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  • Fighting Means Killing

    Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat

    by Jonathan M. Steplyk ...
    Winner: Richard W. Ulbrich Award“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared.The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first book-length study of Union and Confederate soldiers’ attitudes toward, and ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Tennessee Campaign of 1864

    by Stewart L. Bennett, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines, Jennifer M. Murray, Paul L. Schmelzer, Brooks D. Simpson, Timothy B Smith, Scott L. Stabler, Jonathan M. Steplyk, D. L. Turner, Lee White, John R Lundberg ...
    Series series Civil War Campaigns in the West
    Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear, fourteen prominent historians and emerging scholars examine the three-month operation, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Vicksburg Besieged

    by Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines, Martin J. Hershock, Richard H. Holloway, Justin S. Solonick, Scott L. Stabler, Jonathan M. Steplyk ...
    Series series Civil War Campaigns in the West
    A detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siegeVicksburg, Mississippi, held strong through a bitter, hard-fought, months-long Civil War campaign, but General Ulysses S. Grant’s forty-day siege ended the stalemate and, on July 4, 1863, destroyed Confederate control of the Mississippi River. In the first anthology to examine the Vicksburg Campaign’s final phase, nine ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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    Sherman's March to the Sea

    by Noah Andre Trudeau ...
    A gripping, definitive, New York Times –bestselling account of Sherman's legendary and destructive march through Georgia."Mr. Trudeau's narrative is peppered with trenchant observations from Sherman, one of history's more quotable military leaders. . . . Mr. Trudeau accomplishes what he set out to do: march through the experience in all its detail." — The Wall Street Journal... ... Read more

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  • The Amazing Civil War

    by Webb Garrison ...
    An illustrated compendium of obscure facts and little-known wonders from the Civil War Era, a perfect gift for history buffs and Civil war enthusiasts.With three million soldiers scattered along a 10,000-mile front and more than 1,000 engagements, the Civil War was one in which fascinating anecdotes, colorful stories, humorous tales, and unusual coincidences were frequent. Historian Webb Garrison ... Read more

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  • Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862

    The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862

    by Brian Matthew Jordan ...
    Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietams horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a decisive Federal victory and important turning point in the campaign, as historian Brian Matthew ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Bell Hood

    The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General

    by Stephen M. Hood ...
    An award-winning biography of one of the Confederacy's most successful—and most criticized—generals.Winner of the 2014 Albert Castel Book Award and the 2014 Walt Whitman AwardJohn Bell Hood died at forty-eight after a brief illness in August 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs, Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. Published ... Read more

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  • The Wilderness Campaign

    Edited by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Military Campaigns of the Civil War
    In the spring of 1864, in the vast Virginia scrub forest known as the Wilderness, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee first met in battle. The Wilderness campaign of May 5–6 initiated an epic confrontation between these two Civil War commanders — one that would finally end, eleven months later, with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.The eight essays here assembled explore aspects of the background, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • On to Petersburg

    Grant and Lee, June 4–15, 1864

    by Gordon C. Rhea, Esq. ...
    With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864. Having previously covered the campaign in his magisterial volumes on The Battle of the Wilderness, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Spotsylvania Campaign

    Edited by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Military Campaigns of the Civil War
    The Spotsylvania Campaign was a crucial period in the protracted confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in spring 1864. Approaching the campaign from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore questions regarding high command, tactics and strategy, the impact of continuous fighting on officers and soldiers in both armies, and the ways in which some ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864

    Edited by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Military Campaigns of the Civil War
    Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties. The armies of Philip H. Sheridan and Jubal A. Early contended for immense stakes. Beyond the agricultural bounty and the boost in morale a victory would bring, events in the Valley also would affect ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Battle of Vicksburg

    A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi

    by Michael B. Ballard ...
    Series series UNC Press E-Book Shorts
    The Vicksburg campaign was among the longest of the Civil War, lasting from 26 May 1862 to 4 July 1863. This Civil War Short provides a compelling narrative of the final six weeks of the campaign, excerpted from Michael Ballard’s Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi, which blends strategy and tactics with the human element, reminding us that while Gettysburg has become the focal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD