Houghton Mifflin, August 1996. Hardcover. Many histories of the American Civil War explain victory or defeat in terms of the skill of commanders, the fighting qualities of the troops, and resources in men and material. Intelligence has often been ignored, because at the end of the war most of the..... More
Rutledge Hill Press, October 2000. Trade Paperback. True stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where the sound of battle would never again reach him and..... More
The Blue & Grey Press, January 1987. Oversized Hardcover. 10 Volumes in 5. Dust jackets and slipcase. Previous owner's bookplate in all volumes; else, near fine. More
University Press of Kansas, October 2000. Trade Paperback. Had Lee enjoyed the manpower or materiel advantages of Grant, would the South have triumphed? Had Hood possessed strength superior to Sherman's, would he still have lost their encounters in Georgia? Popular sentiment has long bowed to the military leadership of the..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1992. Book Club. Hardcover. It was a landmark engagement in the history of warfare. It served as the single greatest display of Robert E. Lee's tactical genius and Stonewall Jackson's troop leadership. But while it was the high point of Civil War battlefield success for the..... More
Hanover Square Press, April 2022. Hardcover. The enthralling story of the greatest Civil War battle at sea by the award-winning and bestselling historians Phil Keith and Tom Clavin.On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a...... More
Univ Tennessee Press, February 1996. Trade Paperback. In February of 1862, the fall of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson near the Tennessee-Kentucky border forced a Confederate retreat into northern Alabama. After the Southern forces failed that spring at Shiloh to throw back the Federal advance, the controversial General Braxton Bragg..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1991. Trade Paperback. No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry. As one contemporary said, "They had...all the glamour of Robin Hood...all the courage and bravery of the ancient crusaders." Better known as Mosby's Rangers, they were..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1982. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Foxing/dust staining textblock edges. Previous owner's name inked half title page. 4th paperback printing. [592 pp.]. More
The History Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Revisit one of the most important and bloodiest days of the Civil War, the Confederate battle at Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia, in this exciting view of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the summer of 1864. In the summer of 1864, Georg... More
Rutledge Hill Pr, July 2005. Book Club. Hardcover. As equally matched in skill as they were opposite in personality, the brash Union Gen. Joseph Hooker boasted of a sure defeat of the reserved Gen. Robert E. Lee. "I've got Robert E. Lee right where I want him, and even God..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, July 2010. Book Club. Hardcover. Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides..... More
Simon & Schuster, December 1994. Trade Paperback. General James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War, from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at surrender at Appomattox. Yet, he was largely held to blame for the Confederacy's defeat..... More
Da Capo Press, March 1998. Trade Paperback. When Colonel Charles S. Wainwright (1826-1907), later a brevet brigadier general, was commissioned in the First New York Artillery Regiment of the Army of the Potomac in October 1861, he began a journal. As an officer who fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the..... More
Louisiana State University Press, March 1983. Trade Paperback. In this book, William C. Davis narrates one of the most memorable and crucial of the engagements fought for control of the strategically vital Shenandoah Valley -- a battle that centered on the farming community of New Market. There, Confederate forces under..... More
Louisiana State Univ Pr, September 1996. Trade Paperback. In this account, Chester G. Hearn tells the story of the confederate cruisers - eight ships built mostly in Great Britain - whose mission was to devastate Union commerce and draw off the blockading Yankee squadron strangling the South's economy. Hearn enriches..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, February 1996. Trade Paperback. Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Tennessee. His bold conclusion is that Lee's army was a better army--not just one with a better high..... More
Da Capo Press, August 1996. Trade Paperback. In June 1861, practically unschooled, without military training or experience, Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private. Yet by the Civil War's end he was a lieutenant general whose dazzling exploits and bloody victories caused him to be..... More
Scribner Paper Fiction, August 1976. Paper Back. Octavo. {7 & 1/4' x 9'}. Mild soiling to cover. Curled at fore-edge. Top textblock edge and fore-edge heavily foxed. Previous owner's blindstamped on half title page. {248 pp.}. More
Random House (NY), April 1987. Hardcover. Based on new material and years of research, this masterly biography about the Confederate general who fought at the right hand of Lee throughout the Civil War is by a scholar and authority in the field. Maps, photographs. More
Burd Street Pr, June 2002. Trade Paperback. Swallowed Up in Victory is a narrative of the last year of the American Civil War. It follows the action surrounding the first attacks on Petersburg through the surrender at Appomattox. Swallowed Up in Victory traces the history of the siege through letters..... More
University of South Carolina Press, October 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Details Jewish participation on the Civil War battlefield and throughout the Southern home front In The Jewish Confederates, Robert N. Rosen introduces readers to the community of Southern Jews of the 1860s, revealing the remarkable breadth of Southern Jewry's participation..... More
University of North Carolina Press, September 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2008. Hardcover. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography in decades of the famous Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart. Based on research in manuscript collections, personal memoirs and reminiscences, and regimental histories, this comprehensive volume reflects outstanding Civil War scholarship. James Ewell..... More
St. Martin's Press, October 1999. Hardcover. An exploration of the traditions and nature of Southern pride, a belief that Southerners have a different character from the rest of the nation, examines the impact of this thinking on the conduct and results of the Civil War. The roots of Southern pride..... More
