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Shot and Shell - the Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment in the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Camps, Forts, Batteries,... Shot and Shell - the Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment in the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Camps, Forts, Batteries, Garrisons, Marches, Shirmished, Sieges, Battles, and Victories; Also, the Roll of Honor and Roll of the Regiment.. (Hardcover)
Frederic 1819-1901 Denison
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Prison Life of Jefferson Davis (Hardcover, Reprint ed.): John J Craven Prison Life of Jefferson Davis (Hardcover, Reprint ed.)
John J Craven; Edited by Lochlainn Seabrook
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
[Civil War Letters of Henry Ropes]. - Manuscript, 1859-1863; v.2 (Hardcover): Henry Ropes [Civil War Letters of Henry Ropes]. - Manuscript, 1859-1863; v.2 (Hardcover)
Henry Ropes; Created by Henry Rcp Ropes, John Codman 1836-1899 Rcp Ropes
R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books - New Perspectives on Iconic Works (Hardcover): Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen Cushman Civil War Witnesses and Their Books - New Perspectives on Iconic Works (Hardcover)
Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen Cushman; Contributions by William A. Blair, Matthew Gallman, Sarah Gardner, …
R1,375 Discovery Miles 13 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works serves as a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experienced the American Civil War. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman, this volume, like its companion, Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (2019), features the voices of authors who felt compelled to convey their stories for a variety of reasons. Some produced works intended primarily for their peers, while others were concerned with how future generations would judge their wartime actions. One diarist penned her entries with no thought that they would later become available to the public. The essayists explore the work of five men and three women, including prominent Union and Confederate generals, the wives of a headline-seeking US cavalry commander and a Democratic judge from New York City, a member of Robert E. Lee's staff, a Union artillerist, a matron from Richmond's sprawling Chimborazo Hospital, and a leading abolitionist US senator. Civil War Witnesses and Their Books shows how some of those who lived through the conflict attempted to assess its importance and frame it for later generations. Their voices have particular resonance today and underscore how rival memory traditions stir passion and controversy, providing essential testimony for anyone seeking to understand the nation's greatest trial and its aftermath.

An Historical Sketch of the Seventh Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry From Its Organization, in 1862, to Its Muster out, in... An Historical Sketch of the Seventh Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry From Its Organization, in 1862, to Its Muster out, in 1865 (Hardcover)
Asa B (Asa Brainerd) 1844-1912 Isham
R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Assassination - Booth's Survival (Hardcover): Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Assassination - Booth's Survival (Hardcover)
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Don't Know Much about the Civil War - Everything You Need to Know about America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned... Don't Know Much about the Civil War - Everything You Need to Know about America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned (Paperback)
Kenneth C Davis
R518 R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why did Abraham Lincoln sneak into Washington for his inauguration? was the Gettysburg Address written on the back of an envelope? Where did the Underground Railroad run? Did General Sherman really say, "War is Hell"?

If you can't answer these questions, you're not alone. Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events - Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and much more. Drawing on moving eyewitness accounts, Davis includes a wealth of "hidden history" about the roles played by women and African Americans before and during the war, along with lesser-known facts that will enthrall even learned Civil War buffs. Vivid, informative, and hugely entertaining, Don't Know Much About the Civil War is the only book you'll ever need on "the war that never ended."

A Year With the Gaekwar of Baroda (Hardcover): Edward St Clair Weeden A Year With the Gaekwar of Baroda (Hardcover)
Edward St Clair Weeden
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Kalamazoo County and the Civil War (Hardcover): Gary L Gibson Kalamazoo County and the Civil War (Hardcover)
Gary L Gibson
R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cincinnati in the Civil War - The Union's Queen City (Hardcover): David L Mowery Cincinnati in the Civil War - The Union's Queen City (Hardcover)
David L Mowery
R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Enumeration of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines of the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the War of the Rebellion, Residing in... Enumeration of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines of the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the War of the Rebellion, Residing in Nebraska June 1st, 1887 (Hardcover)
Nebraska Secretary of State Cn
R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares - The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict (Hardcover): John H Matsui Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares - The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict (Hardcover)
John H Matsui
R1,425 Discovery Miles 14 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the millennium. While previous historians have commented on the role of antebellum eschatology in political alignment, none have delved deeply into how religious views complicate the standard narrative of the North versus the South. Moving beyond the traditional optimism/pessimism dichotomy, Matsui divides American Protestants of the Civil War era into ""premillenarian"" and ""postmillenarian"" camps. Both postmillenarian and premillenarian Christians held that the return of Christ would inaugurate the arrival of heaven on earth, but they disagreed over its timing. This disagreement was key to their disparate political stances. Postmillenarians argued that God expected good Christians to actively perfect the world via moral reform-of self and society-and free-labor ideology, whereas premillenarians defended hierarchy or racial mastery (or both). Northern Democrats were generally comfortable with antebellum racial norms and were cynical regarding human nature; they therefore opposed Republicans' utopian plans to reform the South. Southern Democrats, who held premillenarian views like their northern counterparts, pressed for or at least acquiesced in the secession of slaveholding states to preserve white supremacy. Most crucially, enslaved African American Protestants sought freedom, a postmillenarian societal change requiring nothing less than a major revolution and the reconstruction of southern society. Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Civil War as it reveals the wartime marriage of political and racial ideology to religious speculation. As Matsui argues, the postmillenarian ideology came to dominate the northern states during the war years and the nation as a whole following the Union victory in 1865.

History of the 10th Regiment N. Y. Heavy Artillery, From Madison Barracks to Appomattox, With Reminiscences, &c (Hardcover):... History of the 10th Regiment N. Y. Heavy Artillery, From Madison Barracks to Appomattox, With Reminiscences, &c (Hardcover)
Edward P Webb
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Old Massa's People - The Old Slaves Tell Their Story (Hardcover): Orland Kay Armstrong Old Massa's People - The Old Slaves Tell Their Story (Hardcover)
Orland Kay Armstrong
R2,867 R2,264 Discovery Miles 22 640 Save R603 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of the Fourteenth Regiment Alabama Vols. With a List of the Names of Every Man That Ever Belonged to the Regiment... History of the Fourteenth Regiment Alabama Vols. With a List of the Names of Every Man That Ever Belonged to the Regiment (Hardcover)
M B (Marshall B ) Hurst
R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gettysburg - What They Did Here: Profusely Illustrated Historical Guide Book (Hardcover): Luther W (Luther William) Minnigh Gettysburg - What They Did Here: Profusely Illustrated Historical Guide Book (Hardcover)
Luther W (Luther William) Minnigh
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Bondage and My Freedom (Deluxe Library Edition) (Annotated) (Hardcover): Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom (Deluxe Library Edition) (Annotated) (Hardcover)
Frederick Douglass
R985 Discovery Miles 9 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Passages From the Life of Henry Warren Howe, Consisting of Diary and Letters Written During the Civil War, 1816-1865. A... Passages From the Life of Henry Warren Howe, Consisting of Diary and Letters Written During the Civil War, 1816-1865. A Condensed History of the Thirtieth Massachusetts Regiment and Its Flags, Together With the Genealogies of the Different Branches Of... (Hardcover)
Henry Warren 1841- Howe
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Short History of the Confederate States of America (Hardcover, Reprint ed.): Jefferson Davis A Short History of the Confederate States of America (Hardcover, Reprint ed.)
Jefferson Davis; Edited by Lochlainn Seabrook
R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mazes and Labyrinths - a General Account of Their History and Developments (Hardcover): William Henry 1882 Matthews Mazes and Labyrinths - a General Account of Their History and Developments (Hardcover)
William Henry 1882 Matthews
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History of the Seventieth Ohio Regiment - From Its Organization to Its Mustering Out (Hardcover): T W (Thomas W ) 1840- Connelly History of the Seventieth Ohio Regiment - From Its Organization to Its Mustering Out (Hardcover)
T W (Thomas W ) 1840- Connelly
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sinclair Thomson, or, The Shetland Apostle [microform] (Hardcover): J a Fl 1877 Smith Sinclair Thomson, or, The Shetland Apostle [microform] (Hardcover)
J a Fl 1877 Smith
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Address of Hon. Edward Everett, at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, 19th November, 1863 - With the... Address of Hon. Edward Everett, at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, 19th November, 1863 - With the Dedicatory Speech of President Lincoln, and the Other Exercises of the Occasion (Hardcover)
Edward 1794-1865 Everett; Created by Abraham 1809-1865 Gettysburg Lincoln
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War (Hardcover): Frank A Ofeldt Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War (Hardcover)
Frank A Ofeldt
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A History of the Origin of Memorial Day as Adopted by the Ladies' Memorial Association of Columbus, Ga., and Presented to... A History of the Origin of Memorial Day as Adopted by the Ladies' Memorial Association of Columbus, Ga., and Presented to the Lizzie Rutherford Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy .. (Hardcover)
United Daughters of the Confederacy
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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