| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman. By Jerry Thompson. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xviii, 443 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-58544-535-6.)

Civil War to the Bloody End is a prime example of a book that probably would not have made it into print two decades ago. In those olden days even an academic press might have hesitated to devote nearly 450 pages to a biography of an obscure second-rank Civil War commander, especially one whose modest early-war accomplishments (as the book's dust jacket admits) "were overshadowed by a prickly disposition and repeated Union defeats." Yet, sixteen years after Ken Burns's landmark tv documentary launched it, the Civil War publishing boom marches on, albeit more haltingly than before, and this book enjoys a place in its ranks.

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