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Conflict and Command

Civil War History Readers, Volume 1

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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

Fifteen groundbreaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher, Mark Neely, Richard M. McMurry, and others For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is...
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In the Wake of War

Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America

by Andrew F. Lang
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017

The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation, inaugurating a tradition that persisted through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and that continues to the present. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and even professional soldiers found themselves tasked...
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Citizen-Officers

The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War

by Andrew S. Bledsoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015

From the time of the American Revolution, most junior officers in the American military attained their positions through election by the volunteer soldiers in their company, a tradition that reflected commitment to democracy even in times of war. By the outset of the Civil War, citizen-officers had...
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West Pointers and the Civil War

The Old Army in War and Peace

by Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009

Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the U.S. Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh demonstrates how the "old...
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God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers

A True Civil War Christmas Story

by James McIvor
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006

In the tradition of the bestselling Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, the true story of a Civil War Christmas miracle  In the waning days of 1862, Union and Confederate troops set up camp within earshot of one another in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Christmas had just...
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by Joseph B. Polley
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013

"Hood's Texas Brigade: Its Marches, Its Battles, Its Achievements," by Joseph B. Polley is a first-hand, eyewitness recounting of the history of the famous Hood Brigade, made up of the First Texas Infantry Regiment, Fourth Texas Infantry Regiment, Fifth Texas Infantry Regiment, and various...
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by Charles W. Wills
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

"July 1, 1864: This campaign is coming down to a question of muscle and nerve. It is the 62d day for us, over 50 of which we have passed under fire." One of the earliest to enlist in the Union cause of the American Civil War upon Lincoln's call for volunteers, Charles Wills kept a diary throughout...
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by Leander Stillwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. “A story of the great war between the States—told from the ranks This is an engaging recollection of the American Civil War...
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by Isaac Hermann
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known...
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Groundwork

Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights

by Genna Rae McNeil
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011

"A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the Foreword Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American...
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Loren Miller

Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist

by Amina Hassan, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015

Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions...
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In the Cause of Liberty

How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009

In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas -- antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of...
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The Civil War

Voices of Hope, Sacrifice, and Courage

by Gordon Leidner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves...."-President Abraham Lincoln The third title in Gordon Leidner's successful series, The Civil War: Quotes, Quips, And Speeches captures the essence of this bloody and inevitable conflict through the insights, inspirations,...
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The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition

Mississippi's Longest Civil War

by Victoria E. Bynum
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016

Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where they...
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