North Carolina in the Civil War, Paperback - Michael C. Hardy

Reducere. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Ca...

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

Reducere. North Carolina Remembers Gettysburg contains eighty-four letters, originally published in newspapers, by Tar Heel soldiers. Some letters were writt...

Reducere. 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 nu...

Reducere. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

Reducere. In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Amer...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by...

Reducere. DescriptionIt has been said that while the famous battles of the American Revolution were fought in the North, the decisive battles were fought in ...

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

Reducere. Bushwhackers recounts hundreds of incidents that brought the Civil War home to the mountains of the Old North State. Some are violent, some humorou...

DescriptionThey considered themselves "Lee's Body Guard, " cavalrymen specifically recruited to serve as scouts, couriers and guides for General Ro...

Reducere. More Strange Tales of the Civil War presents readers with more predictions, coincidences, medical oddities, and other bizarre events of the Civil W...

Reducere. Too far north, the great state of Maine did not witness any Civil War battles. However, Mainers contributed to the war in many important ways. From...

Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...

Reducere. When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turne...

Reducere. The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history booksDiscov...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

Reducere. Was Abraham Lincoln influenced by communism when the Union condemned the rights of Southern states to express their independence? It's shocking to ...

Reducere. As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...

During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D.H. Dilbeck reveal...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carleton YoungImagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of letters written during the Civil War. Face...

Reducere. Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today), tells the spellbinding t...

DescriptionAs many as 20, 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various soc...

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

Reducere. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

Reducere. While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to tre...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

Reducere. More than 60, 000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was wo...

Reducere. Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments ...

Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

Reducere. DescriptionAn introduction the civil war for young readers.This book introduces readers (Grades 3-5) to the American Civil War, detailing the war's...

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade...