
The Rifle Musket in the Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth, Earl J. Hess, University of Kansas Press, 288 pp., $29.95, (September).

Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-In-Chief, James M. McPherson, Penguin Press, 384 pp., $35.00, (October).
The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy, Tom Chaffin, Hill and Wang Publisher, 352 pp., $26.00, (October).
