February 2014 – Civil War Profiles

Glorious War

February 23, 2014 Civil War Profiles 0

Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer Thom Hatch Hardcover; 384 pages St. Martin’s Press (2013) Glorious War is a focused biography of George Armstrong Custer’s military service from his 1857 entrance […]

Traveller and Little Sorrel – The War-Horses of Lee and Jackson

February 9, 2014 Mathew W. Lively 9

Traveller, the war-horse of Robert E. Lee, and Little Sorrel, Stonewall Jackson’s horse, were nearly as recognizable during the Civil War as their owners. Still held in reverence long after the war, both horses’ remains […]

Lincoln and Medicine

February 1, 2014 Civil War Profiles 1

Lincoln and Medicine Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein Hardcover; 152 pages Southern Illinois University Press (2012) A book from the Concise Lincoln Library series, Lincoln and Medicine is a brief analysis of the medical conditions possibly suffered […]