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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