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Meticulously rendered toy soldier collection in paper form includes easy-to-assemble, free-standing Union and Confederate soldiers, cannons, tents, flags, more — all in full color. 16 color plates. Introduction.
Author : A. G. Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486249875
Meticulously rendered toy soldier collection in paper form includes easy-to-assemble, free-standing Union and Confederate soldiers, cannons, tents, flags, more — all in full color. 16 color plates. Introduction.
Author : William F. Muller
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Confederate States of America
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Author : Gustavus Woodson Smith
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Confederate States of America
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Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0375703837
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author : Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of Massachusetts
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Massachusetts
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : Gustavus Woodson Smith
Publisher :
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Confederate States of America
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Author : Robert Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0486448517
Key documents and memorable speeches include the Gettysburg Address, Lee's "Farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia," plus campaign reports, private letters, and more. A must for Civil War buffs!
Author : Tom Tierney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 048624833X
Recapture the flavor and drama of American life in 1860 with a family of 9 paper dolls and their 36 authentic costumes. Formal and everyday attire includes hoop skirts and off-the-shoulder dresses for the ladies and military uniforms, cravats, and waistcoats for the gentlemen. "Very detailed, and quite lovely to look at." — The Civil War News.
Author : Jefferson Davis
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807158801
Lynda Lasswell Crist, Editor Mary Seaton Dix, Coeditor Introduction by Frank E. VandiverVolume 7 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis offers a unique view of 1861, the first year of the Confederacy, Davis' presidency, and the Civil War.On January 21 Davis made his affecting farewell speech before a hushed Senate, then left for Mississippi. His uncertainty over a military or political course vanished when he received news of his unanimous election as president of the Confederate States of America. Inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama, on February 18, Davis quickly set to work to forge a government, in a race with events to select a cabinet, establish departments, and plan for the common defense.Hopes for a peaceful separation from the North ended with the firing on Fort Sumter; subsequent documents reveal a president absorbed by the problems of waging a war that soon stretched from the Atlantic Coast to the Gulf of Mexico. Victory at Manassas produced euphoria among southerners but plunged the president into the first of several unfortunate controversies with his generals, this one over the failure to pursue the enemy and capitalize on success.Throughout 1861 the Confederate commissioners in Europe reported to Davis on their expectations of recognition, convinced that the demand for cotton would induce Great Britain and France to break the North's blockade of southern ports and help supply arms for the defense of the fledgling nation.Volume 7 provides a rare opportunity to assess anew Davis' strengths and weaknesses as executive, to reexamine his relationship with generals, governors, congressmen, cabinet officers, the press, and the public. Davis ended the year as he begun, aware of the difficulties of the course the South had adopted and confident that its cause would ultimately triumph. Containing illustrations, maps, and more than 2,500 documents drawn from numerous printed sources and more than seventy repositories and private collections, Volume 7 covers a year of paramount importance in our country's history.