Preview: Crawford, “Confederate Courage on Other Fields”

18 07 2017

51pTW95i2vL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_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.

 

 


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18 07 2017
Meg Groeling

I will be reviewing the book for the Emerging Civil War blog in a few weeks. Looking forward to reading this new SB offering.

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18 07 2017
Harry Smeltzer

I look forward to it, Meg.

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18 07 2017
Theodore P. Savas

Thanks for this Harry. My knees are knocking so hard I might hyphenate our name.

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18 07 2017
Harry Smeltzer

I can feel the disturbance in the force…

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18 07 2017
Theodore P. Savas

There is a deep disturbance that abounds these days. Onward.

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18 07 2017
Meg Groeling

You two are scaring me to death!!!

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