A Grand Army of Black Men By Edwin S. Redkey

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Title	:	A Grand Army of Black Men
Author	:	Edwin S. Redkey
ISBN	:	0521434009
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	328

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The Civil War stands vivid in the collective memory of the American public There has always been a profound interest in the subject, and specifically of Blacks participation in and reactions to the war and the war s outcome Almost 200,000 African American soldiers fought for the Union in the Civil War Although most were illiterate ex slaves, several thousand were well The Civil War stands vivid in the collective memory of the American public There has always been a profound interest in the subject, and sp...

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Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky By John David Smith

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Title	:	Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky
Author	:	John David Smith
ISBN	:	0813121442
Format	:	Hardcover
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Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen year old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War Because of illness, she did not often venture outside her home but was able to gather a remarkable amount of information from friends, Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near do...

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Songs of the Civil War By Irwin Silber

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Title	:	Songs of the Civil War
Author	:	Irwin Silber
ISBN	:	0486284387
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	400

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Admirable destined to become the standard of its period The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the turmoil and tragedy of America s Civil War came an outpouring of song that was clearly no longer European in inspiration, but distinctively American, born of a deeply shared experience It has been estimated that over 10,000 songs were written about the Civil War This Admirable destined to become the standard of its period The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the turmoil and tragedy of America s Civ...

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Torn by War By Mary Adelia Byers

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Title	:	Torn by War
Author	:	Mary Adelia Byers
ISBN	:	0806143959
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	254

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The Civil War divided the nation, communities, and families The town of Batesville, Arkansas, found itself occupied three times by the Union army This compelling book gives a unique perspective on the war s western edge through the diary of Mary Adelia Byers 1847 1918 , who began recording her thoughts and observations during the Union occupation of Batesville in 1862.O The Civil War divided the nation, communities, and families The town of Batesville, Arkansas, found itself occupied three times by the Un...

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A War of the People By Jeffrey D. Marshall

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Title	:	A War of the People
Author	:	Jeffrey D. Marshall
ISBN	:	0874519233
Format	:	Paperback
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An illustrated anthology of the most revealing Civil War letters by Vermont soldiers and homefront civilians....

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A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE By Terry Soileau

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Title	:	A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE
Author	:	Terry Soileau
ISBN	:
Format	:	Kindle Edition
Number of Pages	:	223

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A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE tells the story of 12 year old Jonathan Berkeley, a Confederate drummer boy serving with the famous Orphan Brigade, and his uncle and Godfather, Alexander Wythe, an abolitionist lawyer and captain serving in the Federal army They wrestle with God and their own inner demons as they confront devastating personal tragedies and search desperately for f A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE tells the story of 12 year old Jonathan Berkeley, a Confederate drummer boy serving with the famous O...

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The Bloody Shirt By Stephen Budiansky

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Title	:	The Bloody Shirt
Author	:	Stephen Budiansky
ISBN	:	0670018406
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	336

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An intimate and gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, than three thousand African Americans and their white allies were killed by terrorist vi An intimate and gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to estab...

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A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie By James K. Newton

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Title	:	A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie
Author	:	James K. Newton
ISBN	:	0299024849
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	206

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Unlike many of his fellows, James Newton was knowledgeable, intuitive, and literate like many of his fellows he was cast into the role of soldier at only eighteen years of age He was polished enough to write drumhead and firelight letters of fine literary style It did not take long for this farm boy turned private to discover the grand design of the conflict in which Unlike many of his fellows, James Newton was knowledgeable, intuitive, and literate like many of his fellows he was cast into the role of so...

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Window of Time By Karen Weinberg

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Title	:	Window of Time
Author	:	Karen Weinberg
ISBN	:	0942597184
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	176

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Ben really did not run away from home He was still in the neighborhood, only it was 125 years earlier in time and the Battle of Gettysburg was about to begin Ben learned that what he was seeing was not a television play, but his town, only earlier at its most historic moment....

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Army Life in Virginia By Eric Ward

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Title	:	Army Life in Virginia
Author	:	Eric Ward
ISBN	:	0811701395
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	246

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George G Benedict was one of thousands of young men who enlisted for the Union cause in the late summer of 1862 when the outcome of the Civil War was yet to be decided But in addition to his duties as a soldier, Benedict also worked as a correspondent for his hometown newspaper, the Burlington Vermont Free Press Benedict s thirty one letters gave the folks back home a George G Benedict was one of thousands of young men who enlisted for the Union cause in the late summer of 1862 when the outcome of the Civ...

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All for the Union By Robert Hunt Rhodes

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Title	:	All for the Union
Author	:	Robert Hunt Rhodes
ISBN	:	0679738282
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	270

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All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23 year old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS TV series The Civil War will recognize his accounts of t All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and lef...

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Ghost Stories of the Civil War By Dan Asfar

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Title	:	Ghost Stories of the Civil War
Author	:	Dan Asfar
ISBN	:	1894877160
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	216

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The four years of the U.S Civil War claimed the lives of 600,000 Americans and left much of the country, particularly the South, in ruins The history that has grown up around this great and tragic war includes paranormal folklore In Ghost Stories of the Civil War, author Dan Asfar has collected many of the stories about still restless spirits for whom the war is not yet The four years of the U.S Civil War claimed the lives of 600,000 Americans and left much of the country, particularly the South, in ruins...

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Deepwater By Pamela Jekel

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Title	:	Deepwater
Author	:	Pamela Jekel
ISBN	:	0821748289
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	576

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New York Times bestselling author Jekel delivers the second spectacular novel in her trio of southern sagas the stunning story of a family that carves a sensuous and compelling life out of the untamed wilderness of the Carolinas, from the first settlement on Roanoke Island through the Civil War....

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The Private Mary Chestnut By Mary Boykin Chesnut

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Title	:	The Private Mary Chestnut
Author	:	Mary Boykin Chesnut
ISBN	:	0195035135
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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Pulitzer Prize winning historian C Vann Woodward and Chestnut s biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chestnut Intimate and spontaneous, these surviving wartime diaries are preserved in their original form....

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Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861--1866 By Emma Holmes

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Title	:	Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861--1866
Author	:	Emma Holmes
ISBN	:	0807119407
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	536

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Two months before the Civil War broke out, Emma Holmes made the first entry in a diary that would eventually hold vivid firsthand accounts of several major historical events Born into an elite South Carolina family, Holmes was in her twenties during the war years She lived in Charleston during the April, 1861, bombardment of Fort Sumter and was visiting there during the Two months before the Civil War broke out, Emma Holmes made the first entry in a diary that would eventually hold vivid firsthand account...

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The Ordeal of the Reunion By Mark Wahlgren Summers

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Title	:	The Ordeal of the Reunion
Author	:	Mark Wahlgren Summers
ISBN	:	1469617579
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	528

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For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction s need to form an enduring Union without sacri For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a m...

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Longstreet's Aide By Thomas Jewett Goree

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Title	:	Longstreet's Aide
Author	:	Thomas Jewett Goree
ISBN	:	0813915740
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	250

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One of the Confederacy s most loyal adherents and articulate advocates was Lieutenant Grant James Longstreet s aide de camp, Thomas Jewett Goree Present at Longstreet s headquarters and party to the counsels of Robert E Lee and his lieutenants, Goree wrote incisively on matters of strategy and politics and drew revealing portraits of Longstreet, Jefferson Davis, P.G.T B One of the Confederacy s most loyal adherents and articulate advocates was Lieutenant Grant James Longstreet s aide de camp, Thomas Jewet...

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