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Last Hurrah
Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864
Av Kyle Sinisi
Inbunden, 2015
877 kr
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In the late summer of 1864, Confederate General Sterling Price led a last ditch attempt to liberate Missouri from Union occupation and brutal guerrilla warfare. Price’s invading army was like few others seen during the Civil War. It was an army of cavalry that lacked men, horses, weapons, and …
Vicksburg's Long Shadow
The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance
Inbunden, 2005
370 kr
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During the hottest days of the summer of 1863, while the nation's attention was focused on a small town in Pennsylvania known as Gettysburg, another momentous battle was being fought along the banks of the Mississippi. In the longest single campaign of the war, the siege of Vicksburg left 19,000 …
Sherman's March in Myth and Memory
Av Edward Caudill, Paul Ashdown
Inbunden, 2008
732 kr
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General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating "March to the Sea" in 1864 burned a swath through the cities and countryside of Georgia and into the history of the American Civil War. As they moved from Atlanta to Savannah—destroying homes, buildings, and crops; killing livestock; and consuming …
Sherman's March in Myth and Memory
Av Edward Caudill, Paul Ashdown
Häftad, 2009
384 kr
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General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating "March to the Sea" in 1864 burned a swath through the cities and countryside of Georgia and into the history of the American Civil War. As they moved from Atlanta to Savannah—destroying homes, buildings, and crops; killing livestock; and consuming …
Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan
Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2007
1385 kr
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In some places, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric hijinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst …
Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan
Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction
Häftad, 2007
529 kr
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In some places, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric hijinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst …
Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy
The Mississippi Squadron
Häftad, 2007
542 kr
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The Union inland navy that became the Mississippi Squadron is one of the greatest, yet least studied aspects of the Civil War. Without it, however, the war in the West may not have been won, and the war in the East might have lasted much longer and perhaps ended differently. The men who formed and …
Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865
Häftad, 2009
294 kr
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The generalship of Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's greatest commander, has long fascinated students of the American Civil War. In assessing Lee and his military career, historians have faced the great challenge of explaining how a man who achieved extraordinary battlefield success in 1862–1863 …
Beneath a Northern Sky
A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign
Häftad, 2008
471 kr
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Of all the places and events in this nation's history, Gettysburg may well be the name best known to Americans. Millions flock each year to the little town in south-central Pennsylvania where more than 135 years ago the largest, bloodiest, and most dramatic battle of the Civil War raged across the …
Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865
E-bok, 2008
321 kr
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The generalship of Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy''s greatest commander, has long fascinated students of the American Civil War. In assessing Lee and his military career, historians have faced the great challenge of explaining how a man who achieved extraordinary battlefield success in 1862–1863 …
Sea Eagle
The Civil War Memoir of LCdr. William B. Cushing, U.S.N.
Inbunden, 2009
805 kr
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William Barker Cushing is considered one of the navy's greatest heroes of the Civil War. After his expulsion from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1861, Cushing managed to get an appointment as a master's mate on one of the warships of a blockading squadron. Cushing's daring and exceptional performance in …
Atlanta Will Fall
Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions
E-bok, 2001
610 kr
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General John Bell Hood tried everything he could: Surprise attack. Flanking march. Cavalry raid into the enemy''s rear lines. Simply enduring his opponent''s semi-siege of the city. But nothing he tried worked. Because by the time he assumed command of Confederate forces protecting Atlanta, his …
Beneath a Northern Sky
A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign
E-bok, 2008
514 kr
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Of all the places and events in this nation''s history, Gettysburg may well be the name best known to Americans. Millions flock each year to the little town in south-central Pennsylvania where more than 135 years ago the largest, bloodiest, and most dramatic battle of the Civil War raged across the …
Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan
Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction
E-bok, 2007
578 kr
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In some places, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric hijinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst …
Inventing Custer
The Making of an American Legend
Av Edward Caudill, Paul Ashdown
Häftad, 2017
486 kr
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Custer’s Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however tactically inconsequential in the larger conflict, …
Atlanta Will Fall
Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions
Häftad, 2001
558 kr
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General John Bell Hood tried everything he could: Surprise attack. Flanking march. Cavalry raid into the enemy's rear lines. Simply enduring his opponent's semi-siege of the city. But nothing he tried worked. Because by the time he assumed command of Confederate forces protecting Atlanta, his …
Shattering of the Union
America in the 1850s
Inbunden, 2003
1588 kr
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The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade as the country lurched toward …
Shattering of the Union
America in the 1850s
Häftad, 2003
573 kr
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The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade as the country lurched toward …
Crisis in the Southwest
The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas
Häftad, 2002
732 kr
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The war between the United States and Mexico was decades in the making. Although Texas was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845, Texans retained an affiliation with the United States that virtually assured annexation at some point. Mexico's reluctance to give up Texas put it on a collision …
Men of Secession and Civil War, 1859-1861
Häftad, 2000
558 kr
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This compelling, highly readable book focuses on the men who shaped the events that led to secession and the Civil War. Secessionists tore at the bonds that bound Americans to one another and their government as they maligned Northerners and found sinister intent in federal policy. But equally as …
Short History of the Civil War at Sea
Inbunden, 2001
1603 kr
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While fighting on land continues to hold center stage, recently much more attention has been focused on the Civil War at sea. And for good reason. Naval operations decided the outcome of the war as the North exploited its significant naval and maritime advantage to turn the war on land in its …
Short History of the Civil War at Sea
Häftad, 2001
573 kr
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While fighting on land continues to hold center stage, recently much more attention has been focused on the Civil War at sea. And for good reason. Naval operations decided the outcome of the war as the North exploited its significant naval and maritime advantage to turn the war on land in its …
Single Grand Victory
The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas
Häftad, 2002
558 kr
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More than 800 men lost their lives and 2,700 were wounded. Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson earned his legendary nickname 'Stonewall' here as fellow Confederate General Barnard Bee, later fatally wounded in the battle, shouted, 'Yonder stands Jackson like a stone wall!' Both the North and the …
Retreat to Victory?
Confederate Strategy Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2002
1444 kr
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Did Confederate armies attack too often for their own good? Was the relentless, sometimes costly effort to preserve territory a blunder? Why great battles in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Tennessee rather than well-laid ambushes in Alabama's sandhills or the pine forests of the Carolinas? …
One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End
The Red River Campaign of 1864
Häftad, 2003
631 kr
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In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no- less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of northern Louisiana. In a year of stellar triumphs by Union armies …
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation
The Economics of the Civil War
Av Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Mark Thornton
Häftad, 2004
573 kr
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What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of …
Virginians at War
The Civil War Experiences of Seven Young Confederates
Häftad, 2002
558 kr
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Virginians at War is the tale of seven Virginians who strongly supported the Confederacy from beginning to end. Their stories illustrate how devotion to the 'cause' of independence, religious faith, family and community commitment to the struggle, and shared sacrifices tied these people to the …
Gotham at War
New York City, 1860-1865
Häftad, 2002
384 kr
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Gotham at War is an accessible, entertaining account of America's biggest and most powerful urban center during the Civil War. New York City mobilized an enthusiastic but poorly trained military force during the first month of the war that helped protect Washington, D.C., from Confederate capture. …
Coming for to Carry Me Home
Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow
E-bok, 2011
441 kr
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Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical …
Short History of the Civil War at Sea
E-bok, 2001
626 kr
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While fighting on land continues to hold center stage, recently much more attention has been focused on the Civil War at sea. And for good reason. Naval operations decided the outcome of the war as the North exploited its significant naval and maritime advantage to turn the war on land in its …
