Casamer, Douglas M.

Summary: The Michigan 22nd Infantry regiment was instrumental in making the outcome of the Civil War a Union victory. Included is a study of the 1,610 men who fought in this regiment. Fought in and around the following battles; Chickamauga; Lookout Mountain; Chattanooga; Lost Mountain; Kennesaw Mountain; Chattahoochee River; Peach Tree Creek; Jonesboro; Atlanta. Formed at Pontiac, Michigan and mustered...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Casamer Publishing 2006

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Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 WHI

Sherman, William T 1820-1891

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SHE

Bennitt, John.

Summary: "In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, physician John Bennitt of Centerville, Michigan, joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service until the end of the war. During this time, Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters. In them he shared his careful and detailed observations of army life, including dramatic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.775 BEN

Stahr, Walter

Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Duncan, Dayton.

Contents: Preface: Come up me / Ken Burns -- Introduction -- Look forward to distant times -- Floyd's bluff -- Land of plenty -- Children -- Vision quest / William Least Heat-Moon -- Perfect harmony -- Scenes of visionary enchantment -- Most distant fountain of the mighty Missouri -- Friends / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Hungry Creek -- O! The Joy -- Wet and disagreeable -- Finding Sacagawea / Erica Funkhouser...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 DUN

Wargin, Kathy-jo.

Summary: Colorfully illustrated story of an eagle that inspired a Wisconsin infantry unit in the Civil War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America Wargin

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Genco, James G. (James Gordon)

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Publisher / Publication Date: R. Russell-Books 1983

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.774 GEN

Davis, Hasan

Summary: "Thomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery included Captains Lewis and Clark and a crew of 28 men to chart a route from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. All the crew but one volunteered for the mission. York, the enslaved man taken on the journey, did not choose to go. Slaves did not have choices. York's contributions to the expedition, however, were invaluable. The captains came to rely on York's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOR

Edwards, Judith

Summary: An account, told in the words of one participant, of the difficulties and wonders that were part of the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the land obtained as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2003

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Simons, Lisa M. B.

Summary: "In 1845, Sir John Franklin commanded two ships on an expedition to find a Northwest Passage from England through the Arctic and over to Asia. If successful, the route would be a faster way to get goods from Asia to Europe and back. But success was not in the cards for Franklin's expedition. Only recently, the sunken ships were discovered in the icy Arctic waters. What happened to Franklin and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 SIM

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Fradin, Dennis B.

Summary: A brief biography of Sacagawea, the Shoshoni woman who accompanied explorers Lewis and Clark on their expedition in the early 1800s.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET SACAGAWEA

Platt, Christine A.

Summary: "This title introduces readers to Sacagawea and how she became a shero for one of America's most famous expeditions. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico Kid is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO."--provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLA

Kilmeade, Brian

Summary: This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 KIL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.4 KIL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Kilmeade

Haley, John West

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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7441 HAL

Gooding, James Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7415 GOO

Gunn, Lewis C. (Lewis Carstairs)

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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1928

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 Gunn

Stevens, Thomas N. (Thomas Nichols)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 973.7475 STE

Shaw, Robert Gould

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.781 SHA

Ambrose, Stephen E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1998

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 917.804 AMB

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 CHA

Bertera, Martin N.

Summary: From the Publisher: This fascinating narrative tells the story of a remarkable regiment at the center of Civil War history. The real-life adventure emerges from accounts of scores of soldiers who served in the 4th Michigan Infantry, gleaned from their diaries, letters, and memoirs; the reports of their officers and commanders; the stories by journalists who covered them; and the recollections...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7474 BER

Eisenhower, John S. D.

Summary: Eisenhower offers a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general." Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM T EIS

Rhodes, Elisha Hunt

Summary: The Civil war diaries and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes. All For the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7445 RHO