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  • "...the real war will never get in the books"

    Selections from Writers During the Civil War

    Edited by Louis P. Masur ...
    "These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • "An Arch Rebel Like Myself"

    Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas

    Dan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil War and the exemplar of treason in the Far West among the pro-Union press. He gained notoriety as the survivor of California's last political (and actual, fatal) duel, for his role in the display of a Confederate flag in Sacramento, and for his imprisonment after an armed confrontation with Union troops ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • "Boots And Saddles" Or Life In Dakota With General Custer

    "Boots And Saddles" Or "Life In Dakota With General Custer" by Elizabeth B. Custer" is a warmly human, first-hand account of the hardships, disappointments, fun and flattery, joys, and heartaches of General Custer's devoted wife, who accompanied her military husband over the badlands of Dakota, during the Indian troubles of the 1870's. This last duty post of General Custer ended in his death at ... Read more

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  • "By the Blood of Our Alumni"

    Norwich University Citizen Soldiers in the Army of the Potomac

    Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military college, graduated hundreds of officers into the Federal armies who participated in the long and bloody war to crush the Southern Rebellion of 1861-1865. Robert Poirier’s “By the Blood of Our Alumni”: Norwich University Citizen Soldiers in the Army of the Potomac is their story.It is difficult to overstate the school’s influence on the war ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana

    The Origins of an Iconic Image

    by Bruce Laurie ...
    Series Book 8 - Working Titles
    "Chaotic Freedom" is the story of two men transformed for the better through the Civil War. It is also the biography of an iconic photograph. The men are printer and newspaper publisher Henry S. Gere and currier and carpenter Marshall S. Stearns, both from western Massachusetts. The photograph they eventually collaborated to produce became the Civil War emblem featured in Harper's: the carte de ... Read more

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  • "Co Aytch"

    In the Civil War with the First Tennessee Regiment. Fascinating tale of the war between the states. ... Read more

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  • "Death does seem to have all he can attend to"

    The Civil War Diary of an Andersonville Survivor

    On August 7, 1862, George Alfred Hitchcock (born in Massachusetts in 1844) was mustered into Company A, 21st Massachusetts Infantry. From this date until January 1, 1865, he kept a meticulous daily diary.His first experience in battle was at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, and then an attack across Burnside's Bridge at Antietam. Then came the disastrous Union advance toward Marye's Heights at ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $16.99 USD

  • "Far, Far From Home"

    The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers

    In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. In their last year of college when the war broke out, Dick and Tally ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • "Fire From the Midst of You"

    A Religious Life of John Brown

    Reveals a complex new portrait of John Brown, radical abolitionist and leader of the 1859 raid on Harper's FerryJohn Brown is usually remembered as a terrorist whose unbridled hatred of slavery drove him to the ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. Tried and executed for seizing the arsenal and attempting to spur a liberation movement among the slaves, Brown was the ultimate cause ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Friends in Peace and War"

    Great friendship existed between the United States and Imperial Russia during the nineteenth century. The Old World Russian autocracy supported the young New World democracy because of the emerging U.S. role as a bulwark against Great Britains ambitions, in Asia and in the North Pacific Ocean region especially. In fact, when the American Civil War threatened to divide the United States, Russia ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

  • "Happiness Is Not My Companion"

    The Life of General G. K. Warren

    The valorous but troubled career of the Civil War general best known for defending Little Round Top and averting a Union defeat at Gettysburg.The lieutenant colonel of a New York regiment and rising star in the Army of the Potomac, Gouverneur K. Warren performed heroically at Gettysburg. For his service at Bristoe Station and Mine Run, he was awarded command of the Fifth Corps for the 1864 ... Read more

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  • "I Hope to Do My Country Service"

    The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry

    In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing his careful and detailed observations of army life, his medical trials in the field and army ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania"

    The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg. Volume 2: June 22–30, 1863

    Award-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final installment of “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia’s and Army of the Potomac’s March to Gettysburg. This compelling and bestselling study is the first to fully integrate the military, political, social, economic, and civilian perspectives with rank-and-file accounts ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "In her hour of sore distress and peril"

    The Civil War Diaries of John P. Reynolds, Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

    John Perkins Reynolds, a member of the "Salem Zouaves" (Company I, Eighth Massachusetts Infantry), left behind a unique record of one company's service during the early months of the Civil War. His diary documents his company's hourly activities each day, forming a rare chronicle of a Union "three-month" unit. Reynolds was a talented and perceptive writer, and he meticulously recorded details ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • "Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken"

    Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4–14, 1863

    This award-winning Civil War history examines Robert E. Lee’s retreat from Gettysburg and the vital importance of Civil War military intelligence.While countless books have examined the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army’s retreat to the Potomac River remains largely untold. This comprehensive study tells the full story, including how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Let the Monster Perish"

    The Historic Address to Congress of Henry Highland Garnet

    "In a time of division, we can have no better prophetic voice to frame today's discussions of justice and freedom than a one-legged fugitive slave who came to a Capitol without a Dome to tell how the Constitution could be made more perfect, in the name of God."—from a letter sent by the President of the Presbyterian Historical Society to the President of the Maryland State SenateIn February 1865, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • "Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays

    This volume gathers the best previously unpublished and uncollected writings on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln scholarship by one of his great biographers, Benjamin P. Thomas.A skilled historian and a masterful storyteller himself, Thomas was widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. With these essays, he combines historical depth with narrative grace in delineating Lincoln ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • "Little Phil" and His Troopers: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan (Expanded, Annotated)

    Of Sheridan, Ulysses S. Grant said, “As a soldier, as a commander of troops, as a man capable of doing all that is possible with any number of men, there is no man living greater than Sheridan. He belongs to the very first rank of soldiers, not only of our country, but of the world. I rank Sheridan with Napoleon and Frederick and the great commanders in history."He was bold in battle but insisted ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • "No One Wants to be the Last to Die"

    The Battles of Appomattox, April 8-9, 1865

    by Chris Calkins ...
    This groundbreaking study chronicles the final battles in Virginia at Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House in April 1865. Author Chris Calkins, who recently retired as the Site Manager at Sailor’s Creek Battlefield State Park, is widely recognized as the war’s foremost authority on the battles of Appomattox and the Appomattox Campaign. “No One Wants to Be the Last to Die” leads readers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar"

    Sherman's Carolinas Campaign from Fayetteville to Averasboro, March 1865

    “Smith and Sokolsky have firmly established themselves within the highest echelon of 1865 Carolinas Campaign historians.” —Civil War Books and AuthorsGen. William T. Sherman’s 1865 Carolinas Campaign receives scant attention from most Civil War historians. Career military officers Mark A. Smith and Wade Sokolosky rectify this oversight with “No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar,” a careful ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Old Slow Town"

    Detroit During the Civil War

    by Paul Taylor ...
    Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, including a large German and Irish immigrant community, mostly aligned with anti-war Democrats while the rest of the state stood with the pro-Lincoln Republicans. The virulently anti-Lincoln and anti-Black Detroit Free Press fanned the city's flames with ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Stand to It and Give Them Hell"

    Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863

    “[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier’s experiences on the southern end of the battlefield on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg.” —Civil War News“Stand to It and Give Them Hell” chronicles the Gettysburg fighting from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top on July 2, 1863, through the letters, memoirs, diaries, and postwar recollections of the men from both armies who struggled to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State

    In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living legacy of the famous "Sky Walkers," the steelworkers who built ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • "The Bloody Fifth" Vol. 1

    Secession to the Suffolk Campaign

    Series series The 5th Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia
    “A thoroughly researched account of a legendary Confederate infantry regiment that will be of deep interest to the legion of Civil War buffs.” —Richard M. McMurry, author of Two Great Rebel ArmiesThe Fifth Texas Infantry—“The Bloody Fifth”—was one of only three Texas regiments to fight with Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Much like the army in which it served, the Fifth Texas ... Read more

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