When people find out I collect Civil War books and own more than 3,000, I’m usually asked two questions: “Why would anyone collect Civil War books?” and “Have you read them all?”
No, I haven’t read them all! My obsession with books about the “Late Unpleasantness” started when my mother bought me the newly released Robert Tanner’s Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862 (Doubleday, 1976). I’ve been buying and selling books ever since.
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