Preview: Crawford, “Confederate Courage on Other Fields”

New from Savas Beatie is a title and cover illustration combination that is sure to get knees jerking and teeth gnashing: Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness, by Mark J. Crawford. This one “offers four valuable but little-studied events of the Civil War.” Those four “events” are:

• Rev. M. M. Marshall and General Hospital Number One in Kittrell Spings, NC.
• The letters of  plantation owner/Confederate officer Charles Blacknall.
• A personal quarrel between a Union major and Confederate colonel that escalates out of control.
• The late-war Confederate attack at Dinwiddie Courthouse.

Mark J. Crawford is the author of Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War.