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Steele, Mathew Forney

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Military Service Pub. 1949

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 973 STE

Phillips, Charles

Summary: "Reveals the words and faces of the men, women, and boys who lived and died in the war that forged our nation and changed it forever."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1993

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 973.73 PHI

Brooks, Victor.

Summary: Describes the battles that took place at six different forts during the Civil War: Sumter, Henry and Donelson, Vicksburg, Wagner, and Fisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.7 BRO

O'Shea, Richard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Council Oak Books 1992

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 OSH

Macdonald, John

Summary: Examines great battles of the American Civil War, from the first battle at Bull Run in 1861 to the Battle of the Five Forks in 1865.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1992

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 Mac

Catton, Bruce

Summary: This is the story of Lincoln's famous army of the Potomac during the early years of the Civil War, when it was under the command of General George B. McClellan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1951

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

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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

Dougherty, Kevin.

Summary: An illustrated guide to 20 battles of the American Civil War, giving quick facts, narrative description, and detailed maps of each battle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2011

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

Micklos, John

Summary: "The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle was among the fiercest single-day battles of the entire Civil War. How did the bullet-riddled stump of a once-mighty oak tree there become a symbol of the conflict? What can its story tell us about that day's battle and the broader history of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 MIC

Thompson, Ben

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Summary: An educational collection of amazing-but-true facts about the Civil War shares accounts of such events as female spies fighting for the Rebel cause, cavalry rides in enemy territory, and the reelection of President Lincoln.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014

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White, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric)

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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

Catton, Bruce

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1990

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

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.741

Egerton, Douglas R

Summary: Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016

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

McPherson, James M.

Summary: Recounts the naval campaigns of the Civil War, discussing the daring and innovation of the Confederate navy in sinking Union ships, and the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast and victories in some of the war's most strategic battles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2012

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

Bowden, Scotty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7349 BOW

Shaara, Jeff

Summary: The Civil War did not end quietly. It climaxed in a storm of fury that lay waste to everything in its path. The Fateful Lightning brings to life those final brutal, bloody months of fighting with you-are-there immediacy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHA

Shaara, Jeff

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006

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

Sheridan, Philip Henry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHERIDAN, PHILIP HENRY SHE

Goldfield, David R.

Summary: In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom." Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second Great...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2011

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 GOL

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

Glatthaar, Joseph T.

Summary: General Robert E. Lee's army was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion into the North, they nearly managed to convince the North to give up the fight. Astonishingly, after 150 years of scholarship, there are still some major surprises about the Army of Northern Virginia. Historian Joseph T. Glatthaar draws on sources assembled over two decades--from letters...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.742 GLA

Brooks, Victor.

Summary: Describes some of the new weapons and devices which both Confederates and Yankees produced during the Civil War making it the first truly "modern" war in history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.74 BRO

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 /...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1999

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

Nevin, David

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TIM VOL 19

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