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Louisianians in the Western Confederacy
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 39.95The Louisiana Brigade served the Confederacy in the Army of Tennessee, battling on the western frontier. Commanded by Daniel W. Adams and Randall L. Gibson, the brigade fought from the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 to the surrender at Meridian in May 1865. This volume follows the formation and history of the individual units, the politics of command,... more...
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other... more...
Bloody Times
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt James L. Swanson creates anadaptation for young people of his adultbook Bloody Crimes , a suspense-filledthriller that sheds light on two fallen leadersof the North and South. One man, PresidentLincoln, assassinated, on his way to thegrave. Another man, the president of theConfederacy, Jefferson Davis,... more...
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Holt and Co. 2008; US$ 24.99America?s greatest president, who rose to power in the country?s greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president?the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation?s wounds. His presidency is the hinge on... more...
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.95Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts... more...
Yankee Leviathan
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 44.00This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author contends that intense competition for control of the national political economy between the free North and slave South produced secession, which in turn spawned the formation of two new states, a market-oriented... more...
The First Americans
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 68.00Challenges traditional ideas of who the first Americans were and what their relationship with living Native American Indians is. more...
The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War
Little, Brown and Company 2011; US$ 16.99With striking visuals from the Library of Congress' unparalleled archive, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE OF THE CIVIL WAR is an authoritative and engaging narrative of the domestic conflict that determined the course of American history. A detailed chronological timeline of the war captures the harrowing intensity of 19th-century warfare... more...
The Battle of Fair Oaks
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00In the spring of 1862, Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac launched a bloody offensive up the Virginia Peninsula in an effort to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. This study chronicles the pivotal but often overlooked turning point of the Peninsula Campaign--the Battle of Fair Oaks, also known as Seven Pines.... more...
Tennessee in the Civil War
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 49.95The only state designated by Congress as a Civil War National Heritage Area, Tennessee witnessed more than its share of Civil War strife. This collection taken from primary documents--including newspaper accounts, official reports, journal and diary entries, gunboat deck logs and letters--offers rare glimpses of the Civil War as it unfolded in the... more...









