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No Place for a Woman

Harriet Dame's Civil War

by Mike Pride ...

Series series Interpreting the Civil War: Texts and Contexts
Winner, New Hampshire PBS Award for Literary Excellence 2023Examining the life and career of Harriet Dame, Civil War battlefield nurse, and her major contributions to the Union causeIn June of 1861, 46-year-old Harriet Patience Dame joined the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a matron. No Place for a Woman recounts her dedicated service throughout the Civil War. She camped with ... Read more

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Winner, New Hampshire PBS Award for Literary Excellence 2023Examining the life and career of Harriet Dame, Civil War battlefield nurse, and her major contributions to the Union causeIn June of 1861, 46-year-old Harriet Patience Dame joined the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a matron. No Place for a Woman recounts her dedicated service throughout the Civil War. She camped with
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Storm Over Key West

The Civil War and the Call of Freedom

by Mike Pride ...

A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army. Eager to oblige him, the military commander in town ordered every black man from fifteen to fifty to report to the courthouse, “there to undergo a medical examination, preparatory to embarking for Hilton Head, S.C.” Montgomery swept away 126 ... Read more

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A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army. Eager to oblige him, the military commander in town ordered every black man from fifteen to fifty to report to the courthouse, “there to undergo a medical examination, preparatory to embarking for Hilton Head, S.C.” Montgomery swept away 126
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Vicksburg

Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

by Donald L. Miller ...

**Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize, and the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award“A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive Civil War campaign—the Siege of Vicksburg in Vicksburg, Mississippi—which opened the Mississippi ... Read more

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**Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize, and the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award“A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive Civil War campaign—the Siege of Vicksburg in Vicksburg, Mississippi—which opened the Mississippi
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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

by Alan Taylor ...

This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans ... Read more

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This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans
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Three Roads to Gettysburg

Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation

by Tim McGrath ...

An epic, revelatory account of the Battle of Gettysburg, where George Meade, Lincoln's unexpected choice to lead the Union army, defeated Robert E. Lee and changed the course of the Civil War, from the award-winning author of James Monroe: A LifeBy mid-1863, the Civil War, with Northern victories in the West and Southern triumphs in the East, seemed unwinnable for Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee’s ... Read more

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An epic, revelatory account of the Battle of Gettysburg, where George Meade, Lincoln's unexpected choice to lead the Union army, defeated Robert E. Lee and changed the course of the Civil War, from the award-winning author of James Monroe: A LifeBy mid-1863, the Civil War, with Northern victories in the West and Southern triumphs in the East, seemed unwinnable for Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee’s
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For Cause and Comrades

Why Men Fought in the Civil War

by James M. McPherson ...

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

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General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death,
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Rebels at the Gate

Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided

by W Hunter Lesser ...

Rebels at the Gate is the dramatic story of the first Union victories of the Civil War and the events that caused Virginians to divide their state. In a defiant act to sustain President Lincoln's war effort, Virginia Unionists created their own state government in 1861—destined to become the new state of West Virginia. ... Read more

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Rebels at the Gate is the dramatic story of the first Union victories of the Civil War and the events that caused Virginians to divide their state. In a defiant act to sustain President Lincoln's war effort, Virginia Unionists created their own state government in 1861—destined to become the new state of West Virginia.
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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

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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
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Crossroads of Freedom : Antietam

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 6000 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 that led ... Read more

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The Battle of Antietam fought on September 17 1862 was the bloodiest single day in American history with more than 6000 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 that led
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The First American Army

The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men behind America's First Fight for Freedom

by Bruce Chadwick ...

This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army.With interlocking stories of ordinary Americans, he evokes what it meant to face brutal winters, starvation, ... Read more

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This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army.With interlocking stories of ordinary Americans, he evokes what it meant to face brutal winters, starvation,
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Civil War Barons

The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation

by Jeffry D. Wert ...

Before the robber barons there were Civil War barons--a remarkable yet largely unknown group of men whose contributions won the war and shaped America's future.The Civil War woke a sleeping giant in America, creating unprecedented industrial growth that not only supported the struggle but reshaped the nation.Energized by the country's dormant potential and wealth of natural resources, individuals ... Read more

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Before the robber barons there were Civil War barons--a remarkable yet largely unknown group of men whose contributions won the war and shaped America's future.The Civil War woke a sleeping giant in America, creating unprecedented industrial growth that not only supported the struggle but reshaped the nation.Energized by the country's dormant potential and wealth of natural resources, individuals
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A Thousand May Fall

An Immigrant Regiment's Civil War

by Brian Matthew Jordan ...

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict.The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any ... Read more

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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict.The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any
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