In the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant as general-in-chief of the Union armies devised a plan of concerted action to bring down the Confederacy. As part of that strategy, Grant aimed to destroy General Robert E. Lee’s supply source for his Army of Northern Virginia in western Virginia and to use military activity there as an extended turning movement to threaten Lee from the west. In this outstanding study, Richard R. Duncan offers a riveting overview of these military [...]
Category Archives: Civil War
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Holly Springs: Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas and the Raid that Saved Vicksburg (MS) (The History Press) (Civil War Sesquicentennial)
Midway between Memphis and New Orleans, overlooking the Mississippi River, Vicksburg was essential to both the Union and the Confederacy. In 1862, fiery Confederate General Earl Van Dorn turned back Union attempts to take the city by Admiral David Farragut and General Ulysses S. Grant. Van Dorn’s weapons were boldness and surprise–first with the CSS Arkansas and then with his daring raid on Holly Springs, Mississippi. By the time Grant finally took Vicksburg, in 1863, Van Dorn was dead,Sale Price: [...]
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The Battle of White Sulphur Springs: Averell Fails to Secure West Virginia (The History Press) (Civil War Sesquicentennial)
Though West Virginia was founded for the purpose of remaining loyal to the Union, severing ties with Virginia, home of the capital of the Confederacy, would prove difficult. West Virginia’s fate would be tested on its battlegrounds. In August 1863, Union general William Woods Averell led a six-hundred-mile raid culminating in the Battle of White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County. Colonel George S. Patton, grandfather of the legendary World War II general, met Averell with a dedicatedSale Price: Read More
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The Journal of the Civil War Era, 1:1: Spring 2011 Issue
The journal takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenthSale Price: Read More
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The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville (Modern War Studies)
Originally published as Embrace an Angry Wind Following the fall of Atlanta, rebel commander John Bell Hood rallied his demoralized troops and marched them off the Tennessee, desperately hoping to draw Sherman after him and forestall the Confederacy’s defeat. But Sherman refused to be lured and began his infamous “March to the Sea,” while Hood charged headlong into catastrophe. In this compelling dramatic account of a final and fatal invasion by the Confederate Army of Tennessee, WileSale Price: Read More
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Lee’s Endangered Left: The Civil War In Western Virginia, Spring Of 1864
In the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant as general-in-chief of the Union armies devised a plan of concerted action to bring down the Confederacy. As part of that strategy, Grant aimed to destroy General Robert E. Lee’s supply source for his Army of Northern Virginia in western Virginia and to use military activity there as an extended turning movement to threaten Lee from the west. In this outstanding study, Richard R. Duncan offers a riveting overview of these military [...]
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PREACHER’S TALE: CIVIL WAR JOURNAL OF REV. FRANCIS SPRINGS, CHAPLAIN, US ARMY (The Civil War in the West)
In the fall of 1861, fifty-one-year-old Rev. Francis Springer enlisted in the Union army. The following spring, Reverend Springer, a friend and one time neighbor to Abraham Lincoln, rode away with the 10th Illinois Calvary. A witness to the Battle of Prairie Grove, Springer was later named post chaplain at Fort Smith, where, in addition to preaching and ministering to the troops, he was placed in charge of refugees — widows, orphans, and contrabands — the displaced victims ofSale Price: [...]
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The Road to Civil War
Ripped from the pages of New Avengers, the Eisner Award-winning team of Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev present an explosive hidden story of Marvel’s secret past, the secret history of Marvel’s most secret team – how they came together and how they are ripped apart. Plus: Spidey’s got a new lease on life, new powers and a new costume, courtesy of his new best friend Tony Stark. So what could possibly go wrong? With clouds quickly building on the horizon, [...]
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Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War
Few historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the Civil War with the headlong elan of Edwin Bearss, who has won a huge, devoted following with his extraordinary battlefield tours and eloquent soliloquies about the heroes, scoundrels, and little-known moments of a conflict that still fascinates America. Antietam, Shiloh, Gettysburg: these hallowed battles and more than a dozen more come alive as never before, rich with human interest and colorful detail culled from aSale Price: Read More
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Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 – April 1861-November 1863
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 – April 1861-November 1863 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Jacob Dolson Cox is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Jacob Dolson Cox then we highly recommend this publication for your bookSale Price: Read More
