book is brand new except for those stamps on the first pages of the book. #hardcover #popular #neverread #war #civilwar #fiction #historical #history #united #youngadult

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

In My Father’s House

#hardcover #civilwar #dearamerica #fiction #diary #historical #juvenile #scholastic 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861

Captures the emotions of a young Union girl who struggles to make sense of her shattered world as she lives in a state of harsh division during the first year of the Civil War. 120,000 first printing.

A Light in the Storm

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Kentucky

Stonewall Jackson (Great Generals)

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#civilwar #jeffersondavis #confederatepresident #history #jamesmcpherson#hardcover #hardcover #conferatearmy #military 

Georgia

Jefferson Davis As Commander in Chief

Explores Jefferson Davis's leadership as commander in chief of the Confederacy while discussing such topics as his military prowess and effective partnership with Robert E. Lee.

Embattled Rebel

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Picture book for elementary school, ages 6-9. Tells life of Abraham Lincoln using quotes. Includes timeline at back. #nonfiction #picturebook #lincoln #civilwar #slavery #biography

Texas

The story of one of Ameri a's most revered presidents--in his own words!

"I could scarcely believe my eyes. By honest work I had earned a dollar." Abraham Lincoln resolved always to work hard and be honest. With much perseverance, he became a lawyer and a politician.

"Just think of such a one as me as president!" he laughed when his wife said he could lead the country.

But Lincoln had great changes he wanted to make. He campaigned, saying, "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and he won the election in 1860.

Award-winning author Sarah L. Thomson deftly integrates Abraham Lincoln's famous words into the narrative, revealing the inspiration and determination that led to his greatest achievements. Renowned illustrator James E. Ransome has created striking paintings that illuminate Lincoln's enthusiasms and passions from childhood through his adult life.

What Lincoln Said

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#hardcover #triumph #heathergraham #historicalfiction #romance #nytba #civilwar #starcrossedlovers 

Louisiana

Triumph

#fiction #childrenshistoricalfiction #civilwar

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kansas

Each succeeding spring brings a young Illinois boy closer to manhood as he faces the harsh realities of the American Civil War.

Across Five Aprils

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#civilwar #lincoln #johnwilkesbooth #bostoncorbett #scottmartelle #assassin #history

Maryland

The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth

Union cavalryman Boston Corbett became a national celebrity after killing John Wilkes Booth, but as details of his odd personality became known, he also became the object of derision. Over time, he was largely forgotten to history, a minor character in the final act of Booth's tumultuous life. And yet Corbett led a fascinating life of his own, a tragic saga that weaved through the monumental events of nineteenth-century America. Corbett was an English immigrant and devout Christian who long struggled not only with poverty but also with mental illness, which was likely caused by the mercury he used in his job as a silk hat finisher. He was one of the first volunteers to join the US Army at the outbreak of the Civil War, a path that would in time land him in the notorious Andersonville prison camp. Eventually released, he ended up in the squadron that cornered Lincoln's assassin in a Virginia barn. After the war, he headed west as a homesteader to the plains of Kansas, where his shaky mental health led to his undoing. The Madman and the Assassin is the first full-length biography of Boston Corbett, a man thrust into the spotlight during a national news event and into an unwelcome transformation from anonymity to fame, and back to obscurity.

The Madman and the Assassin

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Tennessee

A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War.

The Killer Angels

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#hardcover #history #Lincoln #president #Americanhistory #civilwar 

Lincoln at Cooper Unionexplores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency, and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives.Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times -- an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory as entertainment -- and shows how the candidate framed the speech as an opportunity to continue his famous "debates" with his archrival Democrat Stephen A. Douglas on the question of slavery.The Cooper Union speech, which was carefully researched by Lincoln and refers often to the Founders and authors of the Constitution, is an antislavery lecture, capped by a ringing warning to would-be secessionists in the South. It reaches its climax with the assurance that "right makes might." Long held, inaccurately, to be an appeal to the conservatives, Holzer presents Lincoln's speech as a masterly combination of scholarship, a brief for equality and democracy, and a rallying cry to the country and the Republican party.Holzer describes the enormous risk Lincoln took by appearing in New York, where he exposed himself to the country's most critical audience and took on Republican senator William Henry Seward of New York, the front-runner, in his own backyard. Then he recounts the brilliant and innovative public relations campaign, as Lincoln took the speech "on the road" in his successful quest for the presidency.

Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President

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Virginia

Gray Victory is a richly textured, exciting novel of conspiracy and intrigue set mostly in Richmond. Its 1866, the year after the South won the war, and a live Jeb Stuart gets a court of inquiry over his actions involving Gettysburg. Stimulating subplots abound as John Mosby defends the flamboyant Stuart, and seeks the truth about Gettysburg, while a an abolitionist terrorist team, led by a son of John Brown, plots to kill the Southern leaders in the courtroom to ignite a return to war. Deeply researched. One of the most fascinating what ifs ever written.

Gray Victory

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#hardcover #historicalfiction #civilwar #drama 

Readers of The Kitchen House and A Reliable Wife will love this page-turning southern gothic novel set in Reconstruction Alabama, about a young widow whose quest for truth turns into a race for her life.

Augusta Branson, born of a prominent Southern family made destitute by the Civil War, is forced by her family into marriage with a wealthy upstart. Ten years after her marriage and the end of the war, she watches her husband, Eli, die from a horrifying blood fever. 

Newly widowed, Augusta begins to wake to the realities that surround her: her social standing is stained by her marriage, she is alone and unprotected in a community that is being destroyed by racial prejudice and violence, the fortune she thought she would inherit does not exist, and the deadly blood fever is spreading like wildfire. Nothing is as she believed, everyone she trusts is hiding something from her, and if Augusta can't find a missing package, she and her son face certain death.  

Using the Southern Gothic tradition to subvert literary archetypes like the white Southern Gentleman, the good Mammy, the conniving scalawag, and the defenseless Southern Belle, The Rebel Wife shatters the myths that still cling to the antebellum South and creates an unforgettable heroine for our time. 

The Rebel Wife

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The Red Badge of Courage

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#fiction #hardcover #historicfiction #south #civilwar 

Pennsylvania

A Novel

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War has a profound impact on the outcome of the war, in a richly textured, evocative historical novel that captures the full experience of the diverse characters caught up in the struggle. 150,000 first printing.

The March

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Massachusetts

An Abridgement

"An abridgement by Richard Harwell of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 4-volume biography"--Cover.

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#hardcover #history #American-History #civilwar #black-gold

Last Chance for the Confederacy

The best compact history of the Atlanta campaign ever written

Atlanta 1864

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New Hampshire

Patriot's Reward is a fictional tale about a real-life slave owned by the author's ancestor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire during the American Revolution. His struggle to be free leads him to heroism in battles at Quebec, Lake Champlain, Bennington and Saratoga, and finally to a petition to the NH Legislature for his freedom. Clarkson's extensive research adds depth to this fast paced story.

Patriot's Reward

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If we don't understand history, we are destined to repeat it. This Civil War book is told as a story. Very good condition, I noticed a little ding in the hardcover, but that is all. #civilwar #narrativehistory #hardcover #history

The Month That Saved America

April 1865 was a month that could have unraveled the nation. Instead, it saved it. Here Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning. Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history, filled with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping narrative, this is a masterful account of the thirty most pivotal days in the life of the United States. It was not inevitable that the Civil War would end as it did, or that it would end at all well. Indeed, it almost didn't. Time and again, critical moments could have plunged the nation back into war or fashioned a far harsher, more violent, and volatile peace. Now, in a superbly told story, Winik captures the epic images and extraordinary history as never before. This one month witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond; a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare; Lee's harrowing retreat; and then Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later, and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by chaos and coup fears in the North, collapsed negotiations and continued bloodshed in the South, and finally, the start of national reconciliation. In the end, April 1865 emerges as not just the tale of the war's denouement, but the story of the making of our nation. Provocative, bold, exquisitely rendered, and stunningly original, April 1865 is the first major reassessment of the Civil War's close and is destined to become one of the great stories of American history.

April 1865

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#history #memoirs #CivilWar #WashingtonDC #hospital #LouisaMayScott

This is Alcott's account of her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War in a Washington D.C. hospital. The sketches are taken "from letters hastily written in the few leisure moments of a very busy life," and so maintain the immediacy and force of their author.

Hospital Sketches

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#paperback #ColdHarbor #notwarbutmurder #historicalfiction #ErnestBFurgurson #Biographical #CivilWar #USGrant #RobertELee #History box 93￼ Thanks so much for following me! I invite you to go onto Instagram and follow my new page at Karrisbookstore. I have sales there and even free books! In addition you can call me at 832-607-1526 if you see a lot of books, I am happy to pull them and give discount prices and bundle them. 

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Cold Harbor 1864

Ernest Furgurson, author of Ashes of Glory and Chancellorsville 1863, brings his talents to a pivotal and often neglected Civil War battle–the fierce, unremitting slaughter at Cold Harbor, Virginia, which ended the lives of 10,000 Union soldiers.

In June of 1864, the Army of the Potomac attacked heavily entrenched Confederate forces outside of Richmond, hoping to break the strength of Robert E. Lee and take the capital. Facing almost certain death, Union soldiers pinned their names to their uniforms in the forlorn hope that their bodies would be identified and buried. Furgurson sheds new light on the personal conflicts that led to Grant’s worst defeat and argues that it was a watershed moment in the war. Offering a panorama rich in detail and revealing anecdotes that brings the dark days of the campaign to life, Not War But Murder is historical narrative as compelling as any novel.

Not War but Murder

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#history #hardcover #1863 #civilwar #nonfiction #chancellorsville 

The Souls of the Brave

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. BOMC Alt. History Main.

Chancellorsville, 1863

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 #hardcover #war #civilwar #fiction #historicalfiction #stephencrane

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The Red Badge of Courage 

Stated first edition. #nonfiction #biography #autobiography #hardcover #bio #lincoln #firstedition #history #civilwar #slavery

The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln

Examines how the sixteenth president transformed himself in the 1830s and 1840s from a backwoods storekeeper into a sophisticated political figure, a process that was seriously thwarted more than once. 15,000 first printing. First serial, The Atlantic Monthly.

Honor's Voice

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#hardcover #northcarolina #history #civilwar #juvenilefiction  inscribed and signed by author

Ann Rinaldi

In My Father’s House

Karen Hesse

A Light in the Storm

Donald A. Davis

Stonewall Jackson (Great Generals)

James M. McPherson

Embattled Rebel

Sarah L. Thomson; James E. Ransome (Illustrator)

What Lincoln Said

Heather Graham

Triumph

Irene Hunt

Across Five Aprils

Scott Martelle

The Madman and the Assassin

Michael Shaara

The Killer Angels

Harold Holzer

Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President

Robert Skimin

Gray Victory

Taylor M. Polites

The Rebel Wife

Dalmatian Press

The Red Badge of Courage

E. L. Doctorow

The March

Douglas S. Freeman; James M. McPherson (Foreword by)

Lee

Richard M. McMurry

Atlanta 1864

Stephen Clarkson

Patriot's Reward

Jay Winik

April 1865

Louisa Alcott

Hospital Sketches

Ernest B. Furgurson

Not War but Murder

Ernest B. Furgurson

Chancellorsville, 1863

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Douglas Lawson Wilson

Honor's Voice

Candy Dahl

Emma and the Civil Warrior (Signed copy)