Jeff Shaara, author of "No Less Than Victory," and Jessica James, author of "Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia," will sign books from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Gettysburg National Park Service Museum and Visitor Center bookstore.
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Scott Mingus' new book, "The Louisiana Tigers.'
More than a dozen books have been written on York County in the Civil War in the past 10 years.
Add another one: Scott Mingus' newest work "The Lousiana Tigers in the Gettysburg campaign."
For a mini-review of the book, visit: York County's Widow Zinn to Confederate Gen. Jubal Early in new Louisiana Tigers' book: 'Are you goin' to destroy us?'
Scott Mingus, Sr. has written a new Civil War book, "The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863."
The new book covers the movements, battles and civilian interactions of the Confederate army's most famous brigade during the Gettysburg Campaign.
It is available at the Civil War and More store at 10 S. Market St., Mechanicsburg, at the bookstore of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, and at Gallery 30 and the American History Store in Gettysburg.
Autographed first edition copies are available directly from the author at scottmingus@yahoo.com and will soon be available at the York Emporium and the gift shop of the York County Heritage Trust.
Hanover YWCA is accepting used books for its annual used book sale Nov. 6, 7 and 8. Books can be brought to the YW at 23 W. Chestnut St. and placed in the "book box" located in front of the building. Please no encyclopedias, Readers Digest condensed books or magazines. Books should be in good condition and placed in bags or boxes.
By BETH VRABEL
For the Daily Record/Sunday News
If the Civil War conjures images of debonair soldiers in dashing uniforms and with unbreakable principles, "Seen the Glory" (Simon & Schuster, $25) might just dash those dreams.
The soldiers in former York countian John Hough Jr.'s meticulously researched historical novel leave all romantic notions of the war behind. They march for days on end without bathing. They eat a scarce, rotting diet of salted pork and wormy hardtack. They face as much danger from disease and bacteria as they do on the battlefield. Most have, at best, an eighth-grade education and a muddied idea of the war's motivation.
Continue reading Civil War soldiers seem real in "Glory".
York resident Scott Mingus Sr. has written "Gettysburg Glimpses: True Stories from the Battlefield." He also is the author of six other books on the Civil War.
"Gettysburg Glimpses" is available at amazon.com and www.xlibris.com for $19.99.
and that definitely applies to book lovers.
The following Web sites offer used books for purchase or exchange, some for as little as the postage to ship them.
Check them out, and if you know of any others, please let us know.
From the Associated Press:
Historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust has won a $50,000 prize from the New York Historical Society for "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War."
Faust, 61, received the fourth annual American History Book Prize, the society announced Tuesday. She has written several other books about the Civil War and the South, including "Mothers of Invention" and "A Sacred Circle."
Previous winners include Doris Kearns Goodwin and David Nasaw.
Scott Mingus' book "Flames Beyond Gettysburg" is another link in a long chain of Civil War publications dating back to 2000.
That is, books linking York County and the Civil War.
Before 2000, well, the pickings were sparse.
For a working list, see: Stack of books on York County's Civil War past getting higher.
By JOSEPH MALDONADO
Daily Record/Sunday News
There comes a point when even the best man, the strongest man, fighting for a cause he fully believes in, can perilously teeter upon a thin mental wire; for the winds of war blow with deceptive force upon those trying to balance themselves above the afflictions of their duty and the unsettling cries of an unstained field to lay down arms and hurt no more.
So is the story of Fighting Bucktail Angelo Crapsey.
Continue reading Local story of a soldier's despair.
that books make great gifts, but now we can listen to famous authors tell us why.
Artist Bradley Schmehl's painting of the burning Wrightsville Bridge in 1863 serves as the focal point of the cover of Scott Mingus' forthcoming Civil War book.
Scott Mingus' detailed study of the Confederate occupation of York County, 'Flames beyond Gettysburg, in late June 1863 is moving along the printing trail.
Another forthcoming Mingus work follows one of the brigades that visited York County. "A Spirit of Daring: The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign" will come from the LSU Press.
The turn of the new millenium eight years ago brought with it an onslaught of books on the Civil War in York County.
Before 2000, only a handful of books probed the Civil War and York County and they consisted of chapters in larger works on the Gettysburg campaign.
The York Town Square post Books probing York County in the Civil War come in strong, sudden onslaught lists the dozen local Civil War books published in recent years.
That includes a recent publication on the Battle of Hanover.
The following new books recently arrived at my desk:
"Wide Awake" (Thomas Nelson, 240 pages, $19.99) by Erwin McManus: Feel like you are sleep walking your way through life? McManus wants you to wake up and live the life of your dreams by using five tools: dream, discover, adapt, expect, focus, create, enjoy and invest. The book is packed with stories from the Old and New Testaments that illustrate how and why each technique works. McManus also uses examples from his own very successful life as lead pastor and cultural architect of Mosaic, a Christian community in Los Angeles. Favorite quote: "God created the world for our enjoyment. We took the fun out of it."
"Wide Awake" is available at Borders Books & Music, 3000 Whiteford Road, Springettsbury Township, and from online booksellers.
Continue reading What's new.
Patriot Press has announced that "Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia," by Gettysburg author Jessica James, has won a gold medal for Best Regional Fiction in the Indie Book Awards contest and was a finalist in the Historical Fiction category. The book also garnered a silver medal for Best Regional Fiction in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Signed copies of "Shades of Gray" can be purchased from James through her Web site www.jessicajamesbooks.com.
Those of you of a certain age (and you know who you are) who are members of AARP will want to check out Borders’ latest promotion.
Just go to www.borders.com and click on “Exclusive offer for AARP members.”
You can save from 10 to 35 percent on books purchased both online and at the store. And if you’re not a member, they will sign you up on the spot.
Occasionally getting older has its advantages.
Continue reading New Civil War novel.
Sometimes, as much as we hate it, we have to part with our books.
What else can we do when there just isn't enough shelf space for all our recent purchases?
Continue reading Out with the old, in with the new.
Have you just finished reading a book you couldn't put down, or one that kept putting you to sleep?
We want to hear about it, good or bad.
Send your book review to gfogal@ydr.com and we will post it here.
Two books offering new insights into the lives of three of the Civil War era¹s most compelling figures will share the 2008 Lincoln Prize, which is administered by Gettysburg College.
For their books about Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Robert E. Lee, the winners are James Oakes, a professor at the City University of New York, for "The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics," and diplomat/historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor for "Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters."
Continue reading 2008 Lincoln Prize winners named.
By JOSEPH MALDONADO
For the Daily Record/Sunday News
A book is like a warm quilt comprised of many threads, colors, textures and images. And like any quilt, a book takes tremendous know-how to transform it from an idea to something people curl up with in their favorite chair.
In May, the literary group Pennwriters will host its 21st annual conference, “A Writer’s smorgasbord.” The three-day event will feature scores of publishing experts, including many pub
lished authors.
Continue reading From idea to book, conference can help.
Have you just finished reading a book you couldn't put down, or one that kept putting you to sleep?
We want to hear about it, good or bad.
Send your book review to gfogal@ydr.com and we will post it here.
The book: “Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War” (HarperCollins under the Smithsonian imprint, $19.95)
The authors: Pam Huff and Jim Lewin of Hellam Township are the owners of the York Emporium used-book store, 343 W. Market St., York. Huff is a native of Washington, D.C., and Lewin is a native of the Buffalo, N.Y., area. They moved to York in January 2006.
Continue reading Local authors: Cartoons from the Civil War.
