Category: Civil War

A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina: William Francis Allen's Civil War Journals

Price: $49.95

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press : July 2015

Seller ID: 66418

ISBN-13: 9781611174960

Condition: New

New Englander William Allen (1830-1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 1867 anthology Slave Songs of the United States, the earliest published collection of Negro spirituals, and as a distinguished history professor at the University of Wisconsin. During the Civil War, he served from late 1863 through mid-1864 as a member of the Gideonite band of businessmen, missionaries, and teachers who migrated to the South Carolina Sea Islands as part of the Port Royal Experiment. After the war, he served as assistant superintendent of schools in Charleston from April through July 1865. ...
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Civil War, The : Yorktown to Cedar Mountain (vol 3)

Price: $12.48

Publisher: Editors of Time Life Books : January 1999

Seller ID: 28914

ISBN-13: 9780783501024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Jack Burd's Civil War Source Book: 1999-2000

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Rockbridge Pub. : October 1998

Seller ID: 105238

ISBN-13: 9781574270877

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

If you want to find Civil War artwork, weapons, archives, and reenactments as well as organizations and Internet links, this book is indispensable. Almost 3,000 entries cover antiques, autographs, battlefields, coins and currency, flags, genealogy, monuments, museums, period clothing, stamps, and more
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Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : October 1992

Seller ID: 191713

ISBN-13: 9780195078916

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial

Price: $31.80

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press : November 2011

Seller ID: 165648

ISBN-13: 9781421402505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In 1961, the historian and poet Robert Penn Warren remarked that "the Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history." This volume reconsiders whether, fifty years later, Warren's claim still holds true.Essays from specialists in art, literature, and history examine how contemporary culture represents and interprets the Civil War. They look at the works of more than thirty artists and writers as well as multiple movements--political and social--to reveal the many and provocative ways in which Americans engage the Civil War today. The book includes chapters on...
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Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Thirty-first Reunion, Washington, D.C. October 14, 15, 16, 1903

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Cincinatti, The Robert Clarke Company : 1904

Seller ID: 174872

ISBN: 281ALV1002495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Twenty-ninth Reunion, Chattanooga, Tennessee October 9, 10, 11, 1900

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Cincinatti, Robert Clarke Company : 1901

Seller ID: 174871

ISBN: 281ALV1002494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Struggle for Equality: Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction

Price: $22.50

Publisher: University of Virginia Press : December 2011

Seller ID: 74623

ISBN-13: 9780813931739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson. Complete with a brief interview with the celebrated scholar, this volume reflects the best aspects of McPherson's work, while casting new light on the struggle that has served as the animating force of his lifetime of scholarship. With a chronological span from the 1830s to the 1960s, the contributions bear witness to the continuing vigor of the argument over equality. Contri...
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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Series I Vol. XXXI - in Three Parts - Part II- Reports

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office : 1890

Seller ID: 175295

ISBN: 281ALV1002507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Series I - Volume XXIX - in Two Parts; Part II - Correspondence

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office : 1890

Seller ID: 175260

ISBN: 281ALV1002508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

General Oglethorpe's City

By: Adams, James Mack

Price: $11.37

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform : September 2014

Seller ID: 151023

ISBN-13: 9781500745110

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On November 17, 1732, thirty-five families under the leadership of Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe departed Gravesend, England on a journey to an unknown wilderness between South Carolina and Florida. Those travelers would soon have to overcome hardships, diseases and threats of extermination by enemies to carve a city and a state from that wilderness. Thus began the story of Savannah, Georgia Much later in its long and colorful history, General Oglethorpe's city would face another serious threat, this time from the wrecking ball and the bulldozer. There was a time when Savannah's now-celebrated ...
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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

By: Avlon, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : February 2022

Seller ID: 191711

ISBN-13: 9781982108120

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A groundbreaking, revelatory history of Abraham Lincoln's plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War--a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world's most famous peacemakers, including Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a story of war and peace, race and reconciliation. As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting ...
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The Military Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Balllard, Colin R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The World Publishing Company : 1952

Seller ID: 191708

ISBN: B009FNYQZI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Photographic Views of Sherman's March

By: Barnard, George N.

Price: $6.48

Publisher: Dover Publications : October 2009

Seller ID: 157380

ISBN-13: 9780486234458

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Haunting images of battlefields and ruined mansions reflectone of the Civil War's most devastating military campaigns. A complete documentby the only photographer known to have accompanied Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on his march to the sea, it features 68 historic photographs. Originally published in a now-rare collector's photo portfolio in 1866, the Dover edition features a Preface by the prominent photographic historian Beaumont Newhall.
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The Civil War in North Carolina

By: Barrett, John G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press : May 1963

Seller ID: 134031

ISBN-13: 9780807808740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the Civil War. Although the number of men involved in many of these engagements was comparatively small, the campaigns and battles themselves were crucial in the grand strategy of the conflict and involved some of the most famous generals of the war. John Barrett presents the complete story of military engagements across the state, including the classical pitched battle of Bentonville, the siege of Fort Fisher, the amphibious campaigns on the coast, and cavalry sweeps such as Stoneman's raid. From and through Nort...
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The Citizen-Soldier; Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

By: Beatty, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Time Life Education : January 1983

Seller ID: 191281

ISBN-13: 9780809442584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The citizen-soldier or, Memoirs of a volunteer This book, "The citizen-soldier Or, Memoirs of a volunteer," by John Beatty, is a replication of a book originally published before 1879. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

By: Bernard, Shane K.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi : March 2003

Seller ID: 151026

ISBN-13: 9781578065233

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across...
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House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War

By: Berry, Stephen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : January 2007

Seller ID: 191710

ISBN-13: 9780618420056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For all the talk of the CivilWar's pitting brother against brother, no book has told fully the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family better illustrates the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own.Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the Confederacy and the Union.Three of her brothers fought, and two died, for the South. Several Todds--including Mary herself--bedeviled Lincoln's administration with their scandalous behavior.Their struggles haunted the president and moved him to avoid tactics or rhetoric that would dehumanize or scapeg...
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Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background And Tactical Use

By: Bilby, Joseph G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press : August 1997

Seller ID: 132664

ISBN-13: 9780938289791

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The popular Civil War News columnist has written a unique work, combining technical data on each Civil War firearm, an often surprising treatment of their actual use on the battlefield, and a guide to collecting and firing surviving relics and modern reproductions.
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Hardtack and Coffee, or The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

By: Billings, John D,Reed, Charles W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Time Life Education : January 1983

Seller ID: 191282

ISBN-13: 9780809442089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Civil War