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An Artilleryman's War: Gus Dey and the 2nd United States Artillery

1 review
Michael N. Ingrisano

White Mane Pub, 1998

The stories that are seldom told.
This is another welcome addition to the history of those men who are generally forgotten but have played a major part in the conflict. In particular, the difference between the treatment of officers and the rest of the army is striking in the Official Records. It is therefore heartning to find works that tell the stories of these soldiers and NCOs. On a personal level, it was particularly ...

Norfolk Blues: The Civil War Diary of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues
John Walters

White Mane Pub, 1997

The Wrong Side of the Fence: A United States Army Corps Pow in World War II
Eugene E., Jr. Halmos

White Mane Pub, 1996

Strike the Blow for Freedom: The 6th United States Colored Infantry in the Civil War

1 review
James M. Paradis

White Mane Pub, 1998

Revealing view of facts around the 6th Colored infantry.
I found this book very enjoyable and informative. "Strike the Blow for Freedom" uses a myriad of resources to present the facts of the formation of the 6th United States Colored Infantry Regiment. This study continues with the recruitment, training, battles and finally the mustering out of the 6th. The 6th shared some of the same influences that shaped the formation of many military units ...

Quill of the Wild Goose: Civil War Letters and Diaries of Private Joel Molyneux, 141St. P.V

1 review
Joel Molyneux

White Mane Pub, 1996

Private thoughts for a different perspective.
"Quill of the Wild Goose" is a compilation of the privae thoughts of Private Joel Molyneux. An avid letter writer, Joel presents his thoughts about the Civil War, camp life, and his personal situation thereby providing posterity with a unique perspective on living through the conflict and maintaining high personal standards. The book begins with his enlistment into the 141st Regiment, ...

Confederate Commissary General: Lucius Bellinger Northrop and the Subsistence Bureau of the Southern Army

1 review
Jerrold Northrop Moore

White Mane Pub, 1996

A dense and fascinating study of food in the Confederacy
When I picked up this book, I had not studied the Civil War since high school, and knew little more than the basics. After reading it, I have a much more vibrant picture of the Confederacy, and especially of the reasons why the South lost. In view of what Moore reveals, I'm astounded the Confederacy survived as long as it did! Moore has done a masterful job of primary and obscure-secondary ...

Hold the Marianas: The Japanese Defense of the Mariana Islands

1 review
D. Colt Denfeld

White Mane Pub, 1997

Interesting account of some terrible fighting
This was a well researched account of the fighting in the Marianas during WW2. The author utilised Japanese accounts of the battle to tell the story. He covered the history of the Islands, the Japanese take over, before and during WW2, of the Island chain and the subsequent American effort to re-take the Islands in 1944. Overall the author offered an interesting account into the desperate ...

Leader of the Charge: A Biography of General George E. Pickett, C.S.A

6 reviews
Edward G. Longacre

White Mane Pub, 1995

Read this book.
Growing up in the south I always held the same general opinion of Pickett that most southerners and indeed most Americans hold. The playboy image seen in the movie "Gettysburg" has always been what came to mind at the mention of General Pickett. Thanks to this book I see that the well known image is false. Pickett does indeed seem to have been a glory hound and playboy but he was also a brave ...

The Very Quiet Baltimoreans: A Guide to the Historic Cemeteries and Burial Sites of Baltimore

1 review
Jane Bromley Wilson

White Mane Pub, 1991

light on information, heavy on opinion!
I feel that this book should be titled "Ms. Wilson's Take on Baltimore Cemeteries and Society." I question her need to reinforce the "Who's Who" of the cemeteries. This reads more as a social registry. The length of review for each cemetery is directly related to the number of famous people interred in a particular cemetery (at least those who measure up to Ms. Wilson standard of famous or ...

The View from the Turret: The 743d Tank Battalion During World War II

2 reviews
William B. Folkestad

White Mane Pub, 1996

743d TB Needs More Attention
Not very many people who study military history may be aware, but the 743d TB was rated the most proficient Armored unit in World War Two. They took the fewest casualties, lost the fewest tanks, destroyed a very large number of enemy vehicles, were engaged in five campaigns and collected a great number of honors from D-Day through occupation duties ending in December, 1945. This book offers an ...

An American Pursuit Pilot in France: Roland W. Richardson's Diaries and Letters, 1917-1919

1 review
Roland W. Richardson, Ritchie Thomas, ...

White Mane Pub, 1994

a pilot's experiences in the U.S. Army's Signal Corps in WWI
Dairy and letters home to his mother, by U.S. pilot, describing his experiences in training and flying for the Army's air service in WWI. By the time he was sent to the front to actually fight, the war was almost over, so there is little regarding combat but good descriptions of airplanes, training, air bases and morale of the flyers.

Lest We Forget: A Guide to Civil War Monuments in Maryland
Susan Cooke Soderberg

White Mane Pub, 1995

Sabres in the Shenandoah: The 21st New York Cavalry, 1863-1866

1 review
John C., Jr. Bonnell

White Mane Pub, 1996

Mr. Bonell's account of the 21st New York Cavalry is a must
"Sabers in the Shenandoah" is an account of a Union cavalry regiment that saw hard service in the cavalry operations in the Shenandoah Valley. Many accounts of cavalry in the Civil War stress the exploits of cavalry greats such as Sheridan, Custer, Mosby, Stuart, etc. Mr. Bonnell's history of the 21st New York describes the service of a dedicated group of men who suffered great hardship ...

Civil War Justice: Union Army Executions Under Lincoln

1 review
Robert I. Alotta

White Mane Pub, 1989

A study of Civil War justice that refutes its own premise
In recent years there has been a tendency toward revisionism of the Civil War's most sainted heroes, especially President Abraham Lincoln. The revisionist beef with Lincoln is that he allegedly over reacted to political dissent by imposing martial law throughout the Union and ordering the arrest and indefinite incarceration in military prisons of thousands of political prisoners, including ...

A Doughboy With the Fighting Sixty-Ninth: A Remembrance of World War I

4 reviews
Albert M. Ettinger, Ettinger A. Churchill

White Mane Pub, 1992

Above-average memoirs.
Private Ettinger, in his brief military career, managed to experience the battle of the Argonne Forest, survive four close shell bursts, a personal strafing by a German pilot, and some spectacular crashes on his dispatch-rider motorcycle, to provide us with one of the most engaging memoirs of the American Expiditionary Forces. His very readable and entertaining reminiscences, augmented ...

The South's Finest: The First Missouri Confederate Brigade from Pea Ridge to Vicksburg

2 reviews
Phillip Thomas Tucker

White Mane Pub, 1993

Well-Rounded Trans-Mississippi/Western CS Brigade History
From all the western Confederate defeats, the Missouri Brigade must have been the most frustrated of units. Tucker makes a solid case that this particular brigade was the most intrepid unit of the western CS ranks. Overall, one gets the picture that this brigade was the one most often left holding the bag, serving some of the most dangerous and audacious missions of its almost constantly defeated ...

Fort Lyon to Harper's Ferry on the Border of North and South With Rambling Jour a Civil War Soldier
Lee C. Drickamer

White Mane Pub, 1988

Pennsylvania in the War With Mexico

2 reviews
Randy W. Hackenburg

White Mane Pub, 1992

Keystone Staters Fight Hard
In the late 1800's the United States experienced a great growth in genealogical interest. Lineage societies like the Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, etc. got their start during this era and many books were published. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania found itself deluged with requests for documents from its extensive ...

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