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Assassination of Lincoln; a History of the Great Conspiracy; Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission, and a Review... Assassination of Lincoln; a History of the Great Conspiracy; Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission, and a Review of the Trial of John H. Surratt (Hardcover)
Thomas Mealey 1817-1906 Harris
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Apostles of Disunion - Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (Hardcover, 15th Revised edition):... Apostles of Disunion - Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (Hardcover, 15th Revised edition)
Charles B. Dew
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Charles Dew's Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states' secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The fifteen years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.

The Unwritten History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover): Richard Mitchell 1833-1906 Smoot The Unwritten History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover)
Richard Mitchell 1833-1906 Smoot
R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Wake of Slavery - Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law (Hardcover): Joseph A Ranney In the Wake of Slavery - Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law (Hardcover)
Joseph A Ranney
R1,885 Discovery Miles 18 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down. How did the South regain social, economic, and political stability in the wake of emancipation and wartime destruction, and how did the South come together with its former enemies in the North? Why did the South not slip back into chaos? This book holds the keys to the answers to these tantalizing questions. Author Joseph Ranney explodes the myth of a unified South and exposes just how complex and fragile the postwar recovery was. The end of slavery and the emergence of a radically new social order raised a host of thorny legal issues: What place should newly freed slaves have in Southern society? What was the proper balance between states' rights and a newly powerful federal government? How could postwar economic distress be eased without destroying property rights? Should new civil rights be extended to women as well as blacks? Southern states addressed these issues in surprisingly different ways. Ranney also shatters the popular myth that a new legal system was imposed upon the South by the victorious North during Reconstruction. Southern states took an active hand in shaping postwar changes, and Southern courts often defended civil rights and national reunification against hostile Southern legislators. How did that come about? Ranney provides some surprising answers. He also profiles judges and other lawmakers who shaped Southern law during and after Reconstruction, including heretofore little-known black leaders in the South. These extraordinary individuals created a legal heritage that assisted leaders of the second civil rights revolution a century after Reconstruction ended. This bookadds immeasurably to our knowledge not only of Southern history, but also of American legal and social history.

Confederate Military History - A Library of Confederate States History, Written by Distinguished Men of the South (Volume V)... Confederate Military History - A Library of Confederate States History, Written by Distinguished Men of the South (Volume V) (Hardcover)
General Clement A. Evans
R1,029 Discovery Miles 10 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is one volume in a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South, and edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia. A generation after the Civil War, the Southern protagonists wanted to tell their story, and in 1899 these twelve volumes appeared under the imprint of the Confederate Publishing Company. The first and last volumes comprise such subjects as the justification of the Southern States in seceding from the Union and the honorable conduct of the war by the Confederate States government; the history of the actions and concessions of the South in the formation of the Union and its policy in securing the territorial dominion of the United States; the civil history of the Confederate States; Confederate naval history; the morale of the armies; the South since the war, and a connected outline of events from the beginning of the struggle to its close. The other ten volumes each treat a separate State with details concerning its peculiar story, its own devotion, its heroes, and its battlefields. Volume 5 is South Carolina.

Persuading John Bull - Union and Confederate Propaganda in Britain, 1860-65 (Paperback): Thomas E. Sebrell Persuading John Bull - Union and Confederate Propaganda in Britain, 1860-65 (Paperback)
Thomas E. Sebrell
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first scholarly analysis of The London American, the pro-Union propaganda journal published in London during the American Civil War, and the motives and troubles of its proprietor, John Adams Knight, a Northern American based in the British capital. The newspaper's successes and failures in attempts to manipulate British public opinion during the war are compared with that of The Index, its rival Confederate propaganda weekly headquartered two doors down London's Fleet Street. Persuading John Bull provides scholars and general readers alike a far greater understanding of the largely unknown Northern newspaper's motivations and campaigns during the war, as well as an in-depth analysis of The Index which builds greatly on present historiographical discussions of the Southern journal. It also offers new insights into Britain's roles in the conflict, Anglo-American relations, and mid-Victorian British political and social history. The book is not restricted to discussing the two propaganda machines as its focus-they are used to approach a greater analysis of British public opinion during the American Civil War-both journals were strongly associated with numerous key figures, societies (British and American), and events occurring on both sides of the Atlantic pertaining to the conflict. Although propaganda is only one source from which to tap, the effectiveness of the two lobbyist journals either directly or indirectly impacted other factors influencing Britain's ultimate decision to remain neutral. This book reveals a fresh new cast of Union supporters in London, in addition to more Confederate sympathizers throughout Britain not previously discussed by scholars. The roles of these new figures, how and why they endorsed the Northern or Southern war effort, is analyzed in detail throughout the chapters, adding greatly to existing historiography.

Fall Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana, in the War of the Rebellion and the War With Mexico; With an App. Giving a Short... Fall Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana, in the War of the Rebellion and the War With Mexico; With an App. Giving a Short History of the Grand Army of the Republic, Dept. of Ind., George W. Rader Post No. 119, and J. B. Gossett Camp No. 46, S. Of... (Hardcover)
J.A. Young
R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Nathan Bedford Forrest and African-Americans - Yankee Myth, Confederate Fact (Hardcover): Lochlainn Seabrook Nathan Bedford Forrest and African-Americans - Yankee Myth, Confederate Fact (Hardcover)
Lochlainn Seabrook
R905 R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Save R149 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Autobiography Of Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover): Abraham Lincoln The Autobiography Of Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover)
Abraham Lincoln
R755 Discovery Miles 7 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Confederate Military History - A Library of Confederate States History, Written by Distinguished Men of the South (Volume III)... Confederate Military History - A Library of Confederate States History, Written by Distinguished Men of the South (Volume III) (Hardcover)
General Clement A. Evans
R1,057 Discovery Miles 10 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is one volume in a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South, and edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia. A generation after the Civil War, the Southern protagonists wanted to tell their story, and in 1899 these twelve volumes appeared under the imprint of the Confederate Publishing Company. The first and last volumes comprise such subjects as the justification of the Southern States in seceding from the Union and the honorable conduct of the war by the Confederate States government; the history of the actions and concessions of the South in the formation of the Union and its policy in securing the territorial dominion of the United States; the civil history of the Confederate States; Confederate naval history; the morale of the armies; the South since the war, and a connected outline of events from the beginning of the struggle to its close. The other ten volumes each treat a separate State with details concerning its peculiar story, its own devotion, its heroes, and its battlefields. Volume 3 is Virginia.

With the Trotting Twelfth - the Recollections of a Private & a Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 12th Rhode Island Volunteers... With the Trotting Twelfth - the Recollections of a Private & a Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 12th Rhode Island Volunteers During the American Civil War (Hardcover)
J. W. Grant, Pardon E. Tillinghast
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War (Paperback): Robert C Carpenter Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War (Paperback)
Robert C Carpenter
R1,271 R859 Discovery Miles 8 590 Save R412 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Often Civil War histories embody stories about politicians and generals. Ordinary soldiers, wives, mothers, children, slaves, farmers, merchants, Unionists, and deserters are only occasionally mentioned. To convey a comprehensive history is to include a wide array of sources. Newly discovered material expand our understanding.. The 1863 Gaston County tax list defines people's lives economically and socially, and diaries, soldier letters, and other previously unpublished documents tell the story of the war from each perspective. Wives and mothers, children, soldiers, politicians, deserters, and slaves communicate their feelings, reflect their fears and aspirations. The 1863 Tax List transcription delineates what taxpayers owned, describe slaves by name, age and monetary value, and defines the ownership of luxury items. The tax document communicates a first of its kind portrait of a county. Soldiers' and family letters, letters to the governor, cotton mill operations, political disagreements, and the lives of slaves are described in this microscopic study of a typical Piedmont county. The rationale for soldier enlistments, reasons for desertion, and economic struggles on the home front are examined. Many engaging and newly discovered historical revelations await the reader. Your perception of the times and its people will be expanded through their words and actions.

Thaddeus Stevens - Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice (Paperback): bruce levine Thaddeus Stevens - Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice (Paperback)
bruce levine
R495 R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century's greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America.Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution--a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party's radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies--including welcoming black men into the Union's armies--would prove crucial to the Union war effort. During the Reconstruction era that followed, Stevens demanded equal civil and political rights for Black Americans--rights eventually embodied in the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed his party--and America--towards equality, he also championed ideas too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support, such as confiscating large slaveholders' estates and dividing the land among those who had been enslaved. In Thaddeus Stevens, acclaimed historian Bruce Levine has written a "vital" (The Guardian), "compelling" (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America.

Military History of Wayne County, N.Y. - Military Register. Wayne County in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Hardcover): L.H. Clark Military History of Wayne County, N.Y. - Military Register. Wayne County in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Hardcover)
L.H. Clark
R1,292 Discovery Miles 12 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Trevilian Station, June 11-12, 1864 - Wade Hampton, Philip Sheridan and the Largest All-Cavalry Battle of the Civil War... Trevilian Station, June 11-12, 1864 - Wade Hampton, Philip Sheridan and the Largest All-Cavalry Battle of the Civil War (Paperback)
Joseph W Mckinney
R1,266 R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Save R412 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In June 1864, General Ulysses Grant ordered his cavalry commander, Philip Sheridan, to conduct a raid to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad between Charlottesville and Richmond. Sheridan fell short of his objective when he was defeated by General Wade Hampton's cavalry in a two-day battle at Trevilian Station. The first day's fighting saw dismounted Yankees and Rebels engaged at close range in dense forest. By day's end, Hampton had withdrawn to the west. Advancing the next morning, Sheridan found Hampton dug in behind hastily built fortifications and launched seven dismounted assaults, each repulsed with heavy casualties. As darkness fell, the Confederates counterattacked, driving the Union forces from the field. Sheridan began his withdrawal that night, an ordeal for his men, the Union wounded and Confederate prisoners brought off the field and the hundreds of starved and exhausted horses that marked his retreat, killed to prevent their falling into Confederate hands.

Lincoln's Advice for America in the 21st Century His Words Still Speak (Hardcover): Glen Aubrey Lincoln's Advice for America in the 21st Century His Words Still Speak (Hardcover)
Glen Aubrey
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Were Lincoln alive today what would his response be to the immense and complex issues confronting the United States of America? In Lincoln's day the issues facing the country dating from Lincoln's first political speech (1838) until his death in the opening of his second term (1865) were momentous to his generation, just as the issues facing the country in the early 21st Century are immense to its generation. The people of Lincoln's day needed leadership. The people of the United States today also need leadership-not just any kind of leadership-but leadership that is anchored solidly on the fundamental principles and practices of the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. Within the understanding that people of Lincoln's generation were as people are today in their essential characteristics, good and bad, join in an investigation that utilizes Lincoln's own words from his early career and adapts them in principle to the practices of today. Lincoln was a great leader who rescued the Union and restored the country. We can learn from his leadership-if we simply take the time to read and then apply what we learn into the contemporary circumstances that define our issues.

Blood and War at my Doorstep (Hardcover): Brenda Chambers McKean Blood and War at my Doorstep (Hardcover)
Brenda Chambers McKean
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Forty-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry - History of Its Services in the War of the Rebellion and a Personal Record of Its... The Forty-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry - History of Its Services in the War of the Rebellion and a Personal Record of Its Members (Hardcover)
John H 1830- Rerick, Hugh B Personal Recollections Reed
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ulysses S. Grant - A Biography (Hardcover): Robert P Broadwater Ulysses S. Grant - A Biography (Hardcover)
Robert P Broadwater
R1,353 Discovery Miles 13 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ulysses S. Grant was responsible for orchestrating the activities of all the Union armies into a single strategy, providing the leadership that eventually doomed the Confederacy and brought about the end of the Civil War. This book documents Grant's contributions to the Civil War as well as his early life and presidency. Ulysses S. Grant: A Biography takes an in-depth look at one of the most well-known figures to emerge from the American Civil War, the famed Union commander and 18th President of the United States who has become an iconic part of our nation's history. The book provides a balanced overview that encompasses all the major events of Grant's life as well as his ancestry, portraying him as a common man who endured defeats and setbacks instead of a flawless noble hero. It accurately chronicles his life as it took place and tells a story of perseverance that illuminates Grant's successes as a testimony to determination and pluck rather than the result of luck or raw talent. This work will be especially helpful to high school and college-age audiences, and can be enjoyed by anyone interested in the Civil War period. Contains photographs of Grant at various stages of his life or that depict important events Includes a comprehensive bibliography as well a timeline of Grant's life and career

The Unholy Crusade - Lincoln's Legacy of Destruction in the American South (Hardcover): Lochlainn Seabrook The Unholy Crusade - Lincoln's Legacy of Destruction in the American South (Hardcover)
Lochlainn Seabrook
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature Character of Our Federal Government. Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on... A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature Character of Our Federal Government. Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. By a Virginian (Hardcover)
Abel Parker Upshur
R824 Discovery Miles 8 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Clash of Loyalties - A Border County in the Civil War (Paperback, 1st ed): John W Shaffer Clash of Loyalties - A Border County in the Civil War (Paperback, 1st ed)
John W Shaffer
R974 R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Save R133 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. The wounds of the Civil War cut most bitterly in the border states, that strip of America from Maryland to Kansas, where conflicting loyalties and traditions ripped apart communities, institutions, and families. Barbour County, in the mountainous Northwest of (West) Virginia, is a telling microcosm of the deep divisions which both caused the war and were caused by it. By examining and interpreting long-ignored documents of the times and the personal accounts of the people who were there, Clash of Loyalties offers a startling new view of America's most bitter hour. Nearly half of the military-age men in the county served in the armed forces, almost perfectly divided between the Union and the Confederacy. After West Virginia split with Virginia to rejoin the Union, Confederate soldiers from the regions could not safely visit their homes on furlough, or even send letters to their families. The county's two leading political figures, Samuel Woods and Spencer Dayton, became leaders of the fight for and against secession, dissolved their close personal friendship, and never spoke to one another again. The two factions launched campaigns of terror and intimidation, leading to the burning of several homes, the kidnapping of a sheriff, the murder of a pacifist minister, and the self-imposed exile of many of the county's influential families. The conflicting loyalties crossed nearly all social and economic lines; even the county's slave owners were evenly divided between Union and Confederate sympathies. With a meticulous examination of census and military records, geneologies, period newspapers, tax rolls, eyewitness accounts, and other relevant documents, Clash of Loyalties presents a compelling account of the passion and violence which tore apart Barbour County and the nation.

The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain (Paperback): Daniel J Vermilya The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain (Paperback)
Daniel J Vermilya
R592 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R96 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the summer of 1864, Georgia was the scene of one of the most important campaigns of the Civil War. William Tecumseh Sherman's push southward toward Atlanta threatened the heart of the Confederacy, and Joseph E. Johnston and the Army of Tennessee were the Confederacy's best hope to defend it. In June, Johnston managed to grind Sherman's advance to a halt northwest of Atlanta at Kennesaw Mountain. After weeks of maneuvering, on June 27, Sherman launched a bold attack on Johnston's lines. The Confederate victory was one of the bloodiest days of the entire campaign. And while Sherman's assaults had a frightful cost, Union forces learned important lessons at Kennesaw Mountain that enabled the fall of Atlanta several months later.

Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Ku Klux Klan - Yankee Myth, Confederate Fact (Hardcover): Lochlainn Seabrook Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Ku Klux Klan - Yankee Myth, Confederate Fact (Hardcover)
Lochlainn Seabrook
R777 Discovery Miles 7 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Forrest! - 99 Reasons To Love Nathan Bedford Forrest (Hardcover): Lochlainn Seabrook Forrest! - 99 Reasons To Love Nathan Bedford Forrest (Hardcover)
Lochlainn Seabrook
R904 R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Save R148 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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