Philippi – Gerald Swick: early fight in Western Virginia, with an interesting sidebar on James Hanger, an amputee whose prosthetic manufacturing company lives on today
• The Common Soldier’s Recipe for Disaster: photo essay on the culinary delights of the Civil War
• Diary of a Morgan Raider – John M. Porter: in fact, a memoir. Extract form One of Morgan’s Men, Kent Masterson Brown, ed.

Reviews

• My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy – Nora Titone
• God’s Almost Chosen People: A Religious History of the American Civil War – George Rable
• Faith, Valor, and Devotion: The Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose – W. Eric Emerson & Karen Stokes, eds.
• A Young Virginia Boatman Navigates the Civil War: The Journals of George Randolph Wood – Will Molineux, ed.
• Santa Fe Trail (Film)
• Harry’s Just Wild About
  • John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory – Brian Craig Miller
  • The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It – Brooks Simpson, Stephen Sears, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, eds.
  • Caught Between Three Fires: Cass County, MO, Chaos, & Order No. 11, 1860-1865 – Tom Rafiner
  • The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign, 1864 – Philip Secrist