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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.

Bruce Cattons Civil War: 3 Volumes

by Bruce Catton

Infinitely readable and absorbing, Bruce Catton’s The Civil War is one of the best-selling, most widely read general histories of the war available in a single volume. Newly introduced by the critically acclaimed Civil War historian James M. McPherson, The Civil War vividly traces one of the most moving chapters in American history, from the early division between the North and the South to the final surrender of... (more)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

American Civil War Trilogy: Book 3

Never Call Retreat

by Bruce Catton

"...one of the great historical accomplishments of our time...will have an enduring place in our national records."--New York Times.

Hard Tack and Coffee: Or the Unwritten Story of Army Life As Published in 1887

Hard Tack and Coffee: Or the Unwritten Story of Army Life As Published in 1887

by John D. Billings

First published more than 100 years ago, Hard Tack And Coffee is John Billings' absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War. Illustrated with over 200 sketches by C.W. Reed.

American Civil War Trilogy: Book 1

The Coming Fury

by Bruce Catton

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award! A thrilling, page-turning piece of writing that describes the forces conspiring to tear apart the United States--with the disintegrating political processes and rising tempers finally erupting at Bull Run. "...a major work by a major writer, a superb re-creation of the twelve crucial months that opened the Civil War."--The New York Times.

John Ransom's Andersonville Diary/Life Inside the Civil War's Most Infamous Prison

John Ransom's Andersonville Diary/Life Inside the Civil War's Most Infamous Prison

by John Ransom

John Ransom was a 20-year-old Union soldier when he became a prisoner of war in 1863. In his unforgettable diary, Ransom reveals the true story of his day-to-day struggle in the worst of Confederate prison camps--where hundreds of prisoners died daily. Ransom's story of survival is, according to Publishers Weekly, "a great adventure . . . observant, eloquent, and moving."

Grant Takes Command: 1863 - 1865

by Bruce Catton

BRUCE CATTON - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE GRANT TAKES COMMAND - 1863-65 In the summer of 1863 after the climactic battle at Vicksburg, Lincoln's government was more interested in Ulysses Simpson Grant than any other man alive. Although he was their most successful soldier, few men in Washington had even met him. Over the next several months his face, his morals, his total conduct would become commonly known... (more)

American Civil War Trilogy: Book 2

This Hallowed Ground

by Bruce Catton

This history of the American Civil War chronicles the entire war to preserve the Union - from the Northern point of view, but in terms of the men from both sides who lived and died in glory on the fields.

Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day

Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day

by William A. Frassanito

A reprint of the original 1978 classic, this book includes scenes of the Antietam battlefield both period and modern with directional maps. Makes some startling revelations using photographic evidence.

Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences

Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences

by Webb Garrison

This fascinating collection explores the unusual and often bizarre persons, attitudes, and events of the Civil War. Illustrated and indexed.

The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)

The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864 (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)

by Anne J. Bailey

No aspect of Civil War history is more fascinating than the two major campaigns that took place in the western theater in late 1864. The opposing generals, William T. Sherman and John Bell Hood, took armies that had been fighting for months and headed them away from each other: Hood marched north into Tennessee, and Sherman marched south into Georgia. As Sherman himself noted, “It surely was a strange event; two... (more)

Sherman's Horsemen: Union Cavalry Operations in the Atlanta Campaign

Sherman's Horsemen: Union Cavalry Operations in the Atlanta Campaign

by David Evans

". . . massively researched . . . those seeking a richly detailed journal of the cavalry's role in one of the war's crucial campaigns will find this book irreplaceable." --Blue & Gray Magazine "This volume is meticulously detailed and comes to some convincing conclusions." --The Journal of American History "A vivid account of the campaign that helped decide the outcome of the Civil War. . . . A rich... (more)

Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

by Robert Gould Shaw

The letters presented in this volume portray abolitionist hero Robert Gould Shaw in his own words, as he describes his coming of age in upper-class Boston circles and in two years of battle. They detail the transformation of a cosmopolitan son into a disciplines soldier.

In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War

In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War

by Alice Rains Trulock

This remarkable biography traces the life and times of Joshua L. Chamberlain, the professor-turned-soldier who led the Twentieth Maine Regiment to glory at Gettysburg, earned a battlefield promotion to brigadier general from Ulysses S. Grant at Petersburg, and was wounded six times during the course of the Civil War. Chosen to accept the formal Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Chamberlain endeared himself to... (more)

Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command

by Stephen W. Sears, Douglas Southall Freeman

Douglas Southall Freeman set the gold standard in historical writing on the American Civil War. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he spent eight years on the completion of Lee’s Lieutenants in three volumes. That work has now been edited into one volume by Stephen Sears another distinguished Civil War Historian and author of such works as Gettysburg and Landscape Turned Red. Lee’s Lieutenants has long been... (more)

Citizen Sherman:: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (Modern War Studies)

Citizen Sherman:: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (Modern War Studies)

by Michael Fellman

Bright, compulsively articulate, famous, loved, hated, and deeply troubled, William T. Sherman was perhaps one of the most compelling personalities in American history. This groundbreaking, in-depth portrait of this significant Civil War figure reveals much about Sherman--and about the concept of manliness in his culture. 8 pages of photos.

Terrible Swift Sword: The Centennial History of the Civil War, Vol. 2 (2)

Terrible Swift Sword: The Centennial History of the Civil War, Vol. 2 (2)

by Bruce Catton

The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war--an epic struggle for freedom.

Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns, 1864-1865

Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns, 1864-1865

by William A. Frassanito

The third in the original classic trilogy, this book follows the path of the commanders during the final decisive campaigns of the Civil War. Like his first two books, it uses photographs taken during the campaign and analyzes them, comparing modern photos of the same sites.

Lincoln and His Generals

by T. Harry Williams

Evaluates Lincoln's ability as a director of war and his influence on the development of a modern command system. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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by Doris Kearns Goodwin

by Bruce Catton

by J. Kevin Sheehan

by Bruce Catton

by John D. Billings

by Bruce Catton

by John Ransom

by Bruce Catton

by Bruce Catton

by William A. Frassanito

by Webb Garrison

by Anne J. Bailey

by David Evans

by Robert Gould Shaw

by Alice Rains Trulock

by Stephen W. Sears, Douglas Southall Freeman

by Michael Fellman

by Bruce Catton

by William A. Frassanito

by T. Harry Williams