R. David Cox, The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee (Eerdman’s, 2017).
Thomas W. Cutrer, Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861-1865 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
Phillip Dillard, Jefferson Davis’s Final Campaign: Confederate Nationalism and the Fight to Arm Slaves (Mercer University Press, 2017)
Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Stephen Sears, Lincoln’s Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac (Houghton Mifflin, 2017).
Mark A. Snell, My Gettysburg: Meditations on History and Place (Kent State University Press, 2016).
Hello Kevin
I wanted to get your thoughts on a recently published book, Theater of A Separate War: The Civil War West of The Mississippi River – Cutrer UNC.
I looked at it online at B&N and it appeared that there was only 1 small theater map and no illustrations. I would have thought that considering the publisher and the importance of the series per the publisher’s description, it would merit more than one map etc. They also published a very nice book on the western theater which only had on map, but had a number of illustrations.
Regards
Don
Hi Don,
The book just arrived and I have not had a chance to look through it. Cutrer is a well respected historian and you can be guaranteed that he was chosen primarily for this reason. I am not an expert on this area of the war so that’s about all I can offer at this point. You may want to keep an eye out for Brett Schulte’s review. He focuses a good deal on this area of the war and is well versed in the literature.