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Reviews the book `Davis and Lee at War,' by Steven E. Woodworth.

Reviews the book `General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier--A Biography,' by Jeffry D. Wert.

The article reviews the book "One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw & His Brave Black Regiment," by Peter Burchard.

The article reviews the book "Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage," by Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson.

The article reviews the book "A Volunteer's Adventure: A Union Captain's Record of the Civil War," by John William DeForest.

The article reviews the book "Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South," by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

The article reviews the book "Diary of a Union Lady, 1861-1865," by Maria Lydig Daly.

The article reviews the book “Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas,” by John J. Hennessy.

The article reviews the book "Desertion During the Civil War," by Ella Lonn.

The article reviews the book "The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy," by Bell Irvin Wiley.

Reviews the book "Ambrose Bierce's Civil War," edited by William McCann.

History enthusiasts have an intense craving for accuracy in Civil War movies— a craving that Hollywood will never satisfy. Thankfully, this did not matter to Ron Maxwell, who was extraordinarily sensitive to the historical record in making Gettysburg. It is hard to imagine that he ever envisioned himself walking down the red carpet for this movie. In his epic adaptation of Michael Shaara's classic novel The Killer Angels, Maxwell focuses on the story of the battle and its tactics at the expense of plot and character development.

Reviews the book "The Negro's Civil War," by James M. McPherson.

Reviews the motion picture "Ride With the Devil," directed by Ang Lee.

Reviews the book "The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South," by Kenneth M. Stampp.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Gettysburg,' by Stephen W. Sears.

Reviews the book 'Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander,' edited by Gary W. Gallagher.

Reviews the book 'Birth of a Nation,' by D.W. Griffith.

Reviews the book "The General to His Lady: The Civil War Letters of William Dorsey Pender to Fanny Pender."

Reviews the book 'The Classics: War Invades a Family's Neutrality in Shenandoah,' by James Stewart.

Reviews the book 'A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War,' by David Hunter Strother.

Reviews the book 'The Classics: Longest Revived in Recollection of a Confederate Staff Officer,' by James Longstreet.