Books Received

"Our Little Monitor": The Greatest Invention of the Civil War. Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-60635-314-1. 304 pp., cloth, $34.95.

Decisions at Stones River: The Sixteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle. Matt Spruill and Lee Spruill. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-62190-378-9. 251 pp., paper, $29.95.

Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer. Deborah C. Pollack. Sarasota, FL: Peppertree Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-61493-494-3. 281 pp., paper, $20.93.

Chariot on the Mountain. Jack Ford. New York: Kensington Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4967-1309-4. 294 pp., paper, $26.00.

The Blue and Gray Almanac: The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes, and Slang. Albert Nofi. Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2017. ISBN 978-16120-0552-2. 304 pp., cloth, $32.95.

The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1861–1865. John R. Scales. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2017. ISBN 978-1-61121-447-5. 408 pp., cloth, $32.95.

The Million-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a President: George Washington Gayle and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Christopher Lyle Mcllwain Sr. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2018. ISBN 978-1-61121-394-2. 312 pp., cloth, $32.95.

U.S. Colored Troops Defeat Confederate Cavalry: Action at Wilson's Wharf, Virginia, 24 May 1864. Edwin W. Besch. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4766-6663-1. 292 pp., paper, $35.00.