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  • Erin Go Bragh

    Human Interest Stories of the Irish in the American Civil War

    Tens of thousands of Irish-Americans fought in the Civil War, with "Sons of Erin" playing a vital role in both Union and Confederate armies. Award-winning author Scott L. Mingus, Sr., has teamed with living historian Gerard E. Mayers to present more than 150 of their most memorable personal stories. In this unique collection, readers will find tales of courage, boldness, and humor. Many have ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the Vortex of Fire

    Into the Vortex of FireBy: James H. Lamason with Gerard E. Mayers“It is… the stories of the men who were there, those who came back and those who never would, that form the backbone of this work. Author Jim Lamason, long a friend, and collaborator Gerry Mayers (co-author of our book of human interest stories of the Irish in the Civil War) tell the story of one man from New Jersey and his comrades ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

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  • A Stillness at Appomattox

    The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Bruce Catton ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • America's foremost Civil War historian recounts the final year of the Civil War in his final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy.Bruce Catton takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbot, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee ... Read more

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  • Grierson's Raid

    by Dee Brown ...
    Dee Brown’s history of the incredible Civil War raid that led to the Siege of VicksburgFor two weeks in the spring of 1862, Colonel Benjamin Grierson and 1,700 Union cavalry troopers conducted a raid from Tennessee to Louisiana. It was intended to divert Confederate attention from Ulysses S. Grant’s army crossing the Mississippi River, a maneuver that would set the stage for the Siege of Vicksburg ... Read more

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  • All for the Union

    The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

    All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in The Civil War will ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Those Damned Black Hats!

    The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign

    WINNER FOR OPERATIONAL / BATTLE HISTORY, 2008, ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDThe Iron Brigade--an all-Western outfit famously branded as The Iron Brigade of the West--served out their enlistments entirely in the Eastern Theater. Hardy men were these soldiers from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan, who waged war beneath their unique black Hardee Hats on many fields, from Brawner ... Read more

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  • Union Infantryman vs Confederate Infantryman

    Eastern Theater 1861–65

    by Ron Field ...
    Series Book 2 - Combat
    Men from all over North America and beyond – whether regulars, volunteers, or draftees – found themselves fighting for their lives on a host of bloody battlefields during the Civil War.The enthusiastic but largely inexperienced soldiers serving on both sides had to adapt quickly to the appalling realities of warfare in the industrial age. Author Ron Field, an authority on the Civil War, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory

    The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter

    Why another book on the Iron Brigade? Because this is really the first book on this storied outfit—and it could not have been written without the lifetime of study undertaken by award-winning author Lance J. Herdegen. More than a standard military account, Herdegen’s latest puts flesh and faces on the men who sat around the campfires, marched through mud and snow and dust, fought to put down the ... Read more

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  • Last Days of the Civil War

    The Enormous Silence

    by Bruce Catton ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning history A Stillness at Appomattox, an electrifying account of the end of the Civil War—Grant and Lee’s final maneuvers as four years of internecine conflict inched to a close.“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky.” Here is the triumphant close of Bruce Catton’s history of ... Read more

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  • "Stand to It and Give Them Hell"

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

    "[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, through the letters, memoirs, diaries, and postwar recollections of the men from both armies who struggled to ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Brandy Station

    North America's Largest Cavalry Battle

    This Civil War history and guide examines a major turning point in cavalry combat and includes a GPS guided tour of the battlefield.Just before dawn on June 9, 1863, Union soldiers materialized from a thick fog near the banks of Virginia's Rappahannock River to ambush sleeping Confederates. The ensuing struggle, which lasted throughout the day, was to be known as the Battle of Brandy Station—the ... Read more

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  • Antietam

    The Soldiers' Battle

    "The best battlefield first-person compilation I have read . . . Here it all is—the tactics, the movement, the truth about warfare." — The Civil War TimesIn Antietam: The Soldiers' Battle, historian John Michael Priest tells this brutal tale of slaughter from an entirely new point of view: that of the common enlisted man. Concentrating on the days of actual battle—September 16, 17, and 18, 1862 ... Read more

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