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  • So Conceived and So Dedicated

    Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North

    by Lorien Foote, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai ...
    "Outstanding essays" exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining "intellectuals" to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gentlemen and the Roughs

    Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army

    by Lorien Foote ...
    "A seminal work" on class divisions within the Union Army—"One of the best examples of . . . scholarship on the social history of Civil War soldiers" ( The Journal of Southern History).During the Civil War, the Union army appeared cohesive enough to withstand four years of grueling war against the Confederates and to claim victory in 1865. But fractiousness bubbled below the surface of the North ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hundreds of Little Wars

    Community, Conflict, and the Real Civil War

    by Terry L. Beckenbaugh, Lorien Foote, Dr. Madeleine C. Forrest, Lesley J. Gordon, Barton A. Myers, Dr. Christopher Phillips, Dr. Michael Shane Powers, Dr. Scott Tarnowieckyi, Dr. Eric P. Totten, Dr. Elliott West, T. Michael Parrish, Niels Eichhorn ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    From Texas to Virginia, towns, regions, counties, regiments, prisons, and even refugee camps played a significant role in shaping the contours of the Civil War. According to historian Daniel E. Sutherland, whose many books and essays helped establish the field of community studies, these varied assemblages of individuals experienced and fought the real war. Following his lead, the contributors to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rites of Retaliation

    Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War

    by Lorien Foote ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the conflict was civilized, in keeping with centuries of military tradition meant to restrain violence and preserve national honor. One hallmark of civilized warfare was a highly ritualized approach to retaliation. This ritual provided a forum to accuse the enemy ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War

    Edited by Lorien Foote, Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Every time Union armies invaded Southern territory there were unintended consequences. Military campaigns always affected the local population -- devastating farms and towns, making refugees of the inhabitants, undermining slavery. Local conditions in turn altered the course of military events. The social effects of military campaigns resonated throughout geographic regions and across time. ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Useful Captives

    The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts

    Edited by Daniel Krebs, Lorien Foote ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have played in the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of American warfare. In Useful Captives volume editors Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote and their contributors explore the wide range of roles that captives play in times of conflict: ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Yankee Plague

    Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy

    by Lorien Foote ...
    Series series Civil War America
    During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a “Yankee plague,” heralding a grim end to the Confederate cause. In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Household War

    How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War

    by Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Stephen Berry, Joan Cashin, Angela Esco Elder, Lorien Foote, Andrew K. Frank, Brian Craig Miller, Julie Mujic, Brooks D. Simpson, Margaret Storey, Jonathan W. White, Victoria E. Bynum ...
    Series series
    Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household. They explore how ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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    The Yankee Plague

    Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy

    by Lorien Foote ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    A rare and insightful account of the thousands of Union soldiers who escaped Confederate imprisonment and aided in the final dissolution of the Confederacy.During the winter of 1864, more than three thousand Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Crossroads of Freedom

    Antietam

    by James M. McPherson ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom, America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Robert E. Lee

    A Life

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor."An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • African American Faces of the Civil War

    An Album

    by Ronald S. Coddington ...
    Discover the men of color who fought for their freedom during the Civil War through profiles illustrated with original wartime photographs.A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus