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  • The War Went On

    Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans

    by Rebecca Howard, Zachery Fry, Jonathan Neu, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Angela M. Riotto, Kurt Hackemer, Tyler Sperrazza, Steven E. Sodergren, Matthew Norman, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Kelly Mezurek, Adam H. Domby, Jonathan A. Noyalas ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns

    Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865

    by Steven E. Sodergren ...
    The final year of the Civil War witnessed a profound transformation in the practice of modern warfare, a shift that produced unprecedented consequences for the soldiers fighting on the front lines. In The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns, Steven E. Sodergren examines the transition to trench warfare, the lengthy campaigns of attrition that resulted, and how these ... Read more

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  • Gettysburg

    The Last Invasion

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    **Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military HistoryAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year**The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier.Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. ... Read more

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  • Landscape Turned Red

    The Battle of Antietam

    by Stephen W. Sears ...
    "The best account of the Battle of Antietam" from t he award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville ( The New York Times Book Review ).The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red,... ... Read more

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  • Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher

    The Military Genius of the Man Who Won the Civil War

    by Edward H. Bonekemper III ...
    Ulysses S. Grant is often accused of being a cold-hearted butcher of his troops. In Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher, historian Edward H. Bonekemper III proves that Grant's casualty rates actually compared favorably with those of other Civil War generals. His perseverance, decisiveness, moral courage, and political acumen place him among the greatest generals of the Civil War; indeed, of ... Read more

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  • Lincoln's Lieutenants

    The High Command of the Army of the Potomac

    by Stephen W. Sears ...
    A multilayered group biography of the Civil War commanders who led the Army of the Potomac: "a staggering work . . . by a masterly historian" ( Kirkus, starred review).The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all ... Read more

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  • Barksdale's Charge

    The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

    by Phillip Thomas Tucker ...
    There is "never a dull moment" in this "excellent account" of an overlooked Confederate triumph during the Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg ( San Francisco Book Review).While many Civil War buffs celebrate Picket's Charge as the climactic moment of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army's true high point had come the afternoon before. When Longstreet's corps triumphantly entered the battle ... Read more

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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

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  • The Gettysburg Nobody Knows

    Edited by Gabor S. Boritt ...
    Series series Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books
    On the first three days of July in 1863, more than 160,000 Union and Rebel soldiers fought a monumental battle in Gettysburg, a bloody contest that has been hailed as "the turning point of the Civil War." It is without a doubt the best known engagement of the war and may in fact be the best known battle in American military history. It is certainly the most studied battle Americans have ever ... Read more

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  • West Virginia and the Civil War

    Mountaineers Are Always Free

    by Mark A Snell ...
    Series series Civil War Sesquicentennial Series
    A comprehensive account of the state's creation, its citizens, and their contributions to the war effort—whether supporters of the Union or Confederacy.The only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents served in the combatant forces about twenty thousand on each side.The Mountain State also saw its fair ... Read more

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  • Faces of the Civil War

    An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories

    by Ronald S Coddington ...
    Archival images and biographical sketches of Union soldiers tell the stories of their lives during and after the Civil War.Before leaving to fight in the Civil War, many Union and Confederate soldiers posed for a carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the carte de visite was a small photographic print ... Read more

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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

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