Recent Updates
Back to Brett's ACW Book Collection
January 15, 2007
Added a review of Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth by Stephen D. Engle
January 4, 2007
Added a review of Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics by Charles P. Roland
January 3, 2007
Added a review of That Body of Brave Men: The U.S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West by Mark W. Johnson
December 29, 2006
Added a review of The Petersburg Campaign: The Battle of Old Men and Young Boys June 9, 1864 by William G. Robertson
December 26, 2006
Added a review of Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas edited by Mark K. Christ
December 16, 2006
Added a review of Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign by Scott Mingus
December 9, 2006
Added a review of Peculiar Honor: A History of the 28th Texas Cavalry 1862-1865 by M. Jane Johansson
September 11, 2006
Added a short review of Paul Branch, Jr.'s The Siege of Fort Macon
September 6, 2006
Added a page for Confederate
Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg
Added a page for Hurricane
of Fire: The Union Assault on Fort Fisher by Charles M. Robinson III
Added a page for Perryville
Battle for Kentucky by Ken Hafendorfer
Added a page for The
Battle of Scary Creek: Military Operations in the Kanawha Valley April-July
1861 by Terry Lowry
Added a page for September
Blood: The Battle of Carnifex Ferry by Terry Lowry
Added a page for The
Battle of Rich Mountain (West Virginia) by Jack Zinn
September 5, 2006
Added a short review
of Eric J. Wittenberg's Gettysburg's Forgotten
Cavalry Actions
Added a short review
of Curt Johnson's and Richard Anderson's Artillery
Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam
July 16, 2006
Added a short review
of Richard M. McMurry's Two
Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History
Created a new Biographies section
Added a short review
of David M. Jordan's "Happiness
is Not My Companion": The Life of G. K. Warren
June 26, 2006
Converted the Prairie
Grove section to the new format
Added a short review
of Michael Banasik's Embattled
Arkansas: The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862
Added a short review
of Fred L. Ray's Shock
Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Amry of Northern
Virginia
June 22, 2006
Added Marion Armstrong's Disaster in the West Woods to the Antietam section
June 20, 2006
Converted the South Carolina Campaigns and Second Bull Run (Manassas) sections to the new format
June 18, 2006
Converted the North Carolina 1865 section to the new format and added 2 books to it
June 17, 2006
Converted the Antietam and Atlanta sections to the new format and added books to each
June 16, 2006
Created a new Unit Histories
section
Added 24 books to the Unit Histories section
April 23, 2006
Added a "Review In Brief" for Jackson's Valley Campaign: The First Battle of Winchester: May 25, 1862
January 18, 2006
Added a "Review In Brief" for Jackson's Valley Campaign: The Battle of McDowell: March 11-May 18, 1862
January 10, 2006
Added a "Review In Brief" for Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863
January 2, 2006
Added a "Review In Brief" for Back Door To Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, April-June 1864
December 13, 2005
Added a lengthy review
and summary of Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making
of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862
Added a short review of Thirty-Six Hours
Before Appomattox, April 6 And 7, 1865
December 8, 2005
Added a short review of Blue & Gray's History and Tour Guide of Five Forks, Hatcher's Run, and Namozine Church
December 4, 2005
Added a short review of Cannoneers in Gray: The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865
November 18, 2005
Added a lengthy review and summary of Tempest At Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly
November 11, 2005
Added a short review of Island No. 10: The Struggle for the Mississippi Valley
November 7, 2005
Added a short review of Grant's Canal: The Union's Attempt to Bypass Vicksburg
November 3, 2005
Added a short review of The Port Hudson Campaign, 1862-1863
October 31, 2005
Added a short review of To The Sea: A Hisory and Tour Guide of Sherman's March
October 30, 2005
Added a lengthy review and summary of The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign 1864
October 18, 2005
Added a lengthy review and summary of Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign \
September 29, 2005
Added a lengthy review and summary of Paul Taylor's book He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning: The Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly) September 1, 1862
September 19, 2005
Added a lengthy review and summary of Patrick Brennan's book Secessionville: Assault on Charleston
August 26, 2005
Added a lengthy review and summary of Tim Smith's book Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
August 13, 2005
Added a lengthy review and summary of Charles Dufour's book The Night The War Was Lost
July 28, 2005
Added a lengthy review and summary of Russel Beatie's book The Army of the Potomac (Volume 2): McClellan Takes Command, September 1861-February 1862
February 28, 2005
Added a lengthy review and summary of Byron Farwell's book Ball's Bluff: A Small Battle and Its Long Shadow
February 24, 2005
Added a lengthy review
and summary of David Evans' book Sherman's Horsemen: Union Cavalry
Operations in the Atlanta Campaign
Added 3 books to ACW East, 5 books to ACW
West, and 7 Books to ACW General.
November 14, 2004
Added a lengthy review and summary of John Cannan's book The Crater: Burnside’s Assault On The Confederate Trenches June 30, 1864
October 31, 2004
I redesigned the main page to look more like My DVD Collection and My Book Collection.