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  • Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: General Robert E. Lee at The Wilderness

    by Charles S. Venable ...
    With the exception of George Washington, perhaps the most famous and celebrated general in American history is Robert E. Lee (January 19, 1807 October 12, 1870), despite the fact he led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia against the Union in the Civil War. The son of U.S. Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, a relative of Martha Custis Washington, and a top graduate of ... Read more

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  • Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg

    by James Longstreet ...
    The Army of the Potomac had pushed Robert E. Lees army out of Maryland in September 1862 after the Battle of Antietam, but President Lincoln and his War Department wanted the army to continue going after the Army of Northern Virginia after it retreated back into Virginia. When George B. McClellan refused to do it, Lincoln fired him and installed Ambrose E. Burnside as the new commander. Burnside, ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Manassas (2nd Bull Run): Account of the Battle from "The Army Under Pope"

    by John Codman Ropes ...
    John Codman Ropes (18361899) was an American military historian and lawyer and was the co-founder of law firm Ropes & Gray. After the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Ropes turned his attention principally to military history. He ceaselessly assisted with business and personal help and friendship the officers and men of the 20th Massachusetts regiment, in which his brother, Henry Ropes, was ... Read more

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  • Pickett's Charge: Account of the Charge from "Life of General George G. Meade"

    by Isaac R. Pennypacker ...
    The most famous attack of the Civil War was also one of its most flawed and deadly. Having been unable to break the Army of the Potomacs lines on the left and right flank during Day 2 of the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee decided to make a thrust at the center of the Unions line with about 15,000 men spread out over three divisions. Though it is now known as Picketts Charge, named after division ... Read more

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  • Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh

    by Ulysses S. Grant ...
    After the American Civil War began in April 1861, Ulysses S. Grant made a meteoric rise to the top of the Union war effort. Illinois. On April 6, 1862 a determined full-force attack from the Confederate Army took place at the Battle of Shiloh; the objective was to destroy the entire Western Union offensive once for all. Over 44,699 Confederate troops led by Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. ... Read more

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  • Battles & Leaders of the Civil War: The Great Charge and Artillery Fighting at Gettysburg

    by Edward Porter Alexander ...
    In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and officer in the U.S. Army, but the native Georgian resigned his commission in May 1861 and joined the Confederacy after his home state seceded. Porter Alexander spent 1861 as an intelligence officer, and ... Read more

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  • Confederate Military History: The Chancellorsville Campaign and Death of Jackson (Illustrated Edition)

    by Clement A. Evans ...
    Confederate Military History is a 12-volume series of books written and/or edited by former Confederate general Clement A. Evans that deals with specific topics related to the military personalities, places, battles, and campaigns in various Southern United States, including those of the Confederacy. Written with a heavy Southern slant, the articles that comprise the compendium deal with the ... Read more

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  • Battles & Leaders of the Civil War: The 20th Maine at Little Round Top (Illustrated Edition)

    by Joshua Chamberlain & H.S. Melcher ...
    Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a man of many hats, both in battle and in the classroom. Chamberlain is known today for being President of Bowdoin College in Maine and being one of the main heroes of Little Round Top while in command of the 20th Maine on Day 2 at Gettysburg. Chamberlains regiment earned lasting fame on July 2, 1863, holding the extreme left of the Union line at Gettysburg. ... Read more

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  • Gettysburg

    Two Eyewitness Accounts

    by Frank Haskell, William C. Oates ...
    Series series Eyewitness to the Civil War
    In this unique series the Civil War comes vividly to life. Here an eyewitness accounts--many available for the first time in decades--by generals, journalist, and ordinary foot soldiers, both blue and gray, who relive the conflict in all its terrible glory. Each volume brings you a human perspective on the war--its most decisive battles, its most remarkable personalities. Gettysburg: Two ... Read more

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  • General James Longstreet at Petersburg: Account of the Siege from His Memoirs

    by James Longstreet ...
    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 in Confederate victories at Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chickamauga, while he was also ... Read more

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  • Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Struggle for Round Top (Illustrated)

    by Evander Law ...
    Without question, the most famous battle of the Civil War took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863. Over those three days, nearly 8,000 would die, over 30,000 would be casualties, and the most famous attack of the war, Picketts Charge, would fail Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia. The South would go on to lose the war, and when it did, the importance of ... Read more

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  • The Wild West

    History, myth & the making of America

    by Frederick Nolan ...
    On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean.Fredrick Nolan explores the first US settlers of the American West, including the remarkable stories of ... Read more

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