HF Three new books!

[Stryker65]

just bought these three for only $5 at my local library book sale:

Anybody read these before? I just finished Pursuit: it's quite interesting!

 

[Belfoured]

just bought these three for only $5 at my local library book sale:
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Anybody read these before? I just finished Pursuit: it's quite interesting!

The Wilkinson book is excellent. Great portrait of a regiment raised in late 1863-64 after the draft went into effect in 1864 and tossed into the Overland Campaign.

 

[RedRover]

The Wilkinson book is excellent. Great portrait of a regiment raised in late 1863-64 after the draft went into effect in 1864 and tossed into the Overland Campaign.

Ditto. Read "Mother, May you Never See..." over thirty years ago, and still remember it as among the best regimental histories.

 

[Gandycreek]

I read the Wilkinson book many years ago. Great book !

 

[Pollaco]

I'd like to hear about Clint Johnson's book "Pursuit". The picture on the cover showing Davis in disguise being captured. Is that "non-incident" addressed in the book?

 

[TallTallMan]

just bought these three for only $5 at my local library book sale:
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Anybody read these before? I just finished Pursuit: it's quite interesting!

My library's pretty barren of CW save some Webb Garrison. *Shivers*

 

[Stryker65]

I'd like to hear about Clint Johnson's book "Pursuit". The picture on the cover showing Davis in disguise being captured. Is that "non-incident" addressed in the book?

A whole chapter on it. Accounts from the creator of the lie, Mrs. Davis, General Wilson, and others.

 

[TallTallMan]

I'd like to hear about Clint Johnson's book "Pursuit". The picture on the cover showing Davis in disguise being captured. Is that "non-incident" addressed in the book?

A whole chapter on it. Accounts from the creator of the lie, Mrs. Davis, General Wilson, and others.

TOO much time is devoted to it in The Romance of Reunion. Why anybody talks about it at all, when there are much more important topics of the CW, is beyond me.

 

[TallTallMan]

a regiment raised in late 1863-64 after the draft went into effect in 1864 and tossed into the Overland Campaign.

Not exactly a great start to seeing the elephant, I'd say.

 

[Belfoured]

Not exactly a great start to seeing the elephant, I'd say.

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I think that may be an understatement - although it did have a contingent of veterans who had served in other regiments, some of whom might have been at Chancellorsville.

 

[Belfoured]

My library's pretty barren of CW save some Webb Garrison. *Shivers*

No PTT books? I ask because you might have a few and your library could still be "barren of CW" ...

 

[TallTallMan]

No PTT books? I ask because you might have a few and your library could still be "barren of CW" ...

Thankfully, no!

The others they have I own, such as Shelby Foote, Lee Considered, McPherson stuff, and The Image of War; the rest is did-you-know juvenilia. They have some A-listers I don't have like Blood and Daring by John Boyko and 1861: The Awakening, but I have so many CW books I don't need a library for any more! At the library I mostly do DVDs or comic books; stuff I don't have time or money to collect.

Specifically, True Tales of the Civil War by Garrison was the offender. I thought maybe it was a collection of folklore or apocrypha but it was basic CW stories given "clickbate" titles, like "The Battle That Ruined a Picnic", which is just the Bull Run narrative. Ugh!

In Garrison's defense, the Encyclopedia of Civil War Usage is a good dictionary of CW terminology, also at the library.

 

[Stryker65]

Specifically, True Tales of the Civil War by Garrison was the offender. I thought maybe it was a collection of folklore or apocrypha but it was basic CW stories given "clickbate" titles, like "The Battle That Ruined a Picnic", which is just the Bull Run narrative. Ugh!

So...would Five Forks be "The Battle That Ruined A Shad Bake"?

 

[TallTallMan]

So...would Five Forks be "The Battle That Ruined A Shad Bake"?

Here's the table of contents from Archive (https://archive.org/details/truetalesofcivil0000garr_m8z4).

Chapter 11 is what I was referencing.

 

[Library Lady]

My library's pretty barren of CW save some Webb Garrison. *Shivers*

You know, I actually enjoy Webb Garrison's books for what they are, that is, cheap and legal entertainment. They probably are more for 'tweens and teens, but if something in them gets the kids to read more about the Civil War, then I can't really be too down on the source.

If you're dissatisfied with your public library's quantity or quality of Civil War books, then make some purchase requests. Most libraries have a mechanism for that, either on-line or on paper from one of the service desks. You read a lot and could give them good suggestions. Civil War may not be the selector's favorite thing/area of greatest expertise.

 

[TallTallMan]

If you're dissatisfied with your public library's quantity or quality of Civil War books, then make some purchase requests. Most libraries have a mechanism for that, either on-line or on paper from one of the service desks. You read a lot and could give them good suggestions. Civil War may not be the selector's favorite thing/area of greatest expertise.

Good suggestion, but that would most likely be me helping other people. I don't really need the library's CW books because I collect them.

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

I'd like to hear about Clint Johnson's book "Pursuit". The picture on the cover showing Davis in disguise being captured. Is that "non-incident" addressed in the book?

Yes, if the book is accurate he was not dressed like a woman!

 

[Pollaco]

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Yes, if the book is accurate he was not dressed like a woman!

Most know full well that the "disguise story" is nonsense made up by the Northern Press but there are those who still believe it.

 

[TallTallMan]

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Most know full well that the "disguise story" is nonsense made up by the Northern Press but there are those who still believe it.

Remember that crazy blog? Stupid people.

IF NOT FOR VARINA'S LETTER

Jeff Davis cowardice capture dress Jefferson Nephew Union It was my mother Letter

jeffdavisdresss.blogspot.com

 

[major bill]

I stopped by my library this week. Slim pickings. Any book worth $2?

This one is a great book on US infantry uniforms but I have it

The "They Fought Like Lions" is a nice book about Confederate cadets at war, but again I own a copy.