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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

By: Faust, Drew Gilpin

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Civil War Library: 2009

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2293922

ISBN: 0375703837

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First paperback printing. Spine creased, related articles laid in. 2009 Trade Paperback. xviii, 346 pp. More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices...
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The History of Appomattox, Virginia; Also World War II - I and Spanish American War Service Record

By: Featherston, Nathaniel Ragland

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Appomattox, Virginia, Bob's Printing Service: 1995

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2301065

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1995 reissue of 1948 original. No jacket. A nice copy. Blue boards. CONTENTS: Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgments; General History of Appomattox; Pictures and History of Leading Men and Women of Appomattox County; Alphabetical List of Families of Appomattox County; Gold Star World War II White; World War II Veterans White; Gold Star World War II Colored; World War II Veterans Colored; Gold Star World War I White; World War I Veterans White; Gold Star World War I Colored; World War I Veterans Colored; Spanish American War Veterans; Biography of Nathaniel Ragland Featherston; Advertising Secti...
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The Trent Affair: A Diplomatic Crisis

By: Ferris, Norman B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Knoxville, The University of Tennesee Press: 1977

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2306540

ISBN: 0870491695

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, minor chips and minor tears to jacket edges. Red spots on top page ridge, ink underlining and marginalia, ink note and ink names on front free endpaper. 1977 Hard Cover. The Trent Affair was a diplomatic incident in 1861 during the American Civil War that threatened a war between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland. The U.S. Navy unlawfully captured two Confederate diplomats from a British Royal Mail steamer; the British government protested vigorously. The United States ended the incident by releasing the diplomats. On November 8, 1861, the US...
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Bull Run

By: Fleischman, Paul

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 1993

Seller ID: 2283564

ISBN: 0060214465

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Faintly rubbed. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. For the young reader, this Civil War drama told in sixteen voices is a heartbreaking and remarkably vivid portrait of a war that remains our nations bloodiest conflict.'
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Winter of the World (Book Two of the Century Trilogy)

By: Follett, Ken

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, New American Library (NAL): 2013

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2261918

ISBN: 0451419243

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing. Light stains on pages 5-6. 2013 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 940 pp. Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated familiesAmerican, German, Russian, English, and Welshthrough a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed ...
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Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)

By: Foner, Eric

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 2208434

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Sticker on rear wrapper, ink stamp on bottom page ridge, highlighting throughout. 1984 Trade Paperback. xii, 142 pp. Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under. Taking a comparative approach, Eric Foner examines Reconstruction in the southern states against the experience of Haiti, where a violent slave revolt was followed by the establishment of an undemocratic govern...
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Tullahoma to Meridian: Riot and Resurgence (The Civil War - A Narrative)

By: Foote, Shelby

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1963

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2300071

ISBN: 030729028X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Reissue. An exceptional copy. 1963 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. An in-depth look at a portion of the later part of the American Civil War.
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Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863

By: Foote, Shelby

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1994

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2279746

ISBN: 0679601120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First thus. Lightly stained. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 290 pp. A history of the Gettysburg campaign of the American Civil War, drawn from the second volume of Foote's authoritative three-volume study.
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Image for Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg., in Three Volumes (New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga.) [New York at Gettysburg July 1-2-3-1863 Vols. 1, 2, & 3 / I, II, and III]

Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg., in Three Volumes (New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga.) [New York at Gettysburg July 1-2-3-1863 Vols. 1, 2, & 3 / I, II, and III]

By: Fox, William F.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, Printers: 1900

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2303473

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. All maps included. Volume 2 good only (spine and top page corner stained), spines lightly toned, ink name and stamp on front endpapers, endpapers lightly foxed, volume III map pocket torn across middle. 1900 Large Hardcover. Complete three volume set. 1462 pp., paginated continuously. Original blue-grey cloth, gilt titles, decorative emblem on front board of each volume. A detailed history of the involvement of New York State regiments in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, with photographs of the various monuments erected in their honor.
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Varina: A Novel

By: Frazier, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Ecco: 2018

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304515

ISBN: 0062405985

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor general wear. 2018 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 356 pp. By the author of Cold Mountain. In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War. Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the ...
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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, Volume II [2]: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville

By: Freeman, Douglas Southall

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1946

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2205362

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early reprint (no A on copyright page). Faint stain to bottom corner and top edge, some loss from top jacket edge. 1946 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xlv, 760 pp. 8vo. An extensive historical work focusing on the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War, part of Freeman's three-volume set on the topic. Includes eight portrait photographs and thirty-two military maps.
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R.E. Lee: A Biography, in Four Volumes [Robert Edward Lee]

By: Freeman, Douglas Southall

Price: $450.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1934

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2207972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early reprints of volumes 1 and 2 (Scribner emblem but no 'A' on copyright pages), first editions of 3 and 4 (with emblem and 'A'). First volume inscribed and signed by author ('Inscribed for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Duke, with cordial good wishes, Douglas Southall Freeman') on front endpaper. An earlier note has faded to the point of near illegibility, but appears to reference a previous owner's 'devotion to the South'. Closed tear to head of v. 2 spine, ink name on front endpaper of three volumes, small bookseller sticker on rear endpaper of each volume, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1934 ...
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Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War

By: Furgurson, Ernest B.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1996

Edition: 4th Printing

Seller ID: 2302598

ISBN: 0679422323

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

4th printing. An exceptional copy. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 419 pp. Map of city of Richmond precedes text. Also includes black & white photographs. Telling the story of the Confederacy's capital, from July of 1861 to the end of the Civil War, Ashes of Glory portrays not only such luminaries as Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee but also the rank and file of Richmond: the preachers, merchants, matrons, nurses, newspapermen, POWs, prostitutes, bootleggers, and spies, who kept the city bustling even when its destiny seemed most grim. 16 pp. of photos. 3 ma...
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Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave

By: Furgurson, Ernest B.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage: 1993

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2260801

ISBN: 0679728317

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Faint crease to spine. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Drawing on new research, as well as period journals and diaries, this definitive study provides a detailed account of the battle of Chancellorsville and assesses the factors that led to a Confederate victory.
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Dear Old Roswell

By: Galloway, Tammy Harden

Price: $12.00

Publisher: ., Mercer University: 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2206610

ISBN: 0865548110

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2003 Hard Cover. The King family, spread between Roswell, Georgia, and Virginia, faced the perils of the Civil War on different fronts. These correspondences will captivate the reader as they cover Barrington S. King, a Lieutenant Colonel in Cobb's Legion, leaves his home in Georgia to fight in Virginia. On the other end of the correspondence are his father, mother, and young son in Roswell. Between Barrington and the family is his devoted wife, Bessie, who followed her husband to Virginia and traveled between the front and Roswell periodically, providing a ...
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Brady's Civil War

By: Garrison, Webb

Price: $9.00

Publisher: ., The Lyons Press: 2002

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2170689

ISBN: 1585741221

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Light rubbing to jacket. Very Good. 2002 Large Hardcover. More than 300 stunning Civil War photographs by the famed Mathew Brady appear with informative supporting text.
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Strange Battles of the Civil War

By: Garrison, Webb Jr.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Bristol Park: 2008

Seller ID: 2283558

ISBN: 0884864308

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Faint sticker remnant. 2008 Hard Cover. Although the results of many Civil War battles were in favor of the anticipated victor, in many instances the hows and whys and whos were very different than what had been planned. On many occasions the combat was accompanied by various unique and strange elements. In this engaging survey of twenty-three battles of the American Civil War, several of these peculiarities are highlighted. These intriguing tales include naval engagements, naval battles against land forces, cover-ups and scapegoats, unexpected combat and military blunders.
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Campaigns of the Civil War

By: Geer, Walter

Price: $7.00

Publisher: CT, Konecky & Konecky:

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2295939

ISBN: 1568522681

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date (circa early 2000s). We have more books available by this author!. 447 pp. ...Campaigns of the Civil War was one of the first successful analyses of both the tactical and strategic decisions that shaped the conduct and final outcome of the war. His work has been cited as groundbreaking by generations of historians since its first publication.
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The Timechart History of the Civil War

By: Gibbons, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., Chartwell Books: 2012

Seller ID: 2187018

ISBN: 0785828761

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear. Very Good. 2012 Large Hardcover. This book covers the US Civil War in its entirety. It also contains concise illustrated biographies of the military and political leaders of both sides.
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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon: A Novel

By: Gibbons, Kaye

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2270859

ISBN: 0399142991

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 278 pp. The long-vanished world of the Old South--from 1842 to 1900--comes alive in the story of Emma Garnet, as she moves from pampered plantation owner's daughter, through her discovery of the evils of slavery and work in military hospitals during the Civil War, to her final reconciliation with her feelings about the South.
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Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag During Radical Reconstruction

By: Ginsberg, Benjamin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press: 2010

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2204825

ISBN: 0801894646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A fine copy. Near Fine. 2010 Hard Cover. xi, 219 pp. Franklin Moses Jr. is one of the great forgotten figures in American history. Scion of a distinguished Jewish family in South Carolina, he was a firebrand supporter of secession and an officer in the Confederate army. Moses then reversed course. As Reconstruction governor of South Carolina, he shocked and outraged his white constituents by championing racial equality and socializing freely with former slaves. Friends denounced him, his family disowned him, and enemies ultimately drove him from his home state. InMoses of South ...
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Reminiscences of the Civil War

By: Gordon, General John B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, PA, The Archive Society: 1995

Edition: Facsimile

Seller ID: 2300256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1995 facsimile of 1903 original. Highlighting on three pages only. Gilt page ridges lightly scuffed. 474 pp. Grey boards with gilt page ridges. Marbled endpapers. John Brown Gordon was one of the toughest Confederate generals in the Civil War. He was wounded multiple times during the Seven Days Battles and at Antietam, where he was hit 4 times and continued to fight until a bullet slammed him in the face, passing through his cheek and out his jaw. Robert E. Lee described Gordon to Jefferson Davis as characterized by splendid audacity. Although he was a tough fighter, Gordon was a good writer, ...
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Recollections of a Private: A Story of the Army of the Potomac

By: Goss, Warren Lee

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1890

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2294729

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

First edition. Boars stained, front hinge starting, ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1890 Hard Cover. xi, 354 pp. With black-and-white illustrations. Recollections of a Private is an engrossing look at the life of the private soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Warren Lee Goss chronicles not only his own experiences but those of his brother soldiers as well. Beginning with life as a raw recruit and continuing through the major battles of the Civil War, Goss gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a soldier's life before, during and after battle.
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The Civil War Wall Chart

By: Graham, Martin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., Publications International: 1991

Seller ID: 2170960

ISBN: 0881769614

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1991 Large Hardcover. A large-sized fold-out giving a chronological overview of the Civil War.
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Great Battles of the Civil War

By: Graham, Martin; Skoch, George; Davis, William C.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: ., Beekman House: 1989

Seller ID: 2172046

ISBN: 0517687658

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 1989 Large Hardcover. 96 pp.The American Civil War (18611865) was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the U.S. and formed the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy). Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the U.S. federal government (the Union), which was supported by all the free states and the five border slave states in the north. In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the s...
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The Civil War: In the Word of Its Greatest Commanders

By: Grant, Ulysses S.; Lee, Robert E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., JG Press: 2011

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2206769

ISBN: 1572158182

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Jacket lightly rubbed. 2011 Large Hardcover. The story of The Civil War is told through the writings of its two greatest Generals.
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Reminiscences of Adventure and Service: A Record of Sixty-Five Years, Illustrated

By: Greely, A.W.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2201697

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Front hinge weak. Several pages unopened. 1927 Hard Cover. xi, 356 pp. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt titles. Black & white photographs. The autobiographical account of a Major General's 65 years of service in the U.S. Army. Greely was present at Richmond, Second Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and led an Arctic expedition in the late 19th century. An entire chapter is dedicated to Greely's time 'with negro troops'.
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Gettysburg: A Battlefield Guide (This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields)

By: Grimsley, Mark; Simpson, Brooks D.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2275584

ISBN: 0803270771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Minor stain on top page ridge. 1999 Trade Paperback. xv, 212 pp. Little Round Top, the Railroad Cut, Pickett's Charge--these are the turning points within the most important battle of the Civil War. Even careful students of Gettysburg, however, can find themselves disoriented when visiting the site itself. Here, finally, is a convenient guide for serious student and casual visitor alike that makes plain the sweep of events and the geography of the battlefield. This invaluable guidebook was created by scholars who have walked the battlegrounds, consulted with local experts and park guides, and ...
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Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital: Life and Death at Portsmouth Grove, 1862-1865

By: Grzyb, Frank L.; Rubel, Robert C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company, Inc.: 2012

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2302560

ISBN: 0786468610

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. An excellent copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. xi, 196 pp. During the Civil War, thousands of wounded Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners convalesced in a general army hospital in rural Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island. Because of its location on the periphery of the action, the hospital has remained a footnote to the dramatic sweep of Civil War literature. However, its history and the experiences of the doctors, nurses, patients and guards that gave it life provide a new perspective on the interaction between the army an...
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Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War

By: Guernsey, Alfred H.; Alden, Henry M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Fairfax Press: 1966

Seller ID: 2268735

ISBN: 0517224224

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Three 1 inch jacket tears, page ridge foxed. 1966 Large Hardcover. 836 pp. Contemporary accounts of the American Civil War with engraved illustrations, gathered from issues of the most popular magazine of the era, Harper's Magazine. Includes 1000 scenes, maps, plans and portraits.
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Keyword:CIVIL WAR MILITARY

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