1142 results for "American Civil War fiction book" between $5.00 and $100.00

Pages: 4, Digital, Thomson Gale

Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier & American Fiction

Pages: 308, Paperback, Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List, creates a biography that is as lively and engrossing as its subject. Dan Sickles was a member of Congress, led a controversial charge at Gettysburg, and had...

Pages: 223, Paperback, Kent State Univ Pr

In his attempt to help Albert, Robert unwittingly becomes a pawn of a Confederate escape plan. Angry and ashamed, he works his way south to his mother and Emily, only to discover that his mother has become mentally unstable. But time is short as Sherman’s march of destruction through the Carolinas promises to bring Union troops directly to their door. As Robert leads the group toward safety, the bonds between Emily and himself are strengthened. Robert must come to terms with his mother and his own...

Pages: 30, Digital, Northeastern University

Genre: History. Subgenre: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social. Pages: 729. Language: English. Format: paperback. Release Date: February 20, 2009. Date Published: February 20, 2009.

Pages: 112, Paperback, CreateSpace

Presented in 12 thematic sections, this visual history of America's epochal conflict features more than 500 items drawn from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress, including Mathew Brady's iconic photographs; period drawings, lithographs, and woodcuts; important manuscripts like the Gettysburg Address; political and theatrical posters; and ephemera like the contents of Lincoln's pockets the night he was assassinated. A running timeline notes an important-or intriguing lesser-known...

Pages: 361, Hardcover, Great Lakes Books

more Many were surprised by the escalating incidents that began right after Barack Obama's election, such as tea parties, guns toted to town hall meetings, rumors of socialism, and death panels. But Lee Harris knew this was coming. Harris has long been reflecting on freedom and what it really means. In this new book, he explains that the outrage we're witnessing is born of the age-old fear - as old as the nation itself - that someone will take away our freedom. It is this fear that sparked the current...

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In this book, A TREASURY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SHORT STORIES, author Jeanne W. Knoop recounts her own personal version of an American Civil War Living History Site with narrative paintings encompassing all participating groups of men, women, and children during the war years. Soldiers of both North and South, privates to generals, nurses, civilians caught in the maelstrom of the violently moving whirlpool with little way out.Together with chaplains and surgeons who tried to ease both the souls and...

The 25th Regiment Contecticut Volunteers in the War of Rebellion. The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel, 1919. Andersonville: a Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy. The Army of the Cumberland by Henry Cist. The Battle of Spring Hill Tennessee by Captain John Shellenberger. Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told 50 Years After by Major H.B. Smith. The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Theodore Dodge. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Souther Adventure...

While the giant armies of the Union and the Confederacy were fighting over cities and strategic strongholds, a large number of warriors from both sides were fighting, smaller, more personal battles. Beginning with the violent struggle known as -Bleeding Kansas- armed bands of irregular fighters began to wage war in every corner of the United States. Many of the names of their commanders have become legendary: William Quantrill, -Bloody Bill- Anderson, and John S Mosby -The Grey Ghost-. To their own...

" Robert Hodges reveals the thrilling chases and pitched battles that made the railroad so dangerous and resulted in a surprisingly high casualty rate. He describes the equipment and tactics used by both sides and the vital supporting elements – maintenance works, telegraph lines, fuel and water supplies, as well as garrisoned blockhouses to protect key points. Full-color illustrations bring the fast-paced action to life in this fascinating read; a must-have volume for rail and Civil War enthusiasts...

For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America's most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundred known to us by name. Now Keegan examines these and other puzzles...