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GETTYSBURG!

GREGORY CHRISTIANSON

Gettysburg! Fast Facts for Kids and Families is a fresh and captivating look at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863. Our youthful guides, Liam and Jaden, lead us through the human side of the conflict—the eccentric, the unlikely, and the lovable. Witty commentary that is also sympathetic and reverent tells us that we are truly there. Single-page introductions to each day of the batt...

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RUNNING THE RACE

BRIAN STEEL WILLS

"From Moses and Michelangelo to Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson . . . Wills provides a compelling treatment of Heston's long and successful career." —Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Confederate War Brian Steel Wills captures for the first time a comprehensive view of Charlton Heston's climb to fame, his search for the perfect performance, and the meaningful roles he played...

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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...

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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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SIX MILES FROM CHARLESTON, FIVE MINUTES TO HELL

JAMES A. MORGAN

A comprehensive account of this bitterly fought yet unjustly forgotten early conflict of the Civil War. The small, curiously named village of Secessionville, just outside of Charleston, South Carolina was the site of an early war skirmish, the consequences of which might have been enormous had the outcome been different. But the Confederate victory was quickly overshadowed by t...

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THE CONFEDERATE MILITARY FORCES IN THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1861-1865

WILLIAM ROYSTON GEISE

William Royston Geise was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1970s when he researched and wrote The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861- 1865: A Study in Command in 1974. Although it remained unpublished, it was not wholly unknown. Deep-diving researchers were aware of Dr. Geise's work and lamented the fact that it wa...

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THE BATTLE OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI

CHRIS MACKOWSKI

"A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account" of this important yet overlooked Civil War battle ( Civil War News). 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. D...

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THIRTEEN MONTHS IN DIXIE, OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A FEDERAL PRISONER IN TEXAS

W. F. OSCAR FEDERHEN

A Union soldier recounts his capture and daring escape from a Texas POW camp in this rollicking Civil War memoir. Oscar Federhen was a new recruit to the Union Army when he deployed to Louisiana as part of the Red River Campaign. Captured soon after his arrival at the front, Federhen was marched to Tyler, Texas, where he was held at Camp Ford, the largest POW camp west of the M...

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THE MOST DESPERATE ACTS OF GALLANTRY

DANIEL T. DAVIS

"Presents Custer's Civil War accomplishments in clear and engaging prose, while its ample images and battle maps place unfamiliar readers in the action." — The Civil War Monitor Through the passage of time, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's last fight, the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, has come to overshadow the rest of his military career, which had its brilliant begi...

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LINCOLN'S GREATEST JOURNEY

NOAH ANDRE TRUDEAU

From a New York Times–bestselling author, "a vivid account of Lincoln's sixteen days at the front in Virginia" (James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom). March 1865: The United States was at a crossroads and, truth be told, Abraham Lincoln was a sick man. I am very unwell, he confided to a close acquaintance. A vast and terrible civil war was w...

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A LONG AND BLOODY TASK

STEPHEN DAVIS

"Explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864 . . . Clear and concise" ( The Civil War Monitor). Poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union's western armies, eyed Atlanta covetously—the South's last great untouched prize. "Get into the i...

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THE LAST ROAD NORTH

ROBERT ORRISON / DAN WELCH

A guide to the Gettysburg Civil War battlefields and their history, featuring lesser-known sites, side trips, and optional stops along the way. "I thought my men were invincible," admitted Robert E. Lee. A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee's greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum o...

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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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A CIVIL WAR CAPTAIN AND HIS LADY

GENE BARR

"Barr's engaging and revealing collection of letters from Lincoln country directly links the battlefield with the home front" (Randall M. Miller, editor of Lincoln & Leadership). More than 150 years ago, twenty-seven-year-old Irish immigrant Josiah Moore met nineteen-year-old Jennie Lindsay, a member of one of Peoria, Illinois's most prominent families. The Civil War had just...

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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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THE SECOND BATTLE OF WINCHESTER

ERIC J. WITTENBERG / SCOTT L. MINGUS

A comprehensive, deeply researched history of the pivotal 1863 American Civil War battle fought in northern Virginia. June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia pushes west into the Shenandoah Valley and then north toward the Potomac River. Only one significant force stands in its way: Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy's Union division of...

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THE ALAMO'S FORGOTTEN DEFENDERS

PHILLIP THOMAS TUCKER

"A thoughtful military history of the Texas Revolution from the perspective of Irish-Americans who were in the thick of it. Highly recommended." — Midwest Book Review Breaking new ground with original insights, Phillip Thomas Tucker's The Forgotten Defenders of the Alamo: The Irish of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836, sets forth one of the best remaining untold stories of the Al...

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"TO PREPARE FOR SHERMAN'S COMING"

WADE SOKOLOSKY / MARK A. SMITH

"More than yet another drums and bugles account of a Civil War battle . . . Smith and Sokolosky fully understand the importance of logistics in warfare." — The Civil War Monitor The Battle of Wise's (Wyse) Forks, March 7–11, 1865, has long been thought of as nothing more than an insignificant skirmish during the final days of the Civil War and relegated to a passing reference...

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A WANT OF VIGILANCE

BILL BACKUS / ROBERT ORRISON

Part of the Emerging Civil War Series, this history covers a crucial clash between the Blue and the Gray that impacted future Union tactics and victories. The months after the Battle of Gettysburg were anything but quiet—filled with skirmishes and cavalry clashes. Nonetheless, Union commander Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade had yet to encounter his Confederate counterpart, Gen....

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THE AFTERMATH OF BATTLE

MEG GROELING

The stories of what happened after the shooting stopped and the process of burying bodies in the wake of Civil War carnage and chaos. The clash of armies in the American Civil War left hundreds of thousands of men dead, wounded, or permanently damaged. Skirmishes and battles could result in casualty numbers as low as one or two and as high as tens of thousands. The carnage of t...

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THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN: GLORY OR THE GRAVE

DAVID A. POWELL

The second volume in a three-volume study of this overlooked and largely misunderstood campaign of the American Civil War. According to soldier rumor, Chickamauga in Cherokee meant "River of Death." The name lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged a sprawling bloody combat along the banks of...

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THE FIRST BATTLE FOR PETERSBURG

WILLIAM GLENN ROBERTSON

The nearly ten-month struggle for Petersburg, Virginia, is well known to students of the Civil War. Surprisingly few readers, however, are aware that Petersburg's citizens felt war's hard hand nearly a week before the armies of Grant and Lee arrived on their doorstep in the middle of June 1864. Distinguished historian William Glenn Robertson rectifies this oversight with the pu...

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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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PICKETT'S CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG

JAMES A. HESSLER / WAYNE MOTTS

A battlefield guide to the sites and history of the climactic attack during the American Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg. 150 years after the event, the grand near-suicidal attack against the Union position on Cemetery Ridge still emotionally resonates with Gettysburg enthusiasts like no other aspect of the battle. On the afternoon of July 3, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ord...

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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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SPIES, SCOUTS, AND SECRETS IN THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN

THOMAS J. RYAN

"A fascinating book, and the most detailed account you will find about intelligence operations during the Gettysburg campaign." —Dr. Vince Houghton, Historian/Curator, International Spy Museum, Washington, DC As intelligence experts have long asserted, "Information in regard to the enemy is the indispensable basis of all military plans." Despite the thousands of books and art...

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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 SIEGE OF PETERSBURG

JOHN HORN

A revised and expanded tactical study General Grant's Fourth Offensive during the American Civil War. The nine-month siege of Petersburg was the longest continuous operation of the American Civil War. A series of large-scale Union "offensives," grand maneuvers that triggered some of the fiercest battles of the war, broke the monotony of static trench warfare. Grant's Fourth Off...

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THE LOST PAPERS OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL JOHN BELL HOOD

STEPHEN M. HOOD

Scholars hail the find as "the most important discovery in Civil War scholarship in the last half century." The invaluable cache of Confederate General John Bell Hood's personal papers includes wartime and postwar letters from comrades, subordinates, former enemies and friends, exhaustive medical reports relating to Hood's two major wounds, and dozens of touching letters exchan...

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ROBERT E. LEE IN WAR AND PEACE

DONALD A. HOPKINS

Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of one of America's most famous sons. It has been almost seven decades since anyone has attempted a serious study of Lee in photographs, and with Don Hopkins's painstakingly researched and lavishly illustrated Robert E. Lee in War and ...

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