New Arrival : • Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation by Bennett Parten ( Sim...

New Arrival : • Lincoln and the War's End by John C. Waugh ( SIU Press , 2024). By its very nature, SIU Press's Concise Lincoln ...

Yesterday's post about the new Bates study got me thinking about remaining gaps in the modern biography of Lincoln's cabinet. I know...

New Arrival : • Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor: Attorney General Edward Bates by Mark A. Neels ( SIU Press , 2024). When it comes to fre...

New Arrival : • Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War by Lesley J. Gordon ( Cambridge UP , 2024). I've been l...

New Arrival : • The "Immortal Six Hundred" and the Failure of the Civil War POW Exchange Process by John F. Schmutz ( McFarland...

[ "Digging All Night and Fighting All Day": The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865 by Paul Brueske ( S...

Scheduled for DEC 2024 1 : • The "Immortal Six Hundred" and the Failure of the Civil War POW Exchange Process by John Schmutz...

New Arrival : • Hell by the Acre: A Narrative History of the Stones River Campaign, November 1862-January 1863 by Daniel A. Masters ( Sav...

New Arrival : • Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853–1920 by Gregg Andrews ( LSU Press , 2024). From the description: Hard Times in...

[ The Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through Chanti...

New Arrival : • Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory by Court Carney ( LSU Press , 2024). Court Carney’s ...

New Arrival : • "Digging All Night and Fighting All Day": The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865 by ...

With 2024 fast winding down, I wanted to pause and give thanks to the sponsors who support CWBA. Both the Windy City's Abraham Lincoln B...