z Savas Beatie War in the Western Theater Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War Chris Mackowski PhD Sarah Kay Bierle Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series $29.95 • Hardback • 312 pages • 6x9 100 images, 10 maps • June 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-596-0 Chris Mackowski lives in NY Sarah Kay Bierle lives in Temecula, CA
Often relegated to a backseat by action in the Eastern Theater, the Western Theater is actually where the Federal armies won the Civil War. In the Eastern Theater, the principal armies fought largely within a 100-mile corridor between the capitals of Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, with a few ill-fated Confederate invasions north of the Mason-Dixon Line. The Western Theater, in contrast, included the entire area between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, from Kentucky in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south—a vast geographic expanse that, even today, can be challenging to understand. The Western Theater of War revisits some of the Civil War’s most legendary battlefields: Shiloh, Chickamauga, Franklin, the March to the Sea, and more.
The Second Battle of Winchester The Confederate Victory That Opened the Door to Gettysburg Eric J. Wittenberg Scott L. Mingus Sr.
Grant vs Lee Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War Chris Mackowski PhD Dan Welch Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series • $29.95 • Hardback 312 pages • 6x9 100 images, 10 maps • April 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-595-3 Chris Mackowski lives in NY Dan Welch lives in Gettysburg, PA
By the spring of 1864, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia had become battle-hardened, battle-weary foes locked in an ongoing stalemate. Abraham Lincoln needed to break the deadlock and so brought to the east the unassuming “dust-covered man” who had strung together victory after victory in the west: Ulysses S. Grant. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant would come to symbolize the armies they led as the spring campaign got underway, and the clash that began in the Virginia Wilderness on May 5, 1864, turned into a long, desperate deathmatch that inexorably led to Appomattox Court House eleven months later. The war would come to an end, but at what cost along the way?
Defending the Arteries of Rebellion Confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River Valley, 1861-1865 Neil P. Chatelain
$24.95 • Paperback • 528 pages 6x9 76 images, 18 maps • April 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-604-2 Eric J. Wittenberg lives in OH Scott L. Mingus Sr. lives in York, PA
$22.95 • Paperback • 336 pages 6x9 42 images, 8 maps • April 2022 HIS036050 • 978-1-61121-603-5 Neil P. Chatelain lives in Humble, TX
Milroy, a veteran Indiana politician-turned-soldier, was convinced Lee’s approaching Army of Northern Virginia consisted of nothing more than cavalry or was merely a feint, and so defied repeated instructions to withdraw, costing Milroy hundreds of killed and wounded and about 4,000 captured (roughly one-half of his command), with the remainder routed from the battlefield. Today, the Second Battle of Winchester is largely forgotten. But in June 1863, the politically charged front-page news caught President Lincoln and the War Department by surprise and forever tarnished Milroy’s career. The beleaguered Federal soldiers who fought there spent a lifetime seeking redemption, arguing their three-day “forlorn hope” delayed the Rebels long enough to allow the Army of the Potomac to arrive and defeat Lee at Gettysburg. For the Confederates, the decisive leadership masked significant command issues that would become painfully evident during the early days of July on a different battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Most studies of the Mississippi River focus on Union campaigns to open and control it, overlooking Southern attempts to stop them. Now in paperback, Neil Chatelain’s Defending the Arteries of Rebellion is the other side of the story. Confederate President Jefferson Davis realized the value of the Mississippi River and its entire valley, which he described as the “great artery of the Confederacy.” To protect these arteries of rebellion, Southern strategy called for crafting a ring of powerful fortifications supported by naval forces. Different military branches, however, including the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Revenue Service, as well as civilian privateers and even state naval forces, competed for scarce resources to operate their own vessels. A lack of industrial capacity, coupled with a dearth of skilled labor, further complicated Confederate efforts and guaranteed the South’s grand vision of deploying dozens of river gunboats and powerful ironclads would never be fully realized.
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