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Takes, stories and tidbits about the civil war. Great book for civil war buffs

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

The Armchair Reader series will entertain and enlighten with little-known anecdotes, untold stories, fascinating facts, and tales of intrigue. The Reader's innovative approach and unique style will capture the imaginations of the Civil War buff and the novice, as well. Discover families that were split in two over the war--even Abraham Lincoln's. Find out which generals rose to the occasion and which failed to live up to expectations. Learn how the technical marvels of the day--land mines, the telegraph, and photography--changed warfare forever.

Armchair Reader Civil War

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Erik Bruun

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

The History of the Civil War in Documents

I'BThe dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you have to get used to it/B.'/I It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. As Joakim struggles to keep his sanity in the wake of the tragedy, the old house begins to exert a strange hold over him. Joakim has never been in the least superstitious, but from where are those whispering noises coming? To whom does his daughter call out in the night? And why is the barn door for ever ajar? As the end of the year approaches, and the infamous winter storm moves in across Oland, Joakim begins to fear that the most spine-chilling story he's heard about Eel Point might indeed be true: that every Christmas the dead return...

The Civil War Archive

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress

A primary source of intelligence in the Civil War, maps were as valuable and critical as rifles and cannon. This second book in the Library of Congress Classics series breaks the war into major battles, illustrating each with rare and critical maps and beautiful photographs and sketches. 120 illustrations, 60 in full color.

Mapping the Civil War

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Webb B. Garrison

In addition to trivia and facts, the book includes 33 fascinating sidebar articles, and 48 unusual photographs and stories. Thoroughly indexed, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers. 
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Still in original packaging

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Unusual and Often Overlooked Facts about America's Civil War

Provides answers to questions on the personalities, statistics, places, weapons, and events of the Civil War

Civil War Trivia and Fact Book

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Virginia Ellis

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Widowed after the Civil War and struggling to make ends meet, Julia and Victoria Atwater plan to cheer up their younger sister, Claire, by sewing her a special wedding gown, but all their lives are changed by the arrival of Sergeant Monroe Tacy.

The Wedding Dress

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Phillip Katcher

Awesome book for Civil War buffs, jam packed with great facts, illustrations, maps, photographs and more.

The hardcover reference titles in the Day by Day series examine the evolution of wars in a chronological timeline, from the first skirmish to the last battle and everything in between. These books are a historical companion to each major war in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The fate of soldiers, battalions, armies, can change in the blink of an eye--with this comprehensive book readers can follow the conflicting sides in their strategy, weaponry, and policies.

The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history, claiming the lives of over 600,000 Americans between 1861 and 1865. The Civil War Day by Day is a chronological, month-by-month approach to the conflict, allowing the reader to see at a glance the key battles on land and at sea; bloody engagements such as the First Bull Run, Antietam, Nashville, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor and Gettysburg. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of contemporary photographs and illustrations, this book also includes full-color maps of all the major battles and campaigns of the war. Each chapter contains boxes on the weapons that were used by both sides in the war, and the tactics that were employed on the battlefield.

The Civil War Day by Day

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Tennessee

Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography.

The American Civil War: A Military History

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Ann Rinaldi

Michigan

A coming-of-age novel set during the Civil War about 7-year-old Oscie.

In My Father's House

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Sebastian Barry

Florida

A Novel

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."—Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize-winning author From the two-time Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, “a master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal) and author of the companion novel A Thousand Moons, a powerful chronicle of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars—against the Sioux and the Yurok—and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten.

Days Without End

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#hardcover #Gettysburg #civilwar #historicalfiction #war #America #history #ex-library 

New Jersey

They Met at Gettysburg

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David Fisher

Dan Abrams

North Carolina

The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency

Look for Dan Abrams and David Fisher's new book, Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.



Instant New York Times bestseller!



A Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award



A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2018



A Suspense Magazine Best Book of 2018



A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018



A USA Today Top 10 Hot Book for Summer



"Makes you feel as if you are watching a live camera riveted on a courtroom more than 150 years ago." --Diane Sawyer



The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign



At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases--including more than twenty-five murder trials--during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer.



What normally would have been a local case took on momentous meaning. Lincoln's debates with Senator Stephen Douglas the previous fall had gained him a national following, transforming the little-known, self-taught lawyer into a respected politician. He was being urged to make a dark-horse run for the presidency in 1860. Taking this case involved great risk. His reputation was untarnished, but should he lose this trial, should Harrison be convicted of murder, the spotlight now focused so brightly on him might be dimmed. He had won his most recent murder trial with a daring and dramatic maneuver that had become a local legend, but another had ended with his client dangling from the end of a rope.



The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer, the young man Lincoln would defend, was the son of a close friend and loyal supporter. And to win this trial he would have to form an unholy allegiance with a longtime enemy, a revivalist preacher he had twice run against for political office--and who had bitterly slandered Lincoln as an "infidel...too lacking in faith" to be elected.



Lincoln's Last Trial captures the presidential hopeful's dramatic courtroom confrontations in vivid detail as he fights for his client--but also for his own blossoming political future. It is a moment in history that shines a light on our legal system, as in this case Lincoln fought a legal battle that remains incredibly relevant today.



Look for Dan Abrams and David Fisher's latest book, Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense, coming in May 2019.

Lincoln's Last Trial

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Barbara Herkert

Excellent condition from a smoke-free home.

Ohio

An illuminating picture book biography of an artist and former slave whose patchwork quilts bring the stories of her family to life. Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and eventually owned a cotton farm with her family, all the while relying on her skills with the needle to clothe and feed her children. Later she began making pictorial quilts, using each square to illustrate Bible stories and local legends. She exhibited her quilts at local cotton fairs, and though she never traveled outside of Georgia, her quilts are now priceless examples of African American folk art. Barbara Herkert’s lyrical narrative and Vanessa Newton’s patchwork illustrations bring this important artist to life in a moving picture-book biography.

Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist

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Harriet A. Jacobs

California

This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in a tale of dauntless spirit and faith.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Pennsylvania

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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Washington

Listen for Rachel

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Georgia

Glory turned grim, and warfare changed forever. From the butchery of The Crater, where stunning success collapsed into a massacre, through near-constant battles fought by heat-stricken soldiers, to the crucial election of 1864, The Damned of Petersburg resurrects the American Civil War's hard reality, as plumes and sabers gave way to miles of trenches. Amid the slaughter of those fateful months, fabled leaders-Grant and Lee, Winfield Scott Hancock and A. P. Hill-turned for help to rising heroes, Confederates "Little Billy" Mahone and Wade Hampton, last of the cavaliers, or Union warriors such as tragedy-stricken Francis Channing Barlow and the fearless Nelson Miles, a general at twenty-four. Nor does Ralph Peters forget the men in the ranks, the common soldiers who paid the price for the blunders of commanders who'd never know their names. In desperate battles now forgotten, such as Deep Bottom, Globe Tavern, and Reams Station, soldiers on both sides were pushed to the last human limits-but fought on as their superiors struggled to master a terrible new age of warfare. The Damned of Petersburg revives heroes aplenty-enriching readers' knowledge of America's most terrible war-but above all, this novel is a tribute to the endurance and courage of the American soldier, North or South.

The Damned of Petersburg

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A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers.

The Widow of the South

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Oklahoma

The Last Full Measure

Michael Shaara

The Killer Angels

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James I  Robertson

1861-1865

Young readers learn and interact with the battles between the Union and the Confederacy through the epic paintings of America’s foremost historical artist, Mort Künstler The Civil War takes readers on a chronological journey of the most important events of the conflict with action-packed illustrations by Mort Künstler?the most collected Civil War artist in the world?and inquiry-based text award winning historian and author James I. Robertson, Jr. With close readings of Künstler’s paintings, young readers can parse the details of key moments of the war, including the Battle of Bull Run, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address, to learn how it really felt to be there. A timeline and short biographies of notable figures in the war, such as generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, provide excellent supplements to each narrative chapter.

The Civil War

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New York

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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A Civil War Union Soldier - Virginia, 1863

James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

The Journal of James Edmond Pease

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A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps. Fully researched, superbly written.

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Publications International Ltd. Staff

Armchair Reader Civil War

Henry Steele Commager (Editor); Erik Bruun (Contribution by)

The Civil War Archive

Christopher Nelson; Brian C. Pohanka (Contribution by)

Mapping the Civil War

Webb B. Garrison

Civil War Trivia and Fact Book

Virginia Ellis

The Wedding Dress

Phillip Katcher

The Civil War Day by Day

John Keegan

The American Civil War: A Military History

Ann Rinaldi

In My Father's House

Sebastian Barry

Days Without End

Edward J. Stackpole

They Met at Gettysburg

David Fisher; Dan Abrams

Lincoln's Last Trial

Barbara Herkert

Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist

Harriet A. Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

E. L. Doctorow

The March

Lou Kassem

Listen for Rachel

Ralph Peters

The Damned of Petersburg

Robert Hicks

The Widow of the South

Jeff Shaara

The Last Full Measure

Michael Shaara

The Killer Angels

James I Robertson

The Civil War

Karen Hesse

A Light in the Storm

Karen Hesse

A Light in the Storm

Jim Murphy

The Journal of James Edmond Pease

Champ Clark

Gettysburg