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Blockade Runners of the Confederacy

By: Cochran, Hamilton

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1958

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304911

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped, very minor chips and minor tear to jacket edges. 1958 Hard Cover. 350 pp. Within four weeks of the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln had declared a blockade of over four thousand miles of Confederate coastline, from Cape Henry in Virginia to the Mexican border. In response, professional runners, lured by both profits and patriotism, built faster, sleeker, low-profile ships and piloted them through the ever-thickening Northern cordon. The tonnage they imported, including items ranging from straight pins to marine engines, sustained th...
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Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War between the States (Illustrated)

By: Coffin, Charles Carleton

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1883

Seller ID: 2261602

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, spine and boards lightly toned, pages faintly toned. 1883 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 485, [4] pp. A history for young readers about the white settlement of American through the Civil War.
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Vortex (Sten No. 7)

By: Cole, Allan; Bunch, Chris

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, Del Rey: 1992

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2260490

ISBN: 0345371518

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Pages faintly toned. 1992 Mass Market Paperback. The Eternal Emperor had returned at last from the dead, to pick up the pieces of his crumbling Empire. But even that great leader could not halt the Empire's decline alone. And so Sten, master spy, military strategist, and assassin, found himself appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Altaic Cluster, where a brewing civil war threatened the stability of the Empire itself.
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Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War: Authentic Accounts of the Strange and Unexplained

By: Coleman, Christopher K.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Thomas Nelson: 1999

Seller ID: 2208375

ISBN: 1558537856

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Tiny smudge to front endpaper. 1999 Trade Paperback. Explore the strange and shadowy side of the civil war . . . A fascinating collection of ghostly sightings, auspicious visions, audible manifestations, and uncanny premonitions.
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In and Out of Rebel Prisons (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

By: Cooper, Alonzo

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Time-Life Books: 1983

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2200436

ISBN: 0809442752

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Boards lightly soiled. 1983 Hard Cover. vii, [2], 335 pp. 8vo. 1983 reissue of the 1888 edition. The prison diary of a Union Soldier who was held by the Confederate army for ten months. It is noted for its objective view of prison life and the manners of the guards.
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A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S.N. and C.S.N.

By: Corbin, Diana Fontaine Maury

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Limited, St. Dunstan's House: 1888

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304804

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, tiny spot on top edge. 1888 Hard Cover. vi, 326 pp. 8vo. A biography of the man called Pathfinder of the Seas and Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology and later, Scientist of the Seas, whose work The Physical Geography of the Sea was an influential early work in oceanography. A Virginian, Maury, fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, during which time he developed the first electrically controlled naval mine.
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The Battle of Nashville: A Pictorial Record of the Centennial Re-Enactment, Warner Park, December 12, 1964

By: Corn, Jack; Ellis, Jimmy; Rudis, Joe; Kovach, Bill

Price: $20.00

Publisher: ., Self-Published: 1965

Seller ID: 2282986

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

No jacket, spine starting to split from joints, edges lightly rubbed. 1965 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. A Pictorial Record of the Centennial Re-Enactment, Warner Park, December 12, 1964.
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Returning to the Civil War: Grand Reenactments of an Anguished Time

By: Courtney, Kent

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Gibbs Smith: 1997

Seller ID: 2170946

ISBN: 0879057831

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Sticker on front endpaper. 1997 Soft Cover. From the battlefield to the encampment, from the field hospital to the ballroom, the photos & anecdotes in this book bring the experience of Civil War reenacting to life. In reenacting, every battle is played anew, with marches, campaigns, & the battle strategies suited to the specific occasion. Boys & men -- & even a few women -- dress in 1860s uniforms & either sign up as volunteers for the Union or Confederate armies or are drafted into service. Others don period costumes to serve as support for the soldiers in uniform. This is living history at i...
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Civil War Maryland: Stories From the Old Line State

By: Cox, Richard P.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., The History Press: 2008

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2191191

ISBN: 1596294191

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

2008 Trade Paperback. 156 pp. By the time the American Civil War began, the agrarian, slave-owning South and the rapidly industrializing North had become almost two separate nations. As a border state with ties to both sides, Maryland and its people played a unique role in the war. This series of essays on Maryland's involvement in the conflict and its aftermath highlights some of the personalities and events that make Maryland's Civil War stories unusual and compelling. Author Richard P. Cox draws on original sources and contributions from historians to relate the many ironies, curiosities an...
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Crane, Stephen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2307052

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, [32], 144 pp. 8vo. Full orange-brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, with an introduction by Carl Van Doren and illustrations by John Steuart Curry.
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The Red Badge of Courage

By: Crane, Stephen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton-Century Company: 1936

Seller ID: 2294662

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Minor general wear. 1936 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xli, 266 pp. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, which inspired the 1951 MGM film of the same name. Henry Fleming has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in the middle of a battle against a regiment of Confederate soldiers. Terrified, Henry deserts his comrades. Upon returning to his regiment, he struggles with his shame as he tries to redeem himself and prove his courage.
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The Red Badge of Courage (A Modern Library Book, No. 130)

By: Crane, Stephen; Stallman, Robert Wooster

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1951

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2301733

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket rubbed with a couple tiny closed tears along edges, jacket price clipped. 1951 Hard Cover. xlv, 266 pp. The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (18711900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a red badge of courage, to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer, who carries a flag. Although Crane was born after the war, and had not at the time...
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The Red Badge of Courage (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Crane, Stephen; Van Doren, Carl

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1980

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2294856

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A few small spots on top edge, a few minor scuffs, endpaper edges slightly faded. 1980 Full-Leather. xiii, [3], 170 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, with an introduction by Carl Van Doren and illustrations by John Steuart Curry.
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The Yugoslav Drama

By: Crnobrnja, Mihailo

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1996

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 2297718

ISBN: 0773514295

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Minor sticker adhesive on rear wrapper, wrappers faintly toned, page ridges faintly foxed. 1996 Trade Paperback. xiv, 304 pp. Crnobrnja discusses in detail the part of the drama most visible to the world -- the rapid dissolution of the country following civil war and internationalization. He emphasizes the dichotomy between the lack of compromise on the part of the Yugoslav participants and the natural tendency to compromise that characterizes both the European Communities and the processes and actions of the United Nations. In a synthesis of the immediate situation, he draws t...
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From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: The Story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry together with Personal Reminiscenes

By: Curtis, Newton Martin

Price: $135.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnams Sons: 1906

Edition: Signed Copy

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2299601

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed. Presentation copy from author to a NYS assemblyman and senator. Bottom edge of boards lightly rubbed, tear on pages xi-xii mended with tape. 1906 Hard Cover. xix, 384 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Newton Martin Curtis (May 21, 1835 January 8, 1910) was a Union officer during the American Civil War and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He won Medal of Honor and At the Second Battle of Fort Fisher: the first man to pass through the stockade, he personally led each assault on the traverses and was 4 times wounded. William Caryl Ely (February 25, 1856 Decem...
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From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: The Story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry together with Personal Reminiscenes

By: Curtis, Newton Martin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnams Sons: 1906

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2299602

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front paste-down endpaper, pencil notes on front free endpaper, hinges broken. 1906 Hard Cover. xix, 384 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Newton Martin Curtis (May 21, 1835 January 8, 1910) was a Union officer during the American Civil War and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He won Medal of Honor and At the Second Battle of Fort Fisher: the first man to pass through the stockade, he personally led each assault on the traverses and was 4 times wounded. William Caryl Ely (February 25, 1856 December 14, 1921) was an American la...
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The Treaty of Washington: It's Negotiation, Execution, and the Discussions Relating Thereto

By: Cushing, Caleb

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1873

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2305675

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine head and spine base and corners rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1873 Hard Cover. 280 pp. The Treaty of Washington was a treaty signed and ratified by Great Britain and the United States in 1871 during the first premiership of William Gladstone and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. It settled various disputes between the countries, including the Alabama Claims for damages to American shipping caused by British-built warships, as well as illegal fishing in Canadian waters and British civilian losses in the American Civil War. It inaugurated permanent peacef...
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The Custer Story: The Life and Intimate Letters of General George A. Custer and His Wife Elizabeth

By: Custer, General George A.; Custer, Elizabeth; Merington, Marguerite

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press: 1987

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2204369

ISBN: 0803281382

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Very light general wear. 1987 Trade Paperback. xii, 339 pp. During separations enforced by the military, Lieutenant General George A. Custer and his wife, Elizabeth, corresponded about the Civil War, the perils of frontier life, and the chain of events that would lead to his tragic death at the Little Big Horn in Montana Territory. Their letters reveal the nuances of personal and political loyalties rarely expressed by historians and novelists. And they reveal a devotion rare among wartime marriages. He was her Autie, her Darling Boy, and she was his Libbie, his Darling Sunbeam. ...
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Image for The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry

The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry

By: D. Appleton & Company

Price: $80.00

Publisher: ., D. Appleton & Company: 1865

Seller ID: 2199366

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A bit rubbed, lightly foxed throughout but especially on title page. 1865 Full-Leather. 838 pp. 10 x 6 3/4. Gilt titles, marbled endpapers. U.S. Grant portrait frontispiece plus several illustrations & maps. A contemporary account of various events in the news during the Civil War, both within and outside the U.S. Some entries from the Subject Index include: Geographical Explorations and Discoveries, Gun Cotton, British India, Freedom of the Press, Habeas Corpus, Confederate States, Florida, Obituaries, Exchange of Prisoners, Peru, Pneumatic Railway, Spain, Public Documents, etc.
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Civil War Trivia Book

By: Darman, Peter

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble: 2007

Seller ID: 2283566

ISBN: 0760793964

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 2007 Trade Paperback. Packed with intriguing facts and revealing details about America's most bloody conflict, the Civil War Trivia Book is a great way to find out just how much you know about the War Between Brothers-or to add to your knowledge.
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Divided We Fought

By: David, Donald

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1956

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 2187403

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Lacks jacket, boards rubbed. 1956 Large Hardcover. David Donald is renowned for his meticulous research and well written books. He used diaries, manuscripts, scrapbooks, family histories, letters, newspaper files, and valued secondary sources to flesh out his subject. Donald spent ten years on this book and during that time had to absorb the arcane knowledge of the 19th century in such subjects as medicine, law, politics, etc. His scholarship is impeccable. Though forty years have elapsed since the original publication of this book it still satisfies both the casual and serious reader.
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Colin J. McRae: Confederate Financial Agent (Confederate Centennial Studies, Number 17)

By: Davis, Charles S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Alabama, Confederate Publishing Company: 1961

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 2305741

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition (one of 450 copies). Spine lightly toned, minor ink marginalia. 1961 Soft Cover. 101 pp. Colin J. McRae (born Colin John McRae; October 22, 1812 February 1877) was an American politician who had served as a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.[1][2][3]--Wikipedia
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Portraits of the Civil War

By: Davis, William C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Smithmark: 1999

Seller ID: 2172738

ISBN: 076511691X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 1999 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. PORTRAITS OF THE CIVIL WAR presents portrait images, some never-before-published, made from surviving photographic glass plate negatives of the Civil War period. Spellbinding photographs of these legend-makers, unsung heroes and camp followers are accompanied by mini-biographies, bringing the war vividly to life. Few books have focused exclusively on the revealing and fascinating portraits of the many individuals, famous or not, who participated in the glory and tragedy of this historic co...
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Touched By Fire: A Photographic Portrait of The Civil War - Volume One

By: Davis, William C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Little, Brown: 1985

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2170985

ISBN: 0316176613

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Light edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 1985 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. Includes photographs and information on the soldiers and battles of the Civil War.
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The Commanders of the Civil War (Rebels & Yankees)

By: Davis, William C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Salamander: 1990

Seller ID: 2172047

ISBN: 086101510X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 1990 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. Maps on endpapers. Profusely illustrated with color and sepia photographs. Brief biographical sketches of numerous commanders from both the Union and Confederate armies during the American Civil War.
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The Commanders of the Civil War (Rebels & Yankees)

By: Davis, William C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Chrysalis Books: 2004

Seller ID: 2187017

ISBN: 086101510X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Tear to upper jacket spine. Good. 2004 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. Maps on endpapers. Profusely illustrated with color and sepia photographs. Brief biographical sketches of numerous commanders from both the Union and Confederate armies during the American Civil War.
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Rebels & Yankees Three Volume Set: Commanders; Battlefields; Fighting Men

By: Davis, William C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Salamander Books: 1999

Seller ID: 2283556

ISBN: 1840651059

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Complete in three volumes. Lacks slipcase. Light edge wear. 1999 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. An outstanding three-volume set highlights the leaders, soldiers, and battlefields of the American Civil War.
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Civil War Journal: The Leaders

By: Davis, William C.; Pohanka, Brian C.; Troiani, Don

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Rutledge Hill Press: 1997

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2170932

ISBN: 1558534377

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing. An exceptional copy. Near Fine. 1997 Hard Cover. This is the first book in a series of three developed from the popular History Channel series Civil War Journal. The Leaders explores the Federals and Confederates who had the greatest influence on how the war was fought. Illustrated and indexed.
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Fighting Men of the Civil War (Rebels & Yankees)

By: Davis, William C.; Pritchard, Russ A. (Technical Advisor)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Gallery Books: 1989

Seller ID: 2172048

ISBN: 0831732644

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Very Good. 1989 Large Hardcover. 256 pp. They fought for honor, leaving a trail of death from Bull Run to Atlanta. Here is a pictorial record of the soldiers of the Civil War. From daily life to prison life, personal experiences add a poignant epitaph to an epic conflict.
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Shadows of the Storm, Volume 1: The Image of War: 1861-1865

By: Davis, William C.; Wiley, Bell I.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1981

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2295672

ISBN: 0385154666

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Jacket rubbed with a few small tears to edges. Boards very faintly soiled. 1981 Large Hardcover. 464 pp. Photographs show both sides during the Civil War and are accompanied by essays on war photography and history.
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Keyword:CIVIL WAR MILITARY

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