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Gettysburg Battle and Battlefield
Barnes & Noble Books CR 1993, 166 pages, black and white photos. Dust jacket and book very good condition. Gettysburg is one of the most famous battles in American History. This book gives a description of the battle in general terms, a selection of the most dramatic incidents and an account of the extensive cemetary and park.. First Printing. Hard Cover. (more information)
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The War the Women Lived
Nashville, TN: J. S. Sanders & Co. Female Voices From The Confederate South. Dust jacket and book very good condition. Foreward by George Core. CR 1995, this is 4th in 1999, 319 pages with index. An informal history of the Civil War in the South as seen through the eyes of 23 principals whose acutely perceptive reports he chose for the book. Thirty-one narrative sequences that unfold in chronological order. Stories of suffering, courage, daring, patriotism, resignation, and faith; these add up to an account of the war as it was lived and endured in the South.. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. (more information)
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Seasons of War
Culpeper City, Virginia: The Free Press The Ordeal of a Confederate Community 1861-1865. Dust jacket with mylar, all very good condition. 488 pages with index, bibliography and notes. Black and white photos and four maps. Map of Culpeper City, VA on pastedowns. Culpeper City was occupied by the Northern Army, re-captured by the Confederacy, and finally ceded to the North. Told through diaries, papers, and correspondence of residents, infantrymen, and R.E.Lee, Walt Whitman, U.S. Grant, Clara Barton, and Stonewall Jackson.. First Printing. Hard Cover. (more information)
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The Confederate Carpetbaggers
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press Dust jacket has mylar over it, all very good condition. CR 1988. 360 pages with index, black and white photos. Some former confederates who fled the southern land and became expatriates, settled in Canada, Europe, Mexico, South America, and Asia. Others migrated to the Western United States seeking fresh starts in the new territories. But a third group invaded the land of their Yankee foe. They believed that northern economics and educational opportunities offered the quickest means of rebuilding shattered fortunes and lives. These people, men and women, moved north between 1865 and 1880, and the author examines their lives.. First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)
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Bold Dragon
New York: Harper & Row The life of J. E. B. Stuart. Dust jacket and book very good unread condition, CR 1986, 354 pages with index, bibliography and notes. Black and white photos and maps. The leader of the Army of Northern Virginia earned the admiration of his enemies and friends throughout his remarkable exploits for three years and then he received his fatal wound at Yellow Tavern in 1864.. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)
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The Confederate Nation. 1861-1865
New York: Harper & Row CR 1979, 384 pages with index and bibliography. Black and white illustrations and three maps. Dust jacket with mylar, all very good condition. This history is told through diaries and letters of the Civil War period. The development of the Southern nationalism is traced from the foundation in the Old South through its confirmation in the establishment of the Confederacy and the first years of the War for Southern Independence.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)
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Gettysburg National Military Park
Pennsylvania National Park Service National Park Service Historic Handbook, Series #9, Washington D.C. 1954, 52 pages with map to battlefield of Gettysburg. Black and white illustrations, all good+.. Paper Covers. (more information)
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Bloody Roads South
Boston: Little Brown, The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864. Dust jacket and book very good condition. CR 1989, 354 pages with index, bibliography, and notes. Black and white photos. A chronicle of the great 1864 Overland Camp in Virginia. The South's best general and its most successful army against the North's best general and its least successful army were pitted against each other. A suspenseful episodic you-are-there narrative, and a rich selection of letters and diaries, some of which were never published.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)
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The Civil War. An Illustrated History
New York: Al. Knopf, 1991 Cloth. Slight Tears, Flaps Crumpled. This is 8th Printing in 1991. title date 1991, 8th printing, 426 pages. Dust jacket has slight tears, flaps are crumpled o/w overall good+. Black and white, sepia and color photographs. The book follows the PBS television series. Civil War, history, americana.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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Reporters for the Union
Boston: Published by Little Brown, CR 1953, stated 1st edition, 316 pages with index. Ink inscription front endpapers, blue covers, slight wear to corners. Overall good. Civil War, Union Armies, journalism.. Hard Cover. (more information)
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Witness to Appomattox
New York: Harper & Row Dust jacket and book very good condition. CR 1989, stated 1st edition. 255 pages with index and blackand white illustrations and maps. Using eyewitness descriptions by participants and observers, author starts in early 1865 with the crumbling defenses of the Confederate troops; follows General Lee's attempt to move his troops to the Blue Ridge Mountains to join with a Confederate Army in North Carolina. This is a tribute to Confederate courage and a record of the final triumph of the Union cause.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)
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Sword Over Richmond
New York: Harper & Row for Outdoor Life, An eyewitness history of McCLellan's Peninsula Campaign. Dust jacket and book are very good condition. CR 1986, stated first edition with 371 pages with index. Black and white sketches, illustrations and maps. Told largely in words of participants and observers, civilian and military. These are the events that followed McClellan's appointment as Commander of the Army of the Potomac after the Union defeat at Bull Run in 1861.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)
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