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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war"--the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War--North and South, white and black, slave and free--showing how women were essentially and fully engaged in all three arenas."--...
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Series
Spy on history volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
94 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm + 3 decoding objects.
Language
English
Description
During the Civil War, African American Mary Bowser becomes a maid in the Richmond mansion of Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis as part of a plan to pass along secrets to help the Union. Includes a replica of a Confederate decoder, plus other spycraft materials, in a sealed envelope to help the reader discover clues found in the text and illustrations.
85) Freedom fire
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Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are heading southwest on the back of Stella, the giant pteranodon, to find Montez, her brother, wounded during the siege of Vicksburg; now they are heading into the heart of the fighting, depending on Magdalys' ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs-- but one of the companions is not quite what she seems, and Magdalys's talent could make her a target for both sides.
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English
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"A story of love, hope, and healing set in the midst of the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley where nineteen-year-old Carrie Ann Bell is forced to choose between her childhood friend Confederate Major Joshua Blevins and her rescuer and protector Union Colonel Peyton Collier"--
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Addy, 1864 volume 2
American girls collection
Addy classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Addy 1864 volume 2
American girls collection
Addy classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Addy 1864 volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having Poppa home fills Addy's heart with happiness, and moving to a boarding house brings a new special friend-- one who encourages Addy to always stay hopeful for the future. Then Addy enjoys the victory of having her idea chosen for a fair fundraiser, where a friendship is born, and the answer to a riddle brings a wonderful surprise. But will the rest of Addy's family be reunited before the New Year?
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvii, 450 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War. In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests....
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 784 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was one of the most esteemed individuals of the nineteenth century. His two-volume memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, have never gone out of print and were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Matthew Arnold, Henry James, and Edmund Wilson hailed these works as great literature, and presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both credit Grant with...
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Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8.4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street and their Civil War struggles. Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at the Mansion House of Alexandria, Virginia, a mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the new PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
History has been kind to Robert E. Lee, but immediately after the Civil War many northerners believed Lee should be hanged for treason and war crimes. In June of 1865 Robert E. Lee was indicted for treason by a Norfolk, Virginia grand jury. Reeves tells the story of the forgotten legal and moral case that was made against the Confederate general after the Civil War. The actual indictment went missing for 72 years, and has both literally and figuratively...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In addition to tracking the evolution of the black Confederate myth, Levin explores the roles that African Americans performed in the army with a particular focus on the relationship between officers and their personal body servants or camp slaves. In contrast to claims that these men served as soldiers in racially integrated regiments, Levin demonstrates that regardless of the dangers faced in camp, on the march and on the battlefield their legal...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 through the 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, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against...
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