Fox, Stephen R.

Summary: Follows the distinguished military career of Confederate sea captain Raphael Semmes, commander of the CSS Alabama, following his wartime exploits as he became a cornerstone of the Confederate Navy, until the Alabama was sunk at Cherbourg, France, in 1864.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FOX

Davis, William C.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.713 DAV

Cooper, William J. (William James)

Summary: "West Point graduate, secretary of war under President Pierce, U.S. senator from Mississippi - how was it that this statesman and patriot came to be president of the Confederacy, leading the struggle to destroy the United States? This is the question at the center of William Cooper's biography of Jefferson Davis. Basing his account on the massive archival record left by Davis and his family and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAV

Varon, Elizabeth R.

Summary: "An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LONGSTREET, JAMES VAR

Thomas, Emory M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 THO

Davis, William C.

Summary: Profiles the lives of these two great Civil War commanders who came from vastly different backgrounds, exploring their personalities, their characters, their ethical and moral compasses, and their political and military worlds.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 DAV

Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)

Summary: Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country's greatest military figures. His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the Union high command in knots and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, STONEWALL GWY

Longacre, Edward G.

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Publisher / Publication Date: White Mane 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.713092 PIC

Pember, Phoebe Yates

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.782 PEM

Korda, Michael

Summary: "[P]ortrait of Lee as a brilliant general, a devoted family man, and principled gentleman who disliked slavery and disagreed with secession, yet who refused command of the Union Army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his beloved Virginia. Well-rounded and realistic, Clouds of Glory analyzes Lee's command during the Civil War and explores his responsibility for the fatal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, ROBERT E KOR

Guelzo, Allen C.

Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, ROBERT E. GUE

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Rose, Alexander

Summary: "James Bulloch, a sea captain turned Confederate agent, arrived in Liverpool at a crucial moment during the U.S. Civil War: a Union blockade was preventing Southern cotton exports from reaching Britain, threatening to destroy what was left of the Confederate economy-unless Bulloch could secretly arrange for the construction of a fleet of warships to break the northern grip on the South. Shortly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins 2022

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 ROS

Walsh, George

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7455 WAL

Abbott, Karen

Summary: "The never-before-told story of four real-life women who risked everything to take on a life of espionage during the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 ABB

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom Abbott

Johnson, Clint

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair, Publisher 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 JOH

McPherson, James M.

Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, JEFFERSON MCP

Crocker, H. W.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forum 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73092 CRO

Wakelyn, Jon L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwood Press 1977

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.375 Wakel

Smith, Gene.

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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SMI

Shaw, David W.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.757 SHA

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar

Summary: "This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca'a Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 NUN