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Lost Freedmen's Town of Hamburg, South Carolina (Hardcover): Michael S. Smith Lost Freedmen's Town of Hamburg, South Carolina (Hardcover)
Michael S. Smith
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Chronological Annals of the War From Its Beginning to the Present Time [microform] - in Two Parts: Part I. Containing From... Chronological Annals of the War From Its Beginning to the Present Time [microform] - in Two Parts: Part I. Containing From April 2. 1755 to the End of 1760: Part II. --from the Beginning of 1761. to the Signing of the Preliminaries of the Peace: ... (Hardcover)
John Fl 1760 Dobson
R921 Discovery Miles 9 210 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R1,198 Discovery Miles 11 980 Ships in 18 - 22 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
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life of Major-General George H. Thomas (Hardcover): Thomas Budd van Horne The Life of Major-General George H. Thomas (Hardcover)
Thomas Budd van Horne
R1,049 Discovery Miles 10 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company - Anton Reiff's Riverboat Travel Journal (Hardcover): Michael... Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company - Anton Reiff's Riverboat Travel Journal (Hardcover)
Michael Burden
R1,163 Discovery Miles 11 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830-1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, tenor William Harrison, hired Reiff, then freelancing in New York, to serve as musical director and conductor for the company's American itinerary. The grueling tour began in November 1855 in Boston and then proceeded to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, where, after a three-week engagement, the company boarded a paddle steamer bound for New Orleans. It was at that point that Reiff started to keep his diary. Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Reiff's diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled the country by river and rail. Surprisingly, Reiff comments little on the Pyne-Harrison performances themselves, although he does visit the theaters in the river towns, including New Orleans, where he spends evenings both at the French Opera and at the Gaiety. Instead, Reiff focuses his attention on other passengers, on the mechanics of the journey, on the landscape, and on events he encounters, including the 1856 Mardi Gras and the unveiling of the statue of Andrew Jackson in New Orleans's Jackson Square. Reiff is clearly captivated by the river towns and their residents, including the enslaved, whom he encountered whenever the boat tied up. Running throughout the journal is a thread of anxiety, for, apart from the typical dangers of a river trip, the winter of 1855-1856 was one of the coldest of the century, and the steamer had difficulties with river ice. Historians have used Reiff's journal as source material, but until now the entire text, which is archived in Louisiana State University's Special Collections in Hill Memorial Library, has only been available in its original state. As a primary source, the published journal will have broad appeal to historians and other readers interested in antebellum riverboat travel, highbrow entertainment, and the people and places of the South.

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
R980 Discovery Miles 9 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Ships in 18 - 22 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
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War (Hardcover): Frank A Ofeldt Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War (Hardcover)
Frank A Ofeldt
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 18 - 22 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
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 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
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Hospital Scenes After the Battle of Gettysburg, July, 1863 (Hardcover): Patriot Daughters of Lancaster (Pa ). Hospital Scenes After the Battle of Gettysburg, July, 1863 (Hardcover)
Patriot Daughters of Lancaster (Pa ).
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 18 - 22 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
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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
R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Reminiscences of a Rebel (Hardcover): Wayland Fuller Dunaway Reminiscences of a Rebel (Hardcover)
Wayland Fuller Dunaway
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Early Morning of War - Bull Run, 1861 (Hardcover): Edward G. Longacre The Early Morning of War - Bull Run, 1861 (Hardcover)
Edward G. Longacre
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

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
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The War Went On - Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans (Hardcover): Brian Matthew Jordan, Evan C Rothera The War Went On - Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans (Hardcover)
Brian Matthew Jordan, Evan C Rothera; Rebecca Howard, Zachery Fry, Jonathan Neu, …
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energised by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered. Moreover, because work on veterans has often proceeded from a preoccupation with cultural memory, the Civil War's ex-soldiers have typically been analysed as either symbols or producers of texts. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans, fifteen of the field's top scholars provide a more nuanced and intimate look at the lives and experiences of these former soldiers. Essays in this collection approach Civil War veterans from oblique angles, including theater, political, and disability history, as well as borderlands and memory studies. Contributors examine the lives of Union and Confederate veterans, African American veterans, former prisoners of war, amputees, and ex-guerrilla fighters. They also consider postwar political elections, veterans' business dealings, and even literary contests between onetime enemies and among former comrades.

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
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn - U.S. Army Surgeon George E. Lord (Hardcover): Todd E. Harburn, Paul L. Hedren A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn - U.S. Army Surgeon George E. Lord (Hardcover)
Todd E. Harburn, Paul L. Hedren
R871 Discovery Miles 8 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Of the three physicians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Doctor George Edwin Lord (1846-76) was the lone commissioned medical officer, an assistant surgeon with the United States Army's 7th Cavalry-one more soldier caught up in the U.S. government's efforts to fulfill what many people believed was the young country's "Manifest Destiny." A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn tells Lord's story for the first time. Notable for its unique angle on Custer's last stand and for its depiction of frontier-era medicine, the book is above all a compelling portrait of the making of an army medical professional in mid-nineteenth-century America. Drawing on newly discovered documents, Todd E. Harburn describes Lord's education and training at Bowdoin College in Maine and the Chicago Medical College, detailing what the study of medicine entailed at the time for "a young man of promise . . . held in universal esteem." Lord's time as a contract physician with the army took him in 1874 to the U.S. Northern Boundary Survey. From there Harburn recounts how, after a failed romance and the rigors of the U.S. Army Medical Board examination, the young doctor proceeded to his first-and only-appointment as a post surgeon, at Fort Buford in Dakota Territory. What followed, of course, was Lord's service, and his death, in the Little Big Horn campaign, which this book shows us for the first time from the unique perspective of the surgeon. A portrait of a singular figure in the milieu of the American military's nineteenth-century medical elite, A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn offers a close look at a familiar chapter in U.S. history, and a reminder of the humanity lost in a battle that resonates to this day.

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
R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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