Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Georgia

Adapted by Malvina G. Vogel

The Red Badge of Courage 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

A True Civil War Christmas Story

In the tradition of the bestselling Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, this inspiring title is filled with soldiers' letters, Christmas poems, and songs from the period. McIvor presents the true story of unabashed holiday spirit on the eve of the Battle of Stones River in Tennessee.

God Rest Ye Merry Soldiers

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#hardcover #civilwar #notices #bestsellingsuthor #ralphpeters #petersburgvirginia

A Novel

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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Sarah Bird

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New York

"You'll be swept away by the passion and power of this remarkable, trailblazing woman who risked everything to follow her own heart." - Kristin Hannah, #1New York Timesbestselling author

"An epic page-turner."-Christina Baker Kline

Named Best Fiction Writer in theAustin Chronicle's "Austin's Best 2018"
Named one of Lone Star Literary Life's "Top 20 Texas Books of 2018"

The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the only woman to ever serve with the legendary Buffalo Soldiers.

"Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my mama never let me forget it."

Though born into bondage on a "miserable tobacco farm" in Little Dixie, Missouri, Cathy Williams was never allowed to consider herself a slave. According to her mother, she was a captive, destined by her noble warrior blood to escape the enemy. Her chance at freedom presents itself with the arrival of Union general Phillip Henry "Smash 'em Up" Sheridan, the outcast of West Point who takes the rawboned, prideful young woman into service. At war's end, having tasted freedom, Cathyrefuses to return to servitude and makes the monumental decision to disguise herself as a man and join the Army's legendary Buffalo Soldiers.

Alone now in the ultimate man's world, Cathy must fight not only for her survival and freedom, but she also vows to never give up on finding her mother, her little sister, and the love of the only man strong enough to win her heart. Inspired by the stunning, true story of Private Williams, this American heroine comes to vivid life in a sweeping and magnificent tale about one woman's fight for freedom, respect and independence.

Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen

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Good. Small tear to dust jacket. #nonfiction #history #hardcover #civilwar #military #lincoln #americana

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln’s Army

#paperback #christianfiction #traciepeterson #texas #historicalfiction #civilwar #touchingthesky #landofthelonestar

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Land of the Lone Star - book two

Caught in the dangerous undertow of the Civil War, Laura must choose to either protect her sister, who is married to a Confederate officer, or pursue Captain Brandon Reid, the Union officer she loves.

Touching the Sky

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•1944 Hardcover 
Good Condition-There is no dust jacket. The book itself looks good with minimal wear. There is a name on the back flyleaf. Light wear to the edges of the pages. See photos. 


Williamsburg, Virginia, is once more the scene in this second book of Thane's series, but the time is now the 1860s. Some of the characters are the descendants of those in the first novel, Dawn’s Early Light, and Grandmother Day, who was 16 when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, is now 95. Once, she can remember, it was Massachusetts that was threatening to secede instead of South Carolina. And when she was a girl they never seemed to think much about Yankees, one way or the other. But when a Yankee comes to Williamsburg in the tense autumn of 1860 and red-haired Eden Day falls heels over head in love with him, her great grandmother takes the long view—besides, she likes him herself. The story moves from Williamsburg to Richmond to Washington and back again during the dreadful years between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. In addition to the fictitious characters, Jeb Stuart and General Lee, Pickett, Magruder, and Stonewall Jackson are all seen through the eyes of the men who followed them into battle. Like Dawn’s Early Light, Yankee Stranger is full of action and romance, but most importantly, it presents a vivid re-creation of a vanished world.

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 #historical #history #fiction #civilwar #1800s #vintage

Virginia

Yankee Stranger 

Thomas Keneally

The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles

Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author of Schindler's List, creates a biography that is as lively and engrossing as its subject.

Dan Sickles was a member of Congress, led a controversial charge at Gettysburg, and had an affair with the deposed Queen of Spain--among many other women. But the most startling of his many exploits was his murder of Philip Barton Key (son of Francis Scott Key), the lover of his long-suffering and neglected wife, Teresa. The affair, the crime, and the trial contained all the ingredients of melodrama needed to ensure that it was the scandal of the age. At the trial's end, Sickles was acquitted and hardly chastened. His life, in which outrage and accomplishment had equal force, is a compelling American tale, told with the skill of a master narrative.

American Scoundrel

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Fred Mustard Stewart

Deliberately maimed on a goodwill mission to the former Soviet republic, Major Christopher Ritter is headed for another land of intrigue: Washington, DC. From the Pentagon to the Senate, he's entering a different kind of war, in which sex, money and influence are wielded like laser-bombs. At stake are a series of photographs said to depict the KGB murder of American POWs—and the success of a secret, multibillion-dollar oil deal. The perfect soldier—and the perfect pawn—Major Ritter stands on the firing line, seeking a measure of atonement in a city without shame.

Texas

Against the background of the Civil War, the tempestuous lives of Adam and Lizzie are shaped by history's forces, moving from Imperial India to London's salons and New York's mansions

Pomp and Circumstance

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#paperback #appalachianmountains #civilwar #historical #fiction #ghostriders #sharynmccrumb

The latest ballad novel from Sharyn McCrumb tells the true story of the Civil War in the Appalachians, where neighbors became enemies, and the half-life of violence keeps soldiers' ghosts abroad in the modern wilderness. For frontier lawyer Zeb Vance, the war was an odyssey that leads to the Governor's mansion. Malinda Blalock, who followed her young husband into battle, becomes a Union bushwhacker, making war against confederate sympathizers in the mountains.

Ghost Riders

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#hardcover #fiction #civilwar #presidents #historicalfiction #fantasy #lincoln #astounding 

New Jersey

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented Named One of Paste’s Best Novels of the Decade • Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, USA Today, and Maureen Corrigan, NPR • One of Time’s Ten Best Novels of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book • One of O: The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of the Year February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end? “A luminous feat of generosity and humanism.”—Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review “A masterpiece.”—Zadie Smith

Lincoln in the Bardo

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Martha Hall Kelly

Arkansas

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Martha Hall Kelly's million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday's ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. "An exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them."--Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Georgeanna "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door, and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape--but only by abandoning the family she loves. Anne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the Union army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. In charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves. Inspired by true accounts, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid, detailed look at the Civil War experience, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations, to a war-torn New York City, to the horrors of the battlefield. It's a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty, a story still so relevant today.

Sunflower Sisters

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Melvin Claxton

Mark Puls

A great copy of "Uncommon Valor".  It hasn't been read yet so the pages are crisp and the binding hasn't been cracked. This history takes a deeper look into the african american participation in the Civil War. 

A Story of Race, Patriotism, and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War

Uncommon Valor

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Donald McCaig

Kentucky

A Story of Virginia During the War

Follows the fates of Duncan Gatewood--heir to a southern plantation, and Maggie--a mulatto slave, from their forbidden love in antebellum Virginia through the years of the Civil War

Jacob's Ladder

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#nonfiction #hardcover #history #gettysburg #newtgingrich #civilwar #military #battles #americanhistory

Oklahoma

a novel of the Civil War

Gettysburg

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Wisconsin

Murder at Gettysburg; A Homer Kelly Mystery 

As Homer and Mary Kelly research the life of Mary's ancestor Seth Morgan, the story of Seth's life and disappearance during the battle of Gettysburg unfolds.

The Deserter

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Ann Warren Turner

Ex-library. Catalog markers. Light shelf wear at the egdes of jacket. Subtle thumb traffic on pages. Largely crisp and clean. Sharp colors. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Marching to the Civil War

A thirteen-year-old soldier, coming of age during the American Civil War, beats his drum to raise tunes and spirits and muffle the sounds of the dying.

Drummer Boy

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Eugenia Price

Special: -
Publication: 1995
Publisher: Doubleday 
ISBN: 0385267037
Dust Jacket: Good, there are some flecks of paint or something on the back
Hardcover condition: Good. There are a few marks of red (could be) paint on the back
Binding: tight
Internal pages: clean of writing. There is mild tanning around the edges of the pages
Overall wear: Minimal 

This book's condition is as represented by the pictures. 

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Michigan

In 1852, recovering from the death of her husband and parents and the loss of her home on St. Simons Island, Anne Couper Fraser finds refuge in Marietta, Georgia, but her new life and her family are soon torn apart by the conflicting loyalties and violence of the Civil War. 125,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

Beauty from Ashes

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Elizabeth D. Leonard

Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

This manuscript is the first biography of Joseph Holt, the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General during the Civil War. Leonard argues that Holt has been portrayed as more or less a caricature of himself, flatly represented as the brutal prosecutor of Lincoln's assassins and the judge who allowed Mary Surratt to be hanged despite knowing her sentence had been reduced. Leonard contends that the southern view of Holt became the predominant way we see him, in large part because the memory perpetrated by the Lost Cause defined Holt as ruthless toward Southerners and the South. But Leonard argues that there is much more to Holt than what sympathizers with the Lost Cause came to think of him, and she tells his story here, from his early life in Kentucky to his wartime life as a member of Lincoln's administration to his postwar life as the prosecutor of Lincoln's assassins. Perhaps most important, Leonard will look at the erasure of Holt from American memory and investigate how such a significant figure has come to be so widely misunderstood.

Lincoln's Forgotten Ally

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#hardcover #Mystery #historical #Irish #Chicago  #civilwar #firstedition.           Stained inside dust jacket, book pages are good 


Pennsylvania

A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel

Irish Lace

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#hardcover #nonfiction #civilwar #facts #history

Why did Lincoln sneak into Washington for his inauguration? Why did Robert E. Lee resign from the U.S. Army? Whom did the Emancipation Proclamation emancipate? Did General Sherman really say "War is Hell"? What was the Richmond Bread Riot? What did the Confederate soldiers come home to find? If you can't answer most of these questions, you're not alone. Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Too many others thought they learned it all from Gone With the Wind.Now Kenneth C. Davis sheds light on these and other questions about America's greatest conflict. His Don't Know Much About History, a New York Times best-seller for more that thirty weeks, and Don't Know Much About Geography have combined sales of more than 1.5 million copies. All those who dozed through class will find that Davis has a genius for bringing history to life and helping them understand and enjoy the subjects they "Don't Know Much About." With his deft wit and unconventional style, Davis sorts out the players, the politics, and the key events--Harpers Ferry, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Emancipation, Reconstruction. Drawing on the moving eyewitness accounts of the people who lived through the war, he brings the reader into the world of the ordinary men and women who made history--the human side of the story that the textbooks never tell.

Don't Know Much about the Civil War

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#paperback #nonfiction #biography #memoir #truestory #history #unicef #forgiveness #childsoldiers #civilwar

Missouri

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.

A Long Way Gone

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Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War

This contemporary classic explores the role of boys who fought in the Civil War. No reader's vision of America's most brutal and bloody war will be the same after reading this book.

"This wrenching look at our nation's bloodiest conflict through the eyes of its youthful participants serves up history both heartbreaking and enlightening." --Publishers Weekly

Some Union and Confederate soldiers were as young as twelve when they went off to fight in the Civil War. It is thought that as many as ten to twenty percent of all Civil War soldiers may have been under sixteen.

The Boys' War follows these young soldiers through the rigors of camp life and drilling, right into the chaos of the battlefield. Jim Murphy skillfully weaves together firsthand accounts and personal letters of these countless young men with historical context to paint their portrait--young soldiers who, either seeking escape from the drudgery of farm work or embracing fantasies of glory, participated in the Civil War.

Handsomely produced with numerous period photographs and drawings, The Boys' War is a winner of the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

"Making extensive use of the actual words--culled from diaries, journals, memoirs, and letters--of boys who served in the Union and Confederate armies as fighting soldiers as well as drummers, buglers, and telegraphers, Murphy describes the beginnings of the Civil War and goes on to delineate the military role of the underage soldiers and their life in the camps and field bivouacs. Also included is a description of the boys' return home and the effects upon them of their wartime experiences. An excellent selection of more than 45 sepia-toned contemporary photographs augment the text of this informative, moving work." --School Library Journal (starred review)

"This well-researched and readable account provides fresh insight into the human cost of a pivotal event in United States history." --The Horn Book (starred review)

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