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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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Retreat From Gettysburg Retreat From Gettysburg

by Kent Masterson Brown

(ISBN No 0-8078-2921-8: The University of North Carolina Press)

Review by: Basil Larkins

As any student of the civil war knows Lee attacked the federal army for...

Champion Hill - Decisive Battle for Vicksburg Champion Hill - Decisive Battle for Vicksburg

by Timothy B Smith 

(ISBN 1-932714-00-6) published by Savas Beatie. 411 pages + appendices

Review 1 by: Rees Taylor.

I do not recollect ever seeing a book devoted entirely to the battle at Champion's...

From First to Last: The Life of Major General William B. Franklin From First to Last: The Life of Major General William B. Franklin

by Mark A. Snell

(ISBN: 0-8232-2149-0 Published by Fordham University Press, 2002, New York
Publication Date: 2002)
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Jessie James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War Jessie James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War

by T J Stiles

( ISBN: 0-224-06925-X Jonathan Cape 2003 £20)

Review by: Eileen Church

This first serious biography of Jesse James in 40yrs is a superb reassessment that portrays...

Circle of Fire -The Story of the USS Susquehanna in the War of the Rebellion Circle of Fire -The Story of the USS Susquehanna in the War of the Rebellion

by Peter Barratt

(246pp, Paperback: Size 156 x 234mm. ISBN 0-9548664-0-1 £12.00 Published by Columbiad Press. www.columbiadpress.com)

'Circle of Fire' is more than the story of a Union warship during the Civil...

Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth - The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patric R Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth - The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patric R Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Edited by Christian G Samito

(ISBN 0-8232-1813-9 Published by Fordham University Press New York 263 pages)

Reviewed By Rees Taylor

This is the sixth in the...

Grant - The Man Who Won the Civil War Grant - The Man Who Won the Civil War

By Robin Neillands, foreword by Julian Thompson, 

Wiedenfeld & Nicholson, London 2004, Hardback, with dustcover, 221 pages, with 6 maps, 13 Illustrations, Index and Bibliography - ISBN 0-2978-4607-8: ...

Jefferson Davis In Blue - The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior Jefferson Davis In Blue - The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior

By Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jnr and Gordon D Whitney

Louisiana State University Press - ISBN 0-8071-2777-9 - $49.95

Review by: Andrew F Roberts
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