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The Civil War In Kentucky
Da Capo Press 2007; US$ 29.95Top scholars contribute to this book of essays on the complex series of battles and political maneuvers for control of Kentucky during the Civil War. more...
From Selma to Appomattox
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 44.99The history of the Jeff Davis Artillery is the story of a company of Alabamians who fought with valor and distinction for the Confederacy during more than three and a half years of active service. As part of the Army of Northern Virginia, these soldiers played an integral part in most of the major campaigns of the Eastern Theatre, participating in... more...
Spartan Band
University of North Texas Press 2005; US$ 15.96Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn from 11 counties in East Texas. Reid researched letters, documents, and diaries gleaned from more than one hundred descendants of the soldiers, answering many questions relating to their experiences and final resting places. more...
True Sons of the Republic
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 50.00As mass immigration swept unprecedented numbers of Europeans to America in the mid-nineteenth century, these ethnic Americans would fight for the preservation of their new home country and contribute substantially to the Union victory. more...
The Heart of Confederate Appalachia
The University of North Carolina Press 2000; US$ 24.00From the valleys of the French Broad and Catawba Rivers to the peaks of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, the people of western North Carolina responded to the war in dramatically different ways. Men and women, masters and slaves, planters and yeomen, soldiers and civilians, Confederates and Unionists, bushwhackers and home guardsmen, Democrats... more...
Lee's Tar Heels
The University of North Carolina Press 2002; US$ 45.95The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolina's best-known and most successful units during the Civil War. Formed in 1862, the brigade spent nearly a year protecting supply lines before being thrust into its first major combat at Gettysburg. There, James Johnston Pettigrew's men pushed back the Union's famed Iron Brigade in vicious... more...
Black Soldiers in Blue
The University of North Carolina Press 2002; US$ 47.50Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from emancipation to the end of the Civil War. Seven... more...
Plain Folk's Fight
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 44.95In an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white "plain folk"--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia before, during, and after the war. Although previous scholars have argued that common people in the South... more...
Welcome the Hour of Conflict
University of Alabama Press 2008; US$ 51.75Vivid and lively letters from a young Confederate in Lee’s Army. In the spring of 1861 a 22-year-old Alabamian did what many of his friends and colleagues were doing—he joined the Confederate Army as a volunteer. The first of his family to enlist, William Cowan McClellan, who served as a private in the 9th Alabama Infantry regiment,... more...
Slavery's End In Tennessee
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95This is the first book-length work on wartime race relations in Tennessee, and it stresses the differences within the slave community as well as Military Governor Andrew Johnson’s role in emancipation. In Tennessee a significant number of slaves took advantage of the disruptions resulting from federal invasion to escape servitude and... more...









