Mary Bobbitt Townsend: 2 books

A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theater until the final surrender of the war. Osterhaus made a name for himself within the army as an energetic and resourceful commander who led his men from the front. He was...

Owners of Mt. Pleasant Plantation had farmed the rich James River soil for over two hundred years. None of its residents, white or black, could picture any other way of life. Then, within the space of a year, the Civil War blew all of them adrift like dandelion seeds, to land who knew where. Some...