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

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

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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Woodworth, Steven E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1990

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Contents: When merit was not enough: Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate defeat in the West, 1862 / Steven E. Woodworth -- "The responsibility is great": Joseph E. Johnston and the war in Virginia / Alan Downs -- Fighting for defeat? George B. McClellan's Peninsula campaign and the change of base to the James River / Ethan S. Rafuse --Generalship on trial: Don Carlos Buell's campaign to Chattanooga /...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1999

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

Buell, Thomas B.

Summary: Chronologically examines the battles of the Civil War, focusing on the leadership skills, strengths, and flaws of Union generals Ulysses S. Grant, George H. Thomas, and Francis C. Barlow, and Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, John B. Hood, and John B. Gordon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1997

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

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

Thomas, Emory M.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1999

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

Johnson, Clint

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

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

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

O'Neill, Connor Towne

Summary: "A journalist's memoir-plus-reporting about modern-day conflicts over Southern monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero and original leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a personal examination of the legacy of white supremacy through theUS today, tracing the throughline from Appomattox to Charlottesville"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 O'NE

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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Thomason, John W.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Konecky & Konecky 1995

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Alexander, Bevin.

Summary: Conventional wisdom holds that the South's defeat was inevitable. Yet military historian Alexander's new look at the Civil War documents how a Confederate victory could have come about--and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war's key battles, he shows why...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007

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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

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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Horn, Jonathan

Summary: The story of why Robert E. Lee, the one soldier who most embodied the legacy of George Washington, chose to fight for the South, a decision that changed American history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015

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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