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  "Maps of America and detailed plans of the battle areas sold like hotcakes in Bradford bookshops". "
  Samuel Fielden (Future 'Haymarket Martyr')  
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The American Civil War Through British Eyes: Dispatches From British Diplomats. Vol. 1: November 1860-April 1862 The American Civil War Through British Eyes: Dispatches From British Diplomats. Vol. 1: November 1860-April 1862


Compiled by: James J. and Patience P. Barnes

London, [England]: Caliban Books, 2003. ISBN 1-850660-42-5

Review by Tony...

The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections by Arnie Bernstein The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections by Arnie Bernstein

$15.95 published by Lake Claremont Press ISBN1-893121-06-2 250 pages (www.lakeclaremont.com)

Review by Rees Taylor

This is a small guidebook to Chicago, written by someone who has a wealth of local knowledge about...

Third Alabama! - The Civil War Memoir of Brigadier General Cullen Andrews Battle, CSA Third Alabama! - The Civil War Memoir of Brigadier General Cullen Andrews Battle, CSA


Edited by Brandon H. Beck.

2002 paperback edition, published by the University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-817312-44-7 $19.95. 

Review by Richard O'Sullivan

We have waited a long...

The Telegraph Goes to War: edited by Donald E. Markle The Telegraph Goes to War: edited by Donald E. Markle
 

$25.95 published by Edmonston Publishing Inc. ISBN1-892059-02-9 (272 pages)

Reviewed By Alec Hasenson

This book on the American Civil War seems to have it all. History, drama, facts and personalities, they...

Letters from a Civil War Surgeon: Dr. William Child of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers Letters from a Civil War Surgeon: Dr. William Child of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers


(Transcribed by Merrill, Betty and Timothy Sawyer); Polar Bear & Co.,2001.ISBN: 1-882190-63-7 ( $25.00)

Review by: Robin Ansell

This fascinating paperback volume comprises an entire collection of heartfelt...

First Regiment Engineer Troops PACS, Robert E Lee's Combat Engineers First Regiment Engineer Troops PACS, Robert E Lee's Combat Engineers


by Harry L. Jackson (RAE Design and Publishing, 1998 ISBN 0 96667 290 9)

Review by: John Drewienkiewicz

It is well known that the American Civil War was a transitional war, and this applies as much to the...

The Burning: Sheridan's Devastation of the Shenandoah Valley The Burning: Sheridan's Devastation of the Shenandoah Valley


By John L. Heatwole (Rockbridge Publishing 1998 £19.99)

Review by: Stan May

Perhaps the most shocking aspect of Sheridan's 1864 Shenandoah Campaign was its deliberate and planned nature. Unlike the haphazard...

Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox


by William B. Feis (pp 330 pages, University of Nebraska Press; ISBN: 0803220057) 

Review by: Thomas J. Ryan

A welcome addition...

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