Shepherdstown in the Civil War: One Vast Confederate Hospital, Hardcover - Kevin Pawlak

Reducere. Because they were situated near the Mason-Dixon line, Shepherdstown residents witnessed the realities of the Civil War firsthand. Marching armies, ...

Reducere. First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in t...

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their prope...

Reducere. With the onset of the American Civil War, the Federal Government instituted a massive naval blockade of the Confederacy, dubbed "The Anaconda Plan....

Reducere. The story of the 'Siren of the Shenandoah' in her own wordsIsabella Maria Boyd (1844-1900) was one of the most famous and notorious female Confeder...

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

Reducere. Point Lookout Prison and Hospital tells the story of the North's largest Civil War prison camp. Author Richard H. Triebe has gathered over fifty Co...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

Reducere. The "Civil War Soldiers of Bedford County Pennsylvania" book lists 4, 209 identified Civil War soldiers who lived in Bedford County or an immediate...

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...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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. DescriptionThroughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936-2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confedera...

Reducere. The removal of the wounded from Civil War battlefields presented a major logistical problem, mainly because both sides were unprepared for the scop...

"Describes the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation, including the immediate and long reaching effects it had in the American Civil War and bey...

Reducere. The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes - naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last ten years, the most popular living autho...

A comprehensive and vivid account of the action on the Mississippi River during the Civil War.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s):...

Reducere. The story of the 'Siren of the Shenandoah' in her own wordsIsabella Maria Boyd (1844-1900) was one of the most famous and notorious female Confeder...

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...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Clebur...

Reducere. Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially...

Reducere. Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industr...

DescriptionThis fully illustrated study assesses the fighting techniques, armament, and combat record of the Union and Confederate sharpshooters wh...

Reducere. Written in the form of a letter to her granddaughter, the author of this little book describes her plantation childhood, her marriage and parenthoo...

As the Civil War unfolded, Murfreesboro became hotly contested by Confederate and Union forces. Both sides occupied the town for significant period...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the United States' Civil War, Confederate Navy Raiders struck fear into the hearts of Union Whalers. Under officers like James Wa...

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...

DescriptionDavid Poyer is a Naval Academy graduate, retired naval officer, and Distinguished Visiting Writer at USNA. His novels have been required...

Reducere. DescriptionApproximately 110, 000 soldiers of the Union and Confederate armies fought along the banks of Antietam Creek in the bloodiest single-day...

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. West Virginia, "Child of the Storm, " was the only state formed as a result of the Civil War. The struggle between eastern and western Virginia ove...

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. During the Civil War, Cincinnati played a crucial role in preserving the United States. Not only was the city the North's most populous in the west...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Cincinnati played a crucial role in preserving the United States. Not only was the city the North's most populous in the west...

Reducere. Swashbuckling stories of the Union naval blockade of the Southern states and the blockade runners who smuggled goods to the Confederacy have long b...

Reducere. DescriptionHistorian and constitutional scholar Albert Taylor Bledsoe considers whether the secession of the Confederate states was legal under con...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native ...

Reducere. Description"United We Stand, Divided We Fall" is Kentucky's motto. Yet the Civil War sharply split the Bluegrass State. Kentuckians fought Kentucki...

Reducere. In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they ma...

Reducere. She was the lonely dissenter, committed to following the dictates of her conscience no matter the consequences. Jeannette Rankin, an early leader f...

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...