Varon, Elizabeth R. Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. New                    York: Oxford University Press, 2003.     The title of Elizabeth R. Varon’s book Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: […]

Sword, Wiley. Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. Wiley Sword recounts with great detail the last great push by the rebel Confederates in The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville. Sword doesn’t miss an element while writing of that summer […]

Freehling, William W. The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped The Course of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. William W. Freehling, in The South VS. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War had one main purpose, to answer the […]

Hess, Earl J. In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Earl J. Hess has created a masterful trilogy on trench warfare during the Civil War. The first book in the series Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil […]

Castel, Albert, and Tom Goodrich. Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life             of a Civil War Guerrilla. Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Missouri has long been considered one of the bloodiest and savage arenas during the Civil War. Men like William Anderson spread […]

McPherson, James M. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, The Battle That Changed the             Course of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. James M. McPherson brilliantly covers the single, bloodiest day in American history with Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, The Battle That Changed […]