December Book Reviews

• Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front
  Judith Giesberg
•  The Shiloh Campaign
  Edited by Steven E. Woodworth
• General Sherman’s Christmas: Savannah, 1864
  Stanley Weintraub
• Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans
  Michael D. Pierson
• John Bankhead Magruder – A Military Reappraisal
  Thomas M. Settles
• The Christian Testimony of General Robert E. Lee
  Edward R. DeVries
  and
  The Christian Testimony of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart
  Edward R. DeVries
• The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft
  Edited by Edward Steers Jr. and Harold Holzer
• Abner Doubleday: His Life and Times: Looking Beyond the Myth
  JoAnn Smith Bartlett
• The Chancellorsville Campaign: The Nation’s High Water Mark
  James K. Bryant II
• Bluecoats & Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina
  Mark L. Bradley
• Angel of Andersonville, Prince of Tahiti: The Extraordinary Life of Dorence Atwater
  Debby Burnett Safranski
  and
  Andersonville to Tahiti: The Story of Dorence Atwater
  Thomas P. Lowry
• A History of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment: Lee’s Reliables
  Mac Wyckoff

November Book Reviews

• Wars Within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War
  Edited by Joan Waugh and Gary W. Gallagher
• The Sea King: The Life of James Iredell Waddell
  Gary McKay
• Stealing Lincoln’s Body
  Thomas J. Craughwell
  
• A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
  Daniel E. Sutherland
• Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals
  Clay Mountcastle
• All Other Nights
  Dara Horn
• Commanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War
  Stephen R. Taaffe
• Images of Civil War Medicine: A Photographic History
  Gordon Dammann,DDS and Alfred Jay Bollett, MD
• Loyal Hearts, Histories of American Civil War Canines
  Michael Zucchero
• In Lincoln’s Hand: His Original Manuscripts — With Commentary by Distinguished Americans
  Edited by Harold Holzer and Joshua Wolf Shenk
• Lee’s Colonels: A Biographical Register of the Field Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia
  Robert Krick
• The State of Jones
  Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer
• America’s Joan of Arc – The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
  J. Matthew Gallman
• The Complete Gettysburg Guide: Walking and Driving Tours of the Battlefield, Town, Cemeteries, Field Hospital Sites, and other Topics of Historical Interest
  J. David Petruzzi
• A Chickamauga Memorial: The Establishment of America’s First Civil War National Military Park
  Timothy B. Smith
• The 25th North Carolina Troops in the Civil War—History and Roster of a Mountain-Bred Regiment
  Carroll C. Jones
  

   

October Book Reviews

• A History of the Hampton Legion Infantry
  O. Lee Sturkey
• The Fourth Louisiana Battalion in the Civil War: A History and Roster
  Terry G. Scriber and Theresa Arnold-Scriber
• Lincoln’s Labels: America’s Best-Known Brands and the Civil War
  James M Schmidt
• Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death
  Mark S. Schantz
• Civil War Stories, Volume II,
  Greg M. Romaneck, and Erin Elizabeth
• Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863
  Scott L. Mingus Sr.
• A Wisconsin Yankee in the Confederate Bayou Country: The Civil War Reminiscences of a Union General by Halbert Eleazer Paine.
  Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr.
• Seen The Glory: a novel of The Battle of Gettysburg
  John Hough Jr.
• The Stonewall Brigade in the Civil War
  Patrick Hook and Steve Smith
• Lincoln on Race & Slavery
  Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Jayhawkers: The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane
  Bryce Benedict
• Creating the John Brown Legend
  Janet Kemper Beck
• Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
  James A. Hessler

September Book Reviews

• The Seventh Star of the Confederacy
  Edited by Kenneth W. Howell
• The Confederate Army, 1861-1865, Volumes 5 & 6.
  Text by Ron Field, illustrated by Richard Hook
• The Battle of the Crater: A Complete History
  John F. Schmutz
• Men of Granite: New Hampshire’s Soldiers in the Civil War
  Duane E. Shaffer
• Heroes and Cowards – The Social Face of War
  Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn
• Lincoln: President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861
  Harold Holzer
• African American Soldiers in the Civil War, USCT 1862-1866
  Mark Lardas, illustrated by Peter Dennis.
• Irish-American Units in the Civil War
  Thomas G. Rodgers, illustrated by Richard Hook.
• General George H. Thomas: A Biography of the Union's "Rock of Chickamauga"
  Robert P. Broadwater
• Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick
  Gari Carter
  

August Book Reviews

• American Civil War Fortifications (3), The Mississippi and River Forts
  Ron Field
• William Francis Bartlett: Biography of a Union General in the Civil War
  Richard A. Sauers and Martin H. Sable
• Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union, 1863-1865
  Walter T. Durham
• The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth
  Earl J. Hess
• The Final Resting place of the Gettysburg Commanders: A List of the Gravesites of the Corps, Division, Brigade, and Regimental Commanders Who Served at Gettysburg
  Ethan F. Bishop
• Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
  Robert Toper
• Virginia at War, 1863
  Edited by William O. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr.
• Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories
  Ronald S. Coddington
• Imboden’s Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign
  Steve French
• The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and his East Tennessee Cavalry
  Larry Gordon
• Preserve It Reader In Remembrance of Me: The Writings and Saga of American Civil War Soldier George W. Belles
  Edited by Ron Bardnell
• Fitz-John Porter – Scapegoat of Second Manassas: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the General Accused of Disobedience
  Donald R. Jermann
• Civil War Stories Volume 1; Tales of Everyday Soldiers and Civilians
  Greg Romaneck with Erin Elizabeth Romaneck

July Book Reviews

• Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession
  Russell McClintock
• The Forgotten Marines: The Capture of John Brown
  Dale Lee Sumner
• Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas
  Benson Bobrick
• Invisible Hero: Patrick R. Cleburne
  Bruce H. Stewart Jr
• Plates, Belts and Swords of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
  Douglas W. Roussin
• The Shenandoah Spy-Being the True Life Adventures of Belle Boyd, CSA, The “Confederate Cleopatra”
  Francis Hamit
• Dispatches from Bermuda: The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861-1888
  Edited by Glen N. Wiche
• I’ll Pass for Your Comrade
  Anita Silvey
• Crisis of Command in the Army of the Potomac: Sheridan’s Search for an Effective General
  Jay W. Simson
• A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir
  Edited by Bruce J. Dinges and Shirley A. Leckie
• The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir’s Civil War
  William L. Barne

June Book Reviews

• Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide
  Ethan S. Rafuse
• Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register
  Bruce S. Allardice
• Nashville: The Occupied City, 1862-1863
  Walter T. Durham
• Soldiering for Glory: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Frank Schaller
  Edited by Mary W. Schaller and Martin N. Schaller
• Yale’s Confederates: A Biographical Dictionary
  Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr
• A.Lincoln: A Biography
  Ronald C. White Jr.
• Louis Froelich: Arms-Maker to the Confederacy
  John W. McAden Jr. and Chris E. Fonvielle Jr.
• The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Civil War
  H.W. Crocker III
• North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume XVI, Thomas’s Legion
  Compiled and edited by Matthew M. Brown and Michael W. Coffey
• Confederate Ironclad vs Union Ironclad Hampton Roads 1862
  Ron Field

May Book Reviews

• The Fog of Gettysburg: The Myths and Mysteries of the Battle
  Ken Allers Jr
• Shenandoah, 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign
  By Peter Cozzens
• Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier’s Eye View of Civil War Battles
  Brent Nosworthy
• Blue Dawn Over Gettysburg: A Supernatural Tale of Union Victory
  Joe DeSantis
• Hard Times, Hard Bread, and Harder Coffee: The Civil War Correspondence of Hezekiah Long, Company F, 20th Maine Infantry
  Edited by Richardson’s Civil War Round Table
• Our Lincoln: New Perspectives On Lincoln And His World
  Edited by Eric Fone
• A Civil War Soldier’s Diary: Valentine C. Randolph, 39th Illinois Regiment
  Edited by David D. Roe, with commentary and annotations by Stephen R. Wise
• South Carolina’s Military Organizations During the War Between the States, Vol. I: The Lowcountry and Pee Dee; Vol. II: The Midlands; Vol. III: The Upstate; and Vol. IV: Statewide Units, Militia and Reserves
  Robert S. Seigler
• Sailor’s Creek: Major General G.W. Custis Lee, Captured with Controversy
  Frank Everett White Jr.
• Wiregrass to Appomattox: The Untold Story of the 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment, CSA
  James W. Parrish
• Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography
  Ari Hoogenboom
• Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Officers and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State
  Edited by Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt

April Book Reviews

• Journey To Honor
  James G. Buck
• Texas Civil War Artifacts: A Photographic Guide to the Physical Culture of Texas Civil War Soldiers
  Richard Mather Ahlstrom
• Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
  Elizabeth R. Varon
• Burying The Dead But Not The Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations & The Lost Cause
  Caroline E. Janney
• Men of God, Angels of Death: History of the Rowan Artillery
  Col. Black Jack Travis
• A Brief Guide to Florida’s Monuments and Memorials
  Roberta Sandler
• Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson’s Civil War
  Thomas D. Mays
• Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865
  Ethan S. Rafuse
• Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign
  Lance J. Herdegen
• Brandy Station 1863: First Step Toward Gettysburg
  Dan Beattie
• How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat
  Bevin Alexander
• Lincoln and His Admirals
  Craig L. Symonds
• Marching with the First Nebraska: A Civil War Diary - August Scherneckau.
  Edited by James E. Potter and Edith Robbins. Translated by Edith Robbins
• Cavalryman of the Lost Cause – A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart
  Jeffry D. Wert

February/March Book Reviews

• Major General Robert E. Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia: A Biography
  Darrell L. Collins
• The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
  Tom Chaffin
• A Vermont Cavalryman in War & Love: The Civil War Letters of Major General William Wells and Anna Richardson
  Edited by Elliott W. Hoffman
• The Timberclads in the Civil War; The Lexington, Conestoga, and Tyler on the Western Waters
  Myron J. Smith Jr
• Confederate Struggle for Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West
  Alexander Mendoza
• Wounded at Gettysburg
  Gord Skinner
• Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General
  Ronald D. Smith
• Lee’s Last Casualty: The Life and Letters of Sergeant Robert W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry
  Edited by Catherine M. Wright
• Guide to the Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain
  Edited by Jay Luvaas and Harold W. Nelson
• Webb Garrison’s Civil War Dictionary – An Illustrated Guide To the Everyday Language of Soldiers and Civilians
  Web Garrison
• A History of the 15th South Carolina Infantry 1861-1865
  James B. Clary
• Worthy of Record: The Civil War and Reconstruction Diaries of Columbus Lafayette Turner
  Edited by Kenrick N. Simpson
• Chasing the Fox: The Chronology of a Blockade Runner
  Andrew R. English
  
  

January Book Reviews

• House of Abraham — Lincoln & The Todds, A Family Divided by War
  Stephen Berry
• At Lincoln’s Side: John Hay’s Civil War Correspondence and Selected Writings
  Edited by Michael Burlingame
• Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  Edited by Michael Burlingame
  
• Lincoln Unmasked — What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
  Thomas J. DiLorenzo
• Lincoln the Lawyer
  Brian Dirck
• The Madness of Mary Lincoln
  Jason Emerson
• Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President
  Thomas L. Krannawitter
• Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point
  Lewis E. Lehrman
• Lincoln’s Darkest Year: The War in 1862
  William Marvel
• Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander In Chief
  James McPherson
• President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman
  William Lee Miller
• Lincoln and His World: The Early Years, Birth to Illinois Legislature AND Lincoln and His World: Prairie Politician, 1834-1842
  Richard Lawrence Miller
• Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends
  Ferenc Morton Szasz
• Lincoln – The Presidential Archive
  Chuck Wills
• Judging Lincoln
  Frank J. Williams; foreword by Harold Holzer; epilogue by John Y. Simon