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The Early Morning of War - Bull Run, 1861 (Hardcover): Edward G. Longacre The Early Morning of War - Bull Run, 1861 (Hardcover)
Edward G. Longacre
R1,494 Discovery Miles 14 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war through the turn of the twentieth century.
This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive treatment in Edward G. Longacre's "The Early Morning of War." A magisterial work by a veteran historian, "The Early Morning of War" blends narrative and analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Run--its drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and ramifications. Also woven throughout are biographical sketches detailing the backgrounds and personalities of the leading commanders and other actors in the unfolding conflict.
Longacre has combed previously unpublished primary sources, including correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of more than four hundred participants and observers, from ranking commanders to common soldiers and civilians affected by the fighting. In weighing all the evidence, Longacre finds correctives to long-held theories about campaign strategy and battle tactics and questions sacrosanct beliefs--such as whether the Manassas Gap Railroad was essential to the Confederate victory. Longacre shears away the myths and persuasively examines the long-term repercussions of the Union's defeat at Bull Run, while analyzing whether the Confederates really had a chance of ending the war in July 1861 by seizing Washington, D.C.
Brilliant moves, avoidable blunders, accidents, historical forces, personal foibles: all are within Longacre's compass in this deftly written work that is sure to become the standard history of the first, critical campaign of the Civil War.

Yarns and Stories by Abraham Lincoln, America's Greatest Story Teller ...; yr.1901 (Hardcover): Alexander K (Alexander... Yarns and Stories by Abraham Lincoln, America's Greatest Story Teller ...; yr.1901 (Hardcover)
Alexander K (Alexander Kell McClure; Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R1,249 Discovery Miles 12 490 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 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
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Assassination - Weichmann (Hardcover): Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Assassination - Weichmann (Hardcover)
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 12 - 17 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
R2,189 Discovery Miles 21 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War (Hardcover): Frank A Ofeldt Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War (Hardcover)
Frank A Ofeldt
R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Invisible Wounds - Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Hardcover): Dillon Carroll Invisible Wounds - Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Hardcover)
Dillon Carroll
R1,326 Discovery Miles 13 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dillon J. Carroll's Invisible Wounds examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers-Black and white, North and South. Soldiers faced harsh military discipline, arduous marches, poor rations, debilitating diseases, and the terror of battle, all of which took a severe psychological toll. While mental collapses sometimes occurred during the war, the emotional damage soldiers incurred more often became apparent in the postwar years, when it manifested itself in disturbing and self-destructive behavior. Carroll explores the dynamic between the families of mentally ill veterans and the superintendents of insane asylums, as well as between those superintendents and doctors in the nascent field of neurology, who increasingly believed the central nervous system or cultural and social factors caused mental illness. Invisible Wounds is a sweeping reevaluation of the mental damage inflicted by the nation's most tragic conflict.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Gettysburg Address - The address (Hardcover): Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Gettysburg Address - The address (Hardcover)
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Life and Times of Patrick Gass [microform] - Now Sole Survivor of the Overland Expedition to the Pacific Under Lewis and... The Life and Times of Patrick Gass [microform] - Now Sole Survivor of the Overland Expedition to the Pacific Under Lewis and Clark, in 1804-5-6; Also a Soldier in the War With Great Britain, From 1812 to 1815, and a Participant in the Battle of Lundy's... (Hardcover)
J G (John G ) Jacob
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
True Blue - White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Hardcover): Clayton J. Butler True Blue - White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Hardcover)
Clayton J. Butler
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the American Civil War, thousands of citizens in the Deep South remained loyal to the United States. Though often overlooked, they possessed broad symbolic importance and occupied an outsized place in the strategic thinking and public discourse of both the Union and the Confederacy. In True Blue, Clayton J. Butler investigates the lives of white Unionists in three Confederate states, revealing who they were, why and how they took their Unionist stand, and what happened to them as a result. He focuses on three Union regiments recruited from among the white residents of the Deep South-individuals who passed the highest bar of Unionism by enlisting in the United States Army to fight with the First Louisiana Cavalry, First Alabama Cavalry, and Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry. Northerners and southerners alike thought a considerable amount about Deep South Unionism throughout the war, often projecting their hopes and apprehensions onto these embattled dissenters. For both, the significance of these Unionists hinged on the role they would play in the postwar future. To northerners, they represented the tangible nucleus of national loyalty within the rebelling states on which to build Reconstruction policies. To Confederates, they represented traitors to the political ideals of their would-be nation and, as the war went on, to the white race, making them at times a target for vicious reprisal. Unionists' wartime allegiance proved a touchstone during the political chaos and realignment of Reconstruction, a period when many of these veterans played a key role both as elected officials and as a pivotal voting bloc. In the end, white Unionists proved willing to ally with African Americans during the war to save the Union but unwilling to protect or advance Black civil rights afterward, revealing the character of Unionism during the era as a whole.

Stricken Field - The Little Bighorn since 1876 (Hardcover): Jerome A. Greene Stricken Field - The Little Bighorn since 1876 (Hardcover)
Jerome A. Greene; Foreword by Paul L. Hedren
R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America's most famous armed struggles, but the events surrounding Custer's defeat there in 1876 are only the beginning of the story. As park custodians, American Indians, and others have contested how the site should be preserved and interpreted for posterity, the Little Bighorn has turned into a battlefield in more ways than one. In Stricken Field, one of America's foremost military historians offers the first comprehensive history of the site and its administration in more than half a century.Jerome A. Greene has produced a compelling account of one of the West's most hallowed and controversial attractions, beginning with the battle itself and ending with the establishment of an American Indian memorial early in the twenty-first century. Chronicling successive efforts of the War Department and the National Park Service to oversee the site, Greene describes the principal issues that have confounded its managers, from battle observances and memorials to ongoing maintenance, visitor access, and public use. Stricken Field is a cautionary tale. Greene elucidates the conflict between the Park Service's dual mission to provide public access while preserving the integrity of a historical resource. He also traces the complex events surrounding the site, including Indian protests in the 1970s and 1980s that ultimately contributed to the 2003 dedication of a monument finally recognizing the Lakotas, Northern Cheyennes, and other American Indians who fought there.

Eleazar Wheelock Ripley of the War of 1812 [microform] - Major General in the United States Army, Member of Congress, Etc.... Eleazar Wheelock Ripley of the War of 1812 [microform] - Major General in the United States Army, Member of Congress, Etc. (Hardcover)
Nicholas Baylies
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
History Lover's Guide to Louisville (Hardcover): Bryan S Bush History Lover's Guide to Louisville (Hardcover)
Bryan S Bush
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Trial and Death of Henry Wirz, With Other Matters Pertaining Thereto (Hardcover): Sarah W Ashe The Trial and Death of Henry Wirz, With Other Matters Pertaining Thereto (Hardcover)
Sarah W Ashe
R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Uncovering the Civil War - Conversations Connecting Our Past, Present, and Future (Volume 2) (Hardcover): Antonio Elmaneh Uncovering the Civil War - Conversations Connecting Our Past, Present, and Future (Volume 2) (Hardcover)
Antonio Elmaneh
R705 Discovery Miles 7 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890 - Including Some Not Hitherto Published of Lincoln and the War (Hardcover): L E (Lucius... Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890 - Including Some Not Hitherto Published of Lincoln and the War (Hardcover)
L E (Lucius Eugene) 18 Chittenden
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Common Men in the War for the Common Man - Book Ii (Hardcover): Verel Salmon Common Men in the War for the Common Man - Book Ii (Hardcover)
Verel Salmon
R1,724 Discovery Miles 17 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Lincoln in the White House - a Dramatic Epos of the Civil War (Hardcover): Denton Jaques 1841-1925 Snider Lincoln in the White House - a Dramatic Epos of the Civil War (Hardcover)
Denton Jaques 1841-1925 Snider
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
History of the Second Iowa Cavalry; Containing a Detailed Account of its Organization, Marches, and the Battles in Which it has... History of the Second Iowa Cavalry; Containing a Detailed Account of its Organization, Marches, and the Battles in Which it has Participated; Also, a Complete Roster of Each Company (Hardcover)
Lyman B. Pierce
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Solitude of Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover): E Jay (Elisha Jay) 1847-1924 Edwards The Solitude of Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover)
E Jay (Elisha Jay) 1847-1924 Edwards
R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reminiscences of a Rebel (Hardcover): Wayland Fuller Dunaway Reminiscences of a Rebel (Hardcover)
Wayland Fuller Dunaway
R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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