Granite Farm Letters
University of Georgia Press, October 1988. Cloth. This book is still in shrink wrap. Like new. More
Civil War
Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall
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
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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
Johnny Leber and the Confederate Major
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
The Telegraph Goes to War: The Personal Diary of David Homer Bates, Lincoln's Telegraph Operator
Edmonston Pub, January 2003. Hardcover. More
The public good: Philanthropy and welfare in the Civil War era (The Impact of the Civil War)
Knopf : distributed by Random House, January 1980. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. Small tear at bottom corner of jacket. More
A True Story of Chas. W. Quantrell and His Guerilla Band
Private Printing/ J.P. Burch, January 1923. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Burgundy covered cloth with gold lettering and illustration. Lettering on front board is starting to fade (to black). Spine is worn smooth to the point it is discern if there was once lettering. Moderate wear to board edges. Heavy wear..... More
Civil War
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
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
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
Diary from Dixie
Gramercy Books, March 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chesnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of all of the years of the war. Period photos illustrate this 'you-are-there' account of the daily lives..... More
Hoof Beats North and South: Horses and Horsemen of the Civil War
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
Richmond; National Battlefield Park, Virginia: Historical Handbook No. 33
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
The Battle of New Market
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
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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
Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox
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
Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War
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
The Civil War: A Narrative : Fredericksburg to Stelle Bayou: 5 (Shelby Foote, th
Time-life Books, January 1999. Oversized Clothbound. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. More
Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave
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
Major General John Federick Hartranft Citizen Soldier and Pennsylvania Statesman (Army of the Potomac)
Butternut & Blue, January 1995. Hardcover. Still in shrinkwrap. More
Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory
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
Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Selected Letters, 1839-1865
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
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
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
The Battle of Chancellorsville
Trade Paperback. More
Gray Raiders of the Sea: How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union's High Seas Commerce
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
Damn the Torpedoes: Naval Incidents of the Civil War
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
