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Confederate Congress by 9780820334769
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £33.01Published in 1960, this study of the Confederate Congress and its relation to the Jefferson Davis administration describes the legislation, debates, personalities, and politics of this turbulent time... -
Lincoln and the Irish: The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union by Niall O'Dowd
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50From the founder of IrishCentral, a fascinating piece of Civil War history: Lincoln's relationship with the immigrants arriving in America to escape the Irish famine. "If you're a Lincoln fan like... -
Wisconsin Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries by Michael Bie 9781493067473
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.49Fourteen 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... -
Monument Avenue Brian Rose 9781911422563
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10If Richmond VA represented the historic heart of the Confederacy, then Monument Avenue was meant to memorialise its soul. The avenue was conceived in the 1870s, when the city elected to build a... -
Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers by Phillip Thomas Tucker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certain ethnic groups played during that tumultuous time in our nation's history. Two new books, focusing on the... -
How Historians Work: Retelling the Past - From the Civil War to the Wider World by Judith Lee Hallock 9781933337432
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933337432Author Judith Lee HallockFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprin -
Davis and Lee at War by Steven E. Woodworth 9780700607181
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.83Steven Woodworth's previous book, the critically acclaimed Jefferson Davis and His Generals, won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt Award and was a main selection of the History Book Club. In that book... -
Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch by Janet Sharp Hermann 9781934110546
Booksplease Price: £22.50In this biography of Joseph E. Davis, elder brother of and adviser to Jefferson Davis, award-winning author Janet Sharp Hermann provides a fascinating instrument through which to observe nearly a... -
The Capture of New Orleans 1862 by Chester G. Hearn 9780807130704
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.29On April 24, 1862, Federal gunboats made their way past two Confederate forts to ascend the Mississippi River, and the Union navy captured New Orleans. News of the loss of the Crescent City came to... -
Monument Avenue by Brian Rose
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £32.30If Richmond VA represented the historic heart of the Confederacy, then Monument Avenue was meant to memorialise its soul. The avenue was conceived in the 1870s, when the city elected to build a... -
Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader by Michael J. Gerhardt 9780062877185
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership"Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of... -
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor by Leslie Umberger 9780691182674
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £65.69A major new look at the work of one of America's foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is... -
Pierce M. B. Young: The Warwick of the South by Lynwood M. Holland 9780820334455
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.15Pierce M. B. Young: The Warwick of the South, published in 1964, is an account of a major figure in Reconstruction-era Georgia. The youngest major general in the Confederate Army, he was the first... -
Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 by Armstead L Robinson 9780813952284
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson's magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War... -
War Matters: Material Culture in the Civil War Era by Joan E. Cashin 9781469643205
Booksplease Price: £33.82Material objects lie at the crux of understanding individual and social relationships in history, and the Civil War era is no exception. Before, during, and after the war, Americans from all walks of... -
Civil War Wives: The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant by Carol Berkin 9781400095780
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.04In these moving stories if Angelina Grimke Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S... -
A Short History of the Civil War by James L Stokesbury 9780062064783
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062064783Author James L StokesburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprin -
Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged by William C. Davis 9780306824166
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. In Crucible of Command , William C. Davis, one of America's preeminent historians, presents a thoroughly fresh... -
Presidents, Battles, and Must-See Civil War Destinations: Exploring a Kentucky Divided by Cameron M. Ludwick 9780253038975
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £42.60As 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... -
The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society by Thomas L. Connelly 9780807104743
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.95Robert E. Lee was both a military genius and a spiritual leader, considered by many, southerners and nonsoutherners alike, to have been a near saint. In The Marble Man a leading Civil War military... -
Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of War by Herman Hattaway 9780826214874
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £49.42Born in New Orleans, Herman Hattaway grew up in the Deep South. While it might not seem such a stretch for him to have become one of the foremost authorities on the Civil War and Southern history,... -
Frock Coats and Epaulets: The Men Who Led the Confederacy by Alf J. Mapp, Jr. 9781442248762
Booksplease Price: £16.51The passion of Robert E. Lee and the puritan streak in cavalier J. E. B. Stuart are only two of the surprises in Alf J. Mapp Jr.'s highly regarded psychological analysis of Confederate military and... -
Sherman's March to the Sea by John F. Marszalek 9781893114166
Booksplease Price: £14.28After his triumphant capture of Atlanta in the fall of 1864, Union General William T. Sherman mobilized 62,000 of his veteran troops and waged destructive war across Georgia, from Atlanta to Savannah... -
John Bell Hood and the Struggle for Atlanta by David Coffey 9781886661172
Booksplease Price: £10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781886661172Author David CoffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint < -
A Deep Steady Thunder: The Battle of Chickamauga by Steven E. Woodworth 9781886661103
Booksplease Price: £9.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781886661103Author Steven E. WoodworthFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Three Kentucky Presidents: Lincoln, Taylor, Davis by Holman Hamilton
Booksplease Price: £20.59The three Kentucky presidents -- Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis -- were profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was on the border between the North and... -
Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi by Michael B. Ballard 9780807871287
Booksplease Price: £35.91This is a pivotal Union victory. 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... -
Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke 9781608466245
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for repair of the damage caused by the legacy of American... -
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 by Alan Taylor 9781324035282
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £27.05In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which the United States, Mexico and... -
Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865 by Thomas L. Connelly 9780807127384
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.26Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award and the Jefferson Davis AwardA companion volume to Army of the Heartland Near the end of 1862 the Army of Tennessee began a long and frustrating struggle against... -
Kentucky's Last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816-1887 by Peter J. Sehlinger
Booksplease Price: £40.79William Preston was a leading representative of Kentucky's slaveholding, landed gentry, the group who dominated economic, political, and social life in the commonwealth before the Civil War. Preston... -
Campaign for Wilson's Creek: The Fight for Missouri Begins by Jeffrey L. Patrick 9781933337791
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In early 1861, most Missourians hoped they could remain neutral in the upcoming conflict between North and South. In fact, a popularly elected state convention voted in March of that year that ""no... -
CIVIL WARS: WOMEN AND THE CRISIS OF SOUTHERN NATIONA by George C. Rable 9780252062124
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.20Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable... -
Indianola: The Mother of Western Texas by Brownson Malsch 9781880510308
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The ghost port of Indianola is the subject of a gripping book that is of prime interest to anyone interested in knowing what life was like in coastal Texas during the nineteenth century. 1978... -
Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February-May 1863 by Donald S. Frazier 9781933337449
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.20Confederate President Jefferson Davis hoped one of his commanders could baffle the enemy in his designs on the Mississippi Valley. Confederate Major General Richard Taylor knew that the only long-... -
Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860 by Christopher Morris 9780195134216
Booksplease Price: £36.30Mississippi represented the Old South and all that it stood for perhaps more than any other state. Christopher Morris takes a close look at one of those "typically" southern communities, Jefferson... -
Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy by Paul D. Escott 9780275983130
Booksplease Price: £76.51Never before or since in American history have the needs and influence of the military weighed so heavily on society. Escott analyzes the militarization of life in the Confederacy and probes the... -
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham 9780813948799
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause is a new history of Richmond's famous St. Paul's Episcopal Church, attended by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis during the Civil War and a tourist magnet thereafter... -
Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Texas 30th Cavalry Regiment by John C. Rigdon 9780359863914
RRP: £39.67Booksplease Price: £36.17On August 18, 1862, Col. Edward J. Gurley organized ten companies at Waco, Texas, to form the Thirtieth Texas Cavalry, also known as the First Texas Partisan Rangers. After the outbreak of the Civil... -
Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians by 9781886661035
Booksplease Price: £9.11General Maxey, dignified, articulate, and confident, arrives in Indian Territory in 1863 to assume command of a diverse and motley army of Indians. The troops are in disarray; they are suspicious of...