Book Reviews

John U. Rees

Book Review: Joseph Lee Boyle, "`My last Shift Betwixt Us & death’: The Ephraim Blaine Letterbook, 1777–1778," The Brigade Dispatch, vol. XXIX, no. 1 (Winter 2001), 22.

Book Review: Frederick C. Gaede, “The Federal Civil War Shelter Tent,” Military Collector & Historian, vol. 54, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003), 197.

Book Review: Thomas J. McGuire, “Battle of Paoli,” On Point: The Newsletter of the Army Historical Foundation, vol. 8, no. 3 (Fall 2002), 17.

Book Review: Michael C. Scoggins, “The Day it Rained Militia: Huck’s Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May–July 1780,” The Dispatch of the Company of Military Historians, Book Review Edition (December 2008).

Book Review: Agostino von Hassell, Herm Dillon, Leslie Jean-Bart, Military High Life: Elegant Food Histories and Recipes (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2006), 162 pp., Illustrations. $34.95 (cloth), Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (Fall 2007), 106–107.

Book Review: “`We Were Marching on Christmas Day’: History, Food, and Civilian and Soldiers’ Celebrations,” Food History News, vol. XIII, no. 2 (50), 2, 7. Review of Kevin Rawlings, We Were Marching on Christmas Day: A History and Chronicle of Christmas During the Civil War (Baltimore, Md.: Toomey Press, 1996). 170 pages, index,illustrations. $24.95. Toomey Press, P.O. Box 122, Linthicum, Md., 21090; phone, (410)850-0831). Review

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