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  • THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN, 1863
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    THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN, 1863
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    A fully illustrated account of the Vicksburg Campaign, including modern color photography and covering the river war, inland battles, seige operations, and more. The 14-month campaign to regain the control of Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi, stands as the prime example of how the Civil War would be fought and won. The Federal government’s policy of blockad...

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  • THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN, 1863
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    THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN, 1863
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    A fully illustrated account of the Vicksburg Campaign, including modern color photography and covering the river war, inland battles, seige operations, and more. By the end of March 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant was at a crossroads in his military career. His bold attempts in the late fall 1862 and winter of 1862/63 had all come up fall short of his objective: get his ar...

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  • CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS AND MEMORY
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    CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS AND MEMORY
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    The American Civil War left indelible marks on the country. In the century and a half since the war, Americans have remembered the war in different ways. Veterans placed monuments to commemorate their deeds on the battlefield. In doing so, they often set in stone and bronze specific images in specific places that may have conflicted with the factual historical record. Erecting ...

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  • THE BATTLE OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, MAY 14, 1863
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    THE BATTLE OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, MAY 14, 1863
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    Jackson, Mississippi, was the third Confederate state capital to fall to Union forces. When Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captured the important rail junction in May 1863, however, he did so almost as an afterthought. Drawing on dozens of primary sources, contextualized by the latest scholarship on Grant’s Vicksburg campaign, The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863, offer...

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  • DON'T GIVE AN INCH
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    DON'T GIVE AN INCH
    DANIEL T. DAVIS / CHRIS MACKOWSKI / KRISTOPHER D. WHITE
    This vividly detailed Civil War history reveals many of the incredible true stories behind the legendary sites of the Gettysburg battlefield. Having unexpectedly been thrust into command of the Army of the Potomac only three days earlier, General George Gordon Meade was caught by a much harsher surprise when the Confederate Army of North Virginia launched a bold invasion northw...

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  • HELL ITSELF
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    HELL ITSELF
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    A Civil War historian recounts the first battle between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—a bloody and horrifying conflict in the Wilderness of Virginia. Known simply as the Wilderness, soldiers called the seventy square miles of dense Virginian forest one of the "waste places of nature" and "a region of gloom." Yet here, in the spring of 1864, the Civil War escalated to a new...

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  • GRANT'S LAST BATTLE
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    GRANT'S LAST BATTLE
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI / KRISTOPHER D. WHITE
    The remarkable story of how one of America's greatest military heroes became a literary legend.   The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financier—Ulysses S. Grant—was dying. The hardscrabble man who regu...

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  • STRIKE THEM A BLOW
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    STRIKE THEM A BLOW
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    The Civil War historian and author of A Season of Slaughter continues his engaging account of the Overland Campaign in this vivid chronicle. By May of 1864, Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant had resolved to destroy his Confederate adversaries through attrition if by no other means. Meanwhile, his Confederate counterpart, Robert E. Lee, looked for an opportunity to regain the o...

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  • FIGHT LIKE THE DEVIL
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    FIGHT LIKE THE DEVIL
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI / CHRISTOPHER D. WHITE / DANIEL T. DAVIS
    "Gives the reader an excellent readable narrative of the first day of battle . . . [and] an incredible driving tour which closes each chapter." —Matthew Bartlett, Gettysburg Chronicle Do not bring on a general engagement, Confederate General Robert E. Lee warned his commanders. The Army of Northern Virginia, slicing its way through south-central Pennsylvania, was too spread out...

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  • THE GREAT BATTLE NEVER FOUGHT
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    THE GREAT BATTLE NEVER FOUGHT
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher. After his stunning victory at Gettysburg in July of 1863, the Union commander spent the following months trying to bring the Army of Northern Virginia to battle once more and finish the job. The Confederate army, robbed of much of its offensive strength, nevertheless parried Meade’s moves time after time. Although t...

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  • TRACES OF THE BLOODY STRUGGLE
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    TRACES OF THE BLOODY STRUGGLE
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    As the 1864 Overland Campaign shifted from the Wilderness toward Spotsylvania Court House, Confederate commander Robert E. Lee successfully bottlenecked the Federal army just outside the village. Undeterred, Union commander Ulysses S. Grant sent part of his forces on a wide flanking maneuver to attack Confederates from the east. Lee scrambled to block them. Thus the Civil War c...

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  • SEIZING DESTINY
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    SEIZING DESTINY
    ALBERT Z. CONNER / CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    How fighting Joe Hooker turned things around during a low point in the Civil War: "Exceptionally well-written . . . the result of painstaking research." —Brig. Gen. John W. Mountcastle, USA (ret.), former chief of military history, US Army   Depression. Desertion. Disease. The Army of the Potomac faced a trio of unrelenting enemies during the winter of 1863. Following the catas...

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  • THAT FURIOUS STRUGGLE
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    THAT FURIOUS STRUGGLE
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI / KRISTOPHER D. WHITE
    Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have worked for years to compile this remarkable story of one of the war's greatest battles. escribes the series of controversial events that define this crucial battle, including General Robert E. Lee's radical decision to divide his small army--a violation of basic military rules--sending Stonewall Jackson on his famous march ar...

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  • THE SUMMER OF '63: VICKSBURG & TULLAHOMA
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    THE SUMMER OF '63: VICKSBURG & TULLAHOMA
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI / DAN WELCH
    “An important contribution to Civil War scholarship, offering an engrossing portrait of these important campaigns . . . this reviewer recommends it highly.” —NYMAS Review   The fall of Vicksburg in July 1863 fundamentally changed the strategic picture of the American Civil War, though its outcome had been anything but certain. Union general Ulysses S. Grant tried for months to ...

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  • THE SUMMER OF ’63 GETTYSBURG
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    THE SUMMER OF ’63 GETTYSBURG
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI PHD AND DAN WELCH1
    “An outstanding read for anyone interested in the Civil War and Gettysburg in particular . . . innovative and thoughtful ideas on seemingly well-covered events.” —The NYMAS Review   The largest land battle on the North American continent has maintained an unshakable grip on the American imagination. Building on momentum from a string of victories that stretched back into the su...

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  • THE GREAT “WHAT IFS” OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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    THE GREAT “WHAT IFS” OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI PHD
    “Thought-provoking and entertaining . . . What if Lincoln had dodged the assassin’s bullet? What if Lee had waged guerrilla warfare in April 1865?” —Gordon C. Rhea, author of the Overland Campaign series   “What if. . . ?” Every Civil War armchair general asks the question. Possibilities unfold. Disappointments vanish. Imaginations soar. More questions arise. “What if . . .” ca...

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  • SIMPLY MURDER
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    SIMPLY MURDER
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI / KRISTOPHER D. WHITE
    This Civil War history and guide offers a vivid chronicle of this dramatic yet misunderstood battle, plus invaluable information for battlefield visitors. The battle of Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the most lopsided Union defeat of the Civil War. It is sometimes called “Burnside’s folly,” after Union commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside who led the Army of the Potoma...

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  • ATLAS OF INDEPENDENCE
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    ATLAS OF INDEPENDENCE
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    “The man to whom the country is most indebted for the great measure of independence is Mr. John Adams. . . . I call him the Atlas of American independence.” So attested one of the delegates to the Second Continental Congress, moved to support independence in July 1776 after months of angst, indecision, dithering, and fear. Thomas Jefferson called Adams “our colossus on the floo...

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  • UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
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    UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
    CURT FIELDS / CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    His friends called him “Sam.” His wife called him “Lyss” or “Victor.” His initials inspired a nickname tied to one of his greatest battlefield triumphs: “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” He quietly told his brother in April of 1861, while walking home after a recruiting meeting in Galena, Illinois, “I am in to do all I can.” And so he did. The unassuming Grant never expected to ...

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  • A TEMPEST OF IRON AND LEAD
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    A TEMPEST OF IRON AND LEAD
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI / GORDON C. RHEA
    A detailed study of the brutal and pivotal battle at Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21, 1864. May 1864. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame. No one could have imagined a more infernal battlefield—until the armies moved down the road to Spotsylvania Cour...

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  • STAY AND FIGHT IT OUT
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    STAY AND FIGHT IT OUT
    KRISTOPHER D. WHITE / CHRIS MACKOWSKI
    Recounts the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the Gettysburg battle’s fateful final day. July 1, 1863, was a disaster for the Union army’s XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Rei...

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  • THE CIVIL WAR AND POP CULTURE
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    THE CIVIL WAR AND POP CULTURE
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI PHD / JON TRACEY
    Explore the enduring fascination of the Civil War through thought-provoking essays from the esteemed "Emerging Civil War" series to gain better understanding of the complex relationship between history and art in shaping our understanding of the war. The American Civil War left indelible marks on America’s imagination, collectively and as individuals. In the century and a half ...

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  • FALLEN LEADERS
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    FALLEN LEADERS
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI PHD
    Fallen Leaders: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War recounts the fall of some of the most famous, infamous, and underappreciated commanders from both the North and South. The Civil War took as many as 720,000 lives and maimed hundreds of thousands more. The fallen included outstanding leaders on both sides, from a U.S. president all...

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  • THE CIVIL WAR ON THE WATER
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    THE CIVIL WAR ON THE WATER
    DWIGHT STURTEVANT HUGHES AND CHRIS MACKOWSKI PHD
    The Civil War was primarily a land conflict, but it was not only that. “Nor must Uncle Sam’s web-feet be forgotten,” wrote Abraham Lincoln. “At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks.” From the...

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  • GRANT AT 200
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    GRANT AT 200
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI PHD
    Proceeds from this volume will go to support the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the Grant Monument Association. Ulysses S. Grant stood at the center of the American Civil War maelstrom. The Ohio native answered his nation’s call to service and finished the war as a lieutenant general in command of the U.S. Army. Four years later, he ascended to the presidency to better secure...

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  • A SEASON OF SLAUGHTER
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    A SEASON OF SLAUGHTER
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI / KRISTOPHER D. WHITE
    A gripping narrative of one of the Civil War's most consequential engagements.   In the spring of 1864, the newly installed Union commander Ulysses S. Grant did something none of his predecessors had done before: He threw his army against the wily, audacious Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia over and over again.   At Spotsylvania Court House, the two armies shifte...

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  • CHANCELLORSVILLE'S FORGOTTEN FRONT
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    CHANCELLORSVILLE'S FORGOTTEN FRONT
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI / KRISTOPHER D. WHITE
    The first book-length study of two overlooked engagements that helped turned the tide of a pivotal Civil War battle.   By May of 1863, the stone wall at the base of Marye's Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter from their crushing defeat there the previous December. They would assault it ag...

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  • THE LAST DAYS OF STONEWALL JACKSON
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    THE LAST DAYS OF STONEWALL JACKSON
    CHRIS MACKOWSKI / KRISTOPHER D. WHITE
    An exhaustive look at the final hours of the Confederacy’s most audacious general.   May 1863. The Civil War was in its third spring, and Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson stood at the peak of his fame. He had risen from obscurity to become “Old Stonewall,” adored across the South and feared and respected throughout the North. On the night of May 2, however, just hou...

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