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Moss Bluff rebel
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Philip Robert Caudill |
Reveals a detailed portrait of a fascinating Texan, William Duncan-- businessman, county sheriff, cattleman, and Confederate officer-- capturing his wartime emotions and his postwar struggles to rein… |
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Confederate Cabinet Departments and Secretaries
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Dennis L. Peterson |
Thousands of books have been written covering every aspect of the Civil War. Yet scant attention has been given to the civilian government of the Confederacy. The most recent book on the subject was … |
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Jefferson Davis, Confederate president
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Herman Hattaway |
"He was one of the most embattled heads of state in American history. Charged with building a new nation while waging a war for its very independence, he accepted his responsibilities reluctantly but… |
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R. E. Lee
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Douglas Southall Freeman,Richard Harwell |
Douglas Freeman's biography, in its 4 volumes and 2421 pages, is not only comprehensive, but remains to this day the best life of Lee ever published, even if sometimes producing the impression the ma… |
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Surviving the Confederacy
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John C. Waugh |
"War is hell - and not only on the battlefield, as John Waugh demonstrates in this portrait of one of the South's most-well known and admired couples, Roger and Sara Pryor, their friends, and their s… |
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Belle Boyd in camp and prison
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Belle Boyd |
This book is Bell Boyd's own account of her time as a Confederate Spy and her time in prison. |
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Jefferson Davis, American
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William J. Cooper |
A portrait of the complex man at the center of the Civil War. |
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A Confederate girl
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Carrie Berry |
Excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, describing her family's life in the Confederate south in 1864. Supplemented by sidebars, activities, and a timeline of the era. |
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Engineer in gray
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James H. Tomb |
"James Hamilton Tomb devoted almost 12 years of his life to wartime naval service. A steam engineer by profession and a torpedo expert by circumstance, Tomb was in the forefront of naval weapons tech… |
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Gray cavalier
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Mary Daughtry |
"William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, called "Rooney" by his family, was the second son of General Robert E. Lee. After attending Harvard, Rooney took up farming on his family's plantation. When the Civil War… |
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Campbell Brown's Civil War
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Campbell Brown |
"The Civil War writings of G. Campbell Brown - cousin, stepson, and staff officer of famed Confederate General Richard S. Ewell - have been long recognized by scholars as a trove of insight into the … |
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