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BOOK NOTSS A Civil War Album of Paintings by the Prince de JoinviUe. Edited by André Maurois and James M. Gavin. (New York: Atheneum, 1964. Pp. 78. $25.00.) The third son of France's King I^ouis-Philippe, the Prince de Joinville, and three kinsmen journeyed to America shortly after the first salvos of the Civil War. Joinville quickly gained the friendship and confidence of General McClellan, and he was an unofficial counselor to "Little Mac" from the autumn of 1861 through the frustrating Peninsular campaign. Most students of the war remember Joinville for his slim but revealing study, The Army of the Potomac (New York, 1862). Overlooked is the fact that the French nobleman was an artist of great merit. This qualitative volume contains twenty of Joinville's unique watercolors. Subjects range from a skirmish between blue and gray cavalrymen to the half-submerged wreck of the USS Cumberland. The editors have added prefatory material that throws more light of understanding on both Joinville and his paintings. This volume measures 934 by 1234 inches and comes complete with slipcase. It is a work with appeal for avid collectors of books and Civil War art. The contents add striking color to events already known. The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. By Grenville M. Dodge. (Denver: Sage Books, 1965. Pp. viii, 181. $5.00.) Personal Recollections of President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant and General William T. Sherman. By Grenville M. Dodge. (Denver: Sage Books, 1965. Pp. viii, 237. $6.00.) Grenville Dodge, a young business magnate in Council Bluffs in 1861, became Iowa's most distinguished Civil War soldier. His engineering and military feats in the western campaigns ultimately earned him a majorgeneral 's stars in Sherman's army. At his death in 1916, Dodge was the last surviving corps commander of the Civil War. His Battle of Atlanta was printed privately in 1911. This narrative is important not only for its insights into the Georgia and Carolina campaigns but also for Dodge's commentaries on the fighting in the Southwest and army life in general. Personal Recollections, originally published in 1914, was the last of Dodge's memoirs. Its essays on the principal Union leaders evolved from personal observations, conversations, and correspondence that Dodge had with each. 219 220CIVIL WAR HISTORY Both of diese volumes possess die fuzzy overtones that offset printing gives; both still want for indexes. Yet each is sturdily bound and each contains a new introduction. New Jersey and the Civil War: An Album of Contemporary Accounts. By Earl Schenck Miers. (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1964. Pp. xii, 135. $3.95.) Its slimness notwithstanding, this is an important and badly needed introduction to New Jersey's participation in the Civil War. The last attempt at a wartime history of the state appeared in 1868, and a complete, scholarly study on the subject remains yet to be done. Until the latter does appear, Mr. Miers' little volume will serve as a tasty hors d'oeuvre. This work, the author states, "seeks to recapture the emotions and motivations of a century ago by telling the story of these tragic years through participants." Thus, the bulk of the narrative consists of thirty-one firsthand accounts, largely by New Jerseyans. Politics, society, and military matters all receive attention . Excerpts vary from the reminiscences of a nurse on hospital duty at Gettysburg to the last letter of a New Jersey officer condemned to death by Confederate authorities. Miers has done an admirable job in die preparation of the text It is regrettable the publishers could not have done likewise by including an index. Mobile: 1861-1865, Notes and Bibliography. Edited by Sidney Adair Smith and C. Carter Smith, Jr. Two Naval Journals: 1864. Edited by C. Carter Smith, Jr. Miss Waring's Journal: 1868 and 1865. Edited by Thad Holt, Jr. (Chicago: Systems for Education, Inc., 1964. Pp. v, 52; iv, Sl; ii, 17. $4.95 boxed.) Rarely has such a collection of memoirs been made available in one set, and at so nominal a cost. The trio of paperbacks was designed to commemorate the centenary of the battle of Mobile Bay...