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The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863 by Chris Mackowski 9781611216554
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $36.08Jackson, Mississippi, was the third Confederate state capital to fall to Union forces. When Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captured the important rail junction in May 1863, however, he did so almost as... -
Lincoln and the Civil War by Michael Burlingame
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.27In Lincoln and the Civil War, Michael Burlingame explores the experiences and qualities that made Abraham Lincoln one of America's most revered leaders. This volume provides an illuminating overview... -
Presidents, Battles, and Must-See Civil War Destinations: Exploring a Kentucky Divided by Cameron M. Ludwick 9780253038968
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.30As a border state and strategic territory, Kentucky was fiercely contested by the Union and the Confederacy and had ties to both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Kentucky natives and adventure... -
Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign by Steven E. Woodworth 9780742559813
Booksplease Price: $65.99Of all the places and events in this nation's history, Gettysburg may well be the name best known to Americans. Millions flock each year to the little town in south-central Pennsylvania where more... -
The Men of Secession and Civil War, 1859-1861 by James L. Abrahamson 9780842028196
Booksplease Price: $76.81This compelling, highly readable book focuses on the men who shaped the events that led to secession and the Civil War. Secessionists tore at the bonds that bound Americans to one another and their... -
Robert E. Lee in War and Peace: Photographs of a Confederate and American Icon by Donald A Hopkins 9781611211207
Booksplease Price: $47.46Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of one of America's most famous sons. It has been... -
The Shiloh Campaign by Steven E. Woodworth
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.62Some 100,000 soldiers fought in the April 1862 battle of Shiloh, and nearly 20,000 men were killed or wounded; more Americans died on that Tennessee battlefield than had died in all the nation's... -
Pemberton: The General Who Lost Vicksburg by Michael B. Ballard 9781578062263
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.46New in paperback, the first biography of the Confederate general branded as incompetent for surrendering the South's strategic river post to Grant It was the sad fate of General John C. Pemberton... -
Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the West by Steven E. Woodworth 9780275987596
Booksplease Price: $91.16The verdict is in: the Civil War was won in the West-that is, in the nation's heartland, between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. Yet, a person who follows the literature on the... -
Confederate Privateer: The Life of John Yates Beall by William C. Harris 9780807180259
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $59.53Confederate Privateer is a comprehensive account of the brief life and exploits of John Yates Beall, a Confederate soldier, naval officer, and guerrilla in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes region... -
Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War by Bruce Levine 9780195147629
Booksplease Price: $104.85In 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... -
Confederate Generals in the Trans-Mississippi: Volume 3: Essays on America's Civil War by Thomas E. Schott 9781621904540
Booksplease Price: $125.62Far removed from the main centers of commerce and population, and thus remote from the priorities of Confederate political leaders in the East, the Trans-Mississippi Theater experienced a different... -
The Tennessee Campaign of 1864 by Steven E. Woodworth
Booksplease Price: $68.39Featuring the longlost diary of Major General Patrick R. Cleburne Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood's illfated... -
Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. by Jeffrey L. Amestoy 9780674088191
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $59.59In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim... -
Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg by Steven E. Woodworth
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Ulysses S. Grant did more than any other single Union general to secure the North's victory in the Civil War, but he did not achieve that victory alone. Grant's ability to inspire and cultivate the... -
Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856 by Sidney Blumenthal 9781501153792
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $31.53The "magisterial" (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president's genius... -
A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray by William C. Davis 9780803235229
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.01For soldiers in all wars, mealtime is a focal point of the day. Armies do indeed "march on their stomachs," as Napoleon said. Soldiers of the Civil War armies, many away from home and mothers' and... -
Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages by Candace Wellman 9780874223460
Booksplease Price: $43.62Throughout the mid-1800s, outsiders, including many Euro-Americans, arrived in what is now northwest Washington. As they interacted with Samish, Lummi, S'Klallam, Sto:lo, and other groups, some of... -
The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #250) by Aaron Dean-Sheehan 9781598532944
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $50.31Featuring hundreds of first-hand writings from the American Civil War, this final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865 After 150 years... -
Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography: A Biography, 1806-1873 John Grady 9780786478217
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.12In becoming "a useful man" on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the... -
Confederate Incognito: The Civil War Reports of ""Long Grabs,"" a.k.a. Murdoch John McSween, 26th and 35th North Carolina Infantry by Murdoch John McSween 9780786472109
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20Preferring anonymity, Murdoch John McSween wrote over 80 letters under the pseudonym "Long Grabs" to the Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina), serving as their unofficial war correspondent. For... -
We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 by Michael J. Lee 9780190876517
RRP: $57.51Booksplease Price: $52.01E pluribus unum was suggested for the national seal in 1776, but national oneness has been haunted by its opposite ever since. We Are Not One People demonstrates how the persistence of separatist... -
To the Point: The United States Military Academy, 1802-1902 by George Pappas 9780275943295
Booksplease Price: $160.43Few institutions have influenced U.S. history as profoundly as the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which will celebrate its 200th anniversary on March 16, 2002. Born conceptually in... -
After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped by David Hardin 9781566638593
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.03"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years... -
After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped by David Hardin 9781566639675
Booksplease Price: $29.70"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years... -
The Road to Disunion: Volume II Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 by William W. Freehling 9780195370188
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $41.30The Road to Disunion, Vol. II completes William W. Freehlings monumental study of how the South came to begin the Civil War. Perhaps, as William Freehling surmises, the war was inevitable, because... -
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980-1989 by Robert Penn Warren 9780807152829
Booksplease Price: $171.19In the last decade of his life, Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature, producing new works of poetry and nonfiction while also dealing courageously with the gradual... -
We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 by Michael J. Lee 9780190876500
Booksplease Price: $209.22E pluribus unum was suggested for the national seal in 1776, but national oneness has been haunted by its opposite ever since. We Are Not One People demonstrates how the persistence of separatist... -
Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.87To Jefferson Davis, he was the "Stonewall of the West"; to Robert E. Lee, he was "a meteor shining from a clouded sky"; and to Braxton Bragg, he was an officer "ever alive to a success." He was... -
The Eleventh House: Memoirs by Hudson Strode 9780817358907
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70"Every place I visited," says Hudson Strode, "was like a surprise package to be opened, and I untied the strings with high expectations." Reading The Eleventh House: Memoirs is like going to a party... -
Remembering the Civil War: The Conflict as Told by Those Who Lived It by Michael Barton 9781493059331
Booksplease Price: $31.41In the years following the American Civil War, many participants-generals, politicians, journalists, and soldiers-authored first-hand accounts of their unique experiences. As Alfred E. Smith of the... -
Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell 9780751527131
Booksplease Price: $46.14Judy Hammer has accepted the challenge of Richmond, Virginia's police department to try and reverse the escalating crime statistics in the city. She brings with her Deputy Chief Virginia West and... -
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Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell 9780751527131 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.43Judy Hammer has accepted the challenge of Richmond, Virginia's police department to try and reverse the escalating crime statistics in the city. She brings with her Deputy Chief Virginia West and... -
The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #234) by Brooks D. Simpson 9781598531978
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $45.06This third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a "masterpiece" traces events from January 1863 to March 1864-a crucial period in the American Civil War Spanning... -
Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864 by David Alan Johnson 9781633886384
Booksplease Price: $30.65In the summer of 1864, the American Civil War had been dragging on for over three years with no end in sight. Things had not gone well for the Union, and the public blamed the president for the... -
Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis 9780684862941
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.30No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called "Father Abraham." In Lincoln's Men, historian William C. Davis draws on thousands... -
The Vicksburg Assaults: May 19-22, 1863 by Steven E. Woodworth
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.19This anthology is an in-depth examination of General Ulysses S. Grant's unsuccessful assaults against Confederate defensive lines around the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 19 and May 22, 1863... -
The Chickamauga Campaign by Steven E. Woodworth
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.84From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton... -
Guide to the Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain by Jay Luvaas 9780700615704
Booksplease Price: $70.67Following William T. Sherman's capture of Chattanooga, the Union Army initiated a series of battles and operations that took it from the Tennessee border to the outskirts of Atlanta - with bloody... -
Unforgettables: Some Winners, Losers, Strong Women, and Eccentric Men of the Civil War Era by John C. Waugh 9781611216653
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $31.22Personalities. Characters. History. John C. Waugh, the author of the popular and award-winning The Class of 1846, presents forty of the most memorable and impactful individuals he has come across...