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  • Robert Neyland

    The West Point Engineer Who Built Tennessee Football

    by Timothy D. Johnson ...
    A celebration of coaching great Robert NeylandRobert Neyland was not your typical college football coach. A graduate of West Point and veteran of both world wars, Neyland often played a dual role as both an army officer and football coach, shifting seamlessly between the two professions. At the University of Tennessee, he ran his program like the army and amassed an impressive 173-31-12 record.In ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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  • For Duty and Honor

    Tennessee's Mexican War Experience

    by Timothy D. Johnson ...
    The outbreak of the American Civil War was destined to cast a long shadow over the earlier, shorter Mexican–American War (1846—1848), as evidenced by today’s relatively slight historiography on the conflict. As for Tennessee’s role in the war, history remembers little more than its large contribution of volunteers and subsequent state moniker as “The Volunteer State.” Today, beliefs persist that ... Read more

    $26.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Fighter from Way Back

    The Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA

    Edited by Hughes, Timothy D. Johnson ...
    A welcome addition to the eyewitness sources available to researchers and scholars of the U.S.-Mexican WarBorn in July 1821, Daniel Harvey Hill grew up in “genteel poverty” on a large plantation in York District, South Carolina. He entered West Point and graduated in the middle of the renowned Class of 1842. Following garrison duty as a junior lieutenant with the First and Third Artilleries, Hill ... Read more

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  • The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals

    by Sean Chick, Dr. Christian B. Keller, Dr. Ethan S. Rafuse, Dr. Thomas W. Cutrer, Dr. Stephen D. Engle, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Jennifer M. Murray, Craig L. Symonds, Timothy B. Smith, T. Michael Parrish, Brian Steel Wills, Alexander Mendoza, Cecily N. Zander ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversial outcome. Rather than treat the conflict with a form of historical amnesia, the contributors to this volume argue that the Mexican-American War was a formative experience for the more than three ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Gallant Little Army

    The Mexico City Campaign

    by Timothy D. Johnson ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    In 1847 General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the way to the Halls of Montezuma, routing Mexican forces at every turn while pacifying the countryside. Scott’s military campaign—America’s first ever in a foreign country—helped pave the way for victory in the wider war against Mexico and also posed new challenges for discipline, logistics, and the ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • Clouds of Glory

    The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

    by Michael Korda ...
    New York Times Bestseller"Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale." —Boston GlobeMichael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generationKorda paints a vivid... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 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

    $16.99 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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  • Eagles and Empire

    by David A. Clary ...
    A war that started under questionable pretexts. A president who is convinced of his country’s might and right. A military and political stalemate with United States troops occupying a foreign land against a stubborn and deadly insurgency.The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the war is one of the least known and most important in both Mexican and United States history—a war that really ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest

    by Edward Austin Johnson ...
    Many causes led up to the Spanish-American war. Cuba had been in a state of turmoil for a long time, and the continual reports of outrages on the people of the island by Spain greatly aroused the Americans. The ten years war had terminated, leaving the island much embarrassed in its material interests, and woefully scandalized by the methods of procedure adopted by Spain and principally carried ... Read more

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  • Battle at Bull Run

    A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War

    by William C. Davis ...
    Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 21, 1861, one Northerner wrote: “The sky is perfectly clear, the moon is full and bright, and the air was still as if it were not within a few hours to be disturbed by the roar of cannon and the shouts of contending men.” So optimistic were the ... Read more

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  • So Far from God

    The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848

    by John S.D. Eisenhower ...
    The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this highly readable account, John S. D. Eisenhower ... Read more

    $14.99 USD