Books by Steven E. Woodworth and Complete Book Reviews
Warren Wilkinson, Author, Steven E. Woodworth, Author, Steven E. Woodworth, Joint Author . Morrow $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-97752-9
The Eighth Georgia Infantry was a typical volunteer unit comprising men from a number of Georgia counties. Wilkinson (Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen) died in 1995 before completing this book, which was finished by Civil War...
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Steven E. Woodworth, Author . Knopf $40 (760p) ISBN 978-0-375-41218-9
The Union's military effort in the first half of the Civil War remains essentially defined by the Army of the Potomac: earnest and willing, but consistently outfought and outgeneraled. A similar image accompanies the Army of the Cumberland, the...
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Steven E. Woodworth, Knopf, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-307-26524-1
The 1840s was a decade of exuberant national growth and consolidation that laid the groundwork for schism and strife, argues this colorful history. Woodworth (Nothing but Victory) presents a vivid, episodic pageant of westward-ho empire building:...
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Steven E. Woodworth, Author University Press of Kansas $29.95 (410p) ISBN 978-0-7006-0718-1
In this engaging, well-written account, Woodworth follows his award-winning Jefferson Davis and His Generals by analyzing Confederate strategy as it polarized around the South's principal war fighters: Davis and Robert E. Lee. Davis believed the...
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Steven E. Woodworth, Author University Press of Kansas $35 (394p) ISBN 978-0-7006-1099-0
In While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers, Steven E. Woodworth casts light on one of the grayest areas in the battle between the Blue and the Gray: religion. Most soldiers who fought in the Civil War were Christians,
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Steven E. Woodworth, Rowman & Littlefield, $29.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-7425-5184-8
Woodworth, of Texas Christian University, enhances his position in the front rank of Civil War scholars. He makes a strong case for three controversial points. First, the Civil War was about slavery. The fundamental dispute over the "peculiar...
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