Books Received

The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster: A Revealing Portrait of the Forgotten Man behind “Swanee River,” “Beautiful Dreamer,” and “My Old Kentucky Home.” JoAnne O’Connell. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4422-5386-5. 496 pp., cloth, $45.00.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign: His Supposed Charge from Fort Hell, His Near-Mortal Wound, and a Civil War Myth Reconsidered. Dennis A. Rasbach. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-306-5. 192 pp., paper, $29.95.

The Last Civil War Veterans: The Lives of the Final Survivors, State by State. Frank L. Grzyb. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4766-6522-1. 208 pp., paper, $35.00.

Decision at Tom’s Brook: George Custer, Thomas Rosser, and the Joy of the Fight. William J. Miller. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-308-9. 288 pp., cloth, $29.95.

Stand to It and Give Them Hell: Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced It from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863. John Michael Priest. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-176-4. 528 pp., cloth, $32.95.

John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring: From Thug to Grant’s Inner Circle. Edward S. Cooper. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-68393-012-9. 208 pp., cloth, $95.00.

Hoffman’s Army: The 31st Virginia Infantry, CSA, the Civil War from Private to Colonel. David W. Wooddell. Baltimore, MD: CreateSpace, 2016. ISBN 978-1-51539-699-4. 42 pp., paper, $23.90.

A Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat from Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign. Gene Barr. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-290-7. 360 pp., cloth, $32.95.

Inventing the Pinkerton or Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a Story of the Nation’s Most Famous (and Infamous) Detective Agency. S. Paul O’Hara. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-42142-056-1. 216 pp., cloth, $29.95.