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  • Gettysburg

    Two Eyewitness Accounts

    by Frank Haskell, William C. Oates ...
    Series series Eyewitness to the Civil War
    In this unique series the Civil War comes vividly to life. Here an eyewitness accounts--many available for the first time in decades--by generals, journalist, and ordinary foot soldiers, both blue and gray, who relive the conflict in all its terrible glory. Each volume brings you a human perspective on the war--its most decisive battles, its most remarkable personalities. Gettysburg: Two ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Battles & Leaders of the Civil War: The Great Charge and Artillery Fighting at Gettysburg

    by Edward Porter Alexander ...
    In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and officer in the U.S. Army, but the native Georgian resigned his commission in May 1861 and joined the Confederacy after his home state seceded. Porter Alexander spent 1861 as an intelligence officer, and ... Read more

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  • Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: General Robert E. Lee at The Wilderness

    by Charles S. Venable ...
    With the exception of George Washington, perhaps the most famous and celebrated general in American history is Robert E. Lee (January 19, 1807 October 12, 1870), despite the fact he led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia against the Union in the Civil War. The son of U.S. Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, a relative of Martha Custis Washington, and a top graduate of ... Read more

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  • Battles & Leaders of the Civil War: The 20th Maine at Little Round Top (Illustrated Edition)

    by Joshua Chamberlain & H.S. Melcher ...
    Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a man of many hats, both in battle and in the classroom. Chamberlain is known today for being President of Bowdoin College in Maine and being one of the main heroes of Little Round Top while in command of the 20th Maine on Day 2 at Gettysburg. Chamberlains regiment earned lasting fame on July 2, 1863, holding the extreme left of the Union line at Gettysburg. ... Read more

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  • Pickett's Charge: Account of the Charge from "Life of General George G. Meade"

    by Isaac R. Pennypacker ...
    The most famous attack of the Civil War was also one of its most flawed and deadly. Having been unable to break the Army of the Potomacs lines on the left and right flank during Day 2 of the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee decided to make a thrust at the center of the Unions line with about 15,000 men spread out over three divisions. Though it is now known as Picketts Charge, named after division ... Read more

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  • From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

    by James Longstreet ...
    One of the most important, and controversial, Confederate generals during the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lees old warhorse. Longstreet was Lees principal subordinate for most of the war, ably managing a corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. Longstreet was instrumental in Confederate victories at Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chickamauga, while he was also ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

    $15.99 USD

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  • Gettysburg

    by Stephen W. Sears ...
    A comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today's leading historians.The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Stillness at Appomattox

    The Army of the Potomac Trilogy (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Bruce Catton ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • America's foremost Civil War historian recounts the final year of the Civil War in his final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy.Bruce Catton takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbot, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Shiloh

    A Novel

    by Shelby Foote ...
    This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history, from Shelby Foote, beloved historian of the Civil War. Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but the inner movements of the combatants’ hearts and minds. Through the eyes of officers and illiterate ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Battle of Manassas (2nd Bull Run): Account of the Battle from "The Army Under Pope"

    by John Codman Ropes ...
    John Codman Ropes (18361899) was an American military historian and lawyer and was the co-founder of law firm Ropes & Gray. After the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Ropes turned his attention principally to military history. He ceaselessly assisted with business and personal help and friendship the officers and men of the 20th Massachusetts regiment, in which his brother, Henry Ropes, was ... Read more

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  • Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg

    by James Longstreet ...
    The Army of the Potomac had pushed Robert E. Lees army out of Maryland in September 1862 after the Battle of Antietam, but President Lincoln and his War Department wanted the army to continue going after the Army of Northern Virginia after it retreated back into Virginia. When George B. McClellan refused to do it, Lincoln fired him and installed Ambrose E. Burnside as the new commander. Burnside, ... Read more

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