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  • CALAMITY IN CAROLINA
    DANIEL DAVIS / PHILLIP GREENWALT
    Robert E. Lee gave Joseph E. Johnston an impossible task. Federal armies under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had rampaged through Georgia on their “March to the Sea” and now were cutting a swath of destruction as they marched north from Savannah through the Carolinas. Locked in a desperate defense of Richmond and Petersburg, there was little Lee could do to stem Sherman’s ...

    $102.22

  • HURRICANE FROM THE HEAVENS
    DANIEL DAVIS / PHILLIP GREENWALT
    “Lee’s army is really whipped,” Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant believed. May 1864 had witnessed near-constant combat between his Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Grant, unlike his predecessors, had not relented in his pounding of the Confederates. The armies clashed in the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania Courthouse and along the North Anna R...

    $102.22

  • A SINGLE BLOW
    PHILLIP S. GREENWALT / ROBERT ORRISON
    A concise history of the “shot heard round the world”—and the dramatic day that began America’s war for independence. Includes maps and photos.   When shots were fired at Lexington and Concord on a spring day in 1775, few, if any, fully grasped the impact they would ultimately have on the world.   This concise book offers not only a guide to the historical sites involved but a ...

    $179.00

  • THE WINTER THAT WON THE WAR
    PHILLIP S. GREENWALT
    “An Army of skeletons appeared before our eyes naked, starved, sick and discouraged.” Gouverneur Morris recorded these words in his report to the Continental Congress after a visit to the Continental Army encampment at Valley Forge. Sent as part of a fact-finding mission, Morris and his fellow congressmen arrived to conditions far worse than they had initially expected. After a...

    $229.00

  • DESERT EMPIRE
    PATRICK KELLY-FISCHER / PHILLIP S. GREENWALT
    A detailed account of the overlooked 1862 New Mexico Campaign and Confederate ambitions in the Southwest. In late July 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor and 258 Texas cavalrymen thundered into the small village of Mesilla, tucked along the Rio Grande River in the New Mexico Territory. They skirmished with U.S. Regulars seeking to retake the town and quickly forced them to re...

    $140.99

  • BLOODY AUTUMN
    DANIEL T. DAVIS / PHILLIP S. GREENWALT
    An "essential addition to serious students' libraries" detailing the historic military offensive that helped sway the outcome of the American Civil War ( Civil War News).   In the late summer of 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant set one absolutely unconditional goal: to sweep Virginia's Shenandoah Valley "clean and clear." His man for the job: Maj. Gen. "Little Phil...

    $200.00