Having recently read the new war-time biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer, I became interested in the story of his younger brother, Tom. Although Armstrong is the more famous of the two – albeit mainly […]
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, 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 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 […]
Thomas Nast is considered by many to be the father of the American political cartoon. He is credited with creating the elephant as the political symbol of the Republican Party and popularizing the use of […]
Robert E. Lee in War and Peace: The Photographic History of a Confederate and American Icon Donald A. Hopkins Hardcover; 216 pages Savas Beatie (2013) Donald A. Hopkins has written what is destined to be […]
As Abraham Lincoln rose to give the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, his face had a “sad, mournful, almost haggard” expression according to Clark E. Carr, a member of National Cemetery Commission. Reciting the […]
Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation Robert Wilson Hardcover; 288 Pages Bloomsbury (2013) Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation by Robert Wilson is not a compilation of Brady photographs; it is a biography of the […]
The Civil War in 50 Objects Harold Holzer Hardcover; 408 Pages Viking (2013) The Civil War in 50 Objects is a neat collection of essays on selected artifacts from the New-York Historical Society. Author Harold […]
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