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Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.55 JOHBurgan, Michael.
Summary: Read about the famous Civil War battle between two armored ships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.75 BURMack, Stanley.
Summary: In 1861, a young slave named Sam escapes to search for his father, who has been conscripted into the Confederate army, and makes his way to a northern city, while back at the Virginia plantation where Sam was raised Annabelle, the owner's daughter, struggles to run things after her father's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Childrens Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Graphic MACWheeler, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.737 WHESmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIGlatthaar, Joseph T.
Summary: General Robert E. Lee's army was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion into the North, they nearly managed to convince the North to give up the fight. Astonishingly, after 150 years of scholarship, there are still some major surprises about the Army of Northern Virginia. Historian Joseph T. Glatthaar draws on sources assembled over two decades--from letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.742 GLAPowers, Kevin
Summary: A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC POWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWMicklos, John
Summary: "The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle was among the fiercest single-day battles of the entire Civil War. How did the bullet-riddled stump of a once-mighty oak tree there become a symbol of the conflict? What can its story tell us about that day's battle and the broader history of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 MICCrane, Stephen
Summary: During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRACrane, Stephen
Summary: During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JF Classic CraneCrane, Stephen
Summary: During his service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRAFerguson, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Ferguson 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 FERJaynes, Gregory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TIM VOL 14Ayers, Edward L.
Summary: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies is a landmark work of stirring historical narrative and deep scholarship. It gives us the Civil War on an intimate scale, as a story of individuals and families, civilians and soldiers, slaves, free blacks and whites, women and men. It upends what has become the standard view of the Civil War. By taking a ground-level view of the war, Edward L. Ayers shows that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 AYEGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country's greatest military figures. His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the Union high command in knots and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, STONEWALL GWYSMITH, STEVEN K.
Summary: "Legend says that the haunting lights over the rapids on the James River at night are the ghosts of lon55g-dead soldiers still fighting the Civil War. Just past the water lies historic Belle Isle, the former Union soldier prisoner-of-war camp, now a city park filled with crumbling ruins and dark wooded trails. When brothers Sam and Derek explore the island and local monuments to Richmond's past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Virginia Smith 2014Bowery, Charles R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 BOWHepinstall, Kathy.
Summary: Arrested and declared insane for seeking justice for her plantation owner husband's slaves at the height of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy endures a lengthy institutional "rehabilitation" under the eye of a pompous superintendent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPWert, Jeffry D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7455 WERReasoner, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REABradwell, Isaac Gordon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7458 BRAThompson, Gare.
Summary: Discusses the Monitor and the Virginia, ironclad warships that confronted each other at the Civil War battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia, detailing what became of the ships after the battle and how the sunken Monitor was later investigated by scientists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003