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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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.7 BRO

Macdonald, John

Summary: Examines great battles of the American Civil War, from the first battle at Bull Run in 1861 to the Battle of the Five Forks in 1865.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1992

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 Mac

O'Shea, Richard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Council Oak Books 1992

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 OSH

Phillips, Charles

Summary: "Reveals the words and faces of the men, women, and boys who lived and died in the war that forged our nation and changed it forever."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1993

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 973.73 PHI

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)

Format: text

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 MIC

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)

Summary: The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and completed as he was dying of throat cancer in 1885.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1951

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

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2012

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

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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016

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

White, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric)

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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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Shaara, Jeff

Summary: This concluding novel of Shaara's epic Civil War tetralogy tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through William Tecumseh Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2015

Nevin, David

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TIM VOL 19

Dougherty, Kevin.

Summary: An illustrated guide to 20 battles of the American Civil War, giving quick facts, narrative description, and detailed maps of each battle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 DOU

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1999

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

Shaara, Jeff

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 SHA

Wheeler, Richard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 WHE

Thompson, Ben

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Summary: An educational collection of amazing-but-true facts about the Civil War shares accounts of such events as female spies fighting for the Rebel cause, cavalry rides in enemy territory, and the reelection of President Lincoln.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014

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Woodworth, Steven E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7359 WOO

Woodworth, Steven E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7462 WOO

Woodworth, Steven E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 WOO

Johnson, Clint

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J.F. Blair 1997

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Castle 1982

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 BAT

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