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by Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
So many amazing Charleston Civil War stories have faded over time. Most people don't know of the elite 1860 Association that conspired to push South Carolina toward secession. Or about the Stone Fleet of old whaling ships sunk in Charleston Harbor in an attempt to choke out Confederate blockade runners....
The Political Economy of Hope and Fear
Capitalism and the Black Condition in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Popular liberal writing on race has relied on appeals to the value of "diversity" and the fading memory of the Civil Rights movement to counter the aggressive conservative assault on liberal racial reform generally, and on black well-being, in particular. Yet appeals to fairness and justice,...
Maps of Chickamauga
An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Third in a new series of campaign studies that take a different approach toward military history, The Maps of Chickamauga explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of 120 full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat’s ebb and flow that makes the titanic...
The Pennsylvania Reserves in the Civil War
A Comprehensive History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Until its soldiers mustered out of service in mid–1864, the Pennsylvania Reserve Division was one of only a few one-state divisions in the Union army. Known as the Pennsylvania Reserves, or simply the Reserves, the division saw action in most of the major battles of the Civil War, including Mechanicsville,...
The 72nd New York Infantry in the Civil War
A History and Roster
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This is the story of the men who fought and died in the 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Part of Dan Sickles’ famed Excelsior Brigade, the 72nd New York served in all the major actions associated with the III Corps, losing one-fourth or more of the regiment in three different...
by Bruce Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri in 1862, the year such warfare became the primary type of military action there and the year that the state saw almost constant fighting. An enormous variety of sources—military and government records, private...
Distant Bugles, Distant Drums
The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
Although most accounts of the Civil War's New Mexico campaign have focused on the Confederate effort, Distant Bugles, Distant Drums brings to life the epic march of 1,000 men recruited from Colorado's towns, farms, and mining camps to fight 3,000 Confederate soldiers in New Mexico.
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by Joseph Connole
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The U.S. government’s Indian Policy evolved during the 19th century, culminating in the expulsion of the American Indians from their ancestral homelands. Much has been written about Andrew Jackson and the removal of the Five Nations from the American Southeast to present-day Oklahoma. Yet little...
Spartan Band
Burnett's 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
In Spartan Band (coined from a chaplains eulogistic poem) author Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn from eleven counties in East Texas. The cavalry regiment organized in the spring of 1862 but was ordered to dismount once in Arkansas. The regiment gradually...
Theater of a Separate War
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the trans-Mississippi...
Grenville Mellen Dodge in the Civil War
Union Spymaster, Railroad Builder and Organizer of the Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In 1861, Colonel Grenville Dodge organized the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and led them off to war. They had few uniforms or weapons and were more of a mob than a military unit, but Dodge shaped them into a fighting force that won honors on the battlefield and gained respect as one of the...
by Thomas W. Cutrer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
[A] well-written, comprehensively researched biography.--Publishers Weekly
"Will both edify the scholar while captivating and entertaining the general reader. . . . Cutrer's research is impeccable, his prose vigorous, and his life of McCulloch likely to remain the standard for many years.--Civil...
Incident at the Otterville Station
A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer of slaves among states, he intended...
by Bruce Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri between September 1864 and June 1865. It explores different tactics each side attempted to gain advantage over each other, with regional differences as influenced by the personalities of local commanders. The author...