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Civil War Book Club

Group meets the 2nd Monday of the month unless otherwise noted. Readings for 2022/2023 schedule are:

Sep 12, 2022

Lloyd Lewis.  Letters From Loyd Lewis: Showing Steps in Research for his Biography of U.S. Grant.  Little, Brown and Company.  Boston, 1950.  (No Kindle or Audio)              

Leader: Noma             Treats: Noma

 

Oct 17,2022

Brian Kilmeade.  The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas and the Battle to Save America’s Soul.  Sentinel Books.  New York, 2021.   (Kindle & Audio)                                                                                                                 Leader:  Jim                  Treats:  Jim

 

Nov 14,2022

William H. Armstrong.  Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General and  Seneca Chief.  Syracuse University Press, 1978.  (No Kindle or Audio)

            Leader:  Steve            Treats:  Steve.

 

Dec 12, 2022            

Brian Matthew Jordan.  Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War.  Liveright Publishing Corporation.  New York, 2014. (Kindle & Audio)

Leader: Peter              Treats: Peter.

 

Jan 16, 2023

Roger Lowenstein.  Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War. Penguin Press.  New York, 2022.  (Kindle & Audio)

Leader: Joe                 Treats:  Joe.

 

Feb 13, 2023

Cory M. Pfarr.  Longstreet at Gettysburg: A Critical Reassessment.  McFarland and Company, Inc, Publishers.  Jefferson, North Carolina, 2019.  (Kindle)

Leader: Ted                Treats:  Ted.

 

Mar 13, 2023

A.J. Baime.  Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World.           Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt.  Boston, 2017.   (Kindle & Audio))                        Leader:  Joe                 Treats: Joe.

 

Apr 17, 2023

Damien Shields.  The Irish in the American Civil War.  The History Press, Ireland.  2014.  (Kindle)

Leader:  Mike              Treats: Mike

 

May 15, 2023

Robert Kurson  Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II.  Random House (Trade paperback).  New York, 2005.  (kindle & Audio))

Leader:  Rory               Treats: Rory

 

Jun 12, 2023

Earl J. Hess.  In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat.  The University of North Carolina Press.  Chapel Hill, N.C, 2013.  (Kindle)

Leader: Jim                  Treats:  Jim