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