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1.	Courage Under Fire: Profiles in Bravery from the Battlefields of the Civil War by Sword, Wiley REVIEW: by Fairweather, John E. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

2.	George Thomas: Virginian for the Union by Einolf, Christopher J. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

3.	Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates by LaFantasie Glenn W. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

4.	Hero of the Red River: The Life and Times of Joseph Bailey by Goc, Michael J. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

5.	House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War by Berry, Stephen REVIEW: by Crofts, Daniel W. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

6.	Iowa�s Forgotten General: Mathew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War by Lyftogt, Kenneth L. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

7.	Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney Slavery, Secession, and the President�s War Powers by Simon, James F. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

8.	Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President by Steers, Edward, Jr. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

9.	Lincoln�s Christianity by Burkhimer, Michael ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

10.	Lincoln�s Rise to the Presidency by Harris, William C. REVIEW: by Burton, Orville Vernon ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

11.	Marching with the First Nebraska by Potter, James E. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

12.	Quantrill in Texas: The Forgotten Campaign by Petersen, Paul R. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

13.	Robert E. Lee�s Softer Side by Forehand, Thomas, Jr., ed. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

14.	Sherman: A Soldier�s Passion for Order by Marszalek, John F. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

15.	Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk by Dusinberre, William ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

16.	Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality by Huston, James L. REVIEW: by Hansen, Stephen L. ISSUE: CWBR Spring 2008

17.	CIVIL WAR TREASURES: Eaton�s Experiment Chaplain worked to improve plight of freedmen by Jewett, Leah Wood ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

18.	A Divided Heart: Letters of Sally Baxter Hampton, 1853-1862 by Hampton, Ann Fripp, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

19.	A Philadelphia Perspective: The Civil War Diary of Sidney George Fisher by White, Jonathan W., ed. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

20.	A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction by Rogers, William Warren , Jr. REVIEW: by Russell, James M. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

21.	Abraham Lincoln, The Illustrated Edition: The Prairie Years and the War Years by Sandburg, Carl ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

22.	Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience by Dougherty, Kevin REVIEW: by Winders, Richard Bruce ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

23.	Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph Bailey by Baker, T. Lindsay, ed. REVIEW: by Edwards, Gary T. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

24.	In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson by Brandt, Nat REVIEW: by Murphy, Angela F. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

25.	Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan by Collins, Robert REVIEW: by Foote, Lorien ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

26.	Jo Shelby�s Iron Brigade by Sellmeyer, Deryl P. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

27.	Le Roy Fitch: The Civil War Career of a Union River Gunboat Commander by Smith, Myron J., Jr. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

28.	Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War by Hurst, Jack REVIEW: by Ramold, Steven J. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

29.	Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Pryor, Elizabeth Brown REVIEW: by Janney, Caroline E. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

30.	REDISCOVERING CIVIL WAR CLASSICS: Lincoln Books That Should Get Reprinted by Madden, David ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

31.	Stealing Lincoln�s Body by Craughwell, Thomas J. REVIEW: by Winkle, Kenneth ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

32.	Tales from the North and the South: Twenty-Four Remarkable People and Events of the Civil War by Casstevens, Frances H. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

33.	The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier by Gansler, Laura Leedy ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

34.	The Sea Captain�s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race and War in the Nineteenth Century by Hodes, Martha ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

35.	Ultimate Sacrifice at the Battle of Kernstown: William Gray Murray, First Pennsylvania Colonel to Die in the American Civil War by Gainer, Roderick Rodgers, Jr. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

36.	Wade Hampton III by Ackerman, Robert K. REVIEW: by Farmer, James O., Jr. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

37.	Welcome the House of Conflict: William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama by Carter, John C., ed. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

38.	Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider C.S.S. Alabama by Fox, Stephen REVIEW: by Bushnell, William D. ISSUE: CWBR Winter 2008

39.	A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: STUDYING THE LIFE OF LINCOLN Lincoln and the American Manifesto by Jayne, Allen COLUMN: by Williams, Frank J. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

40.	Berry Benson�s Civil War Book: Memoirs of a Confederate Scout and Sharpshooter by Benson, Susan Williams, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

41.	General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory by Collins, Robert ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

42.	John Tyler: The Accidental President by Crapol, Edward P. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

43.	Lincoln�s White House Secretary: The Adventurous Life of William O. Stoddard by Holzer, Harold, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

44.	M. Jeff Thompson: Missouri�s Swamp Fox of the Confederacy by Mueller, Doris L. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

45.	McClellan and Failure: A Study of Civil War Fear, Incompetence and Worse by Bonekemper, Edward H., III ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

46.	Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer by McBride, Mary Gorton ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

47.	Take Sides with the Truth: The Postwar Letters of John Singleton Mosby to Samuel F. Chapman by Brown, Peter A., ed. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

48.	The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard, Jr. by Nanzig, Thomas P., ed. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

49.	The Man Who Made the Monitor: A Biography of John Ericsson, Naval Engineer by Thulesius, Olav ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

50.	The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Applegate, Debby REVIEW: by Ogline, Jill ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2006

51.	Widows by the Thousand: The Civil War Letters of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862-1864 by Johansson, M. Jane, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

52.	Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families by Billingsley, Andrew ISSUE: CWBR Fall 2007

53.	A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country, The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-1864 by Giunta, Mary A., ed. REVIEW: by Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

54.	A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray by Longacre, Edward G. REVIEW: by Grabau, Warren E. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

55.	Abraham Lincoln Portrayed in the Collections of the Indiana Historical Society by Holzer, Harold, ed. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

56.	Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay by Burlingame, Michael, ed. REVIEW: by Chesson, Michael ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

57.	Boy Soldier of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Johnnie Wickersham by Gorman, Kathleen, ed. REVIEW: by Bergeron, Arthur W., Jr. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

58.	Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman: A Biography by Raab, James W. ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

59.	Confederate Spies at Large: The Lives of Lincoln Assassination Conspirator Tom Harbin and Charlie Russell by Stewart, John ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

60.	For Love & Liberty: The Untold Story of Major Sullivan Ballou and His Famous Love Letter by Young, Robin ISSUE: CWBR Summer 2007

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