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  • Yours Affectionately, Osgood

    Colonel Osgood Vose Tracy’s Letters Home from the Civil War, 1862–1865

    Edited by Burrows, Ryan W. Keating ...
    Series series Interpreting the Civil War: Texts and Contexts
    An abolitionist Civil War soldier and prisoner of war reflects on life during wartimeMore than 3 million men served in the American Civil War. In Yours Affectionately, Osgood, editors Sarah Tracy Burrows and Ryan W. Keating have assembled a collection of letters from one of those soldiers—Osgood Vose Tracy of the 122nd New York Infantry. Sarah Tracy Burrows, a descendant of Col. Osgood Tracy, has ... Read more

    $44.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shades of Green

    Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, & Local Communities in the Civil War Era

    by Ryan W. Keating ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    "An exceptional book that should make an immediately positive impact on the study of Irish Americans in the Civil War." — The Journal of Southern HistoryDrawing on records of about 5,500 soldiers and veterans, Shades of Green traces the organization of Irish regiments from the perspective of local communities in Connecticut, Illinois, and Wisconsin and the relationships between soldiers and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contested Loyalty

    Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North

    by Judith Giesberg, Ryan W. Keating, Melinda Lawson, Julie A. Mujic, Timothy J. Orr, Thaddeus M. Romansky, Jonathan W. White ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    Embroiled in the Civil War, northerners wrote and spoke with frequency about the subject of loyalty. The word was common in newspaper articles, political pamphlets, and speeches, appeared on flags, broadsides, and prints, was written into diaries and letters and the stationary they appeared on, and even found its way into sermons. Its ubiquity suggests that loyalty was an important concept…but ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • The Greatest Trials I Ever Had

    The Civil War Letters of Margaret and Thomas Cahill

    Edited by Ryan W. Keating ...
    Series series
    This edited collection of Civil War correspondence between Col. Thomas Cahill and his wife, Margaret, offers a rare glimpse into the symbiotic relationship between soldiers and their home communities. In the only substantial extant collection of letters from an Irish American woman on the northern home front, Margaret’s pivotal role as a go-between in the financial affairs of men in the regiment ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

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    A Life

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor."An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New ... Read more

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  • What This Cruel War Was Over

    by Chandra Manning ...
    **Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (**The Philadelphia Inquirer).In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise ... Read more

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  • The War That Forged a Nation

    Why the Civil War Still Matters

    by James M. McPherson ...
    More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations." In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still ... Read more

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  • African American Faces of the Civil War

    An Album

    by Ronald S. Coddington ...
    Discover the men of color who fought for their freedom during the Civil War through profiles illustrated with original wartime photographs.A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Would Not Be Washington

    Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History

    by Jonathan Horn ...
    The “compelling…modern and readable perpective” (USA TODAY) of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington’s family but turned by war against Washington’s crowning achievement, the Union.On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy of George Washington and the hopes of leaders across a divided land. Both North and South knew Robert E. Lee as the son ... Read more

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  • Sherman's March Through the Carolinas

    by John G. Barrett ...
    In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was more convinced than ever that the bold application of his ideas of total war could speedily end the conflict. John Barrett’s story of what ... Read more

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  • Lincoln's Code

    The Laws of War in American History

    by John Fabian Witt ...
    This acclaimed, award-winning book is a “sweeping history” (The New York Times Book Review) of the code of laws of war for American armies, set forth by Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War.In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of ... Read more

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  • This Mighty Scourge

    Perspectives on the Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestsellers Crossroads of Freedom and Tried by War, among many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the enduring questions about one of the defining moments ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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