Why read Mobile, 1865?

Book cover of Mobile, 1865: Last Stand of the Confederacy

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The last major battle of the Civil War at Fort Blakely, Alabama, on April 9, 1865, was quickly overshadowed by the concurrent surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox, and is largely forgotten today. And yet the Federal campaign against Mobile, the last important Southern city that remained in…

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1 author picked Mobile, 1865 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Mike Bunn

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No matter how well I know a historical topic, I find there is always something new to learn.

So it is with the Civil War, a conflict I have been reading about just about my entire life. But a preponderance of Civil War scholarship focuses on a rather narrow series of major battles, leaving a large portion of the war—especially its forgotten smaller clashes—relatively unexplored by comparison. I love O’Brien’s narrative history of the Campaign for Mobile.

It highlights the day-by-day drama and individual stories of the war’s last major combined-forces action which led to the surrender of one of…

From Mike's 3 favorite reads in 2023.