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Daring & Suffering
William Pittenger
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 wires. If successful, they would isolate
Chattanooga and possibly facilitate its capture, which could then used a base
for Union raids into Alabama
472 Pages.
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Folk Songs of the
South
John Harrington Cox
Originally published in 1925, this
historical musical look at the Southern community includes 185 songs in 398
variants, along with 29 tunes for 26 different songs. They range from one end of
the spectrum to the other, and include “The Rebel Soldier,” “ The Yellow Rose of
Texas”, and “ The Sheffield Apprentice”. Regardless of style or subject, the
songs offer a valuable insight to everyday life in the Old South. In gratitude,
a song of thanks be sung to the author.
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Gray Fox
Robert E. Lee
and
the Civil War.
Burke Davis
The Civil War produced many
monumental and beloved figures, but none holds a place as such honor and
importance as General Robert E. Lee. This is Lee’s narrative life, told with
more dramatic flair than ever before. Based solidly on eyewitness accounts,
letters and dispatches, and recorded conversations, Gray Fox covers all the
events in Lee’s war career: his decision to stand by Virginia, the
disappointing campaign in West Virginia, his first major command and the
victorious Seven Days.
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The Life of
Johnny Reb
Bell Irvin Wiley
When Bell Irvin Wiley’s composite portrait of the
rank-and-file Confederate soldier was published in 1943, it was enthusiastically
received by professional historians and general readers alike. A half century
later, the books is still regarded as one of the best available accounts of the
ordinary citizens who made up the Confederate army. The Life of Johnny Reb is
not about the battles and skirmishes fought by the confederate foot soldier.
Rather, it is an intimate history of the soldier’s daily life-the songs he sang,
the foods he ate, the hopes and fears he experienced, the reasons he fought.
Wiley examined countless letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and official
records in construction this frequently poignant, sometimes humorous account of
the life of Johnny Reb.
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Louisiana in Words
Joshua Clark
Taste, smell, hear, and see Louisiana in this
collection of one-minute experiences taking place over a twenty-four-hour period
across the Pelican Stqte. One hundred twenty Louisiana-born or current resident
contributors of all ages, backgrounds, and perspectives have offerend their
grateful, graceful, and grave visions of the state, a place as evocative as the
essays within this gathering of voices.
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Mississippi River Gunboats Of
the American Civil War 1861-65
Angus Konstam
At the start of
the American Civil, neither side had warships on the Mississippi River and in
the first few months both sides scrabled to gather a flotilla by converting
existing riverboats for naval use. These ships were transformed into powerful
naval weapons despite the lack of resources, trained manpower and suitable
vessels. The creation of a river fleet was a merical of ingenuity, improvision
and logistics, particularly for the South. This title describes their design,
development, and operation through the American Civil War.
48 Pages
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Portraits of the Civil War
In Photographs Diaries, and Letters
Charles Phillips and Alan
Axelrod
The Civil War, known as the first modern war, is also the
first war to have been documented in photographs. The haunting photographic
images taken amid the years of battle caputred the harsh realities of the war as
never before. Gathered together in this moving collection are more hat 75
unforgetable portraits of the men, women, and children whose lives were
intimately touched by the war. Each image is accompanied by incisive historical
commentary and excerpts from the letters, diaries, and journals of the men at
the front and their loved ones at home, detailing their thoughts and feelings
about the traumatic events unfolding around them.
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Raiders of the Civil
War
Russ A. Pritchard Jr.
During the Civil War, attacks by
bands of raiders often had a far greater impact on the war than the numbers
involved-and history’s attention-would suggest. The psychological effect on the
civilian population was often very severe, and the raids distracted large
numbers of troops who had to withdraw from combat to cope with the raiders. The
raids, on land and on water, were early manifestations of guerrilla warfare,
carried out to cause maximum disruption to the enemy’s railroads and other lines
of communication, to rescue prisoners of war, t o terrorize civilians and
military alike, to rob banks to pay for the war effort, and to kill or capture
political leaders. The raiders struck from Florida to the Canadian border and
included the famous-and the infamous- men from both sides, alike Stuart,
Sheridan, Dahlgren, Quantrill, Bloody Bill Andersen, Cushing, and
Mosby.
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She Went To the Field
Women
Soldiers of the Civil War
Bonnie Tsui
She Wen to the Field:
Women Soldiers of the Civil War tells the little-known, true stories of the
brave women who boldly challenged gender boundaries during The War Between The
States. Whether disguising themselves as male soldiers or participating in
related military capacities as spies, nurses, and vivandieres, these heroic
women deserve to be recognized both for their contributions to the war and to
women’s rights.
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The Authentic South Of
Gone With The Wind
Bruce Wexler
Margaret Mitchell's bestselling novel Gone With The Wind
was a distillation of all that she knew about the history of the South,
gleaned from stories she had heard as a young girl. She grew up just
forty years after the Civil War, in a south still recovering fro
the devastation. Stories told to her at her grandmother's knee about
the genteel pre-war life, and the tales from confederate veterans about
the bitterly faught campaign for Atlanta itself, dominated her earliest
memoreis. These images touched the very roots fo Mitchell's own family,
as they did for many of the south. As her haunting memories spilled out
into the pages pouring from her second-hand protable Remington
Type-writer, they were transformed into a valuable documentary account
of one of the most turbulent periods in American History.
192 Pages with Photographs
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