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The Battle of Second Manassas
InfoStrategist.com 2003; US$ 3.99Examines the Battle of Second Manassas in the form of a tour going to twelve locations important to aspects of this fierce Civil War contest between the Union forces commanded by Major General John Pope and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert E. more...
The Battle of New Market
InfoStrategist.com 2004; US$ 3.99The Battle of New Market was the first of a series of engagements taking place in the summer and fall of 1864 that destroyed Confederate power in the Shenandoah Valley, although the battle itself hardly presaged such an outcome. more...
"...the real war will never get in the books"
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 34.99This volume brings together the thoughts and considerations of 14 of America's most sensitive writers of the Civil War era. Taken from essays, journal entries and diaries, these writings present an interior view of the war. more...
The Natural History of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820)
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 34.99Acquiring the Louisiana Territory almost doubled the size of the USA, adding 800,000 square miles of land scarcely explored or mapped. This text offers a history of the 1819 expedition - the first scientific exploration of the territory to be accompanied by trained naturalists and artists. more...
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.99A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly. ?I consider you my best living friend,? Mary Lincoln wrote to Elizabeth Keckly in 1867, and indeed theirs was a close,... more...
Receding Tide
National Geographic Society 2010; US$ 28.00It?s a poignant irony in American history that on Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South?s effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege, Ulysses Grant?s Union army finally took Vicksburg and... more...
Here Is Where
Crown Publishing Group 2013; US$ 25.00Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carroll?s eye-opening ? and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carroll?s visit to the spot where Abraham Lincoln?s son was saved by the brother of Lincoln?s... more...
Partners In Command
Free Press 2008; US$ 20.95Explores the productive friendships of such contrasting personalities as Grant and Sherman and Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, bringing to life the struggle between McClellan and Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston. more...
Works of Abraham Lincoln
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 4.99This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.This Collection Includes:Inaugural addressesFirst Inaugural Address (1861) Second Inaugural Address (1865) State... more...
All for the Union
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War will recognize... more...









