The Vicksburg Campaign: March 29–May 18, 1863 Edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear; Southern Illinois University Press, 2013, $32.50 As with previous volumes in the SIU Press’ “Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland” series, Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear gather an impressive array of talent to deliver an enjoyable look …
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What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta By Stephen Davis, Mercer University Press, 2013, $37 Thanks to Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, the Burning of Atlanta is one of the Civil War’s most iconic images. Yet little is actually known about the devastation brought on by Gen. William Sherman’s siege …
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Home Front: Life in the Civil War North By Peter John Brownlee, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene and Scott Manning Stevens; University of Chicago Press 2013, $35 A success story from the Civil War sesquicentennial has been the emergence of a number of good new books on nontraditional subjects, such as the environment, emerging …
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Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia By Kathryn Shively Meier, University of North Carolina Press, 2013, $39.95 Not until the 20th century did artillery and small-arms fire prove to be a greater threat to soldiers in Western armies than the microbes prevalent in military encampments of earlier wars. In Nature’s …
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Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War By Elizabeth R. Varon, Oxford University Press 2013, $27.95 Wars, as Thucydides observed, are driven by fear, honor and interest. Consequently, as Americans have painfully learned over the past decade, bringing them to a close can be a tricky business. Political differences so …
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All’s not quite fair in love and war for the daughter of Jefferson Davis. Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis, younger daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis, was born in June 1864, only a month after the death of Confederate hero General Jeb Stuart during a string of Rebel victories. …
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Gen. Sherman’s Atlanta conquest took a little longer than he hoped. Five grueling months, to be exact. Joe Johnston insisted after the war that he had not been surprised by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman at the outset of the Atlanta Campaign. And yet some decisions the veteran Confederate commander made as he prepared …
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