Secret Missions of the Civil War Philip Van Doren Stern These are first-hand accounts by men and women who risked their lives in underground activities for the North and South during the Civil War. Spies, commandos, saboteurs, guerillas, or privateers, these underground agents fought daring battles and did dubious deeds often unrewarded and now forgotten. The Civil war had its share of cloak-and-dagger escapades, yet little has been published about the important secret front. Many underground agents died without ever revealing even a hint of what they accomplished, and much of the documentary material was deliberately destroyed because the very nature of the work was endangered by incriminating evidence. 322 Pages $10.99+S&H  Add to Basket
That Devil Forrest  John Allan Wyeth Grant called him “that devil Forest”. Sherman, it is reported, considered his “the most remarkable man our civil war produced on either side.” He was unquestionably one of the war’s most brillant tacticians. Without military education or training, he became the scourge of Grant, Sherman, and almost every other Union general who faught in Tennessee, Alabama, or Kentucky.  He was Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest faught be simple rules: he maintained that “war means fighitng and fighting means killing” and that the way to win was “to get there first with the most men” 616 Pages $24.99+S&H  Add to Basket
May I Quote You, General Forrest? Observations and Utterances form The South’s Great Generals  Randall Bedwell Few commanders in history rank with General Nathan Bedford Forest, who was a Rebel general in every sense of the term. Not only did he command a force of fighting men who almost never met defeat, he did so using unconventional and innovative tactics that set him apart from other military leaders of his time. A self-made frontiersman with no formal military training, he frequently found himself battling both the Union army and his own stubborn superiors in the Confederate High Command. 80 Pages with Photographs $8.99+S&H   ***************************************************************
Battlefields and Landmarks A Photographic Tour  Carol M. Highsmith & Ted Landphair This Photographic study by photographer Carol M. Highsmith, with descriptions by writer Ted Landphair, relives the war as a curious traveler might, by visiting battlefields where the great armies clashed and stopping to reflect at memorials and other sites that forever remind the nation of the valor, sacrifice, and ironies of that bloody war.   128 Pages with Photographs $11.99+S&H Add to Basket  ***********************************************************

Daring Suffering The History Of the Andrews Railroad Raid  William Pittenger with introduction by Col. James G. Bogle During the evening of April 7, 1862, twenty-four men infiltrated the Confederate lines below Shelbyville, Tennessee, on their way to Marietta, Georgia. Their goal was to steal a train and head north, disrupting rail service between Chattanooga and Atlanta by burning bridges. Tearing up track and cutting telegraph lines. If successful, they would isolate Chattanooga and possibly facilitate its capture, which could then be used as a base for Union raids into Alabama. 416 Pages   $19.99+S&H  Add to Basket   ********************************************************

War Drums A Novel  Livia Hallam with James Resoner Allard Tyler and Barnabe Yorke limp into Nassau with their heavily damaged ship. The island is a new, exotic, world for Allard, and it is rife with intrigue, including the romantic advances of the bewitching, beautiful daughter of the island’s governor. When their vessel is seaworthy again, Allard and York Return to Charleston, preying on Union merchant shipping along the way. Once in Charleston, Allard honors his promise to join his father’s shipbuilding business and marry Diana Pinckston, the woman he loves. The fateful voyage climaxes in Nassau, where mayhem, blackmail, extortion, and death combine in Allard’s harrowing struggle for life and hope. 351 Pages $19.99+S&H  Add to Basket ***************************************************************

Rebel Cornbread &  Yankee Coffee Authentic Civil War Cooking & Comaraderie  Garry Fisher Cullied from the memoirs and letters of actual Union and Confederate soldiers, the recipes found in Rebel Cornbread and Yankee Coffee are authentic-they might even turn your taste buds Blue and Gray. 115 Pages $8.99+S&H  Add to Basket *******************************************************************

Best Little Ironies,  Oddities & Mysteries of the Civil War  C. Brian Kelly The Lore and legends of the Civil War form a deep reservoir of ironies, oddities, and mysteries that are often overlooked in conventional histories of the war. From that vast treasure C. Brian Kelly has drawn 114 tails that sketch the repercussions of the conflict beyond the battlefields and into the communities and homes across the nation. Kelly offers keen insights and assessments of the human tragedy that occurred over the course of four years of brutal combat. He begins with lanky Abraham Lincoln lumbering into Springfield , a challenged Thomas J. Jackson striving to be admitted to the U.S. Military Academy, and a soft-spoken Harriet Beecher Stowe composing the best-selling novel of "Life Among the lowly. Along the Way, Kelly Explores intriguing mysteries and offers interesting revelations concerning many of the legendary figures of the blue and gray, as well as ordinary citizens who bore the bunt of the War.  416 Pages $17.99+S&H  Add to Basket ***************************************************************

Sweetly Southern  Lynda Moreau Sweetly Southern: Delicious Desserts form the Sons of Confederate Veterans is a mouth-watering collecton of desserts, candies, punches, and sweet tasting snacks submitted by members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. SCV members pay homage to thir ancestors by sending in favorite treats, including such military inspired desserts as Dying General Buttermilk Pie, Jeff Davis Pudding Pie, and Robert E. Lee Orange Pie. From historiuc confections like Lady Baltimore Cake to contemporary favoraites such as Peanut Butter Pie, these treasured recipes reflect the sweet tooths of modern Confederate families across the United States. Vintage photographs and capsule biographies of soldiers from the war Between the States round out this nostalgic, yet useful, cookbook, which is sure to impart a sweetly Southern flavor to our family gatherings. 240 Pages with Photographs $25.99+S&H  Add to Basket ******************************************************************

The History Buff’s Guide to Gettysburg Thomas R. Flagel & Ken Callers Jr. Proir to the battle of Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863, the costliest battle of the Civil War had been Antietam, in September 1862, during which more than 23,000 were killed or wounded in eleven hours. At Gettysburg, approximately 33,00 were killed or wounded and another 10,000 went missing in action. The History Buff’s Guide to Gettysburg covers the action of those days be means of detailed top-ten lists, ranking the best, worst, first, and the most significant elements of the largest and deadliest battle of the Civil War. 352 Pages with Photographs $17.99+S&H  Add to Basket *************************************************************

Naval Strategies of the Civil War  Jay W. Simson One of the most overlooked aspects of the American Civil War is the naval strategy played out by the North and South. Only recently have documents come to light that reveal the forgotten story of Confederate efforts to secure naval assets in Europe that could not be secured at home in the face of Federal advances on Southern coasts and waterways. Much is said of the ironclad initiatives played out at Hampton Roads and on the Mississippi in the spring of 1862, and some attention is given to the commerce raiders and blockade-runners. In this overview of the Civil War navies, Jay W. Simson looks first at the two men who determined the policies of thir respective governments: Stephen R. Mallory and Gideon Welles. 242 Pages $17.99+S&H  Add to Basket ***************************************************************