Stahr, Walter

Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN Sta

Casamer, Douglas M.

Summary: The Michigan 22nd Infantry regiment was instrumental in making the outcome of the Civil War a Union victory. Included is a study of the 1,610 men who fought in this regiment. Fought in and around the following battles; Chickamauga; Lookout Mountain; Chattanooga; Lost Mountain; Kennesaw Mountain; Chattahoochee River; Peach Tree Creek; Jonesboro; Atlanta. Formed at Pontiac, Michigan and mustered...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Casamer Publishing 2006

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R GEN 973.7474 CAS

Macartney, Clarence Edward

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBride 1953

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.741 MACA

Perry, James M. (James Moorhead)

Summary: Examines the lives and careers of five presidents who served in the military during the Civil War, and the affect the war had on their presidency.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003

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

White, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric)

Summary: "Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE WHI

Ferguson, Chris

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C. Ferguson 2001

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 FER

Roberts, Cokie.

Summary: Documents the experiences, influence, and contributions of the women of Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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

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

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.

Format: text

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

Egan, Timothy.

Summary: "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MEA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MEAGHER EGA

Moore, Michael Boulware

Summary: "On the night of May 13th, 1862, as the Civil War raged on in the United States, 16 enslaved people decided they would reach freedom or die trying. Filled to the brim with suspense, this true story details how Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship through the Charleston harbor toward liberation at the Union blockade. Experience both determination and triumph with this picture book...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SMA

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SMA

Berkin, Carol.

Summary: In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 BER

Frank, Lisa Tendrich (EDT)

Summary: Covers the role of women in the Civil War, from battlefield to home front.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO 2008

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2 available in Reference, Call number: R 973.7082 WOM V1
Call number: R 973.7082 WOM V2

Overmyer, Leonard G.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Overmyer Historicals 1999

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2 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 977.4635 OVE
Call number: NEL 977.4635 OVE

Lehrman, Lewis E.

Contents: Men of character: quintessential leaders with different personalities -- The unlikely emergence of Lincoln and Churchill -- The rhetoric of leadership -- Anglo-American relations -- Virtues of great war leaders -- Managing ministers & legislators -- Finding and managing generals -- Army leadership -- 1862/1942 -- 1863/1943 -- 1864/1944 -- 1865/1945 -- Reelection and reconstruction -- Managing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.709 LEH

Marszalek, John F.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.741 MAR

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.

Format: text

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

Eisenhower, John S. D.

Summary: Eisenhower offers a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general." Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM T EIS

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Almanac Publications 1983

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

Hardin, David

Contents: The daughter of the confederacy : Winnie Davis -- The conqueror's son : Tom Sherman -- The general's last battle : Ulysses S. Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. Johnston -- The legend : Robert E. Lee -- The turncoat : George H. Thomas...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Hardin

Johnson, Clint

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 2002

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

Smith, Gene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1984

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

Eisenhower, John S. D.

Summary: From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as “the first modern general.” Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM T EIS