A good time was had by all at the Chicago Civil War Round Table last night as Hampton Newsome gave a thorough and witty overview of his award-winning book, Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond (University Press of Kansas, 2022).
Hampton has also authored the award-winning Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864 (The Kent State University Press, 2013) and the award-winning The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864 (University Press of Kansas, 2020).
Hampton also co-edited Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard & His Fellow Veterans (University of Virginia Press, 2013), one of the most important books on the siege of Richmond-Petersburg in the last hundred years.
Hampton is a pathfinder. He goes where no author of a booklength study has gone before: besieged Richmond and Petersburg in October 1864 (Richmond Must Fall), coastal North Carolina in January-May 1864 (The Fight for the Old North State), and now the York-James Peninsula in June-July 1864 (Gettysburg's Southern Front).
Read and enjoy! Get off the beaten track! Much of the Civil War remains unknown. Authors such as Hampton Newsome bringing these matters to light.
He is one of our most thoughtful, adventurous authors. I greatly admire his comprehensive, judicious work.
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