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Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated fo… OL1164736W
Tinclads in the Civil War Tinclads in the Civil War Myron J. Smith "Once the Union Army gained control of the upper rivers of the Mississippi Valley during the first half of 1862, slow and heavy ironclads proved ineffective in patrolling the waters. Hastily outfitte… OL15119788W
The deserter The deserter Peter Burchard A youth volunteers for spy activity in the Civil War and is instructed to get information about Island Number Ten, a Confederate strongpoint in the Mississippi. OL15854165W
The Tenth Minnesota Volunteers, 1862-1865 The Tenth Minnesota Volunteers, 1862-1865 Michael A. Eggleston "This chronicle merges the individual experiences of Union soldiers, Native Americans, and Confederates to offer a compelling, panoramic portrait of the 10th Minnesota during the Sioux Uprising and t… OL16654703W
The collapse of the Confederacy The collapse of the Confederacy Mark Grimsley,Brooks D. Simpson "The final months of the Confederacy offer fascinating opportunities - as a case study in war termination, as a period that shaped the initial circumstances of Reconstruction, and as a lens through w… OL16939740W
Embattled Rebel Embattled Rebel James M. McPherson From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, this book is a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy. History has not been kind to Jeff… OL17078686W
General George H. Thomas General George H. Thomas Robert P. Broadwater "Though successful and heralded by historians, Thomas never achieved the fame of Grant, Lee, Jackson or Sherman. His Southern birth, fellows' ambition, and less-publicized battles kept him from recog… OL1824959W
On campaign with the Army of the Potomac On campaign with the Army of the Potomac Theodore Ayrault Dodge "Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842-1909) was one of the nineteenth century's great military historians and author of biographies of Hannibal, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, and Nap… OL1827994W
The Military Memoirs of General John Pope The Military Memoirs of General John Pope Pope, John An important lost look at the Civil War by one of the most complex commanders of the Union army. General John Pope wrote the dispatches that make up this volume 21 years after the close of hostilitie… OL1856835W
R. E. Lee R. E. Lee 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… OL1863304W
Landscape Turned Red Landscape Turned Red Stephen W. Sears Of all the days on all the fields where American soldiers have fought, the most terrible was September 17, 1862. The Civil War battle waged on that date at Antietam Creek, Maryland, took a human toll… OL1935636W
Spring 1865 Spring 1865 Perry D. Jamieson Perry D. Jamieson juxtaposes for the first time the major campaign against Lee that ended at Appomattox and Gen. William T. Sherman's march north through the Carolinas, which culminated in Gen. Josep… OL19999106W
Men of Fire Men of Fire Jack Hurst Deep in the winter of 1862, on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, two extraordinary military leaders faced each other in an epic clash that would transform them both and change the course of … OL3953694W
"Happiness is not my companion" "Happiness is not my companion" Jordan, David M. "Gouverneur K. Warren, a brilliant student at West Point and a topographical engineer, earned early acclaim for his explorations of the Nebraska Territory and the Black Hills in the 1850s. With the s… OL4475074W
Ashes of Glory Ashes of Glory Ernest B. Furgurson In Ashes of Glory, Ernest B. Furgurson conjures up wartime Richmond in vivid detail. We meet not only with such luminaries as Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson but with a striking… OL47034W
The March to the Sea and Beyond The March to the Sea and Beyond Joseph T. Glatthaar In his famous "March to the Sea" in 1864 and 1865 General William Sherman effectively ended the Civil War and at the same time introduced the devastating concept of "total war." Joseph T. Glatthaar p… OL550359W
McClellan's war McClellan's war Ethan Sepp Rafuse This biography of the controversial Union general George B. McClellan examines the influences and political antecedents that shaped his behavior on the battlefield, behavior that so frustrated Lincol… OL5716377W
The Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address The Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Carin T. Ford A detailed account of the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest war fought on American soil, plus an examination of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg address. OL5820065W
A citizen-soldier's Civil War A citizen-soldier's Civil War Alvin C. Voris "When "citizen-soldier" Alvin Coe Voris wrote his first letter to his beloved wife, Lydia, in 1861, he embarked on a correspondence that would span the duration of the Civil War. A former Ohio legisl… OL5961548W
Bound to be a soldier Bound to be a soldier James Todd Miller "An untutored Pennsylvania farmer, James T. Miller was thirty-one years old when he left his wife and three children to serve in the Union Army at the outbreak of the Civil War. Although his writing … OL7795624W
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