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Friday, July 28, 2023

Coming Soon (August '23 Edition)

Scheduled for AUG 20231:

I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by Scott Hartwig.
Public Debate in the Civil War Era: A Rhetorical History of the United States, Volume IV ed. by David Zarefsky.
Reconstruction beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom ed. by Burton & Morris.
Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau.
Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22 - July 23, 1864 by Ed Bearss, ed. by David Powell.
Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War by George Rable.

Comments: Hartwig's long-anticipated Maryland Campaign V2 was released a month early. Nice. Thanks to all who preordered through the site. Some of you might even have it in hand already. I should have mine by the middle of next week. The Rable and Bearss/Powell titles have also grabbed my interest. Ed Bearss's Forrest at Brice's Crossroads, published by Morningside (1979, R-1987), has a Tupelo Campaign-focused middle section that was presumably closely based on the author's earlier government work published as The Tupelo Campaign, June 22-July 23. A Documented Narrative & Troop Movement Maps (Washington, 1969). It sounds like Powell and publisher SB are resurrecting the original manuscript in newly augmented fashion.

1 - These monthly release lists are not meant to be exhaustive compilations of non-fiction releases. They do not include reprints that are not significantly revised/expanded, 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.