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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
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
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
R1,856 Discovery Miles 18 560 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reminiscences of a Rebel (Hardcover): Wayland Fuller Dunaway Reminiscences of a Rebel (Hardcover)
Wayland Fuller Dunaway
R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Invisible Wounds - Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Hardcover): Dillon Carroll Invisible Wounds - Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Hardcover)
Dillon Carroll
R1,375 Discovery Miles 13 750 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.

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
R1,290 Discovery Miles 12 900 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.

History of Morgan's Cavalry (Hardcover): Basil W. Duke History of Morgan's Cavalry (Hardcover)
Basil W. Duke
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History Lover's Guide to Louisville (Hardcover): Bryan S Bush History Lover's Guide to Louisville (Hardcover)
Bryan S Bush
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life of a Union Army Sharpshooter - The Diaries and Letters of John T. Farnham (Hardcover): William G. Andrews The Life of a Union Army Sharpshooter - The Diaries and Letters of John T. Farnham (Hardcover)
William G. Andrews
R776 R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Save R103 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent over 50 long articles to his hometown newspaper, and mailed some 600 letters home. He described training, battles, skirmishes, encampments, furloughs, marches, hospital life, and clerkships at the Iron Brigade headquarters and the War Department. He met Lincoln and acquired a blood-stained cuff taken from his assassinated body. He befriended freed slaves, teaching them to read and write and built them a school. He campaigned for Lincoln's re-election. He subscribed to three newspapers and several magazines and devoured 22 books. He attended 23 plays and six concerts during his service. He was gregarious and popular, naming in his diaries 108 friends in the service and 156 at home. Frail and sickly, he died of tuberculosis four years after his discharge. He paints a detailed portrait of the lives of ordinary soldiers in the Union Army, their food, living conditions, relations among officers and men, ordeals, triumphs, and tragedies. Nominated for the Gilder Lehrman Prize

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
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Hardcover): Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Hardcover)
Ambrose Bierce
R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Captain Bulloch - The Life of James Dunwoody Bulloch, Naval Agent of the Confederacy (Hardcover): Stephen Chapin Kinnaman Captain Bulloch - The Life of James Dunwoody Bulloch, Naval Agent of the Confederacy (Hardcover)
Stephen Chapin Kinnaman
R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Collier's - the National Weekly; Vol. 36, no. 20 (Hardcover): P F Collier Son Corporation Collier's - the National Weekly; Vol. 36, no. 20 (Hardcover)
P F Collier Son Corporation
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of the Empire and People of Turkey and the War in the East [microform] - Giving a Full Account of the Origin of the... A History of the Empire and People of Turkey and the War in the East [microform] - Giving a Full Account of the Origin of the Turks and the Growth of the Empire ... With a Narrative of the Late Rebellion and Butcheries in the Provinces and the Origin... (Hardcover)
R. A Hammond
R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Confederate Sharpshooter Major William E. Simmons - Through the War with the 16th Georgia Infantry  and 3rd Battalion Georgia... Confederate Sharpshooter Major William E. Simmons - Through the War with the 16th Georgia Infantry and 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters (Hardcover)
Joseph P. Byrd IV
R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in Civil War sharpshooters. Now there is a new perspective on the subject in the story of Major William E. Simmons (1839-1931), with emphasis on his experiences as an infantry officer in the Army of Northern virginia. Three years after graduating from Emory College, Simmons joined the first company in his home county and received his commission. He was later promoted to Captain in the elite 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters of Wofford's Brigade. In 1864, he became acting commander of the brigade's sharpshooter battalion. The book traces his family heritage and his footsteps from childhood to Emory College, through many challenging war encounters, his capture and imprisonment at Fort Delaware, and a lifetime of service to his state and community that lasted until the 1930s. A wealth of information from Simmons' journal and personal papers includes encounters with Generals Nathan Bedford Forrest and George Armstrong Custer. There are also accounts of his miraculous escape from Crampton's Gap at South Mountain, his regiment's heroic efforts at the Bloody Lane in the Battle of Sharpsburg, the Sunken road at Fredericksburg, the peach Orchard and Wheat Field at Gettysburg, and his sharpshooters' key role at Cold Harbor and Wofford's flank attack at the Wilderness. To provide more in-depth information on Simmons' sharpshooter battalion, Byrd provides maps, letters, photographs, and a roster of soldiers compiled from service records and twenty-five other reference sources.

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
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Major General Joseph King Fenno Mansfield - A Soldier From Beginning to End (Hardcover): Laurence H. Freiheit Major General Joseph King Fenno Mansfield - A Soldier From Beginning to End (Hardcover)
Laurence H. Freiheit
R1,675 Discovery Miles 16 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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