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THE CONTINUING WAR by James I. Robertson, Jr. as the centennial years draw near, an increasing amount of work in Civil War history is being done in the field of regional studies. Robert H. Jones of Kent State University has contracted with Oklahoma for a volume to be entitled The Civil War in the Northwest. The Historical Society of Delaware plans to publish shortly Harold B. Hancock 's doctoral dissertation, "The Political History of Delaware during the Civil War." This month the Ohioana Library in Columbus will release a 1961 calendar yearbook under the heading Ohio in the Civil War. Full-page illustrations will accompany short treatises on such well-known Buckeyes as Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, McPherson, the Fighting McCooks, and Vallandigham. The 128-page book will sell for $1.50. Tentatively scheduled for fall publication by the University of South Carolina Press is a history of wartime Augusta, Georgia. The author, Mrs. Florence Fleming Corley, is a recent M.A. graduate of Emory University. Laurels for the best local work to date must go to the dynamic Virginia Civil War Commission for A Register of Military Events in Virginia, 1861-1865. Compiled by N. E. Warriner, this 79-page handbook provides rapid reference to each of the several hundred engagements fought in the Old Dominion. The list is broken down by years and arranged alphabetically by city and county. As a further aid for students, after each entry are page citations in the Official Records for that particular skirmish or battle. This valuable work is priced at only one dollar and may be purchased by mail from the Commission at 914 Capitol Street, Richmond, 19. The Commission also will shortly publish an illustrated tour book to facilitate visits by buffs to the many battlefields within Virginia. Charles L. Dufour, whose biography of Roberdeau Wheat (Gentle Tiger) recounted the short but courageous career of a gallant Louisianian , has completed a new book on the 1862 New Orleans campaign. . . . Col. Harold Simpson, the affable founder of the Waco CWRT, has begun work on a history of Hood's Texas Brigade. ... On the heels of Oklahoma's recent and impressive release, The Singing Six298 ties, Columbia University Press has issued Irwin Silber's Songs of the Civil War. The scores, histories, and lyrics of more than 125 wartime favorites are included. For audio history, RCA Victor has pressed a new Bluebird album entitled "Stories and Songs of the Civil War." The noted actor Ralph Bellamy is narrator in this unique package. A well-known Iowa publishing house is seriously investigating the feasibility of reissuing Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly for the entire war years. Subscriptions would be sold only on an annual basis. An explanatory sheet by some well-known historian would accompany each issue. . . . Philip Van Doren Stern is laboring diligently on three forthcoming books—all to be published by Doubleday . Two are pictorial studies of Lee and the Confederate navy; the third is a volume on naval warfare which Mr. Stern states will in no way conflict with the work already underway by V. C. Jones in the same field. Mr. Jones is currently writing the second of three proposed volumes___ Copies of J. T. Dorris' popular and intriguing study, Pardon and Amnesty under Lincoln and Johnson, may still be obtained from the author at Eastern Kentucky State College, Ricnmond , Ky. The Third Annual Civil War Conference will be held at Gettysburg College in November. Norman A. Graebner is general chairman of this year's meeting, the theme of which will be "Politics in a Dividing Nation: 1860." Professors Donald Fehrenbacher, Kenneth P. Stampp, Robert Johannsen, and Avery Craven will present papers, and the University of Illinois Press plans to publish the addresses in a single volume. McCowat-Mercer Press will soon issue a new edition of Robert Selph Henry's"Firsf with the Most" Forrest, which Dr. Henry considers the best of all his many and noted works. . . . Dr. Raymond E. Myers, Dean of the University of Louisville's Dental School, has completed his research for a biography of General Felix Zollicoffer, the first Confederate officer of note to be killed in the Western theater...

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