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Centennial history of the American Civil War volume 3
American Civil War trilogy volume 3
Centennial history of the Civil War volume 3
American Civil War trilogy volume 3
Centennial history of the Civil War volume 3
Description
Never Call Retreat (Vol 3): Appomattox; the Vicksburg Campaign; the Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea; the assassination of Lincoln.
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Pub. Date
2013
Description
There is renewed interest among Civil War historians and history buffs alike about events west of the Appalachian Mountains and their impact on the outcome of the conflict. In examining the Chickamauga campaign, this book provides a fresh analysis of the foremost Confederate victory in the Western theater. The study opens with a discussion of two commanders, William S. Rosecrans and Braxton Bragg, and the forces swirling around them when they clashed...
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Heroines behind the lines novels. Civil War volume 2
Heroines Behind the Lines Civil War volume Book 2
Heroines Behind the Lines Civil War volume Book 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Widow Liberty Holloway's farm is turned into a Confederate field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg, bringing her face to face with unspeakable suffering--and a Confederate scout who awakens her long dormant heart.
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[2013]
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April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford's Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience surges into the streets chanting, "Burn the place down!"
This is the untold story of Lincoln's assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater...
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Civil War battle series volume 8
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News from the war again hits hard at the Brannon farm, now behind enemy lines. Of the two brothers left there, one decides to find vengeance on the Yankees in the henandoah Valley.
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Civil War battle series volume 5
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Vicksburg is the fifth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. Cory Brannon must abandon the supply train to undertake a vital mission for the Confederate commander in charge of Vicksburg's defenses.
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Pub. Date
[2021].
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"Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War's most pivotal battle. Commentators often dismiss Meade when discussing the great leaders of the Civil War. But in this long-anticipated book, Kent Masterson Brown draws on an expansive archive to reappraise Meade's leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg."--...
28) Wedded to war
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"This is the first book in a series based on the real life stories of women who lived and worked during the Civil War. The author has done extensive research around the lives of military women during the Civil War for a nonfiction title and became inspired to share their stories in a fictionalized depiction based on her historical research. Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from New York and one of only 100 women chosen for nursing...
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Heroines behind the lines novels. Civil War volume 3
Heroines behind the lines Civil War volume Book 3
Heroines behind the lines Civil War volume Book 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"When Union soldier Caitlin McKae wakes up in Atlanta wounded in battle, the Georgian doctor believes her only secret is that she had been fighting for the Confederacy disguised as a man. In order to avoid arrest or worse, Caitlin hides her true identity and makes a new life for herself in Atlanta. Trained as a teacher, she accepts a job as a governess for the daughter of Noah Becker, a German immigrant lawyer who enlists with the Rebel army to defend...
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Pub. Date
2000
Description
Antietam is the third in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family, the Brannons. Mac, a Brannon son and a gifted horseman, joins Jeb Stuart's cavalry and soon finds himself on one of the great adventures of the war.
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Civil War battle series volume 10
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
With the conclusion of the ten-volume saga, the multiple strands of the story are woven toward their resolution. Members of the Brannon family are involved in battles across the country, from the Deep South to the Dakota Territory. In the spring of 1865 the war reaches its climax at a crossroads in Virginia known as Appomattox. Subsequently, the war in brought home to the Brannon farm when carpetbaggers move into the South and they must decide whether...
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Civil War battle series volume 9
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga, the battered Rebel army, including a bitter Cory Brannon, retreats slowly toward Atlanta. A large Union army is marching to Savannah, laying waste to everything it passes. Meanwhile, the Brannon family farm in Virginia is now behind enemy lines, and to everyone's surprise, Cordelia is courted by a Union officer, a Yankee she finds herself unable to hate. As despair grips the Confederacy, the...
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Civil War battle series volume 4
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Chancellorsville is the fourth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. After Will and Mac Brannon return to their units, the Confederate cause claims another Brannon son, this one a gifted rifleman.
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Civil War battle series volume 7
Description
The seven members of the Brannon family of Culpeper County Virginia, experience a wide range of the hardships of war.
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1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the issues leading up to the Civil War, its primary causes, principal figures, reasons for the secession of the South, first battle, and the effects of such acts as the Missouri Compromise and Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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[2018]
Description
The Civil War was over by the spring of 1865, and all the Confederate armies had surrendered, but for the victors, the peace was marred by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The long, painful process of rebuilding a united nation free of slavery began. The 13th Amendment, ratified in December 1865, ended slavery in the United States.
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[2018]
Description
The North and the South had evolved in very different ways both economically and politically. In particular, the South s agricultural economy revolved around the institution of slavery. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the victory was seen by the South as the North s attempt to impose its anti-slavery measures on it. This ultimately led to secession when Southern states started to cut their ties with the Union. Each title in this...
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Pub. Date
[1994]
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"Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 - one-third of them - died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials." "In this carefully researched and compelling revisionist account, William Marvel provides a comprehensive...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Born in the heart of Kentucky, Ty Mattson never knew his parents. His mother died in childbirth while his father fought in the Mexican War. For seventeen years, Ty never knew why his father didn't return. But when he receives news that his father is alive--in the forces of General John Morgan--the boy sets off to enlist with the Raiders. Owen Mattson turns out to be everything Ty imagined he would be. Then the bullets of a Confederate assassin divide...