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Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence 1828-1914 Generals United States Biography Presidents United States Biography United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States. Army Biography United States. Army. Corps, 5th (1862-1865)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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LONGSTREET, JAMES VARCatton, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CATPerry, James M. (James Moorhead)
Summary: Examines the lives and careers of five presidents who served in the military during the Civil War, and the affect the war had on their presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 PERWhite, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE WHISheridan, Philip Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHERIDAN, PHILIP HENRY SHEEgerton, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 EGEGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S.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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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 MICMarszalek, John F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2004