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Blue and Gray on the Border

The Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail

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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019

Runner-up, 2019 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Book Award, sponsored by the Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association (TOMFRA) Most general histories of the Civil War pay scant attention to the many important military events that took place in the Lower Rio Grande Valley...
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Civil War Senator

William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic

by Robert J. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806--1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of...
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Civil Societies and Social Movements

Potentials and Problems

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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007

This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available statistics...
Cover of Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013
by Stuart Sime, Derek French
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013

The first practical guide to the procedural reforms due to be implemented in April 2013, this essential text explains the wide-ranging recommendations made by Sir Rupert Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs (MoJ, 2009) dealing with the costs of civil litigation. These changes have been...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017

This edited volume examines two recent Central European recodifications of civil law. The contributors present and discuss the regulation and the fundamental changes related to the new Civil Codes in each country. They also highlight the novelties and some of the issues of great debate of the new...
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Dictionary of Civil Engineering

All Terms of civil Engineering, construction and Surveying.

by Engineering Bug
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016

This is Dictionary of Civil Engineering. It have all the terms used in the Civil Engineering, designing, architecture Surveying and Construction It will help to find and understand the meaning of terms used in Different branches of civil engineering. It helps Students, teachers and Professional in Research work.
Cover of Interpreting the Civil War at Museums and Historic Sites
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017

Public historians working at museums and historic sites focused on the Civil War era are tasked with interpreting a period of history that remains deeply controversial. Many visitors have strong connections to historic sites such as battlefields and artifacts as well as harbor strong convictions about...
Cover of Strategic Leadership, Southern Style: Civilian Statesmen in the Confederacy's War - American Civil War Civil Military Relations, Strategic Vision, President Jefferson Davis and His Secretaries
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. When Jefferson Davis accepted the position of Provisional President of the Confederacy in 1861, he would not go it alone. Just as his counterpart in Washington was surrounded by senior civilian...
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by L-Cmdr Kristin E. Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

The partisan war in the Revolutionary War South demonstrated the vital linkage between the civil and military authorities. In the policies created to persuade the people of the righteousness of the American cause and neutralize opposition, the civil leadership of South Carolina inadvertently set the...
Cover of Reminiscences of Peace and War: Memoirs of a Southern Woman during the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)
by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 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 commanders,...
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Maryland, My Maryland

Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War

by James A. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019

Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. “Maryland, My Maryland” was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War,...
Cover of Changes, Challenges, Champions: A History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District 2000 - 2011 - Iraq War, War on Terror, Post-Katrina Civil Works, Fort Bliss MILCON, Post-9/11
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014

Created in the aftermath of an iconic flood in 1949, the Fort Worth District primarily focused on flood control and the construction of large dams during its first decade. In the 1960s and 1970s the District became more involved in watershed management and restoring wetlands. In the 1980s the Fort...
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by Joseph E. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012

During the Civil War, one of the tales that was often told among Confederate soldiers was that Joseph E. Johnston was a crack shot who was a better bird hunter than just about everyone else in the South. However, as the story went, Johnston would never take the shot when asked to, complaining that...
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101 Things You Didn't Know about the Civil War

The People, Battles, and Events That Defined the War Between the States

by Thomas Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

Get the lowdown on America’s Bloodiest War—the Civil War—with this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining event in US history. Do you know which state first seceded from the Union? What about the individual who could be considered the Mata Hari of...
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