HF Three new books!

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Stryker65

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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!
 
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.
 
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.
 
No PTT books? I ask because you might have a few and your library could still be "barren of CW" ... :D:D:D
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.
 
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"?
 
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. :D 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. :smile: Civil War may not be the selector's favorite thing/area of greatest expertise.
 
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. :smile: 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.
 
I stopped by my library this week. Slim pickings. Any book worth $2?
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This one is a great book on US infantry uniforms but I have it

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

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