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‘If We Are Striking For Pennsylvania:” The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg, Volume 2, June 2230, 1863. By Scott L. Mingus Sr., and Eric Wittenberg. Illustrated, Appendices, Bibliography, Index, 444 pp., 2023, Savas
In Volume Two, the authors cover the period June 22-30, 1863, when both Confederate and Union troops converged on Gettysburg. Using extensive
primary material from the Official Records, newspaper accounts, letters, and diaries, they combine the military, political, social, a economic forces that impacted both Union and Confederate strategy in Gen. Robert E. Lee’s push into Pennsylvania. Gen. Hooker had begun to move his troops north to discern the objectives, strength, and location of the Army of Northern Virginia. Simultaneously, the initial thrust north of the Mason-Dixon Line was executed by Gen. Albert Jenkins’ cavalry and led to the occupation of Greencastle and then Chambersburg as General Ewell moved north. The lack of certainty as to General Lee’s objectives left politicians, as we as Generals Hooker and Halleck, guessing, reassigning troops as needed, and hoping to prevent a Confederate assault on Baltimore or Washington. Panic was the name of the game in Adams County. Each chapter, beginnin with June 22, chronicles troop positioning: division, brigade, and regiment, and the response of the local citizenry to the presence of either Rebel or Union troops. As each chapter details troop maneuvering,
the reader can follow in the footsteps of the combatants,
through Chambersburg, Carlisle, Shippensburg, Greencastle Harrisburg, and countless smaller
ur readers with timely cant Civil War research and
towns. The voices of terrified citizens are vividly recalled a they fled their homes, lost or hid their worldly possessions, and wondered if they would survive the coming ordeal. Invading troops, both Union and Confederate, forag extensively through each town and farm, confiscating livestoc Negroes, grain, and personal possessions townsfolk had spent a lifetime accumulating. Rain, muddy roads, long marches, and
exhaustion characterized the soldier’s ordeal and added to t misery. People of Pennsylvania
were experiencing the same trauma that had been foisted on
the South for two years. As with Volume One, Scott Mingus and Eric Wittenberg do an excellent job of incorporati primary material to make the pa of these nine days come alive. The book is historically accura very readable, comprehensive, and hard to put down. Without a thorough understanding of the days leading up to the Battle o Gettysburg, including the effec of the last minute promotion of Gen. Meade, the absence of Gen. Stuart, and the feelings and emotions of local residents and competing troops, the whole story of Gettysburg would not b complete. Both Volumes One and Two should be added to every historian’s bookshelf. One vital attribute of this volume is how soldiers and civilians are viewed in human terms, a long overdue aspect of the opposing armies and civilia impacted by the fighting. This volume is recommended highly for its coverage of the human side of the campaign as well as its military aspects.
Dr. Wayne L. Wolf is Professor Emeritus at South Suburban College and the author of numerous Civil War books and
articles including Civil War Letters, The Last Confederate
Scout and the four volume Heroes and Rogues of the Civil War.
A Disappointing Look at America Catholics During the Civil War American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era. By Robert Emmett Curran. Endnotes, Index. 458
American Civil War is a subject that never gets old. Robert
Emmett Curran, history professo emeritus at Georgeto University, has written about American Catholic history and now offers a new look at how th Roman church existed during the Civil War. The author starts his discuss during the Mexican War. In the 1840s, about one third of the United States Army was made up of Catholics, most of them Iris When the Mexican War broke out the army, under orders from President James K. Polk, sought out Catholic chaplains for the time. From there the book jumps to the secession crisis, to the War itself, and reconstruction. When the author is focused on what the book’s title suggests, he presents a good overview of the status of Catholics in that time period, although a good percentage is merely anecdotal accounts. However, there is a l that could have been included. For example, there is no mention of the Catholic Church’ policy on slavery and the slave trade. Only once, and then in passing, does he mention Bishop John England of Charleston, S.C., arguably the influential antebellum southern Catholic clergyman, whose
views influenced a generation o Catholic priests and bishops in
the deep South. For the part of the war years all but puts the main topic of
book aside and instead presents a basic overview of Civil War battles and campaigns that is on par with any basic primer on the War. While there would have been nothing wrong with using that as background material, combat and campaigns are front and center for at least half the book and really add nothing to the main subject. In fact, the book would have been better without it.
He ends the book with a needless epilogue that is bound to offend many readers as he accuses Catholics of being “particularly susceptible to the lure of demagogues” and blasting them for supporting Sen. Joe McCarthy and former President Donald Trump. In the case of the latter, he calls their suppo
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a “shame.” In this reviewer’s opinion, it is the job of a his to present as honest and balanc view of the past as possible, e if it means putting aside their own personal biases. In this ca Curran failed, and probably los lot of Catholic readers who mig have otherwise read this book. In the end, this is a very
disappointing, heavily bloated, book that is not worth the mone being asked for it.
Tom Elmore is South Carolina State Historian for the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, An Irish-Catholic fraterna organization, and has written and lectured on Irish-American History.
1979 for enthusiasts who collec War, Civil War to World War II.
The Tale Untwisted: George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee’s Lost Orders. By Gene M. Thorp and Alexander B. Rossino. Savas Beatie, https://
Historians of the American Civil War have long studied the 1862 Maryland Campaign. Indeed, a near-constant stream of articles and books have been written describing, analyzing, and evaluating various aspects the campaign and its participan for over a century and a half. such an extended period, certai elements of the tale have been considered nearly sacrosanct in the mythology of America’s Iliad. One element concerns the story of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s lost orders and Union Major General George B. McClellan’s reaction to finding them. According to the longtold story, while in pursuit of the Rebel Army of Northern Virginia, elements of the Union Army of the Potomac reached Frederick, Maryland, September 13. There, Corporal Barton Mitchell of the 27th Indiana Infantry discovered a copy of Special Order 191, the detailed campaign plans of Lee’s army wrapped around three cigars. The order reveale that Lee had dispersed his army into five parts, thus making ea subject to defeat in detail. On the orders worked their way to McClellan, he telegraphed President Lincoln aro noon, boasting how he would
defeat Lee and send trophies. Nevertheless, McClellan waited 18 hours before deciding to tak advantage of this intelligence,
and this delay squandered the opportunity to destroy the Army of Northern Virginia. December 2023
Antietam: A New Perspective Many notable historians have
this established version of event For example, see Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Houghton Mifflin, 1983 (p. 113); James M. McPherson, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War, Oxford University Press, 2002 (pp. 108-09); Joseph T. Glatthaar, General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse, Free Press, 2008 (p. 168); Ethan S. Rafuse, McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union, Indiana University Press, 2005 (pp. 291-93). Gene M. Thorp and Alexander B. Rossino in The Tale Untwisted challenge virtually every aspect of the traditional story. The authors initially began examining the Antietam Campaign for separate projects and eventually combined their research. Their book is an expanded version of an essay published as part of Savas Beatie’s Civil War Spotlight (online) series in 2019. So, how does one go about changing history and challenging noted scholars? Interestingly enough, all it takes are the basi skills taught to any undergraduat history student. Read the relevan secondary sources, then consult the primary sources. The authors carefully examined offic reports, correspondence, letters, diary entries, telegrams, signal dispatches, newspaper articles, and unit histories (especially pertaining to September 13), and then placed them in chronological order and plotted them on maps. The result is a highly detailed account of McClellan and his army in their pursuit of Lee, especially on the fateful autumn day when the Federals discovered Lee’s order. The book follows a logical step-by-step repudiation the conventional wisdom surrounding McClellan’ handling of the campaign prior to the Battle of Antietam. The first chapter sets the stage, while chapter two explores what McClellan actually knew as he followed Lee into Maryland. The authors correctly point out that while past historians have been overly critical of McClellan for apparently moving too slowly, it
was a sound decision. The general was uncertain about the position of the Army of Northern Virginia, the strength of that army, or wha
Lee’s ultimate intentions were. Chapters three and four are the heart of the book. Here,
the authors dissect in detail the timeline of the finding of Lee’s lost order. Moreover, like a good detective story, the timeline is critical to understanding the events. The lost order was not discovered on the morning of the thirteenth but around noon. This information challenges Stephen Sears’s account on which many future scholars based their own interpretations. McClellan did not receive Special Order 191 until 2 p.m. In the meantime, his forces were not idle. Advanced elements continuously moved westward and drove back the Rebel rear guard. The authors contend the lost order did not unduly excite McClellan as traditiona reported; it merely confirmed his belief that the Army of the Potomac was going in the right direction and that he now had the opportunity to catch Lee’s army divided. Between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., McClellan continued to direct his men to the west. Aroun 6 p.m., he informed his senior lieutenants how his plans related to the discovery of the lost orde Essentially, other than a force sent to relieve Harpers Ferry, the Army of the Potomac was to move through the mountain passes and engage Lee’s scattered force beyond them. He does not exchange telegraphs with the General-in-Chief Henry Halleck until later in the evening; he do not contact Lincoln until around 11 p.m. After midnight, he goes to sleep and is up within a few hours to continue the pursuit. The authors present convincing case for their timelin and course of events. They have highlighted errors in the War Department’s dating of telegrams received, and they have even produced evidence that only two cigars, not three, were wrapped up in the lost order. The authors continu evaluating McClellan’ performance in chapter five as they demonstrate that neither McClellan nor his generals were at fault for the Confederate capture of Harpers Ferry. Indeed, Thorp and Rossino make a convincing case that the Union commander simply surrendered too easily and too soon, before
McClellan’s relief force could arrive. The authors view Halleck’s dogged pursuit to lay the blame on McClellan as a selfserving attempt to prevent any blame from being laid at his own feet. In sum, McClellan again behaved properly, and he did not dawdle. The book concludes with an overall positive assessment of McClellan. Moreover, three excellent appendices are included: one provides an overview of the Union telegraphic communications during this point in the campaign the second looks at the strength the Union Army of the Potomac during the campaign, the last is a copy of Lee’s Special Order No.191. The book has a detailed and excellent bibliograph and index and is thoroughly footnoted. So, what have the authors provided? A lot. First, they corroborate and enhance the research of Joseph L. Harsh in his Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 (Kent State, 2000). We know beyond a doubt that McClellan did not waste 18 hours after receiving Lee’s lost order. Indeed, the Federal army, except for periods of rest, was moving all day on the thirteenth. The authors’ in-depth research also demonstrates the importance of continuing exploration of the military aspects of the Civil War. While most professional historians have convince themselves that the military stor is done and eschewed, it is almos exclusively in favor of social an cultural subjects; this work alon proves that is not the case. This slender volume joins several recent works focused on the objective interpretation of Civil War generals, including Stephen M. Hood, John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General (Savas Beatie, 2013); Earl J. Hess, Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy (University of
North Carolina Press, 2016); Stephen Davis, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Be Hood (Mercer, 2019) and Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood (Mercer, 2020); and Richard McMurry’s The Civil Wars of General Joseph E. Johnston: Confederate States Army – Volume I: Virginia and Mississippi, 1861–1863 (Savas Beatie, 2023). The work also joins and complements new scholarship on the Maryland Campaign. For examples, see D. Scott Hartwig’s two-volume To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 (Johns Hopkins Univers Press, 2012); and I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battl of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) This book is an excellent mus read for Civil War scholars and the reading public in general. It would also be useful for graduate students in history since it clearly demonstrates t importance of always going back to the primary sources as a way of making sure long-established “facts” are actually facts and not interpretations. My only criticism is that the authors w terribly harsh with Stephen Sea accusing him of fabricating evidence. While it has become evident that Sears made errors, the mockery of his scholarship morphed into a visceral and unwarranted personal attack. The Sears commentary aside, the authors have presented a ni work that is to be recommended.
John D. Fowler, Ph.D., is the author of several books and articles on the Civil War Era. He is the author of Breaking the Heartland: The Civil War in Georgia. He is currently a Professor of History at Dalton State College.John D. Fowler, Ph.D., is the author of several books and articles on the Civil War Era. He is the author of Breaking the Heartland: The Civ War in Georgia. He is currently Professor of History at Dalton State College.
Gap: Prelude to Emancipation. By Curtis L. Older. Illustrated. Bibliography, index, endnotes, Casemate Publishing, https://
Curtis Older, in collaboration with local historian Ted Ellis, has compiled an exhaustive geographical and topographical study of the Battle of South Mountain. Their research has altered the previous placement of Gen. John B. Hood’s troops near Fox’s Gap, reprised the rol of Gen. Hood’s two brigades in the Maryland campaign, and forced a reexamination of troop alignments and participation in this opening salvo of the Battle of Antietam. The Battle of South Mountain began at 9 a.m. on September 11, 1862. The fighting around Fox’s Gap provided the Union (particularly the IX and I Corps under Gen. George McClellan) with a path to flank Turner’s Ga from the rear. If successful, Un
forces could have gotten between Confederate Gens. Thomas Jackson and James Longstreet, allowing Gen. McClellan to attack each force separately. Previous published major works on the Battle of Fox’s Gap e.g., Ezra Carmen, John Priest,
to Older’s research, misplaced Hood’s two brigades during his final assault of the battle durin the late afternoon of September 14. Hood had advanced south from Old National Road towards Old Sharpsburg Road and suffered a decisive defeat one-half mile west of Fox’s Gap. This solidifie the Union victory at Fox’s Gap, compelled Gen. Robert E. Lee to issue his first-ever retreat order, and weakened Confederate forces for the upcoming Battle of Antietam. Older’s research also contradicted the assertion that Hood’s two brigades retook Miller’s Field along Wood Road and recaptured Mountain Crest at Fox’s Gap. Likewise, maps that show Gen. G.T. Anderson’s Brigade far down the east slope o East Ridge are inaccurate. Also, there is little doubt that Hood always intended to attack the Union’s left flank. However, with fewer than 2,000 men available due to the exhausted condition of his troops, Hood had little chanc to regain any lost ground near Wise’s Cabin, Miller’s Field, or Ridge Road. His final repulse was at Cox’s Intersection, and this effectively ended the Battle of Fox’s Gap. Curtis Older provides ample primary source mater including soldier’s letters, afte action reports, official records, and topographical data to correct the record on the placement and participation of Gen. Hood’s forces at Fox’s Gap. Those historians eager to examine the prelude to the Battle of Antietam in minute detail will find this s instructive. Several repetitive phrases could have been redacted to promote the flow of material but are otherwise historically sound and well documented.
Dr. Wayne L. Wolf is Professor Emeritus at South Suburban College and the author of numerous books and articles on the Civil War, He is past president of the Lincoln-David Civil War Roundtable.
A War Funny Thing About the Civil War: The Humor of an American Tragedy. By Thomas F. Curran. Notes, index, 222 pp. McFarland & Co., 2023.
remarkable number of literary and creative works that have approached the Civil War with wit. Employing a capacious definition of humor, veteran author Thomas F. Curran surveys an ambitious array of texts, from poetry and prose to slapstick and short stories, fr “mockumentaries” and memoirs to the now famous and frequentl anthologized Jourdon Anderson letter. Curran’s book is divided into three parts. In Part I, the aut considers how writers deployed humor and satire during the war. “Writers did not always plunge their satirical sword at enemy,” Curran reminds, “often aiming their wit, as well as th
criticism, at their own leaders wartime newspaper columns and popular periodicals, “crackerbo philosophers” like Petroleum V. Nasby and Orpheus C. Kerr lampooned shoddy contractors, office seekers, and Copperhead Democrats. Meanwhile, a veteran of the Pennsylvania Reserve Division who lost his leg at Antietam put pen to paper on John Smith’s Funny Adventure on a Crutch, or the Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War. This sol turned author was hardly alone tackling one of “the grittiest most unpleasant aspect of the w with humor.” Part II turns to the immediat
and published accounts of the conflict became a veritable
cottage industry. At least some veterans seeking to heal the physical and psychologic wounds of war believed laughter was an effective remedy. Wisconsin volunteer George Peck, for example, satirized the immodesty of many Civil War memoirists with his tellingly titled book, How Private Geo W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion. Many others spiced recollections battle accounts, and bits of autobiography with a sardonic wit. Perhaps most famously, Mark Twain’s “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed” mused over the war’s rank absurdities. In the book’s final part, Cur shifts his gaze to the twentieth century. He considers a wide ran of both print and visual media, from the satirist H.L. Mencken’s “The Calamity of Appomattox,” a tart exercise in counterfactua thinking, to a dystopian fantasy published in 2018. Impressively, Curran’s inventory captures many lesser-known works, such as the historian Thomas Connelly’s intriguing, pseudonymously published parody of the Civil War centennial, Will Success Spoil Jeff Davis? A lengthy section surveys the many filmic representations of
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the war. The slapstick comedy of Buster Keaton’s The General proved perhaps the height of Ci War humor on the silver screen, though “mockumentaries” and zombie films such as C.S.A. and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, have proliferated at th turn of the twenty-first centur Throughout the book, Curran maintains a commentate tone. Th author punctuates the narrative with his own asides, injecting own “tongue-in-cheek” humor into the main text. Scholars will no doubt wish that Curran had advanced an overarching thesis, or that he had done mor to situate his findings within the historiography of Civil War memory. This reviewer suspects even more humorous anecdotes could be wrung from the records of GAR campfires and the pages of the National Tribune, yet historians will mine with profi the many long-forgotten sources that Curran brings to light.
Brian Matthew Jordan i associate professor and chair o the history department at Sam Houston State University. His Marching Home was a finalist fo the Pulitzer Prize.
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Civil War Surgeons. By Jill L. Newmark. Illustrated, Notes, Bibliography, Index, Southern Illinois University Press, http:
This book is a bibliography of the 14 black doctors who served the Union during the Civil War. They formed a small group among the 12,000 doctors who served in the Union Army and Navy. However, their contributions were significant firsts in caring for black soldiers, contraband families, escaped slaves, and freedmen. Whether they ministered near battlefields or in the Contraban Hospital (Freedman’s Hospitals), their service saved lives and encouraged the advancement of civil rights. Each of the book’s twelve chapters highlights these pioneer black surgeons’ life, education, struggles, and trendsetting accomplishments. Chapter One was devoted to Alexander T. Augusta, one of the few black surgeons in uniform, and how he changed how black people envisioned themselves and
redefined conventional notions o authority. Chapter 2 documented William Peter Powell’s service
as the surgeon in charge of the Contraband camp in Washington D.C., his improvements to its sanitary facilities, and his req for perimeter fencing to protect patients and staff. The next three chapters focus
on the achievements of Anderson R. Abbott, who possibly accompanied Mrs. Keckly to the Peterson House the night Lincoln was shot, William P. Powell, who served as Asst. Surgeon at the December 2023
Contraband Hospital, and John V.S. DeGrasse, the only black surgeon to serve in the field wi
his regiment (35th USCT). The next set of chapters highlighted John H. Rapier Jr., who was born in Jamaica but served the Union with devotion, Richard Henry Greene, the only Union naval doctor in the Civil War an the first black graduate of Yale and Willis R. Revels, an AME minister, and surgeon for the 28 Indiana Regiment USCT. The final chapters are devote to Benjamin A. Boseman Jr., who later served as Postmaster of Charleston and in the South Carolina House of Representatives, Charles B. Purvis, the first black doctor to treat a president (Garfield), Cornelius V. Creed, and William B. Ellis, the first black gradua of an Ivy League college, Alpheus W. Tucker who served at the Freedman’s Hospital, Joseph Harris, who ministered to the si at Balfour Hospital, and Charles H. Taylor who served at Lincoln General Hospital. These men became healers of soldiers, sailors, contrabands, and free men after overcoming racially prevalent impediments of antebellum Americ Nevertheless, each achieved their success through hard work, educational excellence, and a desire to serve humanity. This book provides a thorough biographical sketch of these fourteen black surgeons. It is w researched, replete with primary source data, and profusely annotated. At times, it appears that many accomplishments of these surgeons were denigrated through racism, an overused excuse that permeates this book and gives these men less than their fair share of acclaim for their accomplishments Nevertheless, for a primer on th contributions of black medical pioneers, it is a worthy additio
to the bookshelves of those interested in African-American
Emeritus at South Suburban College and Past President of the Lincoln-Davis Civil War Roundtable. He has authored over twenty books and articles on the Civil War, including The Last Confederate Scout, Two
Years Before the Paddlewheel, Soldiers, Sailors, and Scoundrel of the Civil War, and They Saw the Elephant. He frequently lectures to Civil War groups and school events.
Toward A More Perfect Union: The Civil War Letters of Frederic and Elizabeth Lockley. Edited by Charles E. Rankin. 25 photographs, three maps, three appendixes, notes, index, 472 pp University of Nebraska Press,
Published letter collections written by Civil War soldiers to their families and friends back home exist in the hundreds if not thousands. It was easy for a man’s wife to preserve his letters for posterity whereas on the other hand, soldiers in the field usually had little means t safeguard letters sent from the home front. All of which makes Toward A More Perfect Union something of a rarity; a splendi two-way correspondence of 162 letters between one-time English immigrant Frederic Lockley and his young wife Elizabeth, selected by editor Charles E. Rankin from the 405 letters in t Frederic E. Lockley Collection
at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Adding to their uniqueness is the fact tha Lockley was an educated man; he was eloquent and a published
author as well. Elizabeth was al quite articulate and expressive and remained sympathetic to her husband’s toils throughout the war. Bored and frustrated with his life as a traveling book salesma
thirty-seven-year-old Lockl enlisted into the 113th New York Infantry in August 1862. The regiment was soon reorganized as the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery. Perhaps not surprisin
nineteen-year-old Elizabeth was not pleased with his decision, considering her responsibilities caring for Frederic’s three youn children from a prior marriage. Considering the handsom enlistment bounties then being offered coupled with Lockley’s job dissatisfaction, Rankin righ suggests Lockley’s motives may have been pecuniary every bit as much as patriotic. There is little surprise then that parenting and children form a constant and reciprocal theme throughout their correspondence. Such family updates offered a powerful and important connection for the soldier so th he could maintain a semblance of sanity in the face of war’s horr Lockley was a staunch Unionis a man who strove for intellectua attainment, and one who fully
of proper manliness. Given his English upbringing, that meant striving to maintain a “stiff upper lip.” He admired others who did the same and, therefore, like scores of Union soldiers, his letters corresponding reveal a warrior’s respect for the Confederate rank and file. “A Johnny we can respect - and regard as a brother soldier,” he informed his wife. As may be expected, he likewise loathed Union deserters, “big bounty men,” and those home front civilians who did not give full support toward the war. Of course, Lockley also provides ample mili commentary. Even better is that much of it provides Civil War students with a window into underrepresented topics within the literature. His first twenty months of duty were relatively
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easy. Lockley spent most of that time as a clerk performing garrison duty in Washington, D.C.’s defenses. Once the 1864 Overland Campaign’s massive casualties became apparent, many Washington garrison heavy artillery regiments, including Lockley’s, were sent into Virginia. Fortunately for the Lockley’ Frederic survived the Petersbur carnage. In late February 1865, Lockley and 100 of his regimental comrades were sent t Annapolis to watch over Union parolees. Two weeks later they were reassigned to Baltimore’s Fort McHenry to guard yet-to-be released Confederate prisoners, all of which Lockley described “a divine interposition.” His e for detail offers an uncommon glimpse into the often rowdy life of Union parolees. Lockley remained in Maryland for the remainder of the war and then mustered out in June 1865. Rankin provides an excellent and lengthy prologue that amply sets the stage for these insigh letters to and from the home front. Twenty-five photographs of Lockley, his family, and war sketches further enhance the text. His chapter introductions and editorial annotations provi the proper context for this 450 page volume that is an excellen addition to eastern theater primary sources.
Paul Taylor is an award-winning author of eight books pertainin to the Civil War era. His next book is titled “Tis Not Our War Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North and will be published by Stackpole Books in Spring 2024.
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