Building on my earlier post concerning the Civil War, I have
been thinking about a display at the National Civil War Museum in
Harrisburg. Although I can only
paraphrase what a young soldier said – I’ve
seen one battle and would like to be excused from the next – it provides an inkling of the despair, fear and sadness
these soldiers must have experienced.
Earlier this year BHPL hosted a program including three Civil War re-enactors. One of the men said his
favorite book about the war is Mark Nesbitt’s 35 Days to Gettysburg: the
Campaign Diaries of Two American Enemies.
He felt that this book depicted the War on a personal level.
Many books are being published as part of the 150th
anniversary observance. Here are a few
of the most recent non-fiction titles purchased by the library:
Shiloh, 1862 (Winston Groom)
Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman,
Lincoln and the election of 1864 (David
Alan Johnson)
War in the Waters: the Union and Confederate
Navies,1861-1865 (James M. McPherson)
The Long Road to Antietam: How he Civil War
Became a Revolution (Richard
Slotkin)
True Crime in the Civil War: Cases of
Murder, Treason, Counterfeiting, Massacre, Plunder and Abuse (Tobin T.
Buhk)
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posted by S. Bakos
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