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Astride Two Worlds
Technology and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
By the middle of the nineteenth century, industrialization and military-technological innovation were beginning to alter drastically the character and conditions of warfare as it had been conducted for centuries. Occurring in the midst of these far-reaching changes, the American Civil War can justly...
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by Dr. Christopher R. Gabel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes 4 figures, 13 maps and 4 tables.
Renowned Military Historian Dr Christopher Gabel investigates the effects of the Railroad on the strategies employed by both the Union and Confederate Generals of the Civil War.
According to an old saying, “amateurs study tactics: professionals study logistics.”...
Campbell Brown's Civil War
With Ewell in the Army of Northern Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
The Civil War writings of G. Campbell Brown—cousin, stepson, and staff officer of famed Confederate General Richard S. Ewell—provide a comprehensive account of the major campaigns in the north Virginia theater. Terry L. Jones has performed an invaluable service by gathering these widely scattered...
Conspicuous Gallantry
The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of James W. King, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
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...
by George Meade
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
When people think of Appomattox Court House, they think of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Few remember that the commander of the Army of the Potomac at the end of the Civil War was not Grant but George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 November 6, 1872), a career United States Army officer and...
Women and the American Civil War
North-South Counterpoints
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The scholarship on women's experiences in the U.S. Civil War is rich and deep, but much of it remains regionally specific or subsumed in more general treatments of Northern and Southern peoples during the war. In a series of eight paired essays, scholars examine women's comparable experiences across...
by John D. Beatty
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
In early 1862 the American Civil War was a hit-or-miss affair of small forces clashing along lines of march to no real purpose other than someone thought it was a good idea.
In the first week in April, 1862 three barely trained and poorly equipped armies, one under Ulysses S. Grant, one under...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
As mid–19th century America erupted in violence with the invasion of Mexico and the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish immigrants joined the fray in large numbers, on both sides. They sometimes were disruptive elements. In Mexico, a body of Irish artillerymen defected to the other side. During the...
by Gilbert Kodilinye, Vanessa Kodilinye
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This new fourth edition of a well-established book is a timely response to the continuing development of the new rules of civil procedure in force in most of the jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean. The new edition has been substantially revised to cover amendments to, and recent case...
by Thomas Glyn Watkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The civil law systems of continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world, including Japan, share a common legal heritage derived from Roman law. However, it is an inheritance which has been modified and adapted over the centuries as a result of contact with Germanic legal concepts,...
by A Habituate
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
"Civil War Era Medicine: Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate" is by an anonymous Northern Civil War soldier who became hooked on opium as a result of his wartime service.
During the American Civil War, a fair number of soldiers became addicted to opium either...
States at War, Volume 6
The Confederate States Chronology and a Reference Guide for South Carolina in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Although many Civil War reference books exist, Civil War researchers have until now had no single compendium to consult on important details about the combatant states (and territories). This crucial reference work, the sixth in the States at War series, provides vital information on the organization,...
Civil Rights and Liberties
Provocative Questions and Evolving Answers
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
For undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Rights & Liberties, Introduction to American Government,Introduction to Law and Legal Process, and Judicial Process & Politics. Examining contemporary and perennial constitutional issues in civil liberties and rights, this text engages...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life and career as a Supreme Court Justice spanned an eventful period of American history, as the country...