Book News: More Hess on the horizon

The pattern of having one Earl Hess title in the reading pile and two more in the immediate pipeline continues! My review copy of Shattered Courage arrived last month from University Press of Kansas, and Civil War Camps and Soldier Health (which has been mentioned here on the site before) will be published by Kent State University Press next month. In October, LSU Press is releasing Hess's Managing the Union Army: Scott, McClellan, Halleck, and Grant as General-in-Chief.

The description sounds very intriguing, including the part where it indicates that Hess's book "offers a much more positive evaluation of Halleck than is typical of the scholarly literature on Civil War commanders." Given how important the working relationship was between General in Chief and Commander in Chief when it came to managing the Union war machine from the top, it should be a good volume to pair with Kenneth Noe's Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend: Reconsidering Lincoln as Commander in Chief, which arrived on my doorstep a few days ago (the Booknotes announcement for it will appear soon).