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Kentucky

Carnton Plantation, 1894: Carrie McGavock is an old woman who tends the graves of the almost 1,500 soldiers buried there. As she walks among the dead, an elderly man appears--the same soldier she met that fateful day long ago. Today, he asks if the cemetery has room for one more. Based on an extraordinary true story, this brilliant, meticulously researched novel flashes back to 1864 and the afternoon of the Civil War. While the fierce fighting rages on Carrie's land, her plantation turns into a Confederate army hospital; four generals lie dead on her back porch; the pile of amputated limbs rises as tall as the smoke house. But when a wounded soldier named Zachariah Cashwell arrives at her house, he awakens feelings she had thought long dead--and inspires a passion as powerful and unforgettable as the war that consumes a nation.

The Widow of the South

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William C. Davis

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

The Last Days of the Confederate Government

In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two.An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled during this time to achieve their own differing visions for the South: Jefferson Davis, the autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost; and the practical and warm General John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered remnants of the land he loved so dearly.

Pulitzer Prize nominee William C. Davis traces the astounding flight of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet, as they flee south from Richmond by train, then by mule, then on foot. Using original research, he narrates, with dramatic style and clear historical accuracy, the futile quarrels of Davis and Breckinridge as they try to evade bands of Northern pursuers and describes their eventual--and separate--captures. The result is a rich canvas of a time of despair and defeat that is exciting and highly readable, a charged tale full of physical adventure and political battle that sweeps from the marble halls of Richmond to a dingy room in a Havana hotel.



An Honorable Defeat

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Texas

Lee and Grant - The Final Victory

Traces the events surrounding the pivotal battle of August 1863, during which Lee and Grant both cross the Susquehanna and make decisions that culminate in the war's outcome.

Never Call Retreat 15 1st ed 

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Lois Hill

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

A collection of more than 100 poems and songs from the Civil War era grouped by theme.

Poems and Songs of the Civil War

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#hardcover #women #fiction #historicalfiction #survival #missouri #civilwar #enemy #enemywomen If you liked Cold Mountain, you will like this.  A Good Morning America favorite.

Minnesota

For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom. Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.

Enemy Women

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#hardcover #ghost #military #CivilWar #history

Alabama

Authentic accounts of the Strange and Unexplainrd

Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War

Letters Home from a Soldier of the Iron Brigade

The letters reflect John's concerns about everything at home: how Sarah is being treated by relatives, the baby's exposure to scarlet fever, Sarah's money needs, and their plans to buy a home. The letters also reveal the stresses of war and the heroics of everyday life, whether at home or on the battlefield."--BOOK JACKET.

Dear Sarah

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Russell F. Weigley

I purchased this book because I was researching the Dunker church and needed the information on pages 145 and 151-152.  The book has been done for a while now and I realize that I will never read the other 1000 pages.  The book needs to find a new home where it will be appreciated.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Military and Political History, 1861-1865

A Great Civil War is a major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity nearly 150 years after the war's end. In personal as well as historical terms, more even than the war for independence, the Civil War has been the defining experience of American democracy. A lifelong student of both strategy and tactics, Weigley also brings to his account a deep understanding of the importance of individuals from generals to captains to privates. He can put the reader on the battlefield as well as anyone who has ever written about war. All of the important engagements are covered, and he does it countless times in A Great Civil War. From Fort Sumter to the early clashes in the West and border states to the naval encounters in the East and on through the great and horrible battles whose names resound in American history--Shiloh, Corinth, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Antietam, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Appomattox. A brilliant narrator of battle action and historical events, Weigley is never content merely to tell a good story. Every student of war will find new insights and interpretations at the strategic and the tactical level. There are firm judgments throughout of the leaders on both sides of the conflict. A Great Civil War also analyzes the politics of both sides in relationship to battlefield situations. Weigley is unique in his ability to put all of the pieces on the board at once; the reader understands as never before how war and politics (and individuals) interacted to produce the infinitely complex story which is the Civil War. As with any major work, there are themes and subtexts, explicit and implicit: Both sides began the war with strategic and tactical concepts based on Napoleon which were already obsolete because of changes in technology--and both sides struggled throughout the war to develop new strategic and tactical procedures. The Civil War was great not only in the massiveness of the slaughter and destruction. It was, for all its horror, a war about values--democracy and the freeing of the slaves--that was worth the effort. The South, despite its powerful defense, was ultimately ambivalent about leaving the Union and gave up more easily than might have been expected. Finally, there is an intimacy, a sense of personal urgency, in Weigley's grand account. He is connected by blood as well as profession. Jacob Weigley, the author's great grandfather, visited Gettysburg soon after the battle and wrote about it to his brother Francis, who was serving with the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry; Francis later died in a Confederate prison camp. Then and now the Weigleys live in Pennsylvania, and the war and its lessons remain part of the family's living memory, as it is also the nation's.

A Great Civil War

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Wisconsin

Pivotal Battles of the Civil War

Complemented by maps and period photographs, a narrative history of the Civil War focuses on some of the war's most significant battles, including Fort Sumter, through the war's turning point at Gettysburg, to Appomattox. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Fields of Honor

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Louise Barnett

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

The Life, Death and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer

Profiles the life of Custer, including his military brilliance during the Civil War and his death at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Touched by Fire

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#hardcover #exlibrary #civilwar #children #poem #historical #livingbook #poetry #poetryteatime #history 

Oregon

An illustrated edition of the poem describing Barbara Fritchie's dramatic stand with the Union flag against the rebel troops invading her town.

Barbara Frietchie

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Ohio

A Novel of The Civil War

Johnny made a promise to his father, who was wounded fighting for the South. He promised to take care of the family and not run off to fight. Without Pa, Johnny's family can barely scrape by. But when there's an offer to take his mules and wagon on a bold mission to supply the Rebel troops, Johnny can't resist. Then he's captured by a Yankee--Cush, a runaway slave. Johnny doesn't like taking orders from a black. But he's got no choice. He's bound for prison camp, tormented by his broken promise and wondering what will become of his family and himself.

With Every Drop of Blood

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A Novel

Keri Anderson is a typical thirteen- year- old . . . kind of. She's got an adorable yet highly annoying little brother, unending peer pressure, and moments of such clutziness that she really would like to crawl under a rock. But that's where the normalness ends. She and her family live in Mozambique, Africa, right in the middle of a major civil war. Though the war forces them to move to a safer location, it still doesn't seem truly real--until they are caught in the middle of enemy territory, at night, with no escape. Crushed by the disappearance of her African grandfather (Vovo), Keri struggles with the intense pain of missing him and with the agonizing thought that God could have saved Vovo Pastor if He had wanted to. Each time she looks at a small hand-carved wooden ox Vovo made, Keri's crisis of faith becomes more intense. Even God seems powerless or unwilling to stop the violence that threatens her family and friends. Is faith worth holding onto when God doesn't seem to care?

The Wooden Ox

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Irene Hunt

Some wear and creases on cover. Book is clean.

The Newbery Award-winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton--a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.

In 1861, America is on the cusp of war, and young Jethro Creighton is just nine-years-old. His brother, Tom, and his cousin, Eb, are both of fighting age. As Jethro's family is pulled into the conflict between the North and the South, loyalties are divided, dreams are threatened, and their bonds are put to the test in this heart-wrenching, coming of age story. 

"Drawing from family records and from stories told by her grandfather, the author has, in an uncommonly fine narrative, created living characters and vividly reconstructed a crucial period of history."--Booklist

Across Five Aprils

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West Virginia

A Novel of the Civil War

The Black Flower is the gripping story of a young Confederate rifleman from Mississippi named Bushrod Carter, who serves in General John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee during the Civil War battle that takes place in Franklin, Tennessee, in November 1864. Written with reverent attention to historical accuracy, the book vividly documents the fear, suffering, and intense friendships that are all present on the eve of the battle and during its aftermath. When Bushrod is wounded in the Confederate charge, he is taken to a makeshift hospital where he comes under the care of Anna, who has already lost two potential romances to battle. Bushrod and Anna's poignant attempt to forge a bond of common humanity in the midst of the pathos and horror of battle serves as a powerful reminder that the war that divided America will not vanish quietly into the page of history.


The Black Flower

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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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Kimberley Comeaux

Susan K. Downs

JoAnn A. Grote

Ellen Edwards Kennedy

Debby Mayne

DiAnn Mills

6 Romances Spring from Hearts, Home, and Harvest

Love is in season as you journey into rural America’s history and witness the harvest of romance through six delightful stories. From Minnesota to Florida, New York to Kansas, and Ohio to Louisiana, heroic men and women make sacrifices in order to create a home, nurture the crops, and secure a future for the next generation, but sometime romance is almost an afterthought. Can love also grow down on the farm?

The Farmer's Bride Collection

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Michigan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER .FromJeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn.

November 1864- As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds to Ulysses S. Grant's successes by bringing the general east, promoting Grant to command the entire Union war effort, while William Tecumseh Sherman now directs the Federal forces that occupy all of Tennessee.

In a massive surge southward, Sherman conquers the city of Atlanta, sweeping aside the Confederate army under the inept leadership of General John Bell Hood. Pushing through northern Georgia, Sherman's legendary March to the Sea shoves away any Rebel presence, and by Christmas 1864 the city of Savannah falls into the hands of "Uncle Billy." Now there is but one direction for Sherman to go. In his way stands the last great hope for the Southern cause, General Joseph E. Johnston.

In the concluding novel of his epic Civil War tetralogy, Jeff Shaara tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives- the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of the general who vowed to "make Georgia howl" until it surrendered. In Johnston, we see a man agonizing over the limits of his army's power, and accepting the burden of leading the last desperate effort to ensure the survival of the Confederacy.

The Civil War did not end quietly. It climaxed in a storm of fury that lay waste to everything in its path. The Fateful Lightning brings to life those final brutal, bloody months of fighting with you-are-there immediacy, grounded in the meticulous research that readers have come to expect from Jeff Shaara.

Praise forThe Fateful Lightning

"Powerful and emotional . . . highly recommended."-Historical Novels Review

"Outstanding . . . Shaara combines his extensive knowledge of military history with his consummate skill as a storyteller."-Booklist

"Readers . . . looking for an absorbing novel will be well rewarded."-The Clarion-Ledger

"A great accomplishment and a more than fitting conclusion to Shaara's work on the Civil War."-Bookreporter

The Fateful Lightning

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Jennifer Chiaverini

Iowa

Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

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Illinois

Impostor syndrome

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The war between the states has finally come and the civilians of Gettysburg hope the battles will stay as far away from them as possible. But the war will touch them all more than they can imagine. Four friends, old and new, will find themselves looking to God and each other to get them through.Charlotte Turner is left to run the family farm and will lose more than she may be able to bear. Alexandra Sadler must live without her new husband as he goes off to fight for the Union. Ginny Wade must help her family survive by doing odd jobs as she worries about her best friend fighting in the war. And Augusta Lewis, born and raised in South Carolina, must spend the war days with her husband's family amidst Northern sympathizers. Will the four long years leave the town unharmed? Or will the hamlet of Gettysburg be changed forever?

Though War Shall Rise Against Me (signed)

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First Washington Square Press Printing, November 1996. Originally published in 1895. Includes period illustrations and photographs. 

Arizona

Red Badge of Courage 

New York

Annie, Between the States

'Mitford brings warmth to everything she touches, and her biography of Madame de Pompadour is testimony to that' Daily Telegraph

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how the little girl rose, against a backdrop of savage social-climbing, intrigue, excess and high drama, to become the most powerful women of the eighteenth-century French court: Le Pompadour.

'Reads as if an enchantingly clever woman was pouring out the story to me on the telephone' Raymond Mortimer

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Robert Hicks

The Widow of the South

William C. Davis

An Honorable Defeat

Newt Gingrich; William R. Forstchen; Albert S. Hanser (Consultant Editor)

Never Call Retreat 15 1st ed

Lois Hill

Poems and Songs of the Civil War

Paulette Jiles

Enemy Women

Christopher K Coleman

Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War

Coralou Peel Lassen (Editor)

Dear Sarah

Russell F. Weigley

A Great Civil War

Edwin C. Bearss

Fields of Honor

Louise Barnett

Touched by Fire

John Greenleaf Whittier; Nancy Winslow Parker (Illustrator)

Barbara Frietchie

James Lincoln Collier; Christopher Collier (Contribution by)

With Every Drop of Blood

LeAnne Hardy

The Wooden Ox

Irene Hunt

Across Five Aprils

Howard Bahr

The Black Flower

Thomas Keneally

American Scoundrel

Kimberley Comeaux; Susan K. Downs; JoAnn A. Grote; Ellen Edwards Kennedy; Debby Mayne; DiAnn Mills

The Farmer's Bride Collection

Jeff Shaara

The Fateful Lightning

Jennifer Chiaverini

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

Mishell Baker

Impostor syndrome

Marie LaPres

Though War Shall Rise Against Me (signed)

Stephen Crane

Red Badge of Courage

L. M. Elliott

Annie, Between the States

Eugenia Price

Stranger in Savannah