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Madden, David Beyond the Battlefield: The Ordinary Life and Extraordinary Times of the Civil War Soldier Touchstone Books 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1154894. ISBN #0684856336 / 9780684856339. (keywords: UNITED STATES HISTORY CIVIL WAR UNITED STATES MILITARY ARMY LIFE 19TH CENTURY CONFEDERATE SOCIAL CONDITIONS) (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Marten, James The Children's Civil War (Civil War America) The University of North Carolina Press 2000 paperback. . Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1130713. ISBN #0807849049 / 9780807849040. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Marten, James The Children's Civil War (Civil War America) The University of North Carolina Press 2000 paperback. . Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1130713. ISBN #0807849049 / 9780807849040. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of freedom. Offering a fascinating look at how children were affected by our nation's greatest crisis, James Marten examines their toys and games, their literature and schoolbooks, the letters they exchanged with absent fathers and brothers, and the hardships they endured. He also explores children's politicization, their contributions to their homelands' war efforts, and the lessons they took away from the war. Drawing on the childhoods of such diverse Americans as Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt, and on sources that range from diaries and memoirs to children's "amateur newspapers," Marten examines the myriad ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children. "An original-minded, skillfully and suggestively presented history, haunting in its detailed unfolding of a war that put so many already vulnerable youngsters in danger, but elicited from some of them, as well, impressively sensitive, responsive thoughts, gestures, and deeds in what became, as this extraordinary book's title insists, their civil war.-- Journal of American History "James Marten's thoroughly researched and engagingly written study . . . stands as one of the most exciting studies to emerge in the last dozen years. . . . Marten has taken a topic ignored by both Civil War historians and historians of childhood and crafted an engaging, masterful, nuanced, and readable study that will not quickly leave the reader's mind or heart.-- American Studies "The first comprehensive account of Civil War children. . . . Thoroughly researched and nicely illustrated, The Children's Civil War will be a touchstone for historians and generalists who seek to gain a fuller understanding of life on the home front between 1861 and 1865.-- Civil War History The Children's Civil War is a poignant and fascinating look at childhood during our nation's greatest crisis. Using sources that include diaries, memoirs, and letters, James Marten examines the wartime experiences of young people--boys and girls, black and white, northern and southern--and traces the ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children. --
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Martin, David G. The Peninsula Campaign March-July 1862 Combined Books 1992 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145779. ISBN #0938289098 / 9780938289098. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Mason, F. Van Wyck Proud New Flags hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1110352. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Massey, Mary Elizabeth Women in the Civil War University of Nebraska Press 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096626. ISBN #0803282133 / 9780803282131. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Massey, Mary Elizabeth Women in the Civil War University of Nebraska Press 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096626. ISBN #0803282133 / 9780803282131. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of the conflict. Women in the Civil War demonstrates their enterprise, fortitude, and fierceness. In this revealing social history, Massey focuses on many famous women, including nurses Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, and Mother Bickerdyke; spies Pauline Cushman and Belle Boyd; writers Louisa May Alcott, Julia Ward Howe, and Mary Chestnut; pamphleteer and military strategist Anna Ella Carroll; black abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth; feminists Susan B. Anthony and Jane Grey Swisshelm; and political wives Varina Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln. The anonymous women who maintained farms and plantations are described, as are camp followers, businesswomen, entertainers, activists, and socialites in Charleston and Washington.
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Mays, Thomas D. The Saltville Massacre State House Press 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119650. ISBN #1886661057 / 9781886661059. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Mays, Thomas D. The Saltville Massacre State House Press 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119650. ISBN #1886661057 / 9781886661059. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In October 1864, in the mountains of southwest Virginia, one of the most brutal acts of the Civil War occurs. Brig. Gen. Stephen Burbridge launches a raid to capture Saltville. Included among his forces is the 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry. Repeated Federal attacks are repulsed by Confederate forces under the command of Gen. John S. Williams. As the sun begins to set, Burbridge pulls his troops from the field, leaving many wounded. In the morning, Confederate troops, including a company of ruffians under the command of Captain Champ Ferguson, advance over the battleground seeking out and killing the wounded black soldiers. What starts as a small but intense mountain battle degenerates into a no-quarter, racial massacre. A detailed account from eyewitness reports of the most blatant battlefield atrocity of the war.
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McCarthy, Carlton Detailed Minutiae Of Soldier Life in The Army Of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 1993 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099353. ISBN #0803281978 / 9780803281974. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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McCarthy, Carlton Detailed Minutiae Of Soldier Life in The Army Of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 1993 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099353. ISBN #0803281978 / 9780803281974. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather, disease, and mental strain. But the experience was perhaps even worse for Johnny Reb because of the odds against him. Never as well equipped and provisioned as the Yankee, he nevertheless performed heroically. Carlton McCarthy, a private in the Army of Northern Virginia, describes the not-always-regular rations, various improvisations in clothing and weaponry, campfire entertainments, the jaunty spirits and the endless maneuvering of the men in gray. Real but forgotten faces are glimpsed momentarily in famous battles, and the tramp of feet on the way to Appomattox is heard. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life does for the Confederate side what John Billings s Hardtack and Coffee, also a Bison Book, does for the Northern. David Donald wrote in the New York Herald Tribune that McCarthy s book, too, was "as fresh, as amusing, and as revealing" as the day it was first published in 1882. In a new introduction Brian S. Wills considers the book s niche in Civil War literature.
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McClellan, H. B. Campaigns of the Stuart's Cavalry Blue & Grey Press 1993 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170720. ISBN #1555219713 / 9781555219710. (keywords: CIVIL WAR BIOGRAPHY J. E. B. STUART CONFEDERACY SOLDIER HISTORY) (filed under: Civil War ) *
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McClintock, Russell A. Lincoln And The Decision For War: The Northern Response To Secession The University of North Carolina Press 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157103. ISBN #0807831883 / 9780807831885. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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McClintock, Russell A. Lincoln And The Decision For War: The Northern Response To Secession The University of North Carolina Press 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157103. ISBN #0807831883 / 9780807831885. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking book, the first major study in over fifty years of how the North handled the secession crisis, Russell McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big cities and from state capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary citizens, party activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted to influence the Northern response to what was essentially a political crisis. He argues that although Northerners' reactions to Southern secession were understood and expressed through partisan newspapers and officials, the decision fell into the hands of an ever-smaller handful of people until finally it was Abraham Lincoln alone who would choose whether the future of the American republic was to be determined through peace or a sword. Lincoln and the Decision for War illuminates the immediate origins of the Civil War, demonstrating that Northern thought evolved quite significantly as the crisis unfolded. It also provides an intimate understanding of the antebellum political system as well as Lincoln's political acuity in his early presidential career.
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McCray, Carrie Allen Freedom's Child: The Life Of a Confederate General's Black Daughter 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021807. ISBN #1565121864 / 9781565121867. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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McCray, Carrie Allen Freedom's Child: The Life Of a Confederate General's Black Daughter 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021807. ISBN #1565121864 / 9781565121867. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother's dresser. Years later she learned that he was her grandfather, a Confederate general, and that her grandmother was a former slave. In her late seventies, Carrie McCray went searching for her history and found the remarkable story of her mother, Mary, the illegitimate daughter of General J. R. Jones, of Lynchburg, Virginia. Jones would later be cast out of Lynchburg society for publicly recognizing his daughter. FREEDOM'S CHILD is a loving remembrance of how Mary spent her life beating down the kind of thinking that ostracized her father. She was a leader in the founding of the NAACP and hosted the likes of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois as they plotted the war against discrimination at her kitchen table. Carrie McCray's memories reward us with an extraordinarily vivid and intimate portrait of a remarkable woman. "Highly recommended for all readers."--Library Journal, hot pick; "I defy anyone to finish FREEDOM'S CHILD without a tear in their eye, a sense of meeting a great spirit, and an inspiration to act with generosity and justice."--Gloria Steinem; A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB and QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB SELECTION.
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McFeely, William S. Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard And The Freedmen 1984 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091023. ISBN #0393005372 / 9780393005370. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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McFeely, William S. Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard And The Freedmen 1984 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091023. ISBN #0393005372 / 9780393005370. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The story of a Civil War promise made to slaves and broken. At the close of the Civil War, Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau formally, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to deal with the question of the place in society of its new black citizens. General Oliver Otis Howard, known both admiringly and derisively as the "Christian General," was given the responsibility of defining the nation's commitment to four million former slaves. Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen, Howard began a program that might have given many families farms of their own. The effort had barely begun when it ran into President Andrew Johnson's policy of returning such lands to former white owners. Soon Howard and his agents were under pressure not to assist the free people, but to coerce them into working for landlords. And yet, however tarnished the record, the Bureau was still recalled by W. E. B. DuBois for its "bright promise." Yankee Stepfather provides a revealing, and troubling, picture of the complex relationship of African Americans to their government at a crucial juncture in American history. In a new foreword to this edition, William S. McFeely places his book, first published in 1968, in its place in the scholarship on race relations of the past quarter-century.
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McPherson James M. Civil War Mariner 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149556. ISBN #0618001875 / 9780618001873. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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McPherson, James M. Crossroads Of Freedom: Antietam 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084712. ISBN #0195135210 / 9780195135213. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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McPherson, James M. Crossroads Of Freedom: Antietam 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084712. ISBN #0195135210 / 9780195135213. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom , America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath. As McPherson shows, by September 1862 the survival of the United States was in doubt. The Union had suffered a string of defeats, and Robert E. Lee's army was in Maryland, poised to threaten Washington. The British government was openly talking of recognizing the Confederacy and brokering a peace between North and South. Northern armies and voters were demoralized. And Lincoln had shelved his proposed edict of emancipation months before, waiting for a victory that had not come--that some thought would never come. Both Confederate and Union troops knew the war was at a crossroads, that they were marching toward a decisive battle. It came along the ridges and in the woods and cornfields between Antietam Creek and the Potomac River. Valor, misjudgment, and astonishing coincidence all played a role in the outcome. McPherson vividly describes a day of savage fighting in locales that became forever famous--The Cornfield, the Dunkard Church, the West Woods, and Bloody Lane. Lee's battered army escaped to fight another day, but Antietam was a critical victory for the Union. It restored morale in the North and kept Lincoln's party in control of Congress. It crushed Confederate hopes of British intervention. And it freed Lincoln to deliver the Emancipation Proclamation, which instantly changed the character of the war. McPherson brilliantly weaves these strands of diplomatic, political, and military history into a compact, swift-moving narrative that shows why America's bloodiest day is, indeed, a turning point in our history.
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McPherson, James M. Embattled Rebel : Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief Penguin Books 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145766. ISBN #1594204977 / 9781594204975. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Mcpherson. M. James Battle Chronicles Of The Civil War; 1863 6 Volumes Grey Castle Press 1989 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or778853. ISBN #1559050276 / 9781559050272. (keywords: History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns) (filed under: Civil War ) *
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McWhiney, Grady; Jamieson, Perry D. Attack And Die: Civil War Military Tactics And The Southern Heritage 1982 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080766. ISBN #0817300732 / 9780817300739. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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McWhiney, Grady; Jamieson, Perry D. Attack And Die: Civil War Military Tactics And The Southern Heritage 1982 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080766. ISBN #0817300732 / 9780817300739. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the first twenty-seven months of combat 175,000 Southern soldiers died. This number was more than the entire Confederate military force in the summer of 1861, and it far exceeded the strength of any army that Lee ever commanded. More than 80,000 Southerners fell in just five battles. At Gettysburg three out of every ten Confederates present were hit; one brigade lost 65 percent of its men and 70 percent of its field officers in a single charge. A North Carolina regiment started the action with some 800 men; only 216 survived unhurt. Another unit lost two-thirds of its men as well as its commander in a brief assault. Why did the Confederacy lose so many men? The authors contend that the Confederates bled themselves nearly to death in the first three years of the war by making costly attacks more often than the Federals. Offensive tactics, which had been used successfully by Americans in the Mexican War, were much less effective in the 1860s because an improved weapon the rifle had given increased strength to defenders. This book describes tactical theory in the 1850s and suggests how each related to Civil War tactics. It also considers the development of tactics in all three arms of the service during the Civil War. In examining the Civil War the book separates Southern from Northern tactical practice and discusses Confederate military history in the context of Southern social history. Although the Southerners could have offset their numerical disadvantage by remaining on the defensive and forcing the Federals to attack, they failed to do so. The authors argue that the Southerners consistent favoring of offensive warfare was attributable, in large measure, to their Celtic heritage: they fought with the same courageous dash and reckless abandon that had characterized their Celtic forebears since ancient times. The Southerners of the Civil War generation were prisoners of their social and cultural history: they attacked courageously and were killed on battlefields so totally defended by the Federals that not even a chicken could get through.
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Mendoza, Alexander Confederate Struggle For Command: General James Longstreet And The First Corps in The West 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1052389. ISBN #1603440526 / 9781603440523. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Mendoza, Alexander Confederate Struggle For Command: General James Longstreet And The First Corps in The West 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1052389. ISBN #1603440526 / 9781603440523. (filed under: Civil War ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Was Lt. Gen. James Longstreet a lackluster, indecisive leader or a victim of political circumstances? Though traditionally saddled with much of the blame for the Confederate loss at Gettysburg, Longstreet was actually a capable, resourceful, and brave commander, argues historian Alexander Mendoza. Confederate Struggle for Command offers a comprehensive analysis of Longstreet s leadership during his seven-month assignment in the Tennessee theater of operations. Mendoza concludes that the obstacles to effective command faced by Longstreet had at least as much to do with longstanding grievances and politically motivated prejudices as they did with any personal or military shortcomings of Longstreet s. Longstreet s First Corps parted company with Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia in September 1863. Subsequently, the First Corps contributed decisively to the Confederate victory at Chickamauga. But when Longstreet then joined a group of disaffected generals in denouncing Braxton Bragg, the commanding general of the Army of Tennessee, the resulting imbroglio hampered the effectiveness of the entire First Corps. Confederate Struggle for Command adds an important layer of nuanced understanding to the career and legacy of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, and will be an enjoyable and informative source for Civil War buffs, military historians, and interested general readers. 20
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Merrill, James M. The Rebel Shore: The Story of Union Sea Power in the Civil War Little, Brown and Company 1957 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162486. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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Meyer, Howard N. Colonel of the Black Regiment: The Life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107033. (filed under: Civil War ) *
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