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John C. Fremont's 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri by author Gregory Wolk

John Fremont’s 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri is a brief (216 pages) work that chronicles events that were critical in decisive days in a Border State, and reflect how political influences that are representative of other s

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A Day In September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind by Stephen Budiansky

A Day In September is an account and an analysis of America’s bloodiest day of warfare, September 17, 1862, when the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac clashed along the banks of Antietam Creek near the town of Sharpsburg, Maryla

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Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes

Unlike Anything That Ever Floated approaches the classic Battle of Hampton Roads between the Monitor and Virginia from two perspectives. It goes into extensive detail about the engineering and mechanical features of each vessel as well as the occur

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War In The Mountains: The Macbeth Light Artillery At Asheville, NC 1864-1865 by J. L. Askew

War History Network members know that war studies have many aspects. They focus on the big story, who won the war or battle, the life of the individual participant and the betwixt and between, the smaller battles, and the roles of the participants

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Lighthouses of the Georgia Coast by William Rawlings

Most books reviewed on War History Network are exclusively war orientated. Lighthouses of the Georgia Coast reveals a facet of the America Civil War in its history and tourist guide to Georgia lighthouses.

Part One, which constitutes about half o

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Lost Civil War: The Disappearing Legacy of America's Greatest Conflict by Laura DeMarco

“Lost Civil War” is treasure trove of period photos and text depicting and describing locations and artifacts associated with the Civil War that have not survived the test of time. The Civil War was the first war delivered to home and farms far from

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A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray by Edward G. Longacre

This tome may have been written with War History Readers in mind. The title of “A Soldier to the Last” is very descriptive, as it is a biography of Major General Joseph Wheeler with his military career the focal point. His personal and political

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Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein

Most war literature focuses on battles, armies, navies, soldiers, sailors, ships, planes or ordinance. War History Network members know there is much more. “Ways and Means” documents the crucial role economics played in the Civil War, particularly

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Guerrilla Hunters In Civil War Missouri By James W. Erwin

Civil War literature frequently focuses on the dashing Confederate guerillas and cavalry who took the war to the Unionists. “Guerrilla Hunters In Civil War Missouri” is the story of the soldiers and militia who hunted and put them down. Their story

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Appomattox: The Last Days of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia By Michael E. Haskew

In Appomattox: The Last Days Of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia Historian Michael E. Haskew has chronicled the final campaign that led to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. The narrative begins with Gen. Grant being unrecogn

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Civil War on The Western Border: 1854-1865 by Jay Monahan

Civil War on the Western Border: 1854-1865 is the classical history on the War in the Missouri-Kansas region. First note the years covered, not the traditional 1861-1865, for it postulates that the War on the Western border began long before then.

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Make Way For Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans In The Civil War

MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY: WISCONSIN AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE CIVIL WAR

By Jeff Kannel

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War History Network members will enjoy this recent Civil War publication of the Wisconsin Historical Society Press focusing on the African Amer

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This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home

THIS WICKED REBELLION:WISCONSIN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS WRITE HOME

Edited by John Zimm

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We are confronted with thousands, of Civil War books, the fruits of historical research by historians, both renowned and unknown. What is new

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The Presidents' War by Chris DeRose, Lyons Press, 2014

War History Network members may wonder, are there any new rays of insight into the Civil War that have not passed through the prisms of countless historians? Author Chris DeRose has found one. America began the War with an unprecedented, and unt

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The Reader's Corner: Talking About Books and Book Reviews

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John C. Fremont's 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri by author Gregory Wolk

A Day In September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind by Stephen Budiansky

Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes

War In The Mountains: The Macbeth Light Artillery At Asheville, NC 1864-1865 by J. L. Askew

Lighthouses of the Georgia Coast by William Rawlings

Lost Civil War: The Disappearing Legacy of America's Greatest Conflict by Laura DeMarco

A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray by Edward G. Longacre

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein

Guerrilla Hunters In Civil War Missouri By James W. Erwin

Appomattox: The Last Days of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia By Michael E. Haskew

Civil War on The Western Border: 1854-1865 by Jay Monahan

Make Way For Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans In The Civil War

This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home

The Presidents' War by Chris DeRose, Lyons Press, 2014

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