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  • UNHAPPY CATASTROPHES
    ROBERT M. DUNKERLY
    "The Importance of the North River (the Hudson), and the sanguine wishes of all to prevent the enemy from possessing it, have been the causes of this unhappy catastrophe." So wrote General George Washington in 1776 as the British invaded New Jersey. Worse was to come, as the British overran the state, and the Americans suffered one unhappy catastrophe after another. Central New...

    $114.76

  • EMBATTLED CAPITAL
    ROBERT M. DUNKERLY / DOUG CRENSHAW
    A guide to the former Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, with "a good deal of historical information, much of it neglected in histories of the war" ( The NYMAS Review). "On To Richmond!" cried editors for the New York Tribune in the spring of 1861. Thereafter, that call became the rallying cry for the North's eastern armies as they marched, maneuvered, and fought their ...

    $229.00

  • TO THE BITTER END
    ROBERT M. DUNKERLY
    Across the Confederacy, determination remained high through the winter of 1864 into the new year. Yet ominous signs were everywhere. The peace conference had failed. Large areas were overrun, the armies could not stop Union advances, the economy was in shambles, and industry and infrastructure were crumbling—the Confederacy could not make, move, or maintain anything. No one kne...

    $102.22

  • NO TURNING BACK
    ROBERT M. DUNKERLY / DONALD C. PFANZ / DAVID R. RUTH
    “[T]here will be no turning back,” said Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. It was May, 1864. The Civil War had dragged into its fourth spring. It was time to end things, Grant resolved, once and for all. With the Union Army of the Potomac as his sledge, Grant crossed the Rapidan River, intending to draw the Army of Northern Virginia into one final battle. Short of that, he planned “to ...

    $89.43

  • EUTAW SPRINGS
    ROBERT M. DUNKERLY / IRENE B. BOLAND
    An in-depth analysis of one of the War for Independence's bloodiest and least understood conflicts. The Battle of Eutaw Springs took place on September 8, 1781, and was among the last in the War of Independence. It was brutal in its combat and reprisals, with Continental and Whig militia fighting British regulars and Loyalist regiments. Although its outcome was seemingly inconc...

    $229.00