Mark A. Moore

BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE: 

"Moore's Battle of Bentonville is undoubtedly the finest battlefield resource ever seen by this reviewer. The maps are models of clarity and comprehensiveness . . . . Perhaps most importantly, Moore's masterful work places Bentonville in the complete context of Sherman's Carolinas Campaign and the entire Carolina-Virginia Theater. This work is unquestionably indispensable to both the serious Civil War scholar and the tourist."

Civil War News

"Moore's Battle of Bentonville is a greatly welcome piece of historical literature . . . . Mark Moore shows in vast detail the last major battle of the war. The full page maps are masterfully drawn and show the troop movements on an easy to follow scale. The commentary and insights . . . are extremely helpful in understanding the action."

North & South Magazine

"Bentonville is . . . one of the most dramatic, and in many ways poignant, scenes of the very late War 1865 . . . . Moore quite brilliantly lets much of the story be told by the participants, in well-selected quotes from diaries, letters, official reports and postwar books."

Civil War Interactive

"The outstanding maps in this large-format guide . . . . link the past with the present, depicting both the movements of the 'bluebellies' and 'rebels' in 1865 and modern highways you can travel with ease to inspect the ground."

Fayetteville Observer-Times

"The text and maps make an unsurpassed publication . . . . A must for all battlefield stompers who lust to walk in the steps of history. Moore's Battle of Bentonville will become a model of excellence for which future publications of this character will strive."

Edwin C. Bearss
Historian Emeritus, National Park Service

"Moore's Battle of Bentonville is a masterful piece of work. The author is to be congratulated."

John G. Barrett
Sherman's March through the Carolinas (1956) 
and The Civil War in North Carolina (1963)

"Skillfully and effectively employing tactical and modern highway maps, along with a clear explanatory narrative that is keyed to both, Mark Moore's book on the Battle of Bentonville is simply the best Civil War battlefield guide ever compiled. It will serve as a model for all similar efforts."

Craig L. Symonds
United States Naval Academy
Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography
Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War

"Mark Moore has set a new standard for Civil War cartography. I believe that historian Ed Bearss' sobriquet for Mark Moore says it all — he is truly 'the Jed Hotchkiss of North Carolina."

Mark L. Bradley
Bluecoats & Tarheels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina
This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place

"Moore's Battle of Bentonville is both scholarly and pretty-not an easy combination."

Jerry Cashion
Chairman, North Carolina Historical Commission

"Moore's Battle of Bentonville is a stunning achievement, the perfect mixture of some of the finest Civil War maps available and a smooth-flowing text. The maps are easy to follow and deeply informative, revealing in the process a trail of historical gems that have long been overlooked by the general Civil War community. This is a book that the Battle of Bentonville has long deserved."

John C. Goode,
Former Site Manager, Bentonville Battlefield

"The quality of Moore's Battle of Bentonville is so remarkable that I have had to implement a waiting list for people to see it."

Lt. Col. Al Aycock
United States Army
Formerly of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
Fort Bragg, N.C.

FORT FISHER - WILMINGTON CAMPAIGN:

"Don't be fooled by all the artwork. This book is chock full of great writing and solid research."

Parapet
Civil War Fortification Study Group

"Lavishly illustrated with outstanding maps and both contemporary and modern photographs, this is the definitive study of the capture of the Confederacy's last seacoast bastion, Fort Fisher. Outstanding value."

North & South Magazine

"It is doubtful that any history of a Civil War campaign has ever been better illustrated than this one . . . . Mark Moore is a master at military maps, and the ones in this volume are unsurpassed in their accuracy, detail, and clarity . . . . His narrative is well written, thoughtful, and accurate . . . . Every battle scholar and armchair general of the Civil War will want to own this book."

Joe A. Mobley
Former Editor in Chief
North Carolina Historical Review

"A tour de force. Moore's Fort Fisher-Wilmington Campaign is the best publication of this character that I have seen in more than 50 years."

Edwin C. Bearss
Chief Historian Emeritus
National Park Service

"Very interesting and informative . . . . Moore's Fort Fisher-Wilmington Campaign is excellent, well researched, and soundly reasoned and presented."

Steven E. Woodworth
Texas Christian University
Jefferson Davis and His Generals
Davis and Lee at War
Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns
Chickamauga: A Battlefield Guide with a Section on Cattanooga

"Mark Moore has used this re-examination of the Fort Fisher Campaign to demonstrate the importance of the Crimean War as the most recent conflict between major powers, and a key stage in the development of the modern earthwork fortification . . . . Moore has placed us all in his debt with his skilled cartography and clear exposition of the last great example of naval power projection in the American Civil War . . . . The lessons of the Crimea were well known in America, as Mark Moore has shown."

Andrew D. Lambert
Department of War Studies
King's College, London
The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy, 1853-56

"Moore's detailed comparison between the Malakoff and Fort Fisher is absolutely fascinating. I have no hesitation in recommending this book to anyone . . . . The Wilmington Campaign and the Battles for Fort Fisher deserves a place in the library of any student of mid-nineteenth-century military history."

Michael Hargreave Mawson
Crimean War Research Society
England

"Despite the static nature of one compared with the mobility of the other, the Crimean War and the American Civil War have many similarities . . . . Mark Moore's Wilmington Campaign and the Battles for Fort Fisher devotes a full section to the comparison, with a detailed consideration of the siege of Sebastopol and a brief account of the bombardment of Kinburn . . . . a beautifully produced book with copious illustrations. It will be enjoyed by those who like to read a little wider than our core subject Crimean War and I warmly recommend it."

Maj. Colin Robins
The War Correspondent
Journal of the Crimean War Research Society
England