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by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This bundle book is a compilation of three of KidCaps top selling history books; it is the first in a three-part volume.
The first volume presents the following wars in an easy to understand format that kids love:
*The American Revolution
*The Boston Tea Party
*The Civil War
Raising Freedom's Child
Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery’s abolition. As a member of the first generation...
by Larry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
During the Civil War, Springfield was a frontier community of about 1,500 people, but it was the largest and most important place in southwest Missouri. The Northern and Southern armies vied throughout the early part of the war to occupy its strategic position. The Federal defeat at Wilson's Creek in...
by Ray Lennard
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Lenawee County was a hotbed for antislavery activities in the 1830s that translated into strong Union support in April 1861. Adrian, Tecumseh and Hudson sent hundreds of soldiers to fight and die in the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation propelled nearly fifty of the county's African American...
by Dawn Dupler, Cher Petrovic
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
On May 10, 1861, Union troops surrounded Camp Jackson, a military encampment where Confederate leaders were accused of conspiring to seize the St. Louis Arsenal, the largest store of munitions west of the Mississippi. The state militia, which numbered more than 600 men, answered the call of Missouri�s...
Maryland Women in the Civil War
Unionists, Rebels, Slaves & Spies
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
On July 9, 1864, young Mamie Tyler crouched in a cellar as Union sharpshooters above traded volleys with Confederate forces. After six excruciating hours, she emerged to nurse the wounded from the Battle of Monocacy. This was life in a border state and the terrifying reality for the women of Maryland....
Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads
The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre–Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three...
American Civil War Artillery 1861–65 (2)
Heavy Artillery
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Because of the length of the coastline of the United States, from the beginning American ordnance and engineers placed an emphasis on heavy artillery mounted in coastal defences. The Union army organised its 'Heavy Artillery' into separate regiments, uniformed and equipped differently. While the Field...
Out Flew the Sabres
The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
One day. Fourteen hours. Twelve thousand Union cavalrymen against 9,000 of their Confederate counterparts—with three thousand Union infantry thrown in for good measure. Amidst the thunder of hooves and the clashing of sabers, they slugged it out across the hills and dales of Culpepper County, Virginia.
And...
All the Fighting They Want
The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City's Surrender, July 18–September 2, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Civil War’s Atlanta campaign rages on following A Long and Bloody Task: “More than informative . . . challenges simplistic caricatures of Hood and Sherman” (The Civil War Monitor).
John Bell Hood brought a hang-dog look and a hard-fighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Once one...
by Lieutenant-Colonel Peter J. Thede
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the leadership competencies of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, the most consistently successful corps-level commander of the Civil War. Over the course of his 44 years in uniform, General Hancock participated in the Mexican War, Civil War,...
Bloody Autumn
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
An “essential addition to serious students’ libraries” detailing the historic military offensive that helped sway the outcome of the American Civil War (Civil War News).
In the late summer of 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant set one absolutely unconditional goal: to sweep Virginia’s...
The Pike's Peakers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers
A History of Colorado in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Having been born and raised on the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, and having the ghosts of the Civil War about me constantly, I have been passionately interested in the Civil War as long as I can remember. The Victorian and antebellum homes with servant quarters still behind them, the wooded...
by Bruce Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri during 1863, the middle year of the war. This work explores the tactics with which each side attempted to gain advantage, with regional differences as influenced by the personalities of local commanders. An enormous...