The Continuing War

The Continuing War EDITED BY E. B. LONG 333 South Edson Lombard, Illinois the dying, the suffering, the march of events of it all are over but the guns are not actually silent. The heartache is still there, the tragedy, glory, pathos and history of it are still with us and will always be with us at least in our lifetime. There are those who still fight this war of ours, fight it by visiting battlefields, in organizations such as the Round Tables, and in reading and writing about it. The purpose of this column is to serve as a bulletin board of what is going on in the field of writing about the Civil War. Books already published or about to be pubtished will be covered elsewhere in the literary section. Our purpose is to announce what you are writing about, planning to write about or seeking material about. In order to fulfuU this purpose we need help. If you are working on a book, pamphlet or article on the Civil War let us know. As a result you may receive the help you need, may uncover material of real value to you and at the least inform your friends and fellow soldiers what is going on. Just write to tiie above address. We know that in this first issue we are not catching all those who are laboring in the vineyards and may be missing many, but as time goes on we hope to cover all Civil War projects to let our readers know what is in store for them. For instance, Bruce Catton has signed a contract to complete the life of Grant so ably started by the late Lloyd Lewis. Catton is editor of American Heritage and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning A Stillness at Appomattox, U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition, Glory Road and Mr. Lincoln's Army. He is eminently qualified as a writer and historian to complete this monumental work. For many years there has been a need for a volume on the munitions, guns and ammunition of the Civil War. Robert V. Bruce of Maiden, Mass., is working on such a book and is looking for sources of informa79 80E.B.LONG tion. Dr. Frank Vandiver of Washington University in St. Louis, author of Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance, is now writing what promises to be a major biography of "Stonewall" Jackson. Also on the Confederate side, T. Harry Williams of Louisiana State University has completed a much needed biography of General P.G.T. Beauregard. Williams is author of Lincoln and His Generals and other books. Ishbel Ross, author of biographies of Rose Greenhow and Kate Chase, is also working on a life of Beauregard. Ezra "Bud" Warner of Douglas, Ariz., is fmishing his important Generals in Gray, a study of who was what in the Confederacy. The somewhat neglected Confederate Navy will receive its just place in a nearly completed volume by W. T. Duganne of LaPorte, Ind. On the Northern side, Benjamin P. Thomas, author of the splendid Abraham Lincoln, is well into what promises to be a definitive life of Edwin M. Stanton. But he paused for a little while to edit the Memoirs of Sylvanus Cadwallader. Cadwallader was a major war correspondent for the old Chicago Times and the New York Herald and possibly knew more about General Grant and the subject of liquor than anyone outside of his staff and General Rawlins. The publication of these long forgotten papers will be an important addition to the knowledge of Civil War journalism and to the war itself. Thomas has written a fine introduction and furnished footnotes throughout. George Fleming, Chicago encyclopedist, is working on a life of John A. Logan, who deserves to have the story of his politics and his generalship told. In the spy field James D. Horan, author of Confederate Agent, is laboring on a volume to be called A Secret History of the Civil War. This record of spies and espionage agents will be published in two volumes, one for the Union and one for the Confederacy. Horan has asked for help in determining who is considered...