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Laboda, Lawrence R. From Selma to Appomattox: The History of the Jeff Davis Artillery Oxford University Press 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or979253. ISBN #019510997X / 9780195109979. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Laboda, Lawrence R. From Selma to Appomattox: The History of the Jeff Davis Artillery Oxford University Press 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or979253. ISBN #019510997X / 9780195109979. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The history of the Jeff Davis Artillery is the story of a company of Alabamians who fought with valor and distinction for the Confederacy during more than three and a half years of active service. As part of the Army of Northern Virginia, these soldiers played an integral part in most of the major campaigns of the Eastern Theatre, participating in the crucial battles at Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania, among others. Here, Lawrence Laboda tells the story of an artillery unit relatively unknown to Civil War enthusiasts, but whose performance on the fields of battle more than justified the honor of being named after the President of the Confederacy. After their recruitment in Selma, Alabama, we learn that the men of the Jeff Davis Artillery found themselves under many different commanders. It was only when First Lieutenant Robert F. Beckham, Captain James W. Bondurant, and Captain William J. Reese took command that the unit matured as a military organization, and provided its most efficient service on the field of battle. Even though unfortunate circumstances later in the war caused the company to be divided between two commands, the Alabama Battery's skill and determination carried through in all of the engagements that followed. On more than one occassion, the Jeff Davis Artillery received praise from the Confederate high command, including General Robert E. Lee himself. Within the Confederate Army, the reputation of the unit was no doubt one of the best, but after the fighting was done, the war record of this particular company, except for a rare article or mention in an obituary, never received proper recognition. It is only fitting, therefore, that the entire story of the gallant Alabamians finally be told. From Selma to Appomattox goes beyond the unit's combat record to explore its day to day challenges. Conditions on and off the battlefield were less than ideal at times, and from the beginning, the company as a whole fell victim to the horrors of disease. One glance down the roster list shows the extreme seriousness of the situation. Even disease was not their most immediate concern, however, as Laboda describes the unit's difficulties in finding food, horses, and even recruits while enduring the reorganizations of an army at war. With the assistance of numerous detailed maps, he follows the ever-proud Alabamians into their first fight at Seven Pines, through the major battles of the Peninsula, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, and Cedar Creek, and ultimately to their surrender at Appomattox.
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Lee, Robert E. Recollections And Letters 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130291. ISBN #0760759197 / 9780760759196. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Lee, Robert E. Recollections And Letters 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130291. ISBN #0760759197 / 9780760759196. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Just as its subject, General Robert E. Lee , was no ordinary man, The Recollections and Letters is no ordinary book. In defeat, the formal Confederate general became the personification of the South. This was a remarkable evolution for a man who in 1861 took up arms against the nation of his birth and subsequently led an army to a devastating end. Lee's transformation from defeated general to American hero was due in part to Robert E. Lee, Jr.'s, dedication to his father's memory. In 1904 the younger Lee produced The Recollections and Letters, a book made up primarily of the general's personal correspondence, much of which was written to his wife and children. The book provided touching insights into the general's family life, allowing readers to connect with him on a more human level. Any study of Robert E. Lee, the South, the Civil War, or American history is incomplete without The Recollections and Letters.
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LEE; Bradford, Gamaliel Lee The American hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1012595. ISBN #0486433684 / 9780486433684. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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LEE; Fellman, Michael Making Of Robert E. Lee Random House 2000 hardcover. Book Club edition. . BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or968649. ISBN #0679456503 / 9780679456506. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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LEE; Fellman, Michael Making Of Robert E. Lee Random House 2000 hardcover. Book Club edition. . BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or968649. ISBN #0679456503 / 9780679456506. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Perhaps no other American historical figure is as shrouded in legend as General Robert E. Lee. Long extolled as the perfect gentleman as well as the consummate military commander, Lee known as the Marble Man has been venerated more than understood. During his lifetime, he contributed to this picture through the austerity and rigid control he tried to impose on himself. The Making of Robert E. Lee reveals the flesh-and-blood Lee not to expose him but to better understand a man who was perhaps the most fervent practitioner of the Southern code of conduct, behind which he camouflaged much of his character. With unprecedented insight into Robert E. Lee's personal and public lives, Michael Fellman humanizes this one-dimensional icon, placing him within history rather than above it. With both detachment and compassion, Fellman deftly probes beneath the surface to show Lee as a deeply conflicted man, one with sometimes surprising views on sexuality, family, religion, and politics, as well as military practice. This realistic portrayal situates Lee firmly in the contexts of his time, place, class, gender, and race. Although Lee tried to be a virtuous, even perfect man, he often flirted extravagantly and perhaps did more with women other than his wife. While he strove to be a kind and honest leader, he was extremely distant from and controlling of both his sons and the soldiers in his Civil War army. With his deeply ingrained habits of command, Lee the aristocratic disciplinarian looked down upon the white lower orders as he did upon slaves. After a distinguished if conventional career in the peacetime American army, Lee chose to join the Confederate cause on account of his unquestioning identification with the values and interests of the Virginia slaveholding class. Something of a failure during the first year of combat, Lee was thrust into command at a crucial juncture in the war, just as the Union army approached Richmond, the Confederate capital. Fellman argues that "the Civil War rescued Robert E. Lee from marginality and obscurity." No general proved more audacious and tenacious than Lee, and none had a greater passion for battle. For a year, almost without exception, an increasingly confident Lee guided a seemingly invincible army, winning great victories at high costs. Finally overreaching the capabilities of his troops, Lee led them into crushing defeat at Gettysburg, after which his customary humility returned. Paradoxically, even though war ultimately reinforced Lee's deep pessimism in the face of Fate, afterward he became a conscious inspiration and adviser to elite whites who sought to destroy Reconstruction and keep blacks at the bottom of the social order. he became a spokesman as well as a rallying point for those postwar Southern nationalists who sought, with success, to maintain and strengthen white supremacy. Fellman's study does far more than any previous book both to uncover the intelligent, ambitious, and often troubled man behind the legend and to explore his life within the social, cultural, and political contexts of the mid-nineteenth-century South.
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LEE; Freeman, Douglas Southall Lee 1993 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017767. ISBN #0020198841 / 9780020198840. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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LEE; Freeman, Douglas Southall Lee 1993 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017767. ISBN #0020198841 / 9780020198840. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Douglas Southall Freeman s Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. Stephen Vincent Ben t said There is a monument and a fine one to Robert E. Lee at Lexington. But this one, I think, will last as long. This reissue of Richard Harwell s abridgment fulfills Ben t s prophecy, chronicling all the major aspects and highlights of the general s military career, from his stunning accomplishments in the Mexican War to the humbling surrender at Appomattox. More than just a military leader, Lee embodied all the conflicts of his time. The son of a Revolutionary War hero and related by marriage to George Washington, he was the product of young America s elite. When Abraham Lincoln offered him command of the United States Army, however, he choose to lead the confederate ranks, convinced that his first loyalty lay with his native Virginia. Although a member of the planter class, he felt that slavery was a moral and political evil. Aloof and somber, he nevertheless continually inspired his men by his deep concern for their personal welfare. Freeman s achievement is the full portrait of a great American a distinguished, scholarly, yet eminently readable classic that has linked Freeman to Lee as irrevocably as Boswell to Dr. Johnson.
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Leech, Margaret Reveille in Washington 1860-1865 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096469. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Leonard, Elizabeth D. Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky The University of North Carolina Press 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164394. ISBN #0807835005 / 9780807835005. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage: The Experience Of Combat in The American Civil War The Free Press 1987 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141527. ISBN #0029197619 / 9780029197615. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Longacre, Edward G. Lee's Cavalrymen: A History Of The Mounted Forces Of The Army Of Northern Virginia hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1052390. ISBN #0811708985 / 9780811708982. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Longacre, Edward G. Lee's Cavalrymen: A History Of The Mounted Forces Of The Army Of Northern Virginia hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1052390. ISBN #0811708985 / 9780811708982. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A companion to his previous work, Lincoln's Cavalrymen, this volume focuses on the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia its leadership, the military life of its officers and men as revealed in their diaries and letters, the development of its tactics as the war evolved, and the influence of government policies on its operational abilities. All the major players and battles are involved, including Joseph E. Johnston, P. G. T Beauregard, and J. E. B. Stuart. As evidenced in his previous books, Longacre's painstakingly thorough research will make this volume as indispensable a reference as its predecessor.
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Longacre, Edward G. Lincoln's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac Stackpole Books 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164993. ISBN #0811710491 / 9780811710497. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Longacre, Edward G. The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 Campaign & Commanders 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1165041. ISBN #080614498X / 9780806144986. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Longacre, Edward G. Worthy Opponents: General William T. Sherman, U.S.A. / General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. Rutledge Hill Press 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145778. ISBN #1401600913 / 9781401600914. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Longacre, Edward G. Worthy Opponents: General William T. Sherman, U.S.A. / General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. Rutledge Hill Press 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145778. ISBN #1401600913 / 9781401600914. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary William T. Sherman's burning of Atlanta helped reelect Abraham Lincoln. In contrast, if Confederate President Jefferson Davis had left Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, one of its most effective generals, in command of Atlanta's defenses, the city might have been preserved. Edward Longacre offers a new perspective on Sherman's and Johnston's military histories, including their clashes at Vicksburg, Kennesaw Mountain, and Bentonville, where they negotiated surrender terms. After the War they became friends, to such an extent that Johnston was a pallbearer at Sherman's 1891 funeral
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Looby, Christopher (Editor) Complete Civil War Journal And Selected Letters Of Thomas Wentworth Higginson University Of Chicago Press 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or960429. ISBN #0226333302 / 9780226333304. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Looby, Christopher (Editor) Complete Civil War Journal And Selected Letters Of Thomas Wentworth Higginson University Of Chicago Press 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or960429. ISBN #0226333302 / 9780226333304. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "I desire to record, as simply as I may, the beginnings of a momentous military experiment, whose ultimate results were the reorganization of the whole American army and the remoulding of the relations of two races on this continent. . . . I can only hope that the importance of the subject may save me from that egotism which makes great things seem little and little things seem less in the narrating." So wrote Thomas Wentworth Higginson about his role in one of the most compelling and fascinating episodes in the history of the United States. As the colonel of the first regiment of black men in the Union army during the Civil War, Higginson was an early, articulate, and powerful crusader for civil rights, and his journal and letters, collected for the first time in this volume, present some of the most extraordinary documents of the Civil War. Higginson was a politically engaged intellectual at the forefront of radical antislavery, labor, and feminist causes. Born in 1823 to a formerly wealthy but still prominent Brahmin family, he became one of America's leading social activists and a prominent writer, minister, and reformer. With the publication in 1869 of his classic Army Life in a Black Regiment , which drew on this journal, Higginson became one of the most important chroniclers of the Civil War. The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson is the first comprehensive edition of his journal. Sensitively and thoroughly annotated by Christopher Looby and supplemented by a large selection of Higginson's wartime letters, this volume offers the most vivid and intimate picture of the radical interracial solidarity brought about by the transformative experience of the army camp and of Civil War life. "The immediacy of Higginson's reflections, as well as their sharp insights, make this journal both distinctive and enduringly compelling . . . . Higginson's vivid texts can once again educate, gratify and delight readers." Publishers Weekly "This volume will enrich our understanding of the transformations that emancipation and war wrought." Library Journal
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Luvaas, Dr. Jay (Edited By); Nelson, Col. Harold W. (Edited By) U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Antietam: The Maryland Campaign of 1862 South Mountain Press, Inc., Publishers 1987 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145775. ISBN #0937339016 / 9780937339015. (keywords: War, Civil War) (filed under: Civil War ) *
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