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The Civil War: A Visual History
DK Publishing - DK Publishing; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Produced with the Smithsonian Institution and released in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the start of the war, The Civil War is the definitive visual history to one of the most defining moments in our country's history. Comprehensive timelines, revealing first-person accounts... |
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The Civil War in 50 Objects
Harold Holzer - Viking; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects A fresh, visual perspective on the Civil WarFrom a soldiers diary with the pencil still attached to John Browns pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, a Confederate Palmetto flag, and the leaves from Abraham Lincolns bier, here... |
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Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences
Webb Garrison - Thomas Nelson; Reprint. edition
Format: Paperback
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True stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound of battle would never again reach him and his family." Almost four years later,... |
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What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War
Mike Wright - Presidio Press
Format: Paperback
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Instant coffee was invented during the Civil War for use by Union troops, who hated it; holding races between lice was a popular pastime for both Johnny Reb and Billy Yank; 13% of the Confederate Army deserted during the conflict. These are three of the hundreds of bits of knowledge that... |
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The American Civil War: 365 Days
Margaret E. Wagner - Harry N. Abrams; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Presented in 12 thematic sections, this visual history of America's epochal conflict features more than 500 items drawn from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress, including Mathew Brady's iconic photographs; period drawings, lithographs, and woodcuts; important... |
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Reflections on the Civil War
Bruce Catton
Format: Book
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Edited from tapes that the Pulitzer prize-winnng historian made before his death, this moving, informative book paints an intimate portrait of war. It's a chronicle of motives and emotions, from larger than life figures Lincoln and Lee to young John B. |
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The Civil War battlefield guide
Frances H. Kennedy - Houghton Mifflin Co; Second Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The battlefields of the Civil War are among the most evocative places in the American landscape. "Today you can stand at ... Antietam, at the edge of what is still a farm field, amd visualize the waves of infantry, feel the urgency, capture for a moment the meaning of how that day changed... |
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Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground
Jeff Shaara - Ballantine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORYJeff Shaara, Americas premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit Shiloh, Antietam, FredericksburgChancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga,... |
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Commanding the Storm: Civil War Battles in the Words of the Generals Who Fought Them
John Richard Stephens - Lyons Press
Format: Print book
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From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe what they and their men experienced at twelve of the war’s most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from letters, memoirs, reports, and testimonies.... |
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Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them
James Wright - PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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At the heart of the story of America's wars are our "citizen soldiers" - those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill at Charlestown to Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, and beyond, without expectation of recognition or recompense. Americans like to think that... |
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Courage Under Fire: Profiles in Bravery from the Battlefields of the Civil War
Wiley Sword - St. Martin's Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Through diaries and letter written on the battlefield, in camps, and on the deathbeds of soldiers from north and south, Wiley Sword, writes about more than the Civil War. He writes of the complex working of a soldier's mind coming to grips with life and death in a time when his country... |
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Civil War Battlefields: A Touring Guide
David J. Eicher - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Here, for the first time, is a book that goes beyond providing just a brief battle history for each of the Civil War parks. Civil War Battlefields presents a detailed, clear narrative describing exactly what visitors can see and do in twelve important battlefield areas covering 22 campaigns... |
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Civil War Medicine: Care & Comfort of the Wounded
Robert E Denney
Format: Print book
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The horror and hardship of the sick and wounded in the American Civil War and those who cared for them are described in this work as a day-by-day account. It presents the history of the medical services on both sides of the War, using excerpts from letters, diaries and journals. |
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Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War
Mary Gardner Holland
Format: Paperback
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During the Civil War, more than five thousand women served the Union cause as army nurses. In 1895 Mary Gardner Holland collected these reminiscences, reprinted here for the first time. In this book, you will read the stories of one hundred of these women, often in their own voice |
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