Booknotes (Aug 08)

August list of book acquisitions:

• Guardian of Savannah: Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond (Studies in Maritime History series) by Roger S. Durham (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2008).

Having read Livingston's Among the Best Men the South Could Boast, The Fall of Fort McAllister, December 13, 1864 (see brief review) and Christman's Undaunted: The History of Fort McAllister, Georgia, and found them unsatisfying for one reason or another (esp. the former, but the latter is a fairly good military overview), I've been awaiting with interest this new study.

• New Mexico Territory during the Civil War: Wallen and Evans Inspection Reports, 1862-1863 ed. by Jerry D. Thompson (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2008).

The literature of the Civil War in the southwest tends to dry up after the end of the Sibley expedition. This book, under Thompson's knowledgeable oversight, should prove to be informative and one for the Trans-Miss. reference library.

• High Seas And Yankee Gunboats: A Blockade-Running Adventure From The Diary Of James Dickson by Roger S. Durham (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2005).