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Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War

By: Furgurson, Ernest B.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: 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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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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Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

By: Gardner, Alexander; Bleiler, E.F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.: 1959

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2295674

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1959 reissue of 1866 original. One inch tear and half inch tear to bottom edge of front jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed. 100 photographic plates with lengthy captions, with a special introduction for this edition by E.F. Bleiler, and a subject index. Originally published in two volume, which are both included here. Mathew Brady's chief photographer during the early days of the Civil War, Gardner produced unforgettable pictures, among them Union troops in battle, Lincoln at Antietam, the ruins of Richmond, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox. One hundred of the greatest war pictures ever taken,...
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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. We have more books available by this author!. 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: 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: Konecky & Konecky:

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2295939

ISBN: 1568522681

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date (circa early 2000s). 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: 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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The Battle of Spring Hill: Twenty-five Hours... to Tragedy

By: Gillum, Jamie

Price: $30.00

Publisher: James F. Gillum: 2004

Edition: Signed Copy

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2302559

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author without inscription. Faint smudges on bottom page ridge. 2004 Trade Paperback. 258 pp. Three o'clock p.m., November 29th, 1864. Twenty-five hours later, the Army of Tennessee marched into its most horrific and bloodiest battle of the war. The Battle of Franklin would not have been fought had the Confederates accomplished their mission at Spring Hill. The story of the Battle of Spring Hill is told as it has never been told before--by the participants. Includes 145 eyewitness sources; 28 battlefield maps; over 700 individual accounts; the most in depth hour by hour account of th...
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Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag During Radical Reconstruction

By: Ginsberg, Benjamin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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. In Moses of Sout...
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Reminiscences of the Civil War

By: Gordon, General John B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: 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 write...
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Reminiscences of the Civil War, with Portraits

By: Gordon, John B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1904

Seller ID: 2275016

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former library copy - usual marks. 1904 Hard Cover. x, 474 pp. An autobiography of the life of General John B. Gordon. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Brown Gordon (February 6, 1832 – January 9, 1904) was an attorney, a planter, general in the Confederate States Army, and politician in the postwar years. By the end of the Civil War, he had become one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals.[1] After the war, Gordon strongly opposed Reconstruction during the late 1860s. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected by the state legislature to serve as a U.S. Senator, from 1875 to 1881, and again f...
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Recollections of a Private: A Story of the Army of the Potomac

By: Goss, Warren Lee

Price: $45.00

Publisher: 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 (1861–1865) 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 th...
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Great Battles of the Civil War

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

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Beekman House: 1989

Seller ID: 2295673

ISBN: 0517687658

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 1989 Large Hardcover. 96 pp. The beautiful, full-color chromolithographs of Louis Kurz and Alexander Allison bring to life 36 of the most significant battles of the Civil War. ...Accompanying each lithograph is a vivid and detailed account of the battle it represents...
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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: 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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West Point Atlas for the American Civil War (West Point Military History Series)

By: Griess, Thomas E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Avery: 1986

Seller ID: 2206932

ISBN: 0895293021

Binding: Spiral-Bound Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Spiral binding split in middle, page corners lightly bumped. 1986 Spiral-Bound Softcover. This campaign-by-campaign account of the Civil War examines the economic, social, political, and military aspects of this turbulent period. Excellent...the strength of the books is in the operational military history, and they present well-argued evaluations of the wars' commanders and campaigns. (Library Journal )
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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: 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: 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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Gettysburg: The Last Invasion

By: Guelzo, Allen C.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Vintage Civil War Library: 2014

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2208695

ISBN: 0307740692

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 2014 Trade Paperback. The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier. Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett’s Charge; the reason that the Army of Northern Virginia could be smelled before it could be seen; the march of thousands of men from the banks of the Rappahannock in Virginia...
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Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War

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

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 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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Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War

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

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Fairfax Press: 1966

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2286216

ISBN: 0517224224

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reissue. Ink gift note on front endpaper, a few tiny jacket tears. 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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The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah: The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer

By: Haley, John W.; Silliker, Ruth L.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Down East Books, Camden: 1985

Edition: 4th Printing

Seller ID: 2123422

ISBN: 0892722509

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

4th printing. Spine faded. 1985 Trade Paperback. 311, [1] pp. On an I will if you will dare, John Haley enlisted in the 17th Maine Regiment in August 1862 for three years, unless sooner discharged. (Discharged, shot, or starved would have been more accurate, Haley later wryly observed.) Though a reluctant soldier at first, he served steadfastly in the Army of the Potomac for nearly three years, participating in some of the most significant battles of the Civil War. John Haley was not the only soldier to record each day's events in his journal by firelight or by picket's lantern, for his was a ...
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The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah: The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer

By: Haley, John W.; Silliker, Ruth L.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Down East Books: 1985

Seller ID: 2274138

ISBN: 0892722509

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1985 Trade Paperback. 311, [1] pp. On an I will if you will dare, John Haley enlisted in the 17th Maine Regiment in August 1862 for three years, unless sooner discharged. (Discharged, shot, or starved would have been more accurate, Haley later wryly observed.) Though a reluctant soldier at first, he served steadfastly in the Army of the Potomac for nearly three years, participating in some of the most significant battles of the Civil War. John Haley was not the only soldier to record each day's events in his journal by firelight or by picket's lantern, for his was a literate generation. He was...
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Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors of the Civil War

By: Hall, Richard

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Paragon House: 1993

Edition: Fifth Edition

Seller ID: 2292555

ISBN: 1557784388

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear. 1993 Hard Cover. To many minds the question of women in combat is a particularly modern problem; the recent Gulf War seems to have brought the question to a head for the first time. But, as Richard Hall shows in this eye-opening history, women have been distinguishing themselves on the battlefield for far longer than has been acknowledged in the history books.
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On the Wings of Occasions: Being the Authorised Version of Certain Curious Episodes of the Late Civil War, Including the Hitherto Suppressed Narrative of the Kidnapping of President Lincoln

By: Harris, Joel Chandler

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.: 1900

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2303182

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. BAL 7145. On of four binding variants (no priority). No jacket. Spine and rear board soiled, stain on front endpapers. 1900 Hard Cover. vii, 310 pp. Green boards. CONTENTS: Why the Confederacy Failed; In the Order of Providence; The Troubles of Martin Coy; The Kidnapping of President Lincoln; The Whims of Captain McCarthy.
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How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War

By: Hattaway, Herman

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Illinois: 1991

Seller ID: 2179148

ISBN: 0252062108

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light fading to spine. 1991 Trade Paperback. Superb military history, analytic, comprehensive, discursive, controversial in the best sense, a must for any Civil War buff.
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Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War

By: Hauptman, Laurence M.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Free Press Paperbacks: 1996

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2186986

ISBN: 0684826682

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Endpapers and pages toned. 1996 Trade Paperback. xv, 304 pp. ...the story of the Indian role in the Civil War, and how the war hastened the government's destructive policies against them. Hauptman discusses nine different tribal groups who fought valiantly on both the Union and Confederate sides. Many thought that their participation would mean survival for their tribes--an opportunity to prove their autonomy and preserve their lands. But at the war's end, the newly militarized and industrialized United States turned its destructive powers on the Indians, regardless of their a...
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Keyword:CIVIL WAR MILITARY

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