Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Coming Soon (April '22 Edition)

**NEW RELEASES1** Scheduled for APR 2022:

Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David Thomson.
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era by Sarah Purcell.
All for the Union: The Saga of One Northern Family Fighting the Civil War by John Simpson.
James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior by Robert Conner.
True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Clayton Butler.
Riders in the Storm: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil War by John Warner.
The 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry: From Gettysburg to Appomattox by Britt Isenberg.
Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss by Angela Esco Elder.
Lieutenant General James Longstreet and Innovative Military Strategy in the Civil War: The Most Misunderstood Civil War General by F. Gregory Toretta.
Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870 by Anders Rasmussen.

Comments: The first two books in the list are out already. Of the Jayhawker (un)holy trinity of Lane, Montgomery, and Jennison, only Lane has one or more modern, full-length biography [though there are unit histories of Lane's Kansas Brigade (see Benedict's Jayhawkers: The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane) and Jennison's Seventh Kansas Cavalry (see Starr's Jennison's Jayhawkers) that have significant biographical content on their leaders], so Conner's book should fill in a part of that gap. There are a pair of Longstreet studies with similar themes coming out this year, and it appears that Toretta's will cross the finish line first.

1 - These monthly release lists are not meant to be exhaustive compilations of non-fiction releases. They do not include non-revised/expanded reprints of previously published books, special editions not distributed to reviewers, and digital-only titles. Works that only tangentially address the war years are also generally excluded. Inevitably, one or more titles on this list will get a rescheduled release (and they do not get repeated later), so revisiting the past few "Coming Soon" posts is the best way to pick up stragglers.