Inside this issue:
Field Notes:
- Scott brothers’ Gettysburg Movie
- Shelby Foote Collection to Rhodes College
- Mary Walker gets a statue
- Slave population map
5 Questions:
- Eric Foner about his book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Cease Fire:
- Harold Holzer discusses Civil War fiction
Legends
- Ron Soodalter discusses Ivan Turchin and the sack of Athens, GA
Features
- United We Stand – Gary Gallagher: Union as the northern cause
- How to Market a Milestone – photos by Jennifer E. Berry: merchandise from the Civil War Centennial
- Buying Time – Jeffrey Maciejewski: the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg
- “We Are All Rebels” – Jim Bradshaw: a Louisiana youth wages war withe the Yankees on his doorstep
- Irvin McDowell’s Best Laid Plans – Your Host: all about McDowell’s plans and expectations for the march on Manassas
Reviews
- Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joseph Wheeler and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign – David A. Powell (interview)
- The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union – John Lockwood & Charles Lockwood
- Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War – Harold Holzer, ed.
- C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (Film)
- Harry’s Just Wild About
- The Civil War: A Concise History – Louis P. Masur
- The Battle of South Mountain – John David Hoptak
- Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas & William Christie – Hampton Smith, ed.
- Notre Dame and the Civil War: Marching Onward to Victory – James M. Schmidt
Harry – Thanks for being “wild” about my Notre Dame book…it is a real honor, truly…can’t wait to see the issue! Jim
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[…] the Virginia Historical Society is adding an analytic of my article in the July, 2011 issue of America’s Civil War magazine (Irvin McDowell’s Best-Laid Plans) to its online catalog for use by research patrons. What does that all mean? I’m not really […]
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