HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Books

New York: Thomas Yoseloff. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscription. (1963). HC. 501pp. This illustrated volume reveals the hot passion of Robert E. Lee, the defensive gentility of Jefferson Davis, the bold retreater paradox of Joseph E. Johnston, the puritan in cavalier J.E.B. Stuart, the hidden consistency in Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, and the secret of Judah P. Benjamin's endurance. . ... (more information)

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Camden, SC: John Culler & Sons. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). (1995). HC. 424pp. ISBN 1887269061 Personal Experiences of the War Between the States, From the Confederate Soldiers on the Line, the Officers, and the Civilians Who Lived It! . ... (more information)

Subjects: HISTORY / United States / General; HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877);

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New York: Thomas Yoseloff. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). (1959) new ed. HC. 613pp. First published in 1887, a historic, eyewitness account of Robert E. Lee's advance into Pennsylvania in 1863 and of the decisive battle at Gettysburg. . ... (more information)

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Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). (1958) 1st ed. HC. 384pp. ... (more information)

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New York: Horace Liveright. good, grey cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) - clean and tight. (1930) 4th ptg. HC. 512pp. First published in 1928. . ... (more information)

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Raleigh, NC: Ivy House Publishing Group. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). (2004). HC. 217pp. ISBN 1571974083 Follow the incredible journey of an ordinary man, Charles Garrigues, who lived during extraordinary times. This story takes readers on an incredible trip that begins in a Civil War prison camp in Illinois and meanders across much of the Reconstruction South. . ... (more information)

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Harrisburg, PA: J. Horace McFarland Co.. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). (1966) reprint. HC. 167pp. ... (more information)

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New York: Castle Books. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). (1957). HC. 353pp. Part nine of THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR series. . ... (more information)

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New York: The Free Press. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), BCE. (1999). HC. 315pp. ISBN 0684833379 The author draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president could become "Father Abraham" throughout both the army and the North as a whole. . ... (more information)

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New York: The Columbian Publishing Co.. good, decorated red cloth (hardcover) light edgwear SEE NOTE. 1891 3rd ed. HC. 55pp. Contents include: A Secret Military Raid in the West; General Mitchel and J. J. Andrews Arrange a Second Raid; Previous History of James J. Andrews; The Bloodless Victories of Mitchel; The Roll of the Captives; The Old Negro Jail at Chattanooga; Gen. Mitchel Saves the Raiders; Richmond and its Prisons; Reporting to Secretary Stanton and President Lincoln. NOTE - Light edgewear to the ... (more information)

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Dayton, OH: Morningside House, Inc.. very good, gray cloth (hardcover). (1983). HC. 92pp. ISBN 0890290741 With Incidents of Camp Life, Descriptions of Battles, The Life of the Southern Soldier, His Hardships and Sufferings, and the Life of a Prisoner of War in the Northern Prisons. Originally published by Peake & Company of Washington, D.C. in 1895, this slender volume accurately depicts the Battle of Gettysburg. . ... (more information)

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Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). 1984 2nd ptg. HC. 296pp. ISBN 0879280220 In this famed volume originally published in 1870, a white Union officer records his highly successful and personally rewarding experiences as the officer in command of an all-black regiment-the First South Carolina Volunteers. . ... (more information)

Subjects: HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African-American Studies;

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New York: Bramhall House. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). orig pub 1958. HC. 214pp. "The story of the Capital of the Confederacy from Jefferson Davis's arrival to the end of the war." . ... (more information)

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. good+ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover). 1948 1st ed. HC. 336pp. The unparalleled career of the Confederate States raider SHENANDOAH is one of the strangest and most dramatic in the annals of naval warfare. In this vivid, authentic book Mr. Morgan tells the whole saga as it has never been told before. . ... (more information)

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New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). (1962) 2nd ptg. HC. 113pp. A major historian of the Civil War discusses three Union generals in terms of their characters and speculates about how their personalities affected their generalship. . ... (more information)

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San Diego: Americana Exchange Press. very good, black cloth, teg (hardcover) (no slipcase). 1969. HC. 133pp. Chittenden was appointed Register of the Treasury by President Abraham Lincoln. In 1968 this diary came to light and opens the day after the surrender of Fort Sumter and closes just seven days before the First Battle of Bull Run. The daily entries record the hopes and fears of a devoted Union supporter during the opening stages of the Civil War. Limited to 1500 copies. . ... (more information)

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Westport, CT: Praeger. fine, pictorial boards (hardcover). (2004). HC. 96pp. ISBN 0275984486 . ... (more information)

Subjects: HISTORY / Military / General; HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877);

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Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co.. good, wraps (softcover) EX-LIB bound in a Pamphlet Binder. 1880. PB. 50pp. Text of the historical address delivered "On the 8th of March, 1880." . ... (more information)

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New York: The Fairfax Press. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). (1986). HC. 270pp. ISBN 0517603586 This book permits the reader to follow the final thirty-six hours in the life of the Confederate South, to share, with those who experienced those frightful yet fascinating events, what it was like to wait amid crackling flames and exploding magazines for the victors to march in. . ... (more information)

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Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). 1958. HC. 262pp. The South at war--in its cities and camps--is reported by FitzGerald Ross, an English cavalry captain in the Austrian Hussars, in one of the most informative of the relatively few inclusive records left by outside observers of the Confederacy in its own time. . ... (more information)

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