The Continuing War

THE CONTINUING WAR by James I. Robertson, Jr. Roy F. Nichols, who won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for his The Disruption of American Democracy, has completed a new volume for Hill & Wang entitled The Stakes of Power: 1845-1877. This study should give a real insight into the overall picture of the war era. . . . Otto Eisenschiml 's newestbook, The Hidden Face of the Civil War, was published last month by Bobbs-Merrill. It contains a group of essays on some of the lesser-known and more provocative aspects of the struggle; readers will be quite stimulated by Dr. Eisenschiml's judgment of the leading generals on both sides. ... A new Random House release is Robert Penn Warren's The Legacy of the Civil War, which seeks to show how many current events evolved from those of a century ago. . . . Colonel Harold Simpson, president of the Waco Civil War Round Table, has written an 80-page critique of Federal and Confederate military squabbles. Brawling Brass—North and South is the title of the paperback booklet. Copies may be ordered from the Round Table, Box 336, Headquarters, 12th Air Force, Waco, Texas. Among Dutton's spring releases were Reluctant General: The Life and Times of Albert Pike, by Robert Lipscomb Duncan, and New Enghnd 's War against Shvery, 1831-1863, by Lawrence Lader. . . . Little, Brown's newest publications in the field are The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee, edited by Clifford Dowdey and Louis Manarin, and a new edition of James G. Randall's classic Civil War and Reconstruction— brought up to date by David Donald and retitled The Divided Nation. ... In May the University of Chicago Press issued The Blue and Gray on the Nile, the story of a handful of veterans who made their way to Egypt and joined the army of the Khedive, Ismail Pasha. . . . Our energetic "Notes and Queries" editor, Boyd Stutler, has produced a very attractive booklet on the background of the songs "John Brown's Body" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Glory, Glory, Hallelujah ! is the title. Some readers will be surprised to know that the original John Brown of the song was not the Kansas tornado that ripped into Harpers Ferry. William F. Thompson, Jr., has surveyed the pictorial reporting of 193 194CIVIL WA R HISTORY the war in a new Yoseloff publication, The Image of War. Illustrations and largebibliography accompany the story ofhow drawings were used for vividness as well as propaganda. . . . South Carolina Secedes is the title of a new monograph by John A. May and Joan R. Faunt. The University of South Carolina Press is the publisher. . . . Oklahoma has reissued in a limited edition E. Merton Coulter's splendid bibliography, Travels in the Confederate States. Advanced sales and the constant demand for this reference guide, however, preclude its going out of print again shortly. . . . Speaking of bibliographies, Charles Shetler of the West Virginia University Library is well advanced with one on the Mountain State in wartime. Magazine articles, theses, and books will be included. Another reference work of value is a new compilation by Leo P. Kibby. Designed for students and researchers alike, the 64-page pamphlet , Book Review Reference for a Decade of Civil War Books, 19501960 , lists the better books that have been reviewed in more than sixteen established periodicals, plus reviewer's name and volume and page numbers. A list of reviewers and their present addresses is given at the end. Such a work will enable persons to obtain a quick analysis of a book's content. Copies of Dr. Kibby's guide may be ordered from the Spartan Bookstore, San Jose State College, San Jose, California. Works on state participation are increasing in number and quality. Michigan certainly is not lagging in its centennial publications. The Michigan Historical Commission in Lansing has republished Frederick D. Williams' article, and added illustrations to it, in a booklet entitled Michigan Soldiers in the Civil War. Later this year Wayne State University Press will publish a bibliography of some 700 titles treating of Michigan's war history. George S. May is the compiler. . . . The Cleveland Plain-Dealer has issued a 36-page tabloid on the Civil War and Ohio's...