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Meade's Army
The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman
Inbunden, 2007
540 kr
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Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally disciplined in recording the events, the players, and his surroundings during his wartime duty. His …
They Have Left Us Here to Die
The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry
Av Glenn Robins
Inbunden, 2011
353 kr
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The chronicle of a Union soldier’s seven months in captivity Besides the risks of death or wounding in combat, the average Civil War soldier faced the constant threat of being captured by the enemy. It is estimated that one out of every seven soldiers was taken captive—more than 194,000 of them …
Election of 1860 Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2011
507 kr
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The election of 1860 was a crossroad in American history. Faced with four major candidates, voters in the North and South went to the polls not knowing that the result of the election would culminate in the bloodiest conflict the United States had ever seen. Despite its obvious importance, …
Johnson's Island
A Prison for Confederate Officers
Häftad, 2016
209 kr
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In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union’s sole military prison. After inspecting four islands in Lake Erie, Hoffman came upon one in Sandusky Bay known …
Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet
Av Burt Green Wilder, Richard M. Reid
Inbunden, 2017
368 kr
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In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Wilder had just finished his degree in comparative anatomy at Harvard, and the chance to assist Brown rather than serve …
Family and Nation Under Fire
The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill
Inbunden, 2018
423 kr
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2018 Foreword Reviews Indies Awards Finalist, HistoryThis collection of previously unpublished diaries and correspondence between Maj. William Medill and older brother Joseph, one of the influential owners of the Chicago Tribune, illuminates the Republican politics of the Civil War era. The …
Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known
The North's Union Leagues in the American Civil War
Av Paul Taylor
Inbunden, 2018
542 kr
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The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering casualties prompted many civilians to question the war’s viability. Frustration exploded into anger when …
August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen
Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry
Inbunden, 2006
410 kr
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Civil War letters from soldiers serving in a German regimentOrganized by Colonel August Willich, a former Prussian army officer who led troops during the German Revolution of 1848, Indiana's German 32nd Indiana regiment fought in the Western Theater of the Civil War. The 32nd Indiana forged an …
Dispatches from Bermuda
The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen
Av Glen N Wiche
Inbunden, 2008
367 kr
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Civil War diplomacy and espionageIn the summer of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Maxwell Allen U.S. consul to Bermuda. During the Civil War, Allen's post became one of vital importance to the United States as this British colony became a center for Confederate blockade-running …
Antebellum Crisis and America's First Bohemians
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2010
526 kr
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This title deals with cultural politics and American bohemians in pre - Civil War New York. Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the North experienced a boom of cultural activity. Young transient writers, artists, and musicians …
German Hurrah!
Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stangel, 9th Ohio Infantry
Av Reinhart
Inbunden, 2010
684 kr
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Lieutenant Friedrich Bertsch and Chaplain Wilhelm Stängel of the 9th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry were not typical soldiers in the Union army. They were German immigrants fighting in a German regiment. Imbued with democratic and egalitarian ideals, the pair were disappointed with the …
Orlando M. Poe
Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer
Av Paul Taylor
Inbunden, 2009
779 kr
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The first biography of Sherman's chief engineer and the man whose post–Civil War engineering work changed Great Lakes navigation forever Orlando M. Poe chronicles the life of one of the most influential yet underrated and overlooked soldiers during the Civil War. After joining the Union Army in …
Northerners at War
Reflections on the Civil War Home Front
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2010
468 kr
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This title includes essays on the Northern home front by a preeminent Civil War historian. ""Northerners at War"" brings together noted historian J. Matthew Gallman's most significant essays on the economic, social, and domestic aspects of life in the North during the Civil War. Gallman tackles a …
Story of a Thousand
Av Albion W. Tourgee, Peter Luebke
Inbunden, 2011
641 kr
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Eyewitness Civil War testimony from a major American writer This facsimile edition of Albion W. Tourgée's regimental history of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was first published in 1896. Tourgée, a lawyer and outspoken abolitionist from Williamsfield, Ohio, is best known for his semi-fictional …
Punishment on the Nation
An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War
Inbunden, 2012
526 kr
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The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to fight in a war that he believed was God's punishment for the sin of slavery. Only through the …
Yankee Dutchmen Under Fire
Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry
Av Reinhart
Inbunden, 2013
526 kr
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Life and death, pride and prejudice, and combat in an ethnic Civil War regimentThousands of volumes of Civil War letters are available, but little more than a dozen contain collections written by native Germans fighting in this great American conflict. Yankee Dutchmen under Fire presents a …
Printer's Kiss
The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family
Inbunden, 2014
483 kr
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In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor Will Tomlinson, his opinionated wife (Eliza Wylie Tomlinson), and their two children (Byers and Belle) in the treacherous …
Conspicuous Gallantry
The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of James W. King, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Inbunden, 2015
542 kr
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A unique and fascinating collection of letters from a soldier, planter, and journalist The Union states of what is now the Midwest have received far less attention from historians than those of the East, and much of Michigan's Civil War story remains untold. The eloquent letters of James W. King …
Printer's Kiss
The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family
Häftad, 2015
334 kr
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In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor Will Tomlinson, his opinionated wife (Eliza Wylie Tomlinson), and their two children (Byers and Belle) in the treacherous …
Lincoln's Generals' Wives
Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War—for Better and for Worse
Inbunden, 2016
468 kr
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The story of the American Civil War is not complete without examining the extraordinary and influential lives of Jessie Frémont, Nelly McClellan, Ellen Sherman, and Julia Grant, the wives of Abraham Lincoln’s top generals. They were their husbands’ closest confidantes and had a profound impact on …
Pure Heart
The Faith of a Father and Son in the War for a More Perfect Union
Inbunden, 2016
455 kr
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In the summer of 1862, as Union morale ebbed low with home front division over war costs, coming emancipation, and demoralizing battlefield losses, 24-year-old William White Dorr enlisted as a lieu- tenant in the 121st Pennsylvania Volunteers, a new Union regiment organizing in Philadelphia. His …
For Their Own Cause
The 27th United States Colored Troops
Inbunden, 2016
454 kr
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The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina. It was the first time most members of the unit had traveled so far from home. The men faced daily battles against racism …
Our Little Monitor
The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
Av Anna Gibson Holloway, Jonathan W. White
Inbunden, 2018
468 kr
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On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads—the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. …
This Infernal War
The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard
Inbunden, 2018
423 kr
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Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families. The Standards of Lewiston in Fulton County, …
