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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: Very Good

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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In and Out of Rebel Prisons (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

By: Cooper, Alonzo

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Time Life Books: 1983

Seller ID: 2301051

ISBN: 0809442752

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Ex Libris bookplate and publisher slip laid in. 1983 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 335 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. What sets Cooper's story apart from the other prison memoirs appearing at the time is his detailed and generally objective descriptions of prison life and the number of different prisons he experienced--six in 10 months, in Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia.
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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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With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War

By: Cowley, Robert; Donald, David Herbert; Gallagher, Gary W.; McPherson, James M.; Sears, Stephen W.; et al

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Berkley: 2002

Seller ID: 2283587

ISBN: 0425184587

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 2002 Trade Paperback. A collection of essays on the Civil War explores every aspect of the conflict, from Lee's role in the Confederacy to the battle tactics that won and lost the war, with contributions from James M. McPherson, Tom Wicker, Thomas Fleming, David Herbert Donald, and many other notable historians.
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Culp's Hill: The Attack and Defense of the Union Flank, July 2, 1863 (Battleground America Guides)

By: Cox, John D.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2207194

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Bottom corner of rear wrapper creased, a few pages dog-eared. 2003 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 181 pp. South of the town of Gettysburg, Union troops take possession of the wooded heights at the tip of their fishhook defensive line. Defending Culp's Hill meant protecting the flank; it was the key to victory. Using official reports, letters, diaries, and memoirs, this book describes the struggle for the high ground and tells how and why the generals made their crucial decisions.
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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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Image for Union--Disunion--Reunion. Three Decades of Federal Legistlation. 1855 to 1885. Personal and Historical Memories of Events Preceding, During, and Since the American Civil War, Involving Slavery and Secession, Emancipation and Reconstruction, with Sketches of Prominent Actors During These Periods.

Union--Disunion--Reunion. Three Decades of Federal Legistlation. 1855 to 1885. Personal and Historical Memories of Events Preceding, During, and Since the American Civil War, Involving Slavery and Secession, Emancipation and Reconstruction, with Sketches of Prominent Actors During These Periods.

By: Cox, Samuel

Price: $40.00

Publisher: J. A. & R. A. Reid: 1886

Seller ID: 2303045

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Small tear along top edge of front joint, pencil name on second blank. 1886 Full-Leather. 726 pp. Illustrated with thirty-six portraits engraved on steel. Union--Disunion--Reunion. Three Decades of Federal Legistlation. 1855 to 1885. Personal and Historical Memories of Events Preceding, During, and Since the American Civil War, Involving Slavery and Secession, Emancipation and Reconstruction, with Sketches of Prominent Actors During These Periods.
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The Red Badge of Courage

By: Crane, Stephen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 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: 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 (1871–1900). 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 t...
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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: 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: 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: G. P. Putnam’s 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 –...
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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: G. P. Putnam’s 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 Ameri...
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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: 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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Stonewall Jackson (Landmark Books 86)

By: Daniels, Jonathan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Random House: 1959

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2299778

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1959 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 183 pp. Illustrated by William Moyers. The story of Stonewall Jackson and his Civil War career.
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She Rode with the Generals: The True and Incredible Story of Sarah Emma Seelye, Alias Franklin Thompson

By: Dannett, Sylvia G.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons: 1960

Edition: Signed Copy

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2288925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author with inscription, For Helen Seasonwein (?), whom I love and admire--Sylvia Dannett October 7, 1970. No jacket. Ink note on front endpaper. 1960 Hard Cover. 326 pp. Dust jacket notes: Sarah Emma Edmonds rode with the generals of the Civil War but her regiment thought she was a man and called her Franklin Thompson. In 1897 Sarah Emma Edmonds Seelye was mustered into the George B. McClellan Post, No. 9, and thus became the only woman member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Hers is an incredible story but after years of research Sylvia G. L. Dannett has verified the truth of mos...
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Civil War Trivia Book

By: Darman, Peter

Price: $4.00

Publisher: 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: 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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Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier

By: Davis, Burke

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Burford Books: 2000

Seller ID: 2260532

ISBN: 1580800750

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 2000 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A full and definitive biography of the dashing and enigmatic Confederate hero of the Civil War: General J.E.B. Stuart.
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Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee And The Civil War

By: Davis, Burke

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Burford Books: 1998

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2271015

ISBN: 1580800696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Reissue. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 464 pp. 1998 reissue of 1956 original, with a new introduction by the author written for this edition. From the Confederacy's first call to arms, to the Appomattox surrender, Robert E. Lee forged his reputation as perhaps the most daring soldier in American history, renowned for his shrewdness, courage and audacity. Gray Fox is the vivid chronicle of Lee's command, a book that humanizes this gentleman-soldier of tradition and makes him all the more awe-inspiring.
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Dead Cities

By: Davis, Mike

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The New Press: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2196997

ISBN: 1565847652

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2002 Hard Cover. viii, 432 pp. First edition. In his most brilliantly syncretic writing yet, radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, a ceaseless battle waged both within cities and against nature. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today -- white fight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, and federal policy -- and looks at areas he calls national sacrifice zones, military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have re...
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My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots

By: Davis, Thulani

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Basic Civitas Books: 2006

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2270997

ISBN: 0465015557

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 324 pp. Starting with a photograph and some writings left by her grandmother, Thulani Davis goes looking for the white folk in her family - a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to her - and uncovers a history far richer and stranger than she had ever imagined. When Davis's grandmother died in 1971, she was writing a novel about her parents, Mississippi cotton farmers who met after the Civil War: Chloe Curry, a former slave from Alabama, married with s...
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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: 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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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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Rebels & Yankees Three Volume Set: Commanders; Battlefields; Fighting Men

By: Davis, William C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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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Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour

By: Davis, William C.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2288324

ISBN: 0060167068

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. A few very faint stains on page ridge. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 784 pp. Drawing on many new sources, distinguished Civil War scholar William C. Davis here delves into the life of one of the most controversial public figures of the nineteenth century. He vividly details Davis' childhood in Mississippi, his military experience at West Point and on the western frontier, his brilliant record in the Mexican War, his stint as a hardworking secretary of war under Franklin Pierce, and his career as an impassioned defender of slavery i...
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Keyword:CIVIL WAR MILITARY

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