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Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Texas 30th Cavalry Regiment by John C. Rigdon 9780359863914
RRP: $51.17Booksplease Price: $46.66On 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: $11.75General 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... -
Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February-May 1863 by Donald S. Frazier 9781933337449
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $36.38Confederate 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-... -
Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church by Christopher Alan Graham 9780813948799
RRP: $98.04Booksplease Price: $79.68Faith, 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... -
Last Train South: The Flight of the Confederate Government from Richmond by James C. Clark 9780786404698
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.34The story begins in March 1865 as Union troops closed in on Richmond. Jefferson Davis tries to establish new capitals in Danville, Greensboro, and Charlotte and is ultimately captured in Georgia... -
Mary Bowser and the Civil War Spy Ring: A Spy on History Book by Enigma Alberti 9781523507719
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.29Your Mission: Find Mary's secret diary using spycraft stools to uncover hidden codes! It's a true story of bravery: Mary Bowser was an African American spy for the Union who worked as a maid in the... -
The Civil War Quiz Book: 1,600 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge of America's Most Divisive Conflict by Blake A. Magner 9781589795174
Booksplease Price: $18.38If you think you know a lot about the Civil War, challenge yourself with this instructive and intriguing book of questions. Covering every battle of the war, commanders and ordinary soldiers,... -
Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox by J.Tracy Power 9780807854143
Booksplease Price: $54.36A vivid account of life in Lee's army; Based on research in more than 1,200 wartime letters and diaries by more than 400 Confederate officers and enlisted men, Lee's Miserables offers a compelling... -
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics William J. Cooper (Louisiana State University) 9780871404350
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.93Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs... -
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography by Thomas E. Schott 9780807121061
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $36.71Winner Of The Jefferson Davis Award Rising from humble origins in the middle Georgia cotton belt, Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883) became one of the South's leading politicians and lawyers. Thomas E... -
Joe Brown'S Pets: The Georgia Militia, 1862-1865 (H655/Mrc) by 9780865548831
Booksplease Price: $39.16At the beginning of the Civil War, Georgia ranked third among the Confederate states in manpower resources, behind only Virginia and Tennessee. With an arms-bearing population somewhere between... -
Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860 by Christopher Morris 9780195083668
Booksplease Price: $127.62Mississippi 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... -
The Handy Civil War Answer Book by Samuel Willard Crompton 9781578594764
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $32.38Beginning with the economic, political and social forces behind the conflict, continuing to the first shots fired at Fort Sumter, the military strategies, battles and people, and following Lee's... -
In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals by William J. Cooper Jr
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas- antebellum,... -
The Civil War Political Tradition: Ten Portraits of Those Who Formed It by Paul D. Escott 9780813949680
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned... -
The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865 by Stephen B. Oates 9780803269309
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.98The Whirlwind of War builds on the great themes and follows many of the important figures who were introduced in The Approaching Fury. Stephen B. Oates's riveting narrative brings to life the complex... -
William Montague Browne: Versatile Anglo-Irish American, 1823-1883 by 9780820335339
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $42.58E. Merton Coulter's biography of William Montague Browne portrays the life of an Irish journalist living in the north who moved south to adopt the Confederate cause. Born in County Mayo, Ireland,... -
The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877-1933 by Edward O. Frantz 9780813044477
Booksplease Price: $31.14How did the political party of Lincoln--of emancipation--become the party of the South and of white resentment? How did Jefferson Davis's old party become the preferred choice for most southern... -
Longstreet's Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J Goree by Thomas W. Cutrer 9780813937854
Booksplease Price: $46.96One of the Confederacy's most loyal adherents and articulate advocates was Lieutenant Grant James Longstreet's aide-de-camp, Thomas Jewett Goree. Present at Longstreet's headquarters and party to the... -
Devotion: A Novel Based on the Life of Winnie Davis, Daughter of the Confederacy by Julia Oliver 9780820332048
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $27.55Devotion re-creates the life of Varina Anne (Winnie) Davis, the youngest child of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. Winnie was not quite a year old when the family fled... -
Confederate Cabinet Departments and Secretaries by Dennis L. Peterson 9781476665214
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27Thousands of books have been written covering every aspect of the Civil War. Yet scant attention has been given to the civilian government of the Confederacy. The most recent book on the subject... -
Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War by Will Morrisey 9780739114711
Booksplease Price: $57.16Americans introduced themselves to the world by declaring their independence. They recognized that their "unalienable rights" were secured by institutionalized government that derives its just powers... -
A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam's Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age Frank W. Garmon Jr. 9780807182161
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $39.38Charles Cowlam's career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched many of the most... -
Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman by Robert Douthat Meade 9780807127445
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.81A rare Sephardic Jew in the Old South and a favorite of Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin has been described as ""the brains of the Confederacy."" He held three successive Confederate cabinet posts-... -
Freedom's Cap by Guy Gugliotta 9780809046836
Booksplease Price: $28.66The history of the modern U.S. Capitol, the iconic seat of American government, is also the history of America's most tumultuous years. As the majestic new building rose above Washington's skyline,... -
At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis by Shearer Davis Bowman 9781469621364
Booksplease Price: $52.37Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue... -
The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 by William W. Freehling 9780195072594
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $37.14This first volume of William Freehling's long-awaited, monumental study of the south's road to disunion offers a sweeping social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic... -
Richmond During the War: Four Years of Personal Observation by Sallie Brock Putnam 9780803287457
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.51The Civil War turned the genteel world of Virginia society upside-down for Sallie Brock Putnam. She lived in the Confederate capital of Richmond throughout the war and saw it transformed from a quiet... -
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh 9781606353844
Booksplease Price: $38.93In this reexamination of Confederate war aims, Joseph L. Harsh analyzes the military policy and grand strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War... -
Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives by Paul Quigley 9780367586546
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to longer-term cultural reintegration? Bringing together... -
Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War by Elizabeth D. Leonard 9780393326772
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.58On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth, and Secretary of State William H. Seward was brutally stabbed. Clearly a conspiracy was afoot. Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt... -
First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War by Joan E. Cashin
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $34.57When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come... -
Kill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 by Bruce M Venter 9780806151533
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.33The 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... -
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South by Michael Johnson 9780393303148
RRP: $30.32Booksplease Price: $29.28In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience... -
Grant'S Cavalryman by Edward Longacre 9780811727808
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96Born in Shawneetown, Illinois in time to be newly graduated from West Point when the Civil War started, James H. Wilson became a brigadier general by the age of twenty-six. Fueled by boundless... -
Leonidas Polk: Warrior Bishop of the Confederacy by Huston Horn
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $58.90Leonidas Polk was a graduate of West Point who resigned his commission to enter the Episcopal priesthood as a young man. At first combining parish ministry with cotton farming in Tennessee, Polk... -
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics by William J. Cooper 9781631494956
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.07Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as an aloof intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist... -
The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Martin Dugard 9780803228122
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.76For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 13: Gender by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807859483
Booksplease Price: $52.43This book addresses manhood and womanhood in the South. This volume of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"" reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past... -
George Stoneman: A Biography of the Union General by Ben Fuller Fordney 9780786495498
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27During an 1865 raid through North Carolina, Major General George Stoneman missed capturing the fleeing Jefferson Davis only by a matter of hours, timing somewhat typical of Stoneman's life and...