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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865, Revised and Expanded Edition, Edited by J. Gregory Acken


The Life of a Union Army Sharpshooter: The Diaries and Letters of John T. Farnham, edited by William G. Andrews


Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War by Michael J. Bennett


Brother Against Brother: The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt. Edmund Halsey, edited by Bruce Chadwick


When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and Its Impact on the Civilians Who Called It Home by Steven Cowie


So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North, edited by Lorien Foote and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai


The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, edited by Gary W. Gallagher


Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864 by Earl J. Hess


Drum Taps in Dixie: Memoirs of a Drummer Boy, 1861-1865 by Delavan S. Miller


Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons by Jill L. Newmark


Gunner with Stonewall: Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague


Sharpshooter: The Selected Letters and Papers of Maj, Eugene Blackford, C.S.A., Volume 1, edited by Fred L. Ray


Deadly Aim: The Civil War Story of Michigan's Anishinaabe Sharpshooters by Sally M. Walker



 George Henry Thomas: As True as Steel by Brian Steel Wills

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