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New Arrival: • Napoleon’s Long Shadow: How French Military Genius Shaped the American Civil War by Timothy B. Smith (UP of Kansas, 2026). From the description: "For the generation that fought the American Civil War, the wars of the early nineteenth century were not distant history—they were a professional guide. Military education at West Point and elsewhere immersed American ...

[The Federal Signal Service at Antietam: Stations, Officers and Battlefield Intelligence on America's Bloodiest Day by Cory M. Pfarr (McFarland, 2026). Softcover, maps, photos, timelines, endnotes, bibliography, index. Pages main/total:xiv,217/288. ISBN:978-1-4766-8988-3. $39.95] The 1862 Maryland Campaign and its culminating battle fought along Antietam Creek remain Civil W...

New Arrival: • So Badly Routed: The Battle of Fisher’s Hill in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, September 22-24, 1864 by Larry W. Allamong, Mike K. Kehoe, Richard B. Kleese, Nicholas G. Racey, and William L. Stover, Jr. (Savas Beatie, 2026). After suffering yet another heavy defeat in the Shenandoah, this time on September 19, 1864 at the Third Battle of Winchester, Jubal Early's...

New Arrival: • Lincoln's Compass: The Declaration of Independence and the American Idea by Joshua Claybourn (Bloombury Academic, 2026). The literature has for some time now ingrained in the reader's mind the idea that the Declaration of Independence, not reverence for the Constitution, was the guiding light of Abraham Lincoln's political philosophy. In Lincoln's Compass: The D...

New Arrival: • Confederate Gibraltar: The Vicksburg Campaign from the Fall of New Orleans through the Battles in the Bayou by Matt Atkinson (Savas Beatie, 2026). Some Civil War campaigns are so long in duration, complicated in their dimensions, and full of battles of various sizes that the standard single-volume overview treatment of the kind we've come to expect from the ECW ...