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Red Badge of Courage [Illustrated Edition]

by Stephen Crane
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. Few novels written of the Civil War stand in such high regard as the Red Badge of Courage, the visceral, realistic and gripping story of Henry,...

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

by James Longstreet
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

One of the most important, and controversial, Confederate generals during the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lees old warhorse. Longstreet was Lees principal subordinate for most of the war, ably managing a corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. Longstreet was instrumental...

The Ultimate Battle of Gettysburg Collection

by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012

Includes:•Charles River Editors original history of the Battle of Gettysburg•Over two dozen generals post-battle accounts of Gettysburg from the Official Records.•A series of articles written about Gettysburg by participating generals from the famous Battles & LeadersThe most famous battle of the...

The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of North Anna

by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013

*Includes pictures of the battle's important generals.*Includes several maps of the battle.*Includes accounts of the fighting written by generals and soldiers.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.The Overland Campaign that pitted Robert E. Lee against Ulysses S....

African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.

Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era

by Heather Butts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

The true story of the black doctors and nurses who tended to Civil War soldiers in the capital. Just as African Americans fought in defense of the Union during the Civil War, African American nurses, doctors, and surgeons worked to heal those soldiers. In the nation’s capital, these brave...

Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)

by Rutherford B. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

"My belief in this war is as deep as any faith can be." One of the most personal, compelling, and enduring accounts of life as an American Civil War battlefield commander is in these pages. Wounded five times and promoted to General in January, 1865, Rutherford B. Hayes would later become the 19th...

Inside the Army of the Potomac

The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson

by J. Gregory Acken
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

At the outbreak of war, twenty-year-old Francis Adams Donaldson enlisted in the 1st California Regiment (later known as the 71st Pennsylvania Volunteers) of the famous Philadelphia Brigade of the II Corps, Army of the Potomac. He fought at Ball’s Bluff (where he was captured) and participated in...

"Stand to It and Give Them Hell"

Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863

by John Michael Priest
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

“[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier’s experiences on the southern end of the battlefield on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg.” —Civil War News “Stand to It and Give Them Hell” chronicles the Gettysburg fighting from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top on July 2, 1863,...

Now the Drum of War

Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War

by Robert Roper
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010

Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother, George, who led his men in twenty-one major battles, almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the...

Civil War Ghost Stories & Legends

by Nancy Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's stories of the War Between the States and she trekked over many battle sites with him during...

Women in the Civil War

Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others

by Larry G. Eggleston
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015

When the Civil War broke out, women answered the call for help. They broke away from their traditional roles and served in many capacities, some of them even going so far as to disguise themselves as men and enlist in the army. Estimates of such women enlistees range from 400 to 700. About 60 women...

Kirk's Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge

by Michael C. Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

In the Southern Appalachian Mountains, no character was more loved or despised than Union officer George W. Kirk. He led a group of deserters on numerous raids between Tennessee and North Carolina in 1863. At Camp Vance in Morganton, Kirk's mounted raiders showcased guerrilla warfare penetrating deep...

The Thrilling True Adventures of Daniel Ellis: 1861~1865

by Daniel Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

Fought in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, Daniel Ellis' Civil War was no less bloody than that of soldiers in the east. As a "pilot" in the American Civil War, he guided Union soldiers, runaway slaves, deserting Confederates, and others from the mountains to the Union lines. Already a veteran...

Joshua L. Chamberlain

The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War

by Thomas Desjardin, The National Civil War Museum
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012