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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust  Publisher Comments An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion...
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Oxford History of the United States #06: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M Mcpherson Publisher Comments Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates...
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Sherman's March: The First Full-Length Narrative of General William T. Sherman's Devastating March Through Georgia and the Carolinas
by Burke Davis Publisher Comments Sherman's March is the vivid narrative of General William T. Sherman's devastating sweep through Georgia and the Carolinas in the closing days of the Civil War. Weaving together hundreds of eyewitness stories, Burke Davis graphically brings to life the...
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
by Jay Winik Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling chronicle of the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning. It was a month that could have unravelled the American nation. Instead, it saved it. In April...
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Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
by Elizabeth Bro Pryor Publisher Comments To most, Robert E. Lee is a beloved tragic figure of a bygone wararemembered by history as stoic and brave but without a true emotional life. Recently, however, historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor uncovered important documents that provide a stunning...
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Gettysburg
by Stephen W Sears Publisher Comments Widely regarded as today"s preeminent historian of the Civil War"s eastern theater, Stephen W. Sears has delivered a masterwork in Gettysburg, his single-volume history of that war"s greatest campaign. Sears brings the epic tale of the...
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Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front (American Childhoods)
by James Marten Publisher Comments This book opens a new window on the impact of the Civil War, and shows that the youngest Americans were inevitable and enthusiastic participants in the nation's worst crisis....
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The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
by Brian Holden Reid Publisher Comments The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history and a defining moment of the nineteenth century. In this concise and authoritative volume, Brian Holden Reid -- a leading expert on the subject -- reveals how industrialization and emerging methods...
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Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed the Course of American History
by Marc Leepson Publisher Comments The Battle of Monocacy, which took place on the blisteringly hot day of July 9, 1864, is one of the Civil War’s most significant yet little-known battles. What played out that day in the corn and wheat fields four miles south of Frederick, Maryland....
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The Civil War Catalog
by Antony Shaw Publisher Comments The Civil War forever changed the way Americans view their nation, and The Civil War Catalog will change the way you view the events, consequences, and people of the Civil War. With more than 200 illustrations and restored photographs from the war, all...
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Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865
by Brooks D Simpson Publisher Comments Washington, Lincoln, Grant--these were once the triumvirate of American nationalism. But, like his tomb on the Hudson, Grant's reputation has fallen into disrepair. The image many Americans hold of him is a caricature: someone "uniquely stupid," an...
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Don't Know Much about the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know about America's Greatest Conflict But Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...)
by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments Why did Abraham Lincoln sneak into Washington for his inauguration? Was the Gettysburg Address written on the back of an envelope?Where did the Underground Railroad run? Can you answer these questions? If not, you're not alone! New York Times-bestselling...
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz 
Publisher Comments When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire...
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Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer
by Rod, Jr. Andrew Publisher Comments Few Southern elites gave more to the Confederate cause or suffered more in its defeat than General Wade Hampton III of South Carolina. One of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Hampton was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at...
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Lee the Soldier
by Gary W Gallagher Review "Carefully crafted . . . There is more than enough ammunition here for several generations of historians to take plenty of potshots at one another."-Civil War History(Civil War History)...
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The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts
by Burke Davis Publisher Comments Wonderfully entertaining look at some intriguing oddities, unusual incidents, and colorful personalities connected with the Civil War. Includes 25 names the war was known by, personal quirks of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and more,...
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Mosby's Rangers (01 Edition)
by Jeffry D. Wert Synopsis No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, better known as "Mosby's Rangers". Here, in vivid and fascinating detail, is the most authoritative account of the Rangers' infamous adventures, written...
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Don't Know Much about the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know about America's Greatest Conflict But Never Learned
by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments Why did Lincoln sneak into Washington for his inauguration? Why did Robert E. Lee resign from the U.S. Army? Whom did the Emancipation Proclamation emancipate? Did General Sherman really say "War is Hell"? What was the Richmond Bread Riot? What did the...
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Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox
by William B Feis Publisher Comments William B. Feis offers us the first scholarly examination of the use of military intelligence under Ulysses S. Grant’s command during the Civil War. Feis makes the new and provocative argument that Grant’s use of the Army of the Potomac&#...
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Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868
by Brooks D Simpson Synopsis Challenging the distinctions traditionally drawn between Ulysses S. Grant's military and political careers, Brooks Simpson offers a new understanding of this often enigmatic leader. "The most reliable and persuasive account of the political views of...
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