The Continuing War

The Continuing War EDITED BY E. B. LONG 333 South Edson Lombard, IUinois rr seemed that last fall's fine list of Civil War books would last a while and perhaps some of them would get read but that is not to be, for more are on the way. With the Civil War Book Club in fuU swing, with increasing publicity, with the new Civil War Centennial Association and of course the Lincoln Herald and this journal, not to mention the Round Tables, the impetus for new publications is mighty strong. One of the most ambitious projects is the Centennial History of the Civil War to be written by Bruce Catton and published by Doubleday. This three volume work wiU first appear in 1961 and is to be the product of careful research, study, and of course the brilliant writing of Pulitzer Prize winner Catton. The editor of this column deems it a great honor to have been engaged to work with a scholar like Bruce Catton and to do research on what we hope and believe will be one of the most important undertakings in Civil War writing. The Confederacy will receive some deserved attention soon. Of course, we are looking forward to the second volume of Hudson Strode's Jefferson Davis widi its balanced appraisal of the Confederate president. The Confederate Publishing Company of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has announced a series of monographs, Confederate Centennial Studies. The first number of the series, scheduled for early in 1956, wiU be The Decisive Battle of Nashville by Stanley F. Horn. The Editor-in-Chief of the series is W. Stanley Hoole of the University of Alabama. Some of the other historians who wiU contribute to the series and their tentative subjects are: WiUiam B. Hesseltine, University of Wisconsin, The Lincoln Plan of Reconstruction and/or Post-War Southern Conservatism; Weymouth T. Jordan, Florida State University, Charles Goethe Baylor and South Agrar429 430 tan Nationalism and/or Southern Agriculture on the Eve of the Civil War; Joseph H. Parks, Birmingham-Southern CoUege, The Civil War Career of General Bishop Leónidas Polk; Jay Monaghan, Santa Barbara College, M. Jeff Thompson and the War Between the States; E. M. Coulter, University of Georgia, Lost Generation: The Life and Death of James Barrow, CSA.; Charles G. SummerseU, University of Alabama, Raphael Semmes and the Cruise of the C.S.S. Sumter; Frank E. Vandiver, Rice Institute, Confederate Logistics; Charles S. Davis, Florida State University, Colin J. McRae, Financial Agent of the Confederacy; Clement Eaton, University of Kentucky, The Hero in the Southern Confederacy; Francis B. Simkins , Longwood College, Emancipation Without Armed Conflict?; James W. Silver, University of Mississippi, The Church as a Propaganda Agency in the Confederacy. Frank Vandiver is making a study of the Confederate high command. Stanley Horn is to edit John E. Cooke's Wearing of the Gray, and Richard Harwell is editing Kate Cummings, Journal of Her Life. A one volume study of Gen. Lee's war years by Burke Davis, biographer of StonewaU Jackson, wiU appear early in 1956, as wiU a new edition of William Pittenger's The Great Locomotive Chase, an account of the capture of the steam engine the General. In April Brace Carton's This Hallowed Ground wiU be published in Doubleday's Mainstream of America series. It wiU cover the North in the Civil War. Earl Schenck Miers is editing a new edition of the Memoirs of General Sherman. William D. MaxweU has written Lincoln's Fifth Wheel, the story of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. WiUiam Lammers of Milwaukee has completed a much needed biography of Gen. William S. Rosecrans. Another life of Ben Butìer is in the works, this time by Richard S. West, author of Gideon Welles. New York attorney John J. Duff is making a study of Lincoln's career as a lawyer. Duff believes that much new material has been found since others have worked on the subject and plans for his study to be for the layman as weU as the lawyer. Dick Squire is completing Lincolnians; A Specialized Biographical Dictionary which will carry brief biographies of Lincoln writers, students and coUectors. ...