I've had a great time over the last year talking to groups about my latest book - Gettysburg's Southern Front. The best part is meeting other people who share an interest in history - especially those who are putting in the work to bring programming to their local roundtables. I also had the pleasure of conducting a small tour east of Richmond with the "Stamp Guys" from the Columbus Civil War Roundtable.  We visited key locations covered in my book - Richmond Must Fall.   Looking forward to more talks coming up.  Here is the current schedule:  June 10, 2024 ..read more

Thanks so much to Chris Mackowski from Emerging Civil War for chatting with me about Gettysburg's Southern Front.  As a special bonus, I learned during the interview that the book had received the 2023 Emerging Civil War Book Award.  Check out the podcast or the video interview ..read more

  Thanks so much to Harry Smeltzer for posting an interview with me about Gettysburg’s Southern Front on his Bull Runnings site.  We covered a lot of ground - my childhood, some of my favorite authors, my writing "process," the U.S. attack at Richmond during the Gettysburg Campaign, and a little about my next project ..read more

Thanks so much to Harry Smeltzer for posting an interview with me about Gettysburg’s Southern Front on his Bull Runnings site. We covered a lot of ground - my childhood, some of my favorite authors, my writing "process," the U.S. attack at Richmond during the Gettysburg Campaign, and a little about my next project ..read more

Happy to pass along that Gettysburg's Southern Front received the 2023 Edwin C Bearss Book Award for outstanding scholarship in Civil War History from the Civil War Round Table of Chicago ..read more

  Just catching up on review excerpts for Gettysburg's Southern Front: "A monograph infused with meticulous research, probing analysis, and a smooth narrative style that can serve as a model for today’s historians attempting write a modern campaign study."—Civil War Times "Altogether, Gettysburg’s Southern Front is well written, deeply researched, and provides excellent analysis, breaking new ground in the literature of the war, with its look at what was potentially a decisive moment in the war."—New York Military Affairs Symposium "This study’s value extends beyond its import ..read more

  "Thousands of books have been written about the Gettysburg Campaign, yet talented scholars with fresh insights continue to prove the last has not been said about our most studied military campaign. In Gettysburg’s Southern Front, Hampton Newsome takes readers beyond the fields of Pennsylvania to examine Union efforts to threaten Richmond and its vital railroads in June and July 1863. In doing so, he offers a masterful campaign narrative of understudied military actions, squarely integrating them in the wider scope of the war." - Jonathan M. Steplyk in The Civil War Monitor  ..read more

Several speaking dates coming up. If you can make it to any of these events, please drop by and say hello: Jan. 25, 2023 - Civil War Talk Radio Feb. 23, 2023 - Pender CWRT, Rocky Mount, NC   April 15, 2023 -  "In Great Deeds, On Great Fields: Gettysburg at 160 Years. A Civil War Symposium"; Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, Pittsburgh, PA  June 23, 2023 - CSS Neuse Museum, Kinston, NC July 6, 2023 - Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Richmond, VA   August 10, 2023 - Rocky Mountain CWRT, Littleton, CO Sept. 12, 2023 - Charlottesville CWRT Sept ..read more

"Hampton Newsome has a knack for finding parts of the Civil War that have been either ignored or undercovered and then doing a great job of researching and writing compelling narratives about those parts. This wonderful book is no exception." - Al Mackey at Student of the American Civil War blog. Full review is here ..read more

  "Newsome’s new book is a marvelously researched history of five weeks of Union and Confederate maneuvering to control the Confederate capital. Nearly everything I read in it was new to me, and I am sure it will be so for most readers of Civil War history . . . .  I highly recommend this new work."  - Patrick Young at The Reconstruction Era: Blog Exploring the World the Civil War Created Full review is here ..read more