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Homegrown Yankees
LSU Press 2009; US$ 24.95Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. East Tennesseans opposed secession at the ballot box in 1861, petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, resisted the Confederate government, enlisted in Union militias, elected U.S. congressmen, and fled as refugees into Kentucky. These refugees formed Tennessee?s... more...
Civil War Mississippi
University Press of Mississippi 2000; US$ 62.50In the Civil War Mississippi experienced a protracted and devastating invasion, and Confederate and Union armies fought fiercely at Corinth, Holly Springs, Iuka, Port Gibson, Vicksburg, and many other sites throughout the state. With both tourists and Civil War buffs in mind, archivist Michael Ballard has written Civil War Mississippi: A Guide,... more...
The Making of a Confederate
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99Illustrations. Foreword. Acknowledgements. The Lenoir Families. Prologue. One. Dutiful Sons and a Wavering Southerner. Two. Confederate Soldier. Three. Agony at Ox Hill. Four. Mountain Farmer. Five. Unreconstructed Confederate. Six. Land Promoter and Dreamer. Afterword. Recommendations for Further Reading. Index more...
The 11th Missouri Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 39.95The 11th Missouri Infantry distinguished itself as just the type of regiment the Union needed in the Civil War. Hard as nails and loyal to a fault, the men of the "Eagle Brigade" would follow their commanders "into hell if they ordered." They battled two Confederate regiments at Iuka, turned the tide at Battery Robinett at Corinth,... more...
Virginia's Private War
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 34.99A study of the home front in the Confederacy which seeks to contribute to our understanding of the Confederate defeat. The author challenges the dominant assumption that internal stresses and conflicts, particularly of class and race, undermined the Confederacy, and offers another interpretation. more...
Ruined by This Miserable War
University of Tennessee Press 2013; US$ 37.95In March 1863, after Northern general Benjamin F. Butler demanded the recall of the French consul-general, an unabashed Confederate sympathizer, from Union-occupied New Orleans, Charles Prosper Fauconnet assumed the duties of acting consul. A seasoned diplomat who had risen slowly through the ranks in Latin America and the United States, Fauconnet... more...
Hold the Oxo!
Dundurn 2011; US$ 8.99Canada was young. 20,000 underage soldiers left their homes to serve in the Great War. Jim, at 17, was one of them. His letters home gloss over the horrors of war, focusing on issues of the home front: of harvesting, training the horses, and the price of hogs. His letters rested 95 years in a shoebox decorated by his mother. more...
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...
The 36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00During the Civil War, African American war correspondent Thomas Morris Chester was so inspired by the men of the 36th United States Colored Troops that he declared the group to be "a model regiment." Composed primarily of former slaves recruited from Union-occupied areas of eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, the 36th USCT participated... more...
The Wilmington & Weldon Railroad in the Civil War
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 35.00In its early years, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company survived multiple threats to its existence. Under its new corporate name, the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Company would soon be put to the ultimate test, the Civil War. From mobilization to the last effort to supply Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, the company would endure the wearing... more...









