Backlog of Book Previews

I apologize for the break – I won’t go into detail, but things have been busy. So let’s just get to this.

I have a few books that have been sent that are new-ish. Three from the good folks at Savas Beatie.

Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station is the third installment in Jeffry William Hunt’s look at that period after Gettysburg in the East. Subtitled The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863, you get:

• 287 pages of text, including six appendices (Deciphering the Rappahannock Station Battlefield, Ordering the Rappahannock Station Attack, Emory Upton and Rappahannock Station’s Legacy, and Confederate Uniforms at Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford, and Orders of Battles for both Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford).
• Bottom of page footnotes.
• New and historical maps (I’m not sure who prepared the new maps), illustrations, and photos.
• Nine page bibliography, including numerous unpublished manuscript sources.
• Full Index

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The Maps of the Cavalry at Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Mounted Operations from Brandy Station through Falling Watters, July 9-July 14, 1863, is also the latest in a series, this one by Bradley M. Gottfried who has authored all but on in the series so far. The format has not changed, with maps and narrative on facing pages. You get:

• 169 pages of text and maps through the epilogue.
• An appendix with Orders of Battle.
• 33 pages of endnotes (footnotes would not be practical given the facing pages format).
• Ten page bibliography including unpublished archival sources.
• Full index.

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Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia is a collaborative effort between prolific author Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus, Jr., and Penny L. Barrick, all three Ohio lawyers. You get:

• 186 pages of text.
• Five appendices: 

1. 1. The Letters to Abraham Lincoln from His Cabinet
   2. The Complaint in State of Virginia vs. State of West Virginia
   3. The Supreme Court’s Decision in Virginia vs. West Virginia
   4. The Supreme Court’s 1911 Decision in Virginia vs. West Virginia
   5. Current Events Prove that These Questions Live On

• Bottom of page footnotes.
• Numerous photos throughout.
• 11 page bibliography including numerous newspapers and manuscripts.
• Full index.