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Confederate Naval Forces on Western Waters: The Defense of the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries by R.Thomas Campbell 9780786464173
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.90No body of water was more vital to the Confederacy's efforts in the Civil War than the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Though the Confederate Congress declared the Mississippi free and open... -
Joseph E. Brown of Georgia by Joseph Howard Parks 9780807124659
Booksplease Price: $68.78Joseph Brown was a pivotal figure in southern history and a prototype of a new breed of southern politician in the mid-nineteenth century-the hill country newcomer who was considered to represent the... -
The Battle of Hanover Court House: Turning Point of the Peninsula Campaign, May 27, 1862 by Michael C. Hardy 9780786469208
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14One year into the Civil War, beset by military and political pressures, General George B. McClellan committed his Army of the Potomac to the Peninsula Campaign, with the capture of Richmond his... -
Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham by Carman Cumming 9780252075193
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $29.69The first book-length study of one of the Civil War's most outlandish and mysterious charactersDevil's Game traces the amazing career of Charles A. Dunham, Civil War spy, forger, journalist, and... -
Myths and Mysteries of Wisconsin: True Stories Of The Unsolved And Unexplained by Michael Bie 9780762769834
Booksplease Price: $25.18Fourteen Mind-Boggling Tales from the Badger State Was Joe Davis, Civil War veteran and Menominee Indian, really the son of Confederate president Jefferson Davis? What really happened the night that... -
Unveiling the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness by Lisa J. McLeod 9781625347930
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois brilliantly details the African American experience. Yet the renowned sociologist was also an astute chronicler of white people, particularly their racism... -
General Sterling Price and the Confederacy by 9781883982683
RRP: $36.75Booksplease Price: $35.36Sterling Price began his career as commander of the Missouri State Guard, then served as a major general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Because of his early conditional unionism - he... -
The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War by Donald Stoker 9780199931149
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $39.06Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy... -
Apostle of the Lost Cause: J. William Jones, Baptists, and the Development of Confederate Memory by Chris Moore 9781621905394
Booksplease Price: $99.67Perhaps no person exerted more influence on postwar white Southern memory than former Confederate chaplain and Baptist minister J. William Jones. Christopher C. Moore's Apostle of the Lost Cause is... -
Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century by Ronald J. Pestritto 9780739108727
Booksplease Price: $95.13Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American founding... -
Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War by Mark Power Smith
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $70.67The Young Americans were a nationalist movement within the Democratic Party made up of writers and politicians associated with the New York periodical, the Democratic Review. In this revealing book,... -
Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee by Peter S. Carmichael 9780807162323
Booksplease Price: $61.24Despite the literary outpouring on the life of Robert E. Lee, the southern chieftain remains an enigma. The existing scholarship is so voluminous, complex, and contradictory that it is difficult to... -
War In Kentucky: Shiloh Perryville by James Lee Mcdonough 9780870499357
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67War in KentuckyFrom Shiloh to PerryvilleJames Lee McDonoughA compelling new volume from the author of Shiloh-In Hell before Night and Chattanooga-A Death Grip on the Confederacy, this book explores... -
Kill Jeff Davis Volume 51: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 by Bruce M. Venter 9780806194202
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $35.22The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28–March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders... -
Henry Clay the Lawyer by Maurice G. Baxter
Booksplease Price: $63.97By the early twentieth century, Basil Wilson Duke had established himself as one of Kentucky's most popular storytellers, but unlike many other talented raconteurs, Duke was not merely a man of words... -
Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography by Elisabeth Muhlenfeld 9780807118047
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.06In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt."" - C. Vann WoodwardMary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886) is known... -
Cultures in Conflict--The American Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth 9780313306518
Booksplease Price: $108.59The American Civil War was primarily a conflict of cultures, and slavery was the largest single cultural factor separating North and South. This collection of carefully selected memoirs, diaries,... -
The Garden District of New Orleans by Jim Fraiser 9781934110683
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $76.23The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek Revival mansions and double-galleried Italianate... -
The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union by John Lockwood 9780199931187
Booksplease Price: $53.82On April 14, 1860, the day Fort Sumter fell to Confederate forces, Washington, D.C.--surrounded by slave states and minimally defended--was ripe for invasion. In The Siege of Washington, John and... -
Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae by Edward T. Cotham 9780292705944
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $38.41Winner, Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize, Austin Civil War Round Table, 2005In an 1882 speech, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis made an exuberant claim: "That battle at Sabine Pass was more... -
The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon by Gabor S. Boritt 9780195156263
Booksplease Price: $36.37Nearly a century and a half after his death, Abraham Lincoln remains an intrinsic part of the American consciousness, yet his intentions as president and his personal character continue to stir... -
The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union by John Lockwood 9780199759897
Booksplease Price: $62.60On April 14, 1861, following the surrender of Fort Sumter, Washington was "put into the condition of a siege," declared Abraham Lincoln. Located sixty miles south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the... -
Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War by Bruce Levine 9780195315868
Booksplease Price: $41.60In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the... -
A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy: The Fall of New Orleans, 1862 by Mark F. Bielski 9781611214895
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $23.18Abraham Lincoln knew if the Union could cut off shipping to and from New Orleans, the largest exporting port in the world, and control the Mississippi River, it would be a mortal blow to the... -
Confederate Seadog: John Taylor Wood in War and Exile by John Bell 9780786413522
Booksplease Price: $48.09John Taylor Wood, the grandson of President Zachary Taylor and a nephew of Jefferson Davis, was one of the most daring and remarkable participants of the Civil War and among the few people to hold... -
The American Civil War by Cole Kingseed 9780313316388
Booksplease Price: $108.59The Civil War is the central event in U.S. history. More than any other event, the war defined the United States as a nation and as a people. What the United States is today, how it views the role of... -
First Chaplain of the Confederacy: Father Darius Hubert, S.J. by Katherine Bentley Jeffrey
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $64.11Darius Hubert (1823-1893), a French-born Jesuit, made his home in Louisiana in the 1840s and served churches and schools in Grand Coteau, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. In 1861, he pronounced a... -
The Civil War: The Second Year Told By Those Who Lived It (LOA #221) by Stephen W. Sears 9781598531442
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $53.61Set between January 1862 and January 1863, this second installment in the ambitious Civil War series paints an unforgettable portrait of the year that turned a secessionist rebellion into a war of... -
The Historian behind the History: Conversations with Southern Historians by Megan L. Bever 9780817318512
Booksplease Price: $92.55The Historian behind the History brings together for the first time a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students... -
While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War by Charles W. Sanders Jr 9780807166635
Booksplease Price: $83.03During the four years of the American Civil War, over 400,000 soldiers, one in every seven who served in the Union and Confederate armies, became prisoners of war. In northern and southern prisons... -
The 6th United States Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster by Donald C. Caughey 9780786468355
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.90This is the first scholarly history of the only regular army cavalry regiment raised during the Civil War. Unlike volunteer regiments raised by individual states, the regular regiments drew soldiers... -
William Howard Russell's Civil War: Private Diary and Letters, 1861-1862 by Martin Crawford 9780820332000
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $69.32Having won renown in the 1850s for his vivid warfront dispatches from the Crimea, William Howard Russell was the most celebrated foreign journalist in America during the first year of the Civil War... -
The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $45.61Winner of the Jefferson Davis AwardWinner of the Johns Family Book AwardWinner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award"A work of deep intellectual seriousness, sweeping and yet... -
The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt by H. W. Brands 9780742550490
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $32.17Theodore Roosevelt (1857-1919) was the most literary of American Presidents, writing scores of books, including Through the Brazilian Wilderness and African Game Trails. He was also the most active... -
The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War by Donald Stoker 9780195373059
RRP: $55.63Booksplease Price: $52.06Of the tens of thousands of books exploring virtually every aspect of the Civil War, surprisingly little has been said about what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict:... -
Dreams of Victory: General P. G. T. Beauregard in the Civil War by Sean Michael Chick 9781611215212
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.69Few Civil War generals attracted as much debate and controversy as Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. He combined brilliance and charisma with arrogance and histrionics. He was a Catholic Creole in a... -
Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865 by Paul Quigley 9780199735488
Booksplease Price: $126.00Between 1848 and 1865 white southerners felt the grounds of nationhood shift beneath their feet. The regional conflict over slavery that culminated in the American Civil War forced them to confront... -
Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865 by Paul Quigley 9780199376476
Booksplease Price: $83.08Between 1848 and 1865 white southerners felt the grounds of nationhood shift beneath their feet. The conflict over slavery that led to the Civil War forced them to confront the difficult problems of... -
Theophilus Hunter Holmes: A North Carolina General in the Civil War by Walter C. Hilderman 9780786473106
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.18The son of a North Carolina governor, Theophilus Hunter Holmes graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1829 and served on the frontier during the Trail of Tears. He fought in the... -
The Thirty-seventh North Carolina Troops: Tar Heels in the Army of Northern Virginia by 9780786445806
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.77North Carolina contributed more of her sons to the Confederate cause than any other state. The Thirty-seventh North Carolina Regiment, made up of men from the western part of the state, served in...