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University of Georgia Press, October 1988. Cloth. This book is still in shrink wrap. Like new. More
University of Georgia Press, October 1988. Cloth. This book is still in shrink wrap. Like new. More
Southern Illinois University Press, October 2007. Hardcover. Well Satisfied with My Position offers a first-person account of army life during the Civil War's Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Fredericksburg. Spencer Bonsall, who joined the 81st Pennsylvania Infantry as a hospital steward, kept a journal from March 1862 until March 1863..... More
Harper Perennial, September 2015. Trade Paperback. "Not for nothing has Abbott been called a 'pioneer of sizzle history.' Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War." -- Los Angeles Times Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author..... More
Ashantilly Press, January 1962. Limited. Hardcover. Jacket has seperated at the front edge of the spine, it bears tears at the front cover, the lettering on its spine has faded to near-invisibility, and is quite brittle; however, nearly all the portions of the jacket are still present. The book's condition..... More
Edmonston Pub, January 2003. Hardcover. More
Knopf : distributed by Random House, January 1980. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. Small tear at bottom corner of jacket. More
Mariner Books, December 2004. Trade Paperback. "Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton." --Baltimore Sun Infinitely readable and absorbing, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton's The Civil War is one of the most widely read general histories of the war available in a...... More
Yale University Press, September 1981. First Edition. Cloth. An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy. First/first. {9 & 1/2' x 6 & 1/2'} In tattered, torn and darkened at spine and margins. Tanned..... More
Exposition Press / University Book, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in mildly foxed/darkened dustjacket. Front flap is not clilpped. Ochre cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Darkening at margins and board edges. Heavy tanning to end pages front and back. Small (one-half inch) split in hinge of front end pages..... More
National Park Service, January 1961. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. Clean with tanning. Previous owner's name inked verso front cover, else without interior markings. 46 pages. 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
University of North Carolina Press, October 2004. Trade Paperback. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged..... More
University of Nebraska Press, April 2002. Hardcover. 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's Bureau of Military..... More
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
Time-life Books, January 1999. Oversized Clothbound. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. More
Butternut & Blue, January 1995. Hardcover. More
Thomas Dunne Books, June 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "New York Times" bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great "what if" of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and..... More
Penguin USA, September 1990. Hardcover. Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family's future. in doing so, the Civil War's greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose..... More
Scribner Book Company, October 2020. Paper Back. From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.The fourth..... More
Trade Paperback. 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
John F Blair Pub, October 1989. Oversized Hardcover. Recounts battles between Union and Confederate ships, and looks at the technological developments that influenced the course of the war. More
Yoseloff, January 1970. Hardcover. More
Free Press, March 1992. Hardcover. In this "nuts and bolts" comparative history of Union and Confederate command and strategy, the eminent prize-winning historian Archer Jones shows us how the Civil War was actually conducted. Looking at decision-making at the highest levels, from mobilization and organization to planning and operation, Jones..... More
Taylor Publishing, September 2001. Hardcover. For all the heroism and military prowess shown on the battlefields of the Civil War, many of its key operations took place far from the front. Behind Enemy Lines exposes the hidden, often unknown initiatives of the War Between the States and brings their architects..... 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
Konecky & Konecky, January 1995. Hardcover. Lightly bruised at the ends of the spine. Sunned on the edges of the boards. 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
J.S. Sanders & Co., April 1992. Reprint. Paper Back. This biography of the Confederacy's greatest cavalry leaders is considered by many to be the best. Southern Classics Series. Octavo with mild edgewear. Clean & sound without markings. [404 pages]. More
Crown, May 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelfwear on the jacket. Price Clipped. More
Free Press, October 1992. Hardcover. This biography of General William Tecumseh Sherman aims to reveal the motives underlying his often controversial actions. As well as Sherman's role in the Civil War, the book covers other aspects of his life - West Point, the Gold Rush, the construction of the transcontinental..... More
New World, January 1937. Trade Paperback. Tight binding, very clean, text unmarked, minor shelf wear on the cover. More
University of Tennessee Press, October 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket. Carmine colored cloth. Black and gold lettering on spine. First U.S. edition. Clean, unmarked interiors. No underlining. No notes. Signed by both authors, McDonough and Connelly on front free end page. James Lee McDonough also inscribed his signature..... 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
Hippocrene Books, November 1996. Hardcover. Critique's the Civil War general's battlefield tactics, strategic vision, staff organization, and logistic planning, looking at his shortcomings in the context of restrictions placed on him by Confederate government interference and weaknesses in the senior levels of Confederate command, and makes a. Spine slanted. Jacket..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, February 1988. Soft Cover. Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 2000. Hardcover. To mark the ongoing recovery efforts on the 138-year-old wreck of the U.S.S. Monitor, The Mariners' Museum presents a lavishly illustrated commemorative volume of the renowned ship's past and present. 100+ photos & illustrations, many in color. To mark the ongoing recovery efforts on..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, January 2000. Oversized Clothbound. During the American Civil War, popular prints were frequently used to depict, define, and celebrate both the Union and Confederate causes. The Union Image explores the graphic arts that portrayed the Northern side--both in patriotic pictures and newsworthy illustrations published..... 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
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
Oxford University Press, USA, August 1990. Book Club. Hardcover. Whether opposing Nathaniel Bacon and his Rebels in 1676, or condemning English colonial policy in 1776, or turning back the Union Army at the Seven Days' battles of 1862, the descendants of Richard and Anne Lee have occupied a preeminent place..... 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
H E Howard, December 1992. Hardcover. Second printing. More
Touchstone, November 2003. Trade Paperback. A classic Civil War memoir, Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. It is a testament to one man's enduring humanity..... More
Mariner Books, June 2003. Trade Paperback. Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on the Battle of Antietam. The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: on this..... 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
National Park Service, 1961. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. Clean, sound stampled pamphlet. 60 pages. More
Garrett & Massie, January 1961. Hardcover. In price clipped, edgeworn jacket with several small tears at top edge. Tanning to end pages. More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, June 1990. Hardcover. 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
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1997. Trade Paperback. The life of Robert E. Lee is a story of triumph - triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to..... More
Charles Scribners Sons, 1930. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Burgundy cloth covered boards with black lettering. Dustjacket is missing. Previous reader's name in ink ffep. [512 [pages]. More
Little Brown and Company, April 1994. Hardcover. More
Chapel Hill, May 1992. Hardcover. Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review [Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brilliant career. One can easily say that the definitive work on Joshua Chamberlain has now been done.--James Robertson, Richmond Times-Dispatch An example of..... More
Independently published, 1968. Trade Paperback. Very light shelf wear. 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
N/A, August 1989. Trade Paperback. More
N/A, August 1989. Trade Paperback. More
The Kent State University Press, May 2018. Hardcover. Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons confronts the enduring claim that Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and a historical rupture in America's otherwise linear and progressive carceral history. Instead, it places the war years in the broader context of imprisonment in..... More