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Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson

By: Alexander, Belvin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Hippocrene Books: 1992

Seller ID: 3534

ISBN: 0781810361

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Wraps, xiii 350 pp. Near fine, unread copy with light signs of shelf wear to the covers. From the publisher: “While studies of the American Civil War generally credit Robert E Lee with military expertise, this account argues that Stonewall Jackson was a superior strategist who could have won the war for the South: Had Lee accepted Jackson's plan for an invasion of the North, the South might have surprised and dismayed the Union forces into defeat. Using primary sources, the author reconstructs the battles that demonstrate Jackson's brilliance as a commander.”
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War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign

By: Bailey, Anne J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources: 2003

Seller ID: 3766

ISBN: 084202851X

Binding: paperback

Condition: near fine

Wraps, 15.2 by 22.8 cm, xv 152 pp., illus. Near fine, unread copy with only light shelf wear to the covers. From the publisher: “The ‘March to the Sea’ shocked Georgians from Atlanta to Savannah. For the first time, suffering and carnage came to their very doorsteps in the form of 60,000 battle-hardened Union troops led by General William Tecumseh Sherman. In the late autumn of 1864, as his troops cut a four-week long path of terror through Georgia, Sherman accomplished his objective: to destroy civilian morale and with it their support for the Confederate cause. His actions elicited a...
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History of the Ninth Massachusetts Battery

By: Baker, Levi W.; Elliot W. Hoffman, intro.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Lancaster, OH, Vanberg Publishing: 1996

Seller ID: 3573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Hardcover with dust jacket, blue cloth with gilt spine titles, 14.5 by 22 cm, xi 261 pp., illus. An unread copy. Near fine but for a few tiny dents on the back cover and a couple of very light drip marks on the fore-edge of the textblock. Facsimile reprint of the original 1888 edition, with a new introduction by Elliott W. Hoffman. From the publisher: “The Ninth Massachusetts Battery, also known as Bigelow's Battery, earned a place in history on the afternoon of July 2, 1863, when it fought a delaying action against the Confederate infantry onslaught at the Peach Orchard and the Trostle F...
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Vicksburg: The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi

By: Ballard, Michael B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill/London, University of North Carolina Press: 2004

Seller ID: 3509

ISBN: 0807828939

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

Hardcover with dust jacket, burgundy cloth over black cloth spine with gilt spine titles, 16 by 24 cm, xv 490 pp., illus. The hardcover is very good with only faint signs of wear and two small dents on the bottom edged of the covers; the jacket is very good with light edge wear and a tiny stain at the foot of the spine panel. “Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War. The Union victory at Vicksburg was hailed with as muc...
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U. S. Grant: The Making of a General, 1861–1863

By: Ballard, Michael B.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: 2005

Seller ID: 3613

ISBN: 0742543080

Binding: hardcover

Condition: near fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, 15.5 by 23.4 cm, xiii 184 pp., maps. Near fine, unread copy with only a 5 mm tear on the top edge on the front panel of the dust jacket. From the publisher: “What made Ulysses S. Grant tick? Perhaps the greatest general of the Civil War, Grant won impressive victories and established a brilliant military career. His single-minded approach to command was coupled with the ability to adapt to the kind of military campaign the moment required. In this exciting new book, Michael B. Ballard provides a crisp account of Grant's strategic and tactical concepts in the p...
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U.S. Grant: The Making of a General, 1861-1863

By: Ballard, Michael B.

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: 2005

Seller ID: 3754

ISBN: 0742543080

Binding: hardcover

Condition: near fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, 15.5 by 23.5 cm, xiii 184 pp. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear. From the publisher: “What made Ulysses S. Grant tick? Perhaps the greatest general of the Civil War, Grant won impressive victories and established a brilliant military career. His single-minded approach to command was coupled with the ability to adapt to the kind of military campaign the moment required. In this exciting new book, Michael B. Ballard provides a crisp account of Grant's strategic and tactical concepts in the period from the outset of the Civil War to the batt...
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Army of the Potomac: McClennan Takes Command, September 1861 – February 1862, Volume II

By: Beatie, Russel H.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, De Capo Press (Perseus): 2004

Seller ID: 3571

ISBN: 0306812525

Binding: hardcover

Condition: very good +

Hardcover with dust jacket, black paper over brown paper spine with gilt spine titles, 16 by 23.4 cm, xxxv 636 pp., maps, illus. Very good condition with only faint shelf wear to the edges - appears unread. From the front flap: “In this second volume of a multi-volume work, Russel Beatie continues his detailed study of the generals who commanded the Union's victorious Army of the Potomac. When the first volume appeared, Civil War News commended Beatie's monumental study, noting that "readers will find its thoroughness and extensive detail useful to their efforts to better understand the Uni...
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The 24th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment

By: Beaudot, William J.K.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Stackpole Books, Stackpole Books: 2003

Seller ID: 3291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, 16 by 23.5 cm, ix 438 pp. illus. Hardcover and jacket are near fine with only faints signs of shelf wear – appears unread. From the publisher: “Formed in the summer of 1862, the 24th Wisconsin Infantry participated in many major battles of the Western theater, earning a reputation as a brave, hard-fighting unit. Unlike other unit histories, this book makes no attempt, as the author freely admits, to provide "an objective history" of the regiment. Rather, the book digs deeper, following the personal stories of the soldiers themselves, providing hundreds of indi...
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Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War

By: Bennett, Michael J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill/London, University of North Carolina Press: 2004

Seller ID: 3505

ISBN: 080782870X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: near fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, brown cloth with silver spine titles, 15.5 by 24.2 cm, xv 337 pp. Very good, unread copy with only faint shelf wear to the jacket and light bumping to the upper corner of the front cover. From the publisher: “Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To re...
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

By: Blanton, DeAnne; Lauren M. Cook

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 3631

ISBN: 0807128066

Binding: hardcover

Condition: near fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, tan cloth with red spine titles, 15.5 by 23.5 cm, xiii 277 pp. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear. From the publisher: “Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell the entire story. Hundreds of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men’s uniforms, and charged into battle as...
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How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War

By: Bonekemper, Edward H., III

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Spotsylvania, VA, Sergeant Kirkland’s Museum and Historical Society: 1999

Seller ID: 3762

ISBN: 1887901337

Binding: paperback

Condition: very good

Wraps, 14 by 21.5 cm, 248 pp., illus. Very good with only minor wear to the wraps and four pages of the preface with pencil underlining. Chapters include: Lee’s Fatal Flaws; The Making of the Man and Soldier; 1861 - Failure in Western Virginia; Early Summer 1862 - Slaughter on the Peninsula; Mid-Summer 1862 - Costly Victory at Second Bull Run; September 1862 - Disaster at Antietam, etc., etc.
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A Party of Mad Fellows: The Story of the Irish Regiments in the Army of the Potomac

By: Boyle, Frank A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dayton, OH, Morningside House: 1996

Seller ID: 3600

ISBN: 0890293295

Binding: hardcover

Condition: near fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, blue cloth with gilt spine titles, 16 by 23.5 cm, 443 pp. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear. From the publisher: "For thousands of Irish-Americans who answered the call of their adopted country, service under the Stars and Stripes was viewed as a precursor to the freedom they hoped one day to win for the Emerald Isle. The fighting prowess and martial enthusiasm of the Arm of the Potomac's framed Irish Brigade, and other proud Irish American units like the 9th Massachusetts and 69th Pennsylvania, was fired by their hope of freedom for thei...
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The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865

By: Bruce, Susannah Ural

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, New York University Press: 2006

Seller ID: 3542

ISBN: 081479940X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Wraps, xiii 309 pp., illus. Very good condition with only faint shelf wear to the covers and corners - appears unread. From the publisher: “On the eve of the Civil War, the Irish were one of America's largest ethnic groups, and approximately 150,000 fought for the Union. Analyzing letters and diaries written by soldiers and civilians; military, church, and diplomatic records; and community newspapers, Susannah Ural Bruce significantly expands the story of Irish-American Catholics in the Civil War, and reveals a complex picture of those who fought for the Union. While the population was div...
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Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles

By: Burton, Brian K.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bloomington/Indianapolis, Indiana University Press: 2001

Seller ID: 3495

ISBN: 0253339634

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, green cloth with gilt spine titles, 16 by 24 cm, xi 524 pp., maps. Near fine but for a faint drip mark on the fore-edge of the textblock; jacket is very good with light edge wear. From the publisher: “The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Seven Days Battles were fought southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Lee and his fellow officers, including ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, James Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and D. H. Hill, pushed George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac from th...
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Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

By: Casler, John O.; Robert K. Krick, introduction

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press : 2005

Seller ID: 3558

ISBN: 1570035954

Binding: paperback

Condition: near fine

Wraps, xxviii 377 pp. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear. From the publisher: “From his looting of farmhouses during the Gettysburg campaign and robbing of fallen Union soldiers as opportunity allowed to his five arrests for infractions of military discipline and numerous unapproved leaves, John O. Casler's actions during the Civil War made him as much a rogue as a Rebel. Though he was no model soldier, his forthright confessions of his service years in the Army of Northern Virginia stand among the most sought after and cited accounts by a Confederate soldier. First...
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William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times

By: Castel, Albert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Columbus, OH, The General’s Books: 1992

Seller ID: 3612

ISBN: 0962603414

Binding: hardcover

Condition: near fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, blue cloth with silver titles, 14.5 by 22.2 cm, vi 250 pp., illus. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear. From the publisher: “The Quantrill legend is rooted in acts of savage violence throughout Kansas and Missouri during the Civil War--deeds both romanticized and vilified. In William Clarke Quantrill, Albert Castel’s classic biography, the story of Quantrill and his men comes alive through facts verified from firsthand, original sources. Castel traces Quantrill’s rise to power, from Kansas border ruffian and Confederate Army captain to ...
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Recollections of Seventy Years [Civil War, Illinois History, Signed]

By: Chetlain, Augustus L.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Galena, IL, The Gazette Publishing Co.: 1899

Seller ID: 3564

Binding: hardcover

Condition: very good

Green cloth with bright gilt spine and cover titles, blind-stamped cover decorations, decorative endpapers, 15.5 by 22 cm, frontis portrait, tipped-in errata slip, 304 pp. Light corner wear, wear at the head and tail of the spine, minor scratches and scuff marks to the boards, and small splits to the front hinge. This copy has a small book label for the Senn Room Library at St. Joseph’s Hospital, and a “Senn Rooms” stamp on the title page and page 263, and a small binders’ ticket on the rear pastedown (Elce Bros., Galena, Illinois). Inscribed and signed by Chetlain on the second lea...
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The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863: “Over a Wide, Hot,… Crimson Plain”

By: Christ, Elwood

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Baltimore, MD, Butternut and Blue: 1994

Seller ID: 3632

Binding: hardcover

Condition: near fine

Red cloth with bright gilt titles, no jacket (if issued), 15.5 by 23.4 cm, xi 220 pp., maps, illus. Near fine with only faint shelf wear and a minor bump to the lower corner of the front cover. Until now, reads the introduction, “the struggle for the William Bliss Farm has not been researched or analyzed in depth, though what happened there rightly deserves a ‘small epic.’ The fight for the Bliss Farm played an important role in the battle [of Gettysburg], possibly just as important as that of the 20th Maine in the defense of Little Round Top. Over a thirty-two hour period, troops fough...
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Uncommon Valor: A Story of Race, Patriotism, and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War

By: Claxton, Melvin; Mark Puls

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hoboken, NJ, Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 2006

Seller ID: 3532

ISBN: 0471468231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, 231 pp. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear. From the publisher: “Christian Fleetwood had mixed feelings about America, and America had mixed feelings about him. As a free twenty-three-year-old black man living in Baltimore, with the Civil War raging, he understood well all that was worrisome and all that was inspiring in his war-torn country. A few days after Gettysburg, as his hometown was flooded with horribly wounded soldiers, Fleetwood made a momentous and patriotic decision. He enlisted. Uncommon Valor tells the powerful story of ho...
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Rock of Chickamauga: The Life of General George H. Thomas

By: Cleaves, Freeman

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press: nd

Seller ID: 3629

ISBN: 0806119780

Binding: paperback

Condition: near fine

Copyrighted 1948 but this recent printing is not dated. Wraps, 13.5 by 21.2 cm, xi 328 pp., illus. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear. From the publisher: “General George H. Thomas, the ‘Rock of Chickamauga,’ was a Virginian who chose the northern side in the Civil War. While Thomas was considered a traitor by his family, his military superiors regarded him with a certain mistrust because of his southern background. Nonetheless, Thomas was prominent in the battles of Mill Springs, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, and Nashville, and was immortalized at Chickamauga, w...
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