Dr. Chris Mackowski, a professor in the Jandoli School of Communication, has published three more books on the Civil War in recent months.
“Decisions at Fredericksburg: The Fourteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle,” was published by the University of Tennessee Press as part of its Command Decisions in America’s Civil War series.
The battle of Fredericksburg took place Dec. 11-13, 1862, on the eve of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 1863. The federal government needed a battlefield victory to help give teeth to the proclamation. Instead, federal commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside led the Army of the Potomac to its most lopsided loss of the war.
Civil War buffs love to ask “What if,” and a new book co-edited by Mackowski offers readers the chance to explore some of the war’s most popular questions.
“The Great ‘What Ifs’ of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict’s Most Intriguing Possibilities,” published by Savas Beatie, is a collection of 14 essays co-edited by Mackowski and Brian Matthew Jordan, Ph.D.
Savas Beatie also published “Grant vs. Lee: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War,” which Mackowski co-edited with Dan Welch. For the book, Mackowski and Welch drew on the work of 22 historians to tell the story of the last 11 months of the war in Virginia.
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