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John Brown's Body

By: Benet, Stephen Vincent

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Elephant Paperbacks: 1990

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2296439

ISBN: 092958726X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

General wear to wrappers, page ridges lightly toned. 1990 Trade Paperback. xv, 336 pp. One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown's Body is Stephen Vincent Benét's masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war, lighting up the lives of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, North and South, amidst the conflict. Generations of readers have found the book a compelling and moving experience.
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John Brown's Body: A Poem

By: Benet, Stephen Vincent; Freeman, Douglass Southall

Price: $8.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1948

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2261480

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass. Slipcase repaired, rear hinge weakening, owner bookplate on front endpaper, spine and slipcase edge toned. 1948 Hard Cover. xvi, [2], 454 pp. 8vo. Introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman, fourteen color illustrations by John Steuart Curry. One of the most widely read poems of our time -- a masterful retelling of the American Civil War. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898, Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, United States -- March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his narrat...
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Memoirs of the Pages to the Tsars

By: Berry, Thomas E.; Marbach, Peter; Lyons, Marvin

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Gilbert's Royal Books: 2005

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2290614

ISBN: 0973783915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First paperback printing. Edges lightly rubbed. 2005 Trade Paperback. 283, [3] pp. The history of the Corps des Pages in Russia dates back to the days of Peter the Great. Each of his successors made changes or improvements up until the end of the monarchy in 1917. In 1759, during the reign of Empress Elizabeth, the Corps des Pages became a formal educational institution. In 1802, the Corps des Pages was given a charer by Emperor Alexander I. The Corps des Pages was a military-educational institution which prepared young men to serve the Tsar and his family at Court. Many would go on to serve i...
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Image for Hard Tack and Coffee or, the Unwritten Story of Army Life, Including Chapters on Enlisting, Life in Tents and Log Huts, Jonahs and Beats, Offences and Punishments, Raw Recruits, Foraging, Corps and Corps Badges, the Wagon Trains, the Army Mule, the Engineer Corps, the Signal Corps, Etc. (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

Hard Tack and Coffee or, the Unwritten Story of Army Life, Including Chapters on Enlisting, Life in Tents and Log Huts, Jonahs and Beats, Offences and Punishments, Raw Recruits, Foraging, Corps and Corps Badges, the Wagon Trains, the Army Mule, the Engineer Corps, the Signal Corps, Etc. (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

By: Billings, John D.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Time Life Books: 1982

Seller ID: 2301047

ISBN: 0809442086

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Ex Libris bookplate and publisher's slip laid in. 1982 Full-Leather. vi, 408 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with six elegant color plates; and over two hundred original sketches by Charles W. Reed. First published more than 100 years ago, Hardtack And Coffee is John Billings’ absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War. Billings attended a reunion of Civil War veterans in 1881 that brought together a group of survivors whose memories and stories of the war compelled h...
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War

By: Blanton, DeAnne; Cook, Lauren M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage Civil War Library: 2003

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2266415

ISBN: 1400033152

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Faint smudge on front wrapper, spine lightly creased and lightly rubbed. 2003 Trade Paperback. xiii, 277 pp. “Albert Cashier” served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in front of her at the Battle of Murfreesboro. And more than one soldier astonished “his” comrades-in-arms by giving birth in camp. This lively and authoritative book opens a hitherto neglected chapter of Civil War history, tell...
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Ulysses S. Grant (Great American Generals)

By: Boothe, F. Norton

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Longmeadow Press: 1992

Seller ID: 2206766

ISBN: 0681415967

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket lightly rubbed. 1992 Large Hardcover. A comprehensive biography of the American General with numerous photographs and illustrations.
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Why the Confederacy Lost (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)

By: Boritt, Gabor S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2275206

ISBN: 019507405X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 1992 Hard Cover. After the Civil War, someone asked General Pickett why the Battle of Gettysburg had been lost: Was it Lee's error in taking the offensive, the tardiness of Ewell and Early, or Longstreet's hesitation in attacking? Pickett scratched his head and replied, I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it. This simple fact, writes James McPherson, has escaped a generation of historians who have looked to faulty morale, population, economics, and dissent as the causes of Confederate failure. These were all factors, he writes, but the C...
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American Civil War Manuscript Document: Monthly Return of Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage, Completed by First Lieutenant Henry Bose on Behalf of the 41st Regiment of New York Volunteers on October 4, 1864 (No. 51)

By: Bose, Henry

Price: $75.00

Publisher: S.N.: 1864

Seller ID: 2195664

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

Lightly soiled, two horizontal creases (this was likely sent in an envelope, not included here), with splits beginning at fore-edge of these and along vertical fold. 1864 Unbound. 4 pp. Two folded sheets, unbound. The 41st NY Volunteers were part of the 11th Corps, and nicknamed Dekalbs Zouaves. They took part in the Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, were in the reserves during the first Battle of Bull Run, and fought in Second Bull Run. This document was completed shortly after the regiment joined the Army of the Shenandoah (September 27, 1864), but describes equipment received dur...
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A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore

By: Botkin, B.A.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Promontory Press: 1993

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2260534

ISBN: 0883940493

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket lightly rubbed. 1993 Hard Cover. This book contains a rich sampling of Civil War storytelling of all types--personal narratives, anecdotes, hero tales, legends, historical traditions, yarns, tall tales, jests, strange tales, fables. Culled from a wide variety of contemporary sources--letters, diaries, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets--and from the great body of Civil War reminiscences and regimental histories, over 330 stories have been arranged both chronologically and by subject to form a story of the history of the war.... The voices are those of Abe Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, of s...
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The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure.

By: Botts, John Minor

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1866

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2285908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (Sabin 6828). Pencil name on front flyleaf, one gathering sprung but holding firmly, minor blemishes to corners. 1866 Hard Cover. xxviii, [29]-402, 2, 2, [6] pp. 12mo. Green cloth, gilt titles and rules, brown endpapers. A contemporary account of the American Civil War, written by a Virginian politician who supported the Unionist cause, despite his ownership of slaves who worked on his plantation. He was imprisoned for his beliefs in 1862.
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Battlefields of the Civil War: A State-by-State Guide

By: Bowen, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Chartwell Books: 1986

Seller ID: 2187386

ISBN: 0890099553

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 1986 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Covers all the major fields of battle, complete with description of tactics and outcome.
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Who Was Who in the Civil War

By: Bowman, John S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Crescent: 1994

Seller ID: 2172008

ISBN: 0517103303

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 1994 Large Hardcover. A large-format military-history reference furnishes more than five hundred illustrated profiles of Civil War personalities, covering not only political and military leaders, but also war correspondents, inventors, diplomats, nurses, and others.
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The Life of General William T. [Tecumseh] Sherman

By: Boyd, James P.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Publishers' Union: 1891

Seller ID: 2290750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Gilt on spine a bit faded. 1891 Hard Cover. 608 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, black & gilt decorations, black titles, decorated endpapers. Frontispiece of Sherman, illustrations, including maps of Vicksburg & Port Hudson and Chattanooga & Vicinity, throughout text. William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of...
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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

By: Bradford, Ned

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Fairfax Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2208643

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

One-volume abridgment of four-volume original. Pages lightly toned. A couple creases to jacket front, jacket edges lightly rubbed with a few minor tears, front jacket flap price-clipped, jacket lightly toned. 1979 Hard Cover. xiii, 626 pp. One-volume abridgment of four-volume original. This compendium of battle studies and reports was written by commanders of all levels: Grant, Sherman, Lee and Longstreet down to lieutenants commanding companies for points of clarification on minor skirmishes or segments of the battlefield. The accounts were set down when the war was still fresh in their memor...
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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

By: Bradford, Ned

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hawthorn: 1976

Seller ID: 2196659

ISBN: 0801505461

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Edge wear to jacket. 1976 Hard Cover. This compendium of battle studies and reports was written by commanders of all levels: Grant, Sherman, Lee and Longstreet down to lieutenants commanding companies for points of clarification on minor skirmishes or segments of the battlefield. The accounts were set down when the war was still fresh in their memories, yet when enough time had passed for reflection.
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It Happened in the Civil War (It Happened In Series)

By: Bradley, Michael

Price: $5.00

Publisher: TwoDot: 2002

Edition: 4th Printing

Seller ID: 2287706

ISBN: 0762711655

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Fourth printing. Laminate just starting to peel. 2002 Trade Paperback. viii, 136 pp. This compelling collection of true anecdotes from America's Civil War offers a lively look at thirty unusual, little-known, and bizarre incidents that impacted the course of the war.
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The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Anchor Books: 2013

Edition: 5th Printing

Seller ID: 2302111

ISBN: 0307475158

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Fifth printing. Spine lightly creased. 2013 Trade Paperback. 718 pp. Ulysses Grant emerges in this masterful biography as a genius in battle and a driven president to a divided country, who remained fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field who made the sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freed men in the South. He allowed the American Indians to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. In this sweeping and majestic narrative, bes...
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Shots of War: 150 Years of Dramatic Photography from the Battlefield

By: Brewer, Paul

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Carlton: 2010

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2281914

ISBN: 1847323650

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Light edge wear. 2010 Soft Cover. For centuries, paintings of warfare were celebrated, glorified, and romanticized-until the invention of photography in the 1850s revealed war's true face. Here, captured in some of the most dramatic photos ever taken, is the story of modern warfare, the photographers who risked their lives to tell it, and the ever-improving photographic technology that made their achievements possible. From the American Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War, right up to the War on Terror, this is an exciting and informative journey for military history buf...
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Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Nonresistance from the Middle Ages to the Great War

By: Brock, Peter

Price: $9.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2200927

ISBN: 0802058795

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 1991 Hard Cover. x, 385 pp. As long as governments engage in warfare, there will be citizens who organize to resist. The roots of nonviolent activism in Western society are deep, going back centuries in Europe and crossing over to North America more than three hundred years ago. Peter Brock traces the history of a long line of Christian sects that have rejected both the violence involved in war and the violence involved in the administration of the state, concluding the story with the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. Among the earliest of these groups to emerge were the mediev...
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Women at War: A Record of Their Patriotic Contributions, Heroism, Toils and Sacrifice During the Civil War

By: Brocket, L.P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Longmeadow Press: 1994

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2292385

ISBN: 0681455039

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Reissue. Jacket lightly rubbed. 1994 Hard Cover. Features Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Helen Louise Gilson, Eliza Porter, Lucy Starr, Cordelia Harvey and many more.
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Lincoln's Choice

By: Buckeridge, J.O.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Stackpole Company: 1956

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2282746

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, spine head and spine base lightly rubbed, ink stamp and pencil notes on front endpaper recto and verso, pencil notes on rear endpaper verso. 1956 Hard Cover. xviii, 254 pp. Herein, for the first time, is revealed the impact and scope of the basic repeating rifle in the Civil War. Well documented, and supported by exciting on-the-spot reports, the author presents convincing evidence that the Spencer seven-shooter was a major factor--possibly the major factor in winding up the war which cost far more American lives than World War II. Christopher Spencer, the inventor an...
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Image for Behind the Guns with American Heroes: An Official Volume of Thrilling Stories, Daring Deeds, Personal Adventures, Humorous Anecdotes, and Pathetic Incidents... of the... Spanish-American War and Our Battles with the Philippine Insurgents

Behind the Guns with American Heroes: An Official Volume of Thrilling Stories, Daring Deeds, Personal Adventures, Humorous Anecdotes, and Pathetic Incidents... of the... Spanish-American War and Our Battles with the Philippine Insurgents

By: Buel, J. W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: International Publishing Company: 1899

Seller ID: 2302843

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Board edges lightly rubbed, first couple pages loose but included, ink names on front free endpaper, bookplate. 1899 Large Hardcover. ix,503 pp. Page ridges marbled. Presented in special chapters by Admiral Dewey, General Miles, Lieutenant Hobson, General Shafter, Admiral Schley, General Merritt, Colonel Roosevelt, Captain Sigsbee, Admiral Sampson, General Otis, Captain Evans, General Wheeler, Commodore Philip, Lieutenant Wainwright, and many other noted authorities; to which are added many interesting chapters by soldiers and sailors who were in the thickest of the conflict. Containing also m...
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Butler's Book: A Review of His Legal, Political, and Military Career

By: Butler, Benj. F. [Benjamin]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: A. M. Thayer & Co.: 1892

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2294778

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fair

First edition. Tears to cloth along front joint, edges heavily rubbed, loss to top corner of front board, front hinge broken, front free endpaper, second blank, and frontispiece loose but included; pencil name on front paste-down endpaper, ink name on second blank. 1892 Large Hardcover. 1154 pp. Illustrated with 125 engravings, maps, photograveres, etc. Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was a major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer and businessman from Massachusetts. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Butler is best known as a ...
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Kincaid's Battery

By: Cable, George W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1908

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2287008

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. (BAL 2376). This copy belonged to Batter A, 101 F.A. (Field Artillery). No jacket. Paint stain on top edge of front board and on top page ridge, spine head and spine base rubbed, pencil name and ink stamp on front endpaper. 1908 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 396 pp. Illustrated by Alonzo Kimball. A romance set near New Orleans during the Civil War. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 – January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. H...
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Civil War Battlefields: Then and Now

By: Campi, James Jr.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thunder Bay: 2002

Seller ID: 2170922

ISBN: 1571458654

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. Near Fine. 2002 Large Hardcover. As a defining event in the history of the United States, the Civil War has no equal. Civil War Battlefields Then and Now looks at the battlefields where it all took place, covering the broad sweep of events from the Southern capture of Fort Sumter to the Battles of Gettysburg and Appomattox. Historical illustrations and archival photographs of these sacred locations are compared with specially commissioned photographs of the battlefields as they are today, accompanied by descriptive and interesting text.
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The Antietam Campaign: August-September 1862

By: Cannan, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Combined Books: 1994

Seller ID: 2194743

ISBN: 0938289365

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket rubbed. Good. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. John Cannan places the Civil War's single bloodiest day of battle in the broader context of grand strategy and command personality. Cannan's classic work has undergone extensive revision under the editorial direction of renowned Civil War historian David G. Martin to reflect new information and new interpretations of recent years.
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The Wilderness Campaign, May 1864 (Great Campaigns Series)

By: Cannan, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: 1993

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2195371

ISBN: 0306812150

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

2002 2nd printing. Lightly rubbed. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 238 pp. For two days in early May,1864, a dark woodland south of the Rapidan River known as the Wilderness rang with the clamor of battle. The musketry and cheers of the troops of the Confederacy and the Union were deafening as charge gave way to countercharge. Fires erupted which consumed the dead and wounded, filling the air with the stench of burning flesh. The battle of the Wilderness was what many witnesses would describe as hell on earth. The Wilderness Campaign traces the early maneuv...
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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Vol. I: South Mountain

By: Carman, Ezra A.; Clemens, Thomas G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Savas Beatie: 2010

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2302564

ISBN: 1932714812

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2010 Hard Cover. xx, 521 pp. When Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in early September 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan moved his reorganized and revitalized Army of the Potomac to meet him. The campaign included some of the bloodiest, most dramatic, and influential combat of the entire Civil War. Combined with Southern failures in the Western Theater, the fighting dashed the Confederacy’s best hope for independence, convinced President Abraham Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation, and left America with what is still...
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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

By: Carroll, Andrew; Brinkley, Douglas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Scribner: 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2187041

ISBN: 0743202945

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition. An exceptional copy. 2001 Hard Cover. 491 pp. In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project with the goal of remembering Americans who have served this nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, more than 50,000 war letters discovered in basements, attics, scrapbooks, and old trunks have poured in from around the country. The best of these letters are assembled in this extraordinary collection, offering unprecedented insight into the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Korea, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf, and even the fighting in Somalia and the B...
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The Civil War Soldier: A Photographic Journey

By: Carson, Ray M.; Robertson, James I.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Gramercy: 2007

Seller ID: 2283599

ISBN: 0517228971

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket lightly rubbed. 2007 Large Hardcover. This fascinating exploration of the life of an ordinary Civil War Soldier captures nearly every aspect of daily life on and off the battlefield. Vibrant photographs of Civil War reenactors have been hand-colored with a technique similar to one used in the 1860s to create an authentic feel. The accessible and informative text of each chapter is illuminated by first-person accounts, letters, and diary entries from actual Civil War soldiers.
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Keyword:CIVIL WAR MILITARY

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