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“harold simpson”

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  • Gaine's Mill to Appomattox : Waco and McLennan County in Hood's Texas Brigade

    by Harold B. Simpson ...
    From the thunderous cannons at Gaine's Mill to the somber surrender at Appomattox Court House, the men of Waco and McLennan County rode into legend with Hood's Texas Brigade, leaving behind families and farms to forge one of the most storied military units in American history. Harold B. Simpson resurrects their incredible journey through four years of brutal warfare, revealing how ordinary Texans ... Read more

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  • First Texas Regiment

    by George T. Todd ...
    In the blood-soaked fields of Virginia, where the fate of a nation hung in the balance, one Texas regiment carved its name into Civil War legend with unprecedented courage and sacrifice. The First Texas Regiment of Hood's Brigade stood as a thunderbolt in the Army of Northern Virginia, their battle flags torn by bullets, their ranks decimated by devotion to duty that bordered on the supernatural. ... Read more

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    The Ship of Ishtar (Unabridged)

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    by ABRAHAM MERRITT ...
    Narrated by Katherine Silvia, Harold Simpson, Alice Hursey, Darrel Huynh ...

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    10 hours 11 min

    Intrigue whispers on the wind as archaeologist John Kenton acquires a mysterious Babylonian artifact - a miniature crystal ship. As he unlocks its secrets, the line between reality and fantasy blurs. Suddenly, Kenton finds himself transported to a magnificent vessel unlike anything he's ever imagined. Aboard this fantastical ship, a cosmic battle rages between two powerful deities: Ishtar, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Brawling Brass, North and South

    The Most Famous Quarrels of the Civil War

    by Col. Harold B. Simpson ...
    Originally published in 1960, this book contains the fascinating accounts of the most famous quarrels of the Civil War, involving Stonewall Jackson and A. P. Hill; Jos. E. Johnston and John B. Hood; Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet; George Meade and Dan Sickles; Phil Sheridan and Gouverneur K. Warren; and John Pope and Fitz-John Porter."The War of the Sixties has probably had more written about ... Read more

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  • Lens of War

    Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

    by James Robertson Jr., Thavolia Glymph, Stephen Cushman, Judith A. Giesberg, James Marten, William Blair, Joseph Glatthaar, Stephen Berry, Stephen Berry0, Caroline E. Janney1, Joan Waugh2, Earl Hess3, Aaron Sheehan-Dean4, Megan Kate Nelson5, Susan Eva O'Donovan6, Emory Thomas7, Harold Holzer8, Brooks D. Simpson9, Ethan S. Rafuse0, Carol Reardon1, Daniel E. Sutherland2, Elizabeth R. Varon3, T. Michael Parrish4, Steven E. Woodworth5, Jane E. Schultz6, Kathryn J. Shively7 ...
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    Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women’s, and environmental ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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  • The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War

    The best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal top ten rankings of the Civil War

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  • This Republic of Suffering

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  • Tullahoma

    The Forgotten Campaign that changed the Civil War, June 23–July 4, 1863

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    The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation.Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history—the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington ... Read more

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  • The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle

    From the Crossing of Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22–September 19, 1863

    by David A. Powell ...
    "Far surpasses anything anyone else has ever done about this pivotal engagement." — The Journal of America's Military PastChickamauga, according to soldier rumor, is a Cherokee word meaning "River of Death." It certainly lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged bloody combat along the banks of West Chickamauga ... Read more

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