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  • Lincoln Memorial University and the Shaping of Appalachia

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Located near Cumberland Gap in the rugged hills of East Tennessee, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) was founded in 1897 to help disadvantaged Appalachian youth and reward the descendents of Union loyalists in the region. Its founder was former Union General Oliver Otis Howard, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, who made it his mission to sustain an institution of higher learning in the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Civil War Camps and Soldier Health

    Sanitation and Military Effectiveness in the Union Army

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Interpreting the Civil War: Texts and Contexts
    An immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers’ well-being during the Civil WarThe Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in camps. Sanitarians among civilians and regular army officers attempted to meet those challenges by addressing a range of topics associated with preventive healthcare in the volunteer army. The US Sanitary ... Read more

    $30.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Managing the Union Army

    Scott, McClellan, Halleck, and Grant as General-in-Chief

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    The general-in-chief did not command the million-man Union army that fought in the Civil War, as most historians have assumed; rather, he was a member of a management team that included the president and the secretary of war. The president, as commander-in-chief, created the position by appointing an officer to it, and he could dismiss that officer at any time and choose not to appoint another. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Knoxville Campaign

    Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    “Hess’s account of the understudied Knoxville Campaign sheds new light on the generalship of James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, as well as such lesser players as Micah Jenkins and Orlando Poe. Both scholars and general readers should welcome it. The scholarship is sound, the research, superb, the writing, excellent.” —Steven E. Woodworth, author of Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art Of Black Love

    by C. Earl Campbell DA 3rd ...
    The Art Of Black Love offers a National Plan for Self Empowerment for Black African Americans. First the programming, people, agencies and institutions that participate and benefit from maintaining us in our current conditions must be exposed. The Poverty Industrial Complex (PIC) must be clearly identified and a new empowerment plan implemented to change our thinking and our behavior. The Art Of ... Read more

    $12.42 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reparations Now! For Black African Americans And Here's What We Want

    by C. Earl Campbell DA 3rd ...
    This eBooks seeks money, land, equity, special regulations and a group self tax and offers concrete solutions who and how those resources should be managed. No one gets an individual check. All branched of government are required to approved the payment of reparations. Japanese, Jews and Native Americans have all received various forms of reparations from the United States Government, yet non of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Civil War Cavalry

    Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    The Civil War produced the largest cavalry force ever raised in American history. In Civil War Cavalry, Earl J. Hess examines that force comprehensively and from new perspectives, challenging standard views of the war’s mounted arm. Hess surveys the organization, training, administration, arming, and mounting of cavalry units and examines mounted troops’ tactical formations and maneuvers. He ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Shattered Courage

    Soldiers Who Refused to Fight in the American Civil War

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    From renowned Civil War historian Earl J. Hess comes a study of Union and Confederate soldiers as never seen before. Shattered Courage examines the experience of the men who refused to fight on the day of battle.When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of presidential office on March 4, 1865, he urged the country to care for those “who shall have borne the battle”—a reference to the Union soldiers who ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Pickett’s Charge, July 3 and Beyond, Omnibus E-book

    Includes Pickett’s Charge—The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess and Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory by Carol Reardon

    by Earl J. Hess, Carol Reardon ...
    Pickett’s Charge, the assault on the Union lines on Cemetery Ridge ordered by Robert E. Lee on 3 July 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, holds a central place in the nation’s collective memory of the Civil War. Available for the first time as an Omnibus E-book Edition, this two-volume set provides readers with an integrated view of the Charge, from the battlefield to the American ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • War Underground

    A History of Military Mining in Siege Warfare

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Renowned military historian Earl Hess offers the first book dedicated to the history of underground tactics and strategy in warfare from antiquity to the present.From as early as ancient Greek, Roman, and Chinese warfare to the battles of World War I, military mining was an essential component of siege warfare. Armies have tunneled underneath castle walls, dug trenches across no-man’s-land, and ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Into the Crater

    The Mine Attack at Petersburg

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    A comprehensive examination of the iconic Civil War battle, its tragic outcome, and the personalities involvedThe battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, was the defining event in the 292-day campaign around Petersburg, Virginia, in the Civil War and one of the most famous engagements in American military history. Although the bloody combat of that "horrid pit" has been recently revisited as the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series War and Society
    Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare recounts the use of landmines in the American Civil War from their predecessors before 1861 through their legacy in the post-Cold War era. A handful of Confederates pioneered the use of torpedoes, as landmines were commonly called in the 1860s, burying them in front of fortifications, along roads, and as booby traps. Federal troops ... Read more

    $32.39 USD