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New Arrival: • A Michigan Cavalryman: The Life and Untimely Death of Major Noah Henry Ferry, Fifth Michigan Cavalry by Eric J. Wittenberg (Fox Run Pub, 2026). One of the publishers that the late Eric Wittenberg developed a close relationship with over his prolific writing career was Keith Jones's Fox Run Publishing. As indicated in this press release from back in late March of...

[Ironclad Ambush: Confederates Strike Lincoln's Mississippi River Blockade at the Head of Passes, October 12, 1861 by Neil P. Chatelain (Savas Beatie, 2026). Hardcover, 12 maps, photos, illustrations, footnotes, appendix, bibliography, index. Pages main/total:xviii,209/255. ISBN:978-1-61121-795-7. $32.95] As Civil War naval historian Neil Chatelain revealed in his excellent 202...

New Arrival: • "Now I'm With the Invalids": The Veteran Reserve Corps in America’s Civil War by David A. Welker (Casemate, 2026). Returning combat disabled soldiers to the army fulfilled an acute need for the government and recovered wounded alike. The U.S. military, facing ever increasing manpower pressures as the war progressed, searched far and wide for volunteers to fill n...

New Arrival: • The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 by Britt C. Isenberg (Casemate, 2026). From the description: "The second day at Gettysburg has defined what most Americans know today about 1863’s most pivotal campaign in the Civil War’s eastern theater. Two veteran armies in transition clashed desperately, in the process immortalizing sites such as Devil’s Den, the Sl...

New Arrival: • Grant & Meade: An Uneasy Alliance by Bradley M. Gottfried & Linda I. Gottfried (Seminole Pr, 2026). When U.S. Grant was brought to Washington by President Lincoln to head the entire Union war effort as general-in-chief, Army of the Potomac commander George Meade assumed, as did many others, that Grant would appoint a trusted and familiar western general ...