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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry, edited by Robert Patrick Bender


The 14th U.S. Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War: John Young Letters, edited by C. Russell Hunley


Bound to be a Soldier: The Letters of Private James T. Miller, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861-1864, edited by Jedediah Mannis and Galen R. Wilson


No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame's Civil War by Mike Pride


From a True Soldier and Son: The Civil War Letters of William C. H. Reeder, edited by Jack Reeder


Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army: The Civil War Letters of Samuel W. Fiske, edited by Stephen W. Sears


New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky, edited by John David Smith

 

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime by John Banks


Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It by Stephen Berry


Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia by Karida L. Brown


Letters of a Civil War Surgeon, edited by Paul Fatout


On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade by Alan D. Gaff



Voices from Company D: Daries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, Edited by G. Ward Hubbs


Rethinking American Emancipation: Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom, edited by William A. Link and James J. Broomall 


The Civil War Diaries of Charles Kelly: The 44th New York Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, edited by Don Owen


The Civil War Soldier and the Press, edited by Katrina J. Quinn and David B. Sachsman




Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South by Yael L. Sternhell



African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Ashley Towle



From Binghamton to the Battlefield: The Civil War Letters of Rollin B. Truesdell, edited by Amy J. Truesdell 
 

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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command by Kent Masterson Brown


Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance before the Civil War by Matthew J. Clavin


Letters of a Civil War Soldier: Chandler B. Gilliam, 28th New York Volunteers, with Diary of W. L. Hicks, edited by Ellen C. Collier


Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry, edited by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn


Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman, edited by David W. Lowe


The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm: A Chronicle of Daily Life in the Union Army, 1864-1865, edited by W. Springer Menge and J. August Shimrak 


A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents - Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready by James M. Perry 


Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All, edited by James M. Scythes


Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White  

 

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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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Sunday, May 7, 2023

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist College and the Politics of Race by John Frederick Bell


At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War by Megan L. Bever


Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle by R. J. M. Blackett


John Brown's Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War, October 16-18, 1859 by Jon-Erik M. Gilot and Kevin R. Pawlak


Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat, edited by Kent Gramm


Fighting with the Eighteenth Massachusetts: The Civil War Memoir of Thomas H. Mann, edited by John J. Hennessy


Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess


Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era by Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant



Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper Correspondence of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Battery, 1861-1864, edited by Richard N. Griffin

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