   Less than 100 years after the countries founding its economy was soaring thanks to inventions ranging from the sewing machine to the hydraulic turbine and yet a cultural and political chasm was widening across the country and the no one seemed able to cure it. Soon that chasm would claim the lives of more than 750,000 Americans
LIFE Magazine
A reissue of a special edition
96 pages
Printed in USA

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Crucial Battles, Heroic Actions

The Civil War On the Front Lines

A wealth of information about America’s greatest conflict, consisting of interesting facts and figures about the resources, armies, and leaders of the Union and the Confederacy, as well as leading Civil War historians’ examinations of a variety of popular topics, including the war’s most overrated and underrated commanders, top turning points, and most influential women.  An innovative and insightful look at the Civil War—a true collectible for history buffs.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

The Civil War Almanac

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

The Civil War: Virginia 

#hardcover #CivilWar #Confederacy #diaries

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade

The Civil War journal of John Jackman is one of the richest and most literate of all Confederate soldier narratives to survive the war. It is also the only surviving war period diary of a soldier in the famed First Kentucky or ""orphan"" Brigade. Jackman follows his brigade across the war-torn South, from Shiloh to Vicksburg, to Baton Rouge, through all the battles for Tennessee, and on through the Atlanta Campaign and the resistance to Sherman's march to the sea. Jackman is an observer right up to the end, when Jefferson Davis and his fleeing cabinet meet for the last time at Washington, Georgia. Written with wit and insight, and unfailingly entertaining. Jackman's journal catches the spirit of the common soldier of the Confederacy in camp and field, as well as some of the excitement and confusion of battle. His opinions are frank, his prejudices few, and his warm and generous nature show through in his remarks on his fellow ""orphans"". Especially significant for its behind-the-lines vignettes of the Army of Tennessee, this journal is one of the most important soldier journals to come from that troubled yet fascinating army.

Diary of a Confederate Soldier

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Tony Horwitz

Louisiana

Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

A journalist leads readers on a revealing journey through the Old South, tangling with the forces of white rage, rebel grit, and regional pride in places where the Civil War is more than a memory

Confederates in the Attic

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Webb Garrison

Oregon

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.

Strange Battles of the Civil War

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

First-person narratives from the diaries and letters give immediacy and a sense of reality to this interesting book about Confederate women who strongly supported secession from the United States. The central focus here is on the part these women played in the extended siege of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy.

The Confederate Ladies of Richmond

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Jeffry D. Wert

The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier

General James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War, from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. Yet, he was largely held to blame for the Confederacy's defeat at Gettysburg. General James Longstreet sheds new light on the controversial commander and the man Robert E. Lee called "my old war horse."

General James Longstreet

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Some pages crinkled from old water exposure 

#paperback #thriller #Confederacy #action

Alabama

On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater, or so the history books tell us ... but what if there was a second gunman who actually pulled the trigger?
"The Curse of Cain"
Like "The Day of the Jackal," "The Eagle has Landed," and "The Key to Rebecca," "The Curse of Cain" is the cat and mouse story of a ruthless professional assassin hired to kill the Union President and the Confederate agent dispatched by Jefferson Davis to thwart his plan.
Like Forsyth's Jackal, Follett's Needle, and Higgins's Devlin, the assassin-Basil Tarleton-is a charming agent of death. Jack Tanner-a Confederate era Jack Ryan, is willing to forego matters of the heart in order to carry out his mission and save the life of the President of an opposing nation.
Set in the closing weeks of the Civil War and against the backdrop of the notorious Lincoln conspiracy (and subsequent cover-up) as well as the actual Confederate intelligence network that existed in Washington, D.C. at the time, Powell and Meagher tell a heart-stopping tale of suspense and intrigue. This dangerous mission follows assassin and pursuer, as they close in on their targets in enemy territory where exposure means certain death.
"The Curse of Cain" races to the page-turning climax on that fateful night at Ford's Theater.


The Curse of Cain

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Illinois

History

The American Civil War

#paperback #biographies #civilwar #confederacy #nonfiction #ya #women #womenshistory

Oklahoma

Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Avery Craven Prize In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as "women" but as "ladies," models of dependent femininity. But that ideal was to prove impossible to maintain during the social upheaval of the Civil War, when they found themselves suddenly assuming unaccustomed roles as workers, protectors, and providers. Through the use of hundreds of moving and eloquent letters, memoirs, and diary excerpts, Drew Gilpin Faust, one of the foremost historians of the American South, illuminates the lives of a wide array of Confederate women: from Lizzie Neblett, a housewife facing a life of physical labor for the first time, to Sallie Tompkins, a Virginia aristocrat turned military nurse, to Belle Boyd, a ruthless teenaged spy. An intensely personal work of scholarship, Mothers of Invention gives voice to the hitherto silent half of the Confederacy's ruling class and explains how its ethos continues to influence the lives of Southern women even today. "A dramatically revealing study...[Faust looks] directly at the past, with a daughter's hard, steady gaze, and with a daughter's generous heart."--New York Times Book Review

Mothers of Invention

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#history #hardcover #ushistory #civilwar #confederacy #militaryhistory Clean, tight copy, slight musty book smell.

Connecticut

Essays on the Life and Career of Major General Patrick R. Cleburne

Patrick Cleburne came to America from Ireland as impoverished gentry during the Great Famine period. Shaped by the harshness of the British army and his Irish heritage, his concept of freedom was more political than inalienable. When his adopted country was ripped apart by Civil War, Cleburne came from nowhere to gain fame and immortality as the highest ranking Irishman of either army, and the most capable division commander of the Confederate Army.

A Meteor Shining Brightly

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The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History

A dramatic, riveting, and "fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and eye-opening portrait" (Publishers Weekly).

Megan Kate Nelson "expands our understanding of how the Civil War affected Indigenous peoples and helped to shape the nation" (Library Journal, starred review), reframing the era as one of national conflict--involving not just the North and South, but also the West.

Against the backdrop of this larger series of battles, Nelson introduces nine individuals: John R. Baylor, a Texas legislator who established the Confederate Territory of Arizona; Louisa Hawkins Canby, a Union Army wife who nursed Confederate soldiers back to health in Santa Fe; James Carleton, a professional soldier who engineered campaigns against Navajos and Apaches; Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman who led a regiment of volunteers against the Texans, Navajos, Kiowas, and Comanches; Juanita, a Navajo weaver who resisted Union campaigns against her people; Bill Davidson, a soldier who fought in all of the Confederacy's major battles in New Mexico; Alonzo Ickis, an Iowa-born gold miner who fought on the side of the Union; John Clark, a friend of Abraham Lincoln's who embraced the Republican vision for the West as New Mexico's surveyor-general; and Mangas Coloradas, a revered Chiricahua Apache chief who worked to expand Apache territory in Arizona.

As we learn how these nine charismatic individuals fought for self-determination and control of the region, we also see the importance of individual actions in the midst of a larger military conflict. Based on letters and diaries, military records and oral histories, and photographs and maps from the time, "this history of invasions, battles, and forced migration shapes the United States to this day--and has never been told so well" (Pulitzer Prize-winning author T.J. Stiles).

The Three-Cornered War 2021

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Tight binding; clean copy.  Good, readable copy.

The Common Soldier of the Confederacy

Offers a composite portrait of the Southern soldier during the Civil War.

The Life of Johnny Reb

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Great condition for its age! See all pics for inscription by Jesse James III 😊

Missouri

Jesse James Was One of His Names

#paperback #fiction #confederacy #dunce First Evergreen paperback edition #pulitzer #comedy #johnkennedytoole 

An obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Reprint.

A Confederacy of Dunces

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Janis Herbert

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New York

A History with 21 Activities

History explodes in this activity guide spanning the turmoil preceding secession, the first shots fired at Fort Sumter, the fierce battles on land and sea, and finally the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. Making butternut dye for a Rebel uniform, learning drills and signals with flags, decoding wigwag, baking hardtack, reenacting battles, and making a medicine kit bring this pivotal period in our nation's history to life. Fascinating sidebars tell of slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad, the adventures of nine-year-old drummer boy Johnny Clem, animal mascots who traveled with the troops, and friendships between enemies. The resource section includes short biographies of important figures from both sides of the war, listings of Civil War sites across the country, pertinent websites, glossary, and an index.

The Civil War for Kids

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J. Stephen Lang

Rhode Island

What infamous law passed the Confederate Congress in April 1862? - What Southern author was captured while running the blockade to promote his own books in Britain? - Which former U.S. president was elected to the Confederate Congress? - At which battle was the famous "Rebel yell" first heard"--What is the only Walt Disney film set in the Confederacy? - Which Confederate city had the biggest problem with prostitution? - What part of the U.S. Constitution was adopted verbatim into the Confederate Constitution? - What were "Sherman neckties"? - Learn the answers to these intriguing questions & 4000 more!

The Complete Book of Confederate Trivia over 4,000 Questions and Answers

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South Carolina

Traces the rise and fall of the Confederate states in the years before, during, and after the Civil War.

The Story of the Confederacy

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#civilwar #hardcover #rebel #history #americanhistory #americancivilwar #jeffersondavis #virginiahistory #richmond #Confederacy
"From the Pulitzer prize -winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy."(From front dust jacket)
301 pages, including illustrations, maps, notes and index.
Book has dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition with no markings or writing on either.

Washington

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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Signed! Never read. #memoir #history #politics #race #nola #confederacy #racism #whitesupremacy #neworleans #signed 

Pennsylvania

A White Southerner Confronts History

When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the monuments, tackles the broader history of slavery, race and institutional inequities that still bedevil America, and traces his personal relationship to this history.

SIGNED - In the Shadow of Statues

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#civilwar #history #rebel #Confederacy #americanhistory #americancivilwar #virginia #Virginiahistory #jeffersondavis #war

"From the Pulitzer prize -winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy." (From inside dust jack)
301 pages, including maps, illustrations, notes and index. Book has dust jacket. Dust jacket and book are in excellent condition with no marks or writing on either.

Embattled Rebel #2

#AmericanCivilWar #AmericanHistory #MilitaryHistory #CivilWar #NorthvsSouth #Confederacy #Paperback
Six authoritative views on the #economic, #military, #diplomatic, #social, and #political reasons behind the #confederacy's defeat.
Good condition.No marks or writings in book or cover. No torn or bent pages.
127 pages with text, notes, and index.

In this classic exploration of the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald and author of Lincoln assembles insightful and probing essays from six of America's most distinguished historians.

Focusing on the political, military, economic, social, and diplomatic reasons behind the Union victory, this collection presents the most complete picture of this key aspect of Civil War studies. In an essay new to this edition, Henry Steele Commager offers a historiographical overview of the collapse of the Confederacy. Richard N. Current describes the economic superiority of the North and shows how the civilian resources of the South were dissipated during the war. T. Harry Williams examines the deficiencies of the Southern military strategy and leadership. Norman A. Graebner discusses the reluctance of France and England to aid the South. David Herbert Donald, in his own essay, reports that excessive Southern emphasis on individual freedom fatally undermined military discipline. And David M. Potter suggests that a lack of political leadership in the South resulted in gross incompetence. And exclusively for this edition, the editor has written a new foreword and completely updated the bibliography to create the most comprehensive and enlightening guide to understanding why the North won the Civil War.

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The Civil War On the Front Lines

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The Civil War Almanac

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The Civil War: Virginia

John S. Jackman; William C. Davis (Volume Editor)

Diary of a Confederate Soldier

Tony Horwitz

Confederates in the Attic

Webb Garrison

Strange Battles of the Civil War

Susan Provost Beller

The Confederate Ladies of Richmond

Jeffry D. Wert

General James Longstreet

Tony Horwitz

Confederates in the Attic

J. Mark Powell; L. D. Meagher; J. M. Powell

The Curse of Cain

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The American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

Mothers of Invention

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A Meteor Shining Brightly

Megan Kate Nelson

The Three-Cornered War 2021

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The Life of Johnny Reb

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Jesse James Was One of His Names

John Kennedy Toole; Walker Percy (Foreword by)

A Confederacy of Dunces

Janis Herbert

The Civil War for Kids

J. Stephen Lang

The Complete Book of Confederate Trivia over 4,000 Questions and Answers

Robert Selph Henry

The Story of the Confederacy

James M. McPherson

Embattled Rebel

Mitch Landrieu

SIGNED - In the Shadow of Statues

James M. McPherson

Embattled Rebel #2

David Herbert Donald (Editor); David Herbert Donald (Editor)

Why the North Won the Civil War