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61) Battle flag
Author
Series
Starbuck chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
This is book three in the Starbuck Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell's exciting Civil War novel series.
After distinguishing himself at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck is persecuted by his jealous and suspicious brigade commander, the grandiose General Washington Faulconer. Their simmering enmity flares to life at Dead Mary's Ford, where Starbuck must fight the enemy as well as his own commanding officer.
The
...Author
Series
Novels of the Civil War volume 4
Language
English
Description
This concluding novel of Shaara's epic Civil War tetralogy tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through William Tecumseh Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of the general who vowed to 'make Georgia howl' until it...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Leander and Polly are two teenage Union soldiers who carry deep, dangerous secrets. Leander is underage when he enlists and Polly follows her father into war disguised as his son. The war proves life changing for both as they survive incredible odds. Leander struggles to be accepted as a man and loses his arm as a consequence. Polly mourns the death of her father, endures Andersonville Prison, and narrowly escapes the Sultana steamboat disaster. As...
Author
Language
English
Description
Though born into bondage on a "miserable tobacco farm" in Little Dixie, Missouri, Cathy Williams was never allowed to consider herself a slave. According to her mother, she was a captive, bound by her noble warrior blood to escape the enemy. Her means of deliverance is Union general Phillip Henry "Smash 'em Up" Sheridan, the outcast of West Point who takes the rawboned, prideful young woman into service. At war's end, having tasted freedom, Cathy...
Author
Series
Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last year of the Civil War as seen by the two commanding generals, Grant and Lee. The novel is the final volume in a trilogy, begun by the author's father with The Killer Angels. In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his...
69) The keeping room
Series
Drafthouse Films volume 32
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise and their female slave Mad. The pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ranchers across the west are reporting large numbers of cattle stolen and refusing to drive their herds to market. If the cattle industry fails, the market will collapse. Their plea for help falls on the shoulders of William Burke, Special Assistant to the President, who calls Murphy, the Regulator, back into action to save the country from plummeting into a recession.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
472 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Journal of the gun years. "A callow youth in search of excitement, Clay Halser travels the raucous frontier towns of the Old West, where a steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with. As both an outlaw and lawman, he carves out a legendary career. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can't outdraw..."--
The gun fight. "John Benton was one of the toughest men ever to wear a Texas Ranger badge. Eight...
72) Finding freedom
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Addy, 1864 volume 1
American girls collection
Addy classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Addy 1864 volume 1
American girls collection
Addy classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Addy 1864 volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Addy Walker's family is planning a dangerous escape from slavery during the summer of 1864. But before they can leave, the most terrible thing Addy can imagine happens-- her Poppa and her brother, Sam, are sold! Addy and her Momma decide they must head out on their own. Although the road to freedom is difficult, Addy's new life brings new friends, school, and even the opportunity to help others. But when will her family be reunited?
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 816 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A major new biography of one of Americas most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family. As a soldier,...
74) Dear Delia: the Civil War letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry, 1861-1864
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xlvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dear Delia chronicles the story of Henry F. Young, an officer in the famed Iron Brigade, as told through 155 letters home. His insights, often poignant and powerful, enable readers to witness the Civil War as he did. Young covers innumerable details of military service-- from the camaraderie, pettiness, and thievery he witnessed among the troops, to the brutality of internecine war. Above all, Young's communications highlight his unflagging patriotism--...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, this book is a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy. History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. If that cause had succeeded, it would have torn the United States in two and preserved the institution of slavery. Many Americans in Davis's own time...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm)
Language
English
Description
"When a company of black Union soldiers tells L'il Dan that he is no longer a slave, he follows them, and uses his beloved drum to save them from attack"--T.p. verso of book.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War changed America forever. It shaped its future and determined its place in history. For the first time in military history, the camera was there to record these seismic events from innovations in military and naval warfare, to the battles themselves; the commanders at critical moments in the battle, and the ordinary soldier tentatively posing for his first ever portrait on the eve of battle. Displaying many rare images unearthed by the...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
xiv, 290 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the broad span of American social, cultural, and economic change over about 100 years, the book views the Civil War through the eyes of children listening to their father's stories and World War II through the eyes of the same children as grown-up participants.
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