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Summary: "...explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers, doctors, and nurses."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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Summary: "From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. Brian Matthew Jordan's Marching Home, a "powerful exploration" (Washington Post) of the fates of Union veterans, vaulted him into the first rank of Civil War historians. Now, in A Thousand May Fall, Jordan sends us trundling along dusty roads...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 JORThompson, Ben
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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Summary: Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SHEMoss, Marissa
Summary: Eager to fight for the North during the Civil War, Sarah Emma Edmonds joins a Michigan infantry regiment. She excels as a soldier, and she even takes on the grueling task of nursing the wounded. Because of her heroism, she is asked to become a spy, cross enemy lines, and infiltrate a Confederate camp. For her first mission, Sarah must once again disguise herself and rely on the kindness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 EDMFrank, Lisa Tendrich (EDT)
Summary: Covers the role of women in the Civil War, from battlefield to home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO 2008
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2 available in Reference, Call number: R 973.7082 WOM V1Call number: R 973.7082 WOM V2
Summary: " ... [Draws from] letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages and poems to provide an incomparable literary portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction ..."--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CIVAbbott, Karen
Summary: "The never-before-told story of four real-life women who risked everything to take on a life of espionage during the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 ABBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom AbbottLeBoutillier, Linda
Summary: "The U.S. Civil War was a war that changed the face, body, and heart of the United States forever. Secrets of the U.S. Civil War reveals little-known stories of the people, weapons, and battles that have affected the maps on our walls and the allegiances in our hearts."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "...Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, 'The Civil War: The First Year' brings together over 120 pieces by more than sixty participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great historical crisis..."--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CIVClinton, Catherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.71 CLIGoldfield, David R.
Summary: In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom." Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second Great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 GOLCumming, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.776 CUMDollarhide, William.
Summary: Most genealogical records during the decade of the Civil War are related to the soldiers and regiments of the Union and Confederate military. However, there are numerous records relating to the entire population as well. Dollarhide identifies the places to look, and documents to be found, for ancestors during the decade 1861-1869, as well as post-war veterans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Roots Pub. Co. 2009
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 DOLSchweitzer, George Keene
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Schweitzer 1984
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 016.9737 SCHMcPherson, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MCPHale, Nathan
Summary: "Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history of the amazing ironclad steam warships used in the Civil War. From the ship's inventor, who had a history of blowing things up and only 100 days to complete his project, to the mischievous William Cushing, who pranked his way through the whole war, this book is filled with surprisingly true facts and funny, brave characters that modern readers will easily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2012
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Summary: The North and South sections of the United States developed along very different lines. The South s economy remained predominantly agricultural, while the North s evolved as a powerhouse of industry. Over time, different social cultures, attitudes, economics, and politics developed, resulting in simmering tensions. However, the final catalyst for conflict, ultimately leading to war, was over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SUTMonson, Marianne
Summary: North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant-- the women in these micro biographies were wives, mothers, sisters and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy. Monson brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. -- Adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MONCromie, Alice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CROWhite, 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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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2015Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1990