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• Review: Loyal Hearts: Histories of American Civil War Canines
• Review: The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies
• Review: Chicago’s Irish Legion: The 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War
• Review: Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
• Review: Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858
• Review: Virginia at War, 1863
• Review: Entrepot: Government Imports into the Confederate States
• Review: No Prouder Fate: The Story of the 11th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry
• Review: Fields of Glory
• Review: Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862
• Review: THE MAPS OF CHICKAMAUGA: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 – September 23, 1863
• Review: Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home
• Reviews: The Fort Pillow Massacre
• January 2010 Civil War Book Notes
• Review: Cavalry of the Heartland: The Mounted Forces of the Army of Tennessee
• December 2009 Civil War Book Notes
• Review: Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
• Review: Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine
• Review: The Army of Tennessee by Thomas L. Connelly
• November 2009 Civil War Book Notes
• Review: A Crisis In Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, And The Army Of The Trans-Mississippi
• Review: The General and Monaville, Texas
• Review: The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
• Review: The Second United States Sharpshooters in the Civil War by Gerald L. Early
• Review: Grant’s Lieutenants: From Chattanooga to Appomattox
• Review: A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction
• Review: Grant’s Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg
• Review: Northern Roses and Southern Belles
• Review: Preserve It Reader In Remembrance Of Me
• Review: Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals
• October 2009 Civil War Book Notes
• Review: Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership (Great Generals)
• Review: Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly: The Short but Controversial Life of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren
• Review: Calculating the Value of the Union
• Review: The Complete Gettysburg Guide by J. David Petruzzi
• Review: The Mule Shoe
• Review: Over Lincoln’s Shoulder
• Review: The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages
• Review: The Maps of First Bull Run by Bradley Gottfried
• Review: By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876
• Review: A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
• September 2009 Civil War Book Notes
• Review: The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth
• Review: While In The Hands Of The Enemy: Military Prisons Of The Civil War
• Review: Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads and the Civil War’s Last Campaign
• Review: The Rebel and the Rose
• Review: Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North
• Review: Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
• Review: Fire in the Cane Field – The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas January 1861-January 1863
• Review: War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta
• REVIEW: Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
• Review: Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
• Review: Lincoln’s Labels: America’s Best-Known Brands and the Civil War
• Review: Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution & Surprising Release of Jefferson Davis
• Review: In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat
• Review: Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863
• Review: The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and the East Tennessee Cavalry
• Review: Blood and Treasure
• Review: The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, June-October 1861
• Review: THE COMPLETE GETTYSBURG GUIDE
• Review: The New Civil War Handbook
• The Words of Abraham Lincoln
• Review: Lincoln’s Labels: America’s Best Known Brands and the Civil War
• Review: Major General Robert E. Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia: A Biography
• Review: Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War (Civil War America)
• Review: A Beckoning Hellfire: A Novel of the Civil War
• Review: Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War
• Review: Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
• Review: Army of the Potomac, Volume III: McClellan’s First Campaign, March – May 1862
• Review: Army of the Potomac, Volume II: McClellan Takes Command, September 1861-February 1862
• Review: Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
• Review: Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy
• Review: The Shiloh Campaign (Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland) edited by Steven E. Woodworth
• Review: Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners
• Review: Sherman’s March in Myth and Memory (The American Crisis Series)
• Review: Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Review: The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
• Review: Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America
• Thoughts on Struggle for the Shenandoah as The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 Goes to Paperback
• Review: Where the Road Begins and A Difference of Opinion
• Review: Vicksburg, 1863 by Winston Groom
• Review: THE UNPOPULAR MR. LINCOLN: The Story of America’s Most Reviled President
• Review: Petersburg 1864-65: The longest siege
• Review: Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America
• Review: A History of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment: Lee’s Reliables
• Review: Crisis of Command in the Army of the Potomac
• Review: Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863
• Joseph R. Reinhart Responds to Chancellorsville and the Germans Review
• Martin Pegler Books
• Review: Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History
• Review: The Last Lincolns: The Rise & Fall of a Great American Family
• Review: The 13th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry C.S.A. by Mike Wadsworth
• Review: Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign
• Review: The 14th South Carolina by Robert K. Krick
• Review: Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas by Benson Bobrick
• March 2009 Civil War Book Notes
• Review: Hampton Legion Infantry C.S.A. by O. Lee Sturkey
• Two New Reference Works: Kentuckians in Gray and Confederate Colonels
• Review: Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier’s Eye View of Civil War Battles
• February 2009 Civil War Book Notes
• Fiction Review- Journey to Honor by James C. Buck
• Review: One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
• Review: A Vermont Cavalryman in War & Love: The Civil War Letters of Brevet Major General William Wells and Anna Richardson
• Review: Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington
• Review: Bedlam South by Mark Grisham & David Donaldson
• January 2009 Book Notes
• Review: Shepherdstown: Last Clash of the Antietam Campaign, September 19-20, 1862
• Review: Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide
• Review: Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War
• Review: The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat
• Amazon Changes That Impact All of Us
• Review: Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign
• Two Brothers: One North, One South
• Review: Lincoln and His Admirals
• Fiction Review: The Shenandoah Spy
• Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea
• Review: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
• Book Review-Nonfiction
• October 2008 Book Notes
• Top 5 Most Important Civil War Books: Stephanie Farra
• Fiction Review:The Wake of the Woonsocket by Les Eldridge
• Review: The Disagreement by Nick Taylor
• Review: The Women Will Howl by Mary Deborah Petite
• Review: The 11th Wisconsin in the Civil War: A Regimental History by Christopher C. Wehner
• Top 5 Most Important Civil War Books: Mark Kucinic
• Review: Crossroads of the Conflict: Defining Hours for the Blue and Gray: A Guide to the Monuments of Gettysburg
• Top 5 Most Important Civil War Books: Larry Freheit
• Review: Guide to the Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain
• September 2008 Book Notes
• Top 5 Most Important Civil War Books: Brendan Hamilton
• Top 5 Most Important Civil War Books Winner: Ian Spurgeon
• Review: The Battle of Shiloh and the Organizations Engaged by D.W. Reed
• Review in Brief: Disaster in the West Woods by Marion Armstrong
• Short Takes
• Review: Unfurl Those Colors!: McClellan, Sumner, & the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign
• Review: Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations
• Book Review- “A Legacy in Brick and Stone” – The American Coastal Defense Forts of the Third System 1816-1867 by John R. Weaver II- Part II
• Glad to be on board
• Book Review- “A Legacy in Brick and Stone” – The American Coastal Defense Forts of the Third System 1816-1867 by John R. Weaver II- Part I
• Civil War Fiction: Worth Reading?
• July 2008 Book Notes
• How To Read Three Gettysburg Books At Once
• A Look at The View From The Ground, Part 1
• Review in Brief: Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War by Earl J. Hess
• Review: Three Days in the Shenandoah by Gary Ecelbarger
• Guide to Missouri Confederate Units vs. Sifakis’ Compendium (Missouri et al)
• Review: The London Confederates
• Review: 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick
• Bilby’s Small Arms at Gettysburg Review
• Review: Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3 by Russel H. Beatie
• Review: Armchair Reader Civil War: Untold Tales of the Blue and the Gray
• Review: Chancellorsville and the Germans by Christian B. Keller
• May 2008 Book Notes
• Berdan’s Civil War Elite — Conclusion
• Roy Marcot on Berdan’s Sharpshooters
• April 2008 Book Notes
• Thoughts on The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 by Mark Grimsley
• Review in Brief: Human Interest Stories from Antietam by Scott Mingus
• Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan
• Why Does Brett Review Older Books?
• Review In Brief: Mine Run: A Campaign of Lost Opportunities
• Review: “What this Cruel War was Over”
• Review in Brief: Melting Pot Soldiers by William L. Burton
• Review: Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions by Eric Wittenberg
• Review In Brief: “Among the Best Men the South Could Boast”: The Fall of Fort McAllister December 13, 1864
• Review: Yankee Autumn in Acadiana by David C. Edmonds
• Review: Red River Campaign: Politics & Cotton in the Civil War
• Review In Brief: The Battle of Hanover Court House by Michael C. Hardy
• Review In Brief: “Happiness Is Not My Companion”: The Life of G. K. Warren by David M. Jordan
• Review In Brief: Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History by Richard McMurry
• The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce: A New Friday Feature
• Review: Embattled Arkansas by Michael Banasik
• Review: Shock Troops of the Confederacy by Fred Ray
• Review: Rebels At The Gate
• Brett’s American Civil War Book Reviews Page Updated
• Review: Lee Vs. McClellan: The First Campaign
• Shock Troops of the Confederacy, Part 10
• Blue & Gray, Spring 2006
• Review In Brief: The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863
• Review In Brief: The First Battle of Winchester: May 25, 1862
• Review In Brief: Fiction As Fact: The Horse Soldiers & Popular Memory
• Bruce Levine – Confederate Emancipation
• Review: The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock
• Review: Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
• Review: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862
• Book Review: Stonewall Jackson’s Romney Campaign by Thomas M. Rankin
• Review: Ball’s Bluff: A Small Battle and Its Long Shadow by Byron Farwell
• Review In Brief: Mother, May You Never See The Sights I Have Seen
• Review In Brief: The Battle of McDowell: March 11-May 18, 1862
• Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
• Review In Brief: Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863
• Review In Brief: Back Door to Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, April-June 1864
• Review In Brief: Lee’s Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox
• Review In Brief: The Battles of Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House, April 8-9, 1865
• Review In Brief: Thirty-Six Hours Before Appomattox, April 6 And 7, 1865
• Review: Confederate Tide Rising
• Review In Brief: History and Tour Guide of Five Forks, Hatcher’s Run and Namozine Church
• Review in Brief: Cannoneers In Gray
• Review: Sherman’s Horsemen: Union Cavalry Operations In The Atlanta Campaign
• Review: Tempest At Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly
• Review in Brief: Island No. Ten: Struggle For The Mississippi Valley
• Michael Kauffman – American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
• Review In Brief: Grant’s Canal: The Union’s Attempt to Bypass Vicksburg
• Review In Brief: The Port Hudson Campaign, 1862-1863
• Review In Brief: To The Sea: A History and Tour Guide of Sherman’s March
• Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 5
• Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 4
• Review: Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign, ed. by Gary Gallagher
• Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 3
• Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 2
• Ethan Rafuse – McClellan’s War, Part 1
• Review: He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning by Paul Taylor
• Review: Secessionville: Assault on Charleston by Patrick Brennan
• 42nd Virginia Infantry by John Chapla