Varon, Elizabeth R.

Summary: "An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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Walsh, George

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002

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Glatthaar, 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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Alexander, Bevin.

Summary: Conventional wisdom holds that the South's defeat was inevitable. Yet military historian Alexander's new look at the Civil War documents how a Confederate victory could have come about--and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war's key battles, he shows why...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007

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Gwynne, 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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Brooks, Victor.

Summary: Describes the battles that took place at six different forts during the Civil War: Sumter, Henry and Donelson, Vicksburg, Wagner, and Fisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

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Contents: When merit was not enough: Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate defeat in the West, 1862 / Steven E. Woodworth -- "The responsibility is great": Joseph E. Johnston and the war in Virginia / Alan Downs -- Fighting for defeat? George B. McClellan's Peninsula campaign and the change of base to the James River / Ethan S. Rafuse --Generalship on trial: Don Carlos Buell's campaign to Chattanooga /...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1999

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Guelzo, Allen C.

Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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Korda, Michael

Summary: "[P]ortrait of Lee as a brilliant general, a devoted family man, and principled gentleman who disliked slavery and disagreed with secession, yet who refused command of the Union Army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his beloved Virginia. Well-rounded and realistic, Clouds of Glory analyzes Lee's command during the Civil War and explores his responsibility for the fatal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Thomas, Emory M.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1999

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McPherson, James M.

Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014

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Alexander, Edward Porter

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1989

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Allan, William

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Publisher / Publication Date: Konecky & Konecky 1995

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Buell, Thomas B.

Summary: Chronologically examines the battles of the Civil War, focusing on the leadership skills, strengths, and flaws of Union generals Ulysses S. Grant, George H. Thomas, and Francis C. Barlow, and Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, John B. Hood, and John B. Gordon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1997

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Bowden, Scotty.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2001

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Micklos, 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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McPherson, James M.

Summary: Recounts the naval campaigns of the Civil War, discussing the daring and innovation of the Confederate navy in sinking Union ships, and the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast and victories in some of the war's most strategic battles.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2012

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Woodworth, Steven E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005

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Sheridan, Philip Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2006

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Sears, Stephen W.

Summary: The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Egerton, Douglas R

Summary: Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016

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White, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric)

Summary: "Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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Catton, Bruce

Summary: This is the story of Lincoln's famous army of the Potomac during the early years of the Civil War, when it was under the command of General George B. McClellan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1951

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