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  • Confederate Military History

    Vol. 9: Tennessee

    Series Book 9 - Confederate Military History
    This work spanning twelve extensive volumes is the result of contributions by many Southern men to the literature of the United States that treats of the eventful years in which occurred the momentous struggle called by Mr. A. H. Stephens "the war between the States." These contributions were made on a well-considered plan, to be wrought out by able writers of unquestionable Confederate record who ... Read more

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  • Gettysburg

    The Last Invasion

    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    **Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military HistoryAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year**The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier.Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Landscape Turned Red

    The Battle of Antietam

    "The best account of the Battle of Antietam" from t he award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville ( The New York Times Book Review ).The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red,... ... Read more

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  • Gettysburg

    A comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today's leading historians.The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Gettysburg

    A Testing of Courage

    This National Bestseller is a "gripping narrative. . . . the best one-volume history of the decisive battle of the Civil War" ( New York Times Book Review ).America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and ... Read more

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  • How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

    The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

    Could the South have won the Civil War?To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable?Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals in this provocative and counterintuitive new look at the Civil War. In fact, the South most definitely ... Read more

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  • Tullahoma

    The Forgotten Campaign that changed the Civil War, June 23–July 4, 1863

    "The definitive account of Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans' operational masterpiece—the almost bloodless conquest . . . of Middle Tennessee." —Sam Davis Elliott, author of Soldier of TennesseeJuly 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South. Sandwiched geographically between those victories and lost in the heady ... Read more

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  • The Maps of Gettysburg

    An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3–July 13, 1863

    A comprehensive collection of Civil War maps and battle plans that brought Union and Confederate forces to the largest battle ever fought on American soil.Thousands of books and articles have been written about Gettysburg—but the military operation itself remains one of the most complex and difficult to understand. Here, Bradley M. Gottfried gives readers a unique and thorough study of the ... Read more

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  • Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

    "May well be the best, most perceptive and authoritative account of the Battle of Shiloh." — The Weekly StandardThe bloody and decisive two-day battle of Shiloh on April 6-7, 1862 changed the entire course of the American Civil War. The stunning Northern victory thrust Union commander Ulysses S. Grant into the national spotlight, claimed the life of Confederate commander Albert S. Johnston, and ... Read more

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  • Lincoln's Lieutenants

    The High Command of the Army of the Potomac

    A multilayered group biography of the Civil War commanders who led the Army of the Potomac: "a staggering work . . . by a masterly historian" ( Kirkus, starred review).The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all ... Read more

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  • Battle at Bull Run

    A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War

    Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 21, 1861, one Northerner wrote: “The sky is perfectly clear, the moon is full and bright, and the air was still as if it were not within a few hours to be disturbed by the roar of cannon and the shouts of contending men.” So optimistic were the ... Read more

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  • The Longest Night

    A Military History of the Civil War

    A riveting, indispensable history of the Civil War, told chronologically—from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender in the summer of 1865—a conflict that James McPherson in the Foreword calls "the most dramatic, violent, and fateful experience in American history."In this compelling account of the American Civil War, noted historian David Eicher gives us an authoritative history of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD