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The Atlas of the Civil War

By: N/A

Price: $9.50

Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company: December 1994

Seller ID: 390

ISBN: 0025790501

Condition: Used - Very Good

Behold the beauty, majesty, and accuracy of revolutionary new world atlases published by Macmillan and produced from the $20 million Bertelsmann/RV Verlag world digital cartographic database. Peerless in design, quality, and practicality, these new atlases are published in print and CD-ROM formats and feature unique, distinctive benefits: -- Special coloration shows what the Earth really looks like from space-- Uniform scale across all continents provides true one-to-one comparisons-- Transportation routes and POIs are highlighted so map can be used for travel as well as home and o...
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Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee (True Crime History)

By: Ackermann, Ann Marie

Price: $8.50

Publisher: The Kent State University Press: September 2017

Seller ID: 334557

ISBN: 1606353047

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Tour Guide to the Civil War, Fourth Edition: The Complete State-by-State Guide to Battlegrounds, Landmarks, Museums, Relics, and Sites

By: Alice Cromie

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: October-1992

Seller ID: 126043

ISBN: 1558532005

Condition: Used - Very Good

A complete, easy-to-read guide to Civil War points of interest. This fourth edition of the classic "A Tour Guide to the Civil War" has been fully revised and brought up to date. An ideal travel companion and short course in Civil War history, it provides fascinating details about the battles, events, people, and places associated with the Civil War in the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia. Illustrated with Civil War era engravings, it also contains maps for each state and provides detailed travel directions. "A veritable treasure trove of facts, many of which have esca...
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Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship

By: Baldwin, John, Powers, Ron

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Crown: May 2007

Seller ID: 330543

ISBN: 0307236552

Condition: Used - Very Good

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world's oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider's name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old warrior who might have stepped from the pages of Arthurian legend. Whittle would share command with a dark and brooding veteran of the seas, Capt. James Waddell, and together with a cre...
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Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent (Da Capo Paperback)

By: Blackett, R.j.m.

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Da Capo Press: August 1991

Seller ID: 317113

ISBN: 0306804530

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1864 the Philadelphia "Press" commissioned Thomas Morris Chester, son of an ex-slave to cover the activities of black troops on the Virginia front. The only black correspondent for a major daily during the Civil War, Chester covered the crucial final year of the war around Richmond. His dispatches constitute the most sustained and extensive first-hand account of black soldiers in existence. As the war came to a close, Chester richly described the responses of Confederate troops and civilians to encounters with black soldiers, as he joined the black troops of the 25th Army Corps as they led ...
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Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War

By: Bobrick, Benson

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 2003

Seller ID: 334511

ISBN: 0743250915

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Dear Mother, Not since Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" have the trials and tribulations of a private soldier of the Civil War been told with such beguiling force. "The Red Badge of Courage," however, was fiction. This story is true. In "Testament," Benson Bobrick draws upon an extraordinarily rich but hitherto untapped archive of material to create a continuous narrative of how that war was fought and lived. Here is virtually the whole theater of conflict in the West, from its beginnings in Missouri, through Kentucky and Tennessee, to the siege of Atlanta under Sherman, as exper...
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The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road

By: Bruce Catton

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Doubleday and Company:

Seller ID: 184211

ISBN: 4231275174

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army

By: Bruce Catton

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Doubleday and Company:

Seller ID: 184212

ISBN: 4231275271

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bull's-Eyes and Misfires: 50 People Whose Obscure Efforts Shaped the American Civil War

By: Clint Johnson

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press:

Seller ID: 46656

ISBN: 0739431420

Condition: Used - Very Good

LINCOLN'S MEN: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation

By: Davis, William C.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Free Press: February 2000

Seller ID: 314669

ISBN: 0684862948

Condition: Used - Very Good

No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called "Father Abraham." In "Lincoln's Men, " historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries -- the voices of the volunteers -- to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became "Father" throughout both the army and the North as a whole. How did Lincoln inspire the faith and courage of so many shattered men, as they wandered the inferno of Shiloh or were entrenched in the siege of Vicksburg? Why did soldiers visiting Washington ...
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Twenty Million Yankees: The Northern Home Front (Civil War)

By: Donald Dale Jackson

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Time Life Education: July-1985

Seller ID: 74152

ISBN: 0809447525

Condition: Used - Very Good

A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps. Fully researched, superbly written.
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Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

By: Donald, David

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.: March 2009

Seller ID: 316309

ISBN: 1402218397

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns " In this brilliant biographya Pulitzer Prizewinning national bestsellerDavid Herbert Donald, Harvard professor emeritus, traces Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. In a period when senators often exercised more influence than presidents, Senator Charles Sumner was one of the most powerful forces in the American government and remains one of the most controversial figures in American history. His uncompromising moral standards made him a lightning rod in an era fraught with conflict. Sumner's fight to en...
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Congress and the Civil War

By: Edward Boykin

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Vista House Edition:

Seller ID: 190173

ISBN: 4260647120

Condition: Used - Very Good

They Met At Gettysburg : A Stirring Account of the Battles at Gettysburg (with over 140 illustrations and maps)

By: Edward J. Stackpole

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Bonanza Books: August-1986

Seller ID: 29682

ISBN: 0517112000

Condition: Used - Very Good

The War of the Rebellion Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Series III Volume 1: Union Correspondence, Etc.

By: Fred C. Ainsworth and Joseph W. Kirkley

Price: $19.50

Publisher: The National Historical Society: April-1985

Seller ID: 109121

ISBN: 0918678072

Condition: Used - Very Good

Amazing Women of the Civil War: Fascinating True Stories of Women Who Made a Difference

By: Garrison, Webb

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: September 1999

Seller ID: 338620

ISBN: 1558537910

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women demonstrated heroic deeds, selfless acts, and courage beyond measure. Women mobilized soup kitchens and relief societies. Women cared for wounded soldiers. Women were effective spies. And it is estimated that 300 women fought on the battlefields, usually disguised as men. The most fascinating Civil War women include: Harriet Tubman, a former slave, who led hundreds of fellow slaves to freedom on the Underground Railro...
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The Civil War: An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, Ken Burns

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Knopf: January 0001

Seller ID: 20863

ISBN: 0394562852

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing."- Shelby Foote, from "The Civil War" When the illustrated edition of "The Civil War" was first published, "The New York Time" hailed it as "a treasure for the eye and mind." Now Geoffrey Ward's magisterial work of history is available in a text-only edition that interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through the c...
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