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  • Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front

    The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863

    by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White ...
    The first book-length study of two overlooked engagements that helped turned the tide of a pivotal Civil War battle.By May of 1863, the stone wall at the base of Marye's Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter from their crushing defeat there the previous December. They would assault it again with a very ... Read more

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  • Simply Murder

    The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862

    by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    This Civil War history and guide offers a vivid chronicle of this dramatic yet misunderstood battle, plus invaluable information for battlefield visitors.The battle of Fredericksburg is usually remembered as the most lopsided Union defeat of the Civil War. It is sometimes called "Burnside's folly," after Union commander Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside who led the Army of the Potomac to ruin along the ... Read more

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  • Strike Them a Blow

    Battle along the North Anna River, May 21-25, 1864

    by Chris Mackowski ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    The Civil War historian and author of A Season of Slaughter continues his engaging account of the Overland Campaign in this vivid chronicle.By May of 1864, Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant had resolved to destroy his Confederate adversaries through attrition if by no other means. Meanwhile, his Confederate counterpart, Robert E. Lee, looked for an opportunity to regain the offensive initiative. ... Read more

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  • Unconditional Surrender

    Ulysses S. Grant in the Civil War

    by Curt Fields, Chris Mackowski ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    His friends called him “Sam.” His wife called him “Lyss” or “Victor.” His initials inspired a nickname tied to one of his greatest battlefield triumphs: “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” He quietly told his brother in April of 1861, while walking home after a recruiting meeting in Galena, Illinois, “I am in to do all I can.” And so he did. The unassuming Grant never expected to play a significant ... Read more

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  • Seizing Destiny

    The Army of the Potomac's "Valley Forge" and the Civil War Winter that Saved the Union

    by Albert Z. Conner, Chris Mackowski ...
    How fighting Joe Hooker turned things around during a low point in the Civil War: "Exceptionally well-written . . . the result of painstaking research." —Brig. Gen. John W. Mountcastle, USA (ret.), former chief of military history, US ArmyDepression. Desertion. Disease. The Army of the Potomac faced a trio of unrelenting enemies during the winter of 1863. Following the catastrophic defeat at the ... Read more

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  • Hell Itself

    The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864

    by Chris Mackowski ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    A Civil War historian recounts the first battle between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—a bloody and horrifying conflict in the Wilderness of Virginia.Known simply as the Wilderness, soldiers called the seventy square miles of dense Virginian forest one of the "waste places of nature" and "a region of gloom." Yet here, in the spring of 1864, the Civil War escalated to a new level of horror ... Read more

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  • Stay and Fight it Out

    The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield

    by Kristopher D. White, Chris Mackowski ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    Recounts the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the Gettysburg battle's fateful final day. July 1, 1863, was a disaster for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinforcements ... Read more

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  • Fallen Leaders

    Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War

    by Chris Mackowski ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    Fallen Leaders: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War recounts the fall of some of the most famous, infamous, and underappreciated commanders from both the North and South. The Civil War took as many as 720,000 lives and maimed hundreds of thousands more. The fallen included outstanding leaders on both sides, from a U.S. president all the way down the ... Read more

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  • A Tempest of Iron and Lead

    Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864

    by Chris Mackowski, Gordon C. Rhea ...
    A detailed study of the brutal and pivotal battle at Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21, 1864. May 1864. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame. No one could have imagined a more infernal battlefield—until the armies moved down the road to Spotsylvania Court House. Even the ... Read more

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  • Fight Like the Devil

    The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863

    by Chris Mackowski, Christopher D. White, Daniel T. Davis ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    "Gives the reader an excellent readable narrative of the first day of battle . . . [and] an incredible driving tour which closes each chapter." —Matthew Bartlett, Gettysburg ChronicleDo not bring on a general engagement, Confederate General Robert E. Lee warned his commanders. The Army of Northern Virginia, slicing its way through south-central Pennsylvania, was too spread out, too vulnerable, for ... Read more

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  • Grant's Last Battle

    The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

    by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    The remarkable story of how one of America's greatest military heroes became a literary legend.The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financier—Ulysses S. Grant—was dying. The hardscrabble man who regularly smoked twenty ... Read more

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  • A Season of Slaughter

    The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21, 1864

    by Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    A gripping narrative of one of the Civil War's most consequential engagements.In the spring of 1864, the newly installed Union commander Ulysses S. Grant did something none of his predecessors had done before: He threw his army against the wily, audacious Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia over and over again.At Spotsylvania Court House, the two armies shifted from stalemate in the ... Read more

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