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Living Hell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Living Hell

A senior military historian presents an unflinching account of the human costs of the Civil War. Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who cannot ultimately simulate mutilation, madness, chronic disease, advanced physical decay. In Living Hell, Adams tries a different tack, clustering the voices of myriad actual participants on the firing line or in the hospital ward to create a virtual historical reenactment. Perhaps because the United St...

Rebels from West Point
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Rebels from West Point

Tells the story of the 306 officers who, after receiving a West Point education and swearing to uphold the values of the Union, defected to serve the Confederacy. The author examines this group of officers, describing the choice they made and how, even after they went South, they remained connected to their former West Point cadets.

Davis and Lee at War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Davis and Lee at War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Woodworth shows how the lack of a unified purpose and strategy in the East sealed the Confederacy's fate.

The War Was You and Me
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

The War Was You and Me

Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of the Civil War. That experience was inherently dramatic. Southerners lived through the breakup of basic social and economic institutions, including, of course, slavery. Northerners witnessed the reorganization of society to fight the war. And citizens of the border regions grappled with elemental questions of loyalty that reached into the family itself. These original essays--all commissioned from established scholars, based on archival research, and written for a wide readership--recover the stories of civilians...

In Pursuit of a Phantom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 421

In Pursuit of a Phantom

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  • Language: en
  • Pages: 510

"Men Will Come": A History of the 314th Troop Carrier Group 1942-1945

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

"Unit history of the 314th Troop Carrier Group, U.S. Army Air Forces, 1942-45, European Theater of Operations"--

Damn Dutch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Damn Dutch

Highlights the Pennsylvania Dutch regiments and post-1820 immigrant Germans at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Education Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 610

Education Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Civil War Letters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Civil War Letters

Wartime letters include correspondence of Union and Confederate sympathizers and soldiers of all ranks. Authentic illustrations accompany insightful missives by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Whitman, Davis, and many of their contemporaries.

A History of the Federal Biological Laboratory at Beaufort, North Carolina 1899-1999
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

A History of the Federal Biological Laboratory at Beaufort, North Carolina 1899-1999

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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