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  • My Dearest Lilla

    Letters Home from Civil War General Jacob D. Cox

    by Gene Schmiel ...
    Series series Voices of the Civil War
    Jacob D. Cox experienced more facets of the Civil War than most officers: by land and sea, in both Western and Eastern Theaters, among the inner political circles of Ohio and Washington, DC, in territories hostile and friendly, amidst legal conflicts both civilian and military, and in the last campaigns in Tennessee and North Carolina. The Union general capitalized on his experience by penning his ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Searching for Irvin McDowell

    The Civil War's Forgotten General

    by Frank P. Simione, Gene Schmiel ...
    A study of the life, career, and controversies of a forgotten Civil War Union Army general."Thanks to great research and writing by Frank Simione and Gene Schmiel—not to mention Hal Jespersen's incredible maps—readers will better understand McDowell the man and his impact on the Civil War. This is an important book that should open many eyes to McDowell's life, career, and legacy." —Benjamin T. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Lincoln's Lieutenants

    The High Command of the Army of the Potomac

    by Stephen W. Sears ...
    A multilayered group biography of the Civil War commanders who led the Army of the Potomac: "a staggering work . . . by a masterly historian" ( Kirkus, starred review).The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Three Roads to Gettysburg

    Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation

    by Tim McGrath ...
    An epic, revelatory account of the Battle of Gettysburg, where George Meade, Lincoln's unexpected choice to lead the Union army, defeated Robert E. Lee and changed the course of the Civil War, from the award-winning author of James Monroe: A LifeBy mid-1863, the Civil War, with Northern victories in the West and Southern triumphs in the East, seemed unwinnable for Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee’s ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sickles at Gettysburg

    The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg

    by James A. Hessler ...
    "Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles" ( Confederate Book Review).Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey's Bachelder-Coddington Literary AwardWinner of the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable's Distinguished Book AwardBy licensed battlefield guide James ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret War for the Union

    The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War

    by Edwin C. Fishel ...
    "A treasure trove for historians . . . A real addition to Civil War history" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).At the end of the American Civil War, most of the intelligence records disappeared—remaining hidden for over a century. As a result, little has been understood about the role of espionage and other intelligence sources, from balloonists to signalmen with their telescopes.When, at the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrible Swift Sword

    by Bruce Catton ...
    Series series Centennial History of the Civil War
    The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war—an epic struggle for freedom.In Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton tells the story of the Civil War as never before—of two turning points which changed the scope and meaning of the war. First, he describes how the war slowly but steadily ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Grand Design

    Strategy and the U.S. Civil War

    by Donald Stoker ...
    Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War

    by H. W. Crocker III ...
    The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today’s Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Never Call Retreat

    by Bruce Catton ...
    Series series Centennial History of the Civil War
    "A magnificent stylist . . . a first-rate historian. Familiarity with subject matter resulting from many years of study and narrative talents exceeding those of any other Civil War historian enable him to move along swiftly and smoothly and produce a story that is informative, dramatic, and absorbingly interesting." —Dr. Bell I. Wiley, after reading the manuscript of Never Call RetreatThe final ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Myth of the Lost Cause

    Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won

    by Edward H. Bonekemper III ...
    History isn't always written by the winners...Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenth-century Civil War. As Lincoln knew, the meaning of America itself depends on how we understand that fratricidal struggle.As soon as the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms at Appomattox, a group of Confederate officers took up ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Controversies & Commanders

    Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac

    by Stephen W. Sears ...
    An in-depth look at the Union force that went up against Robert E. Lee, from "a master storyteller and leading Civil War historian" ( Kirkus Reviews).From an award-winning military historian and the bestselling author of Gettysburg, this is a wide-ranging collection of essays about the Army of the Potomac, delving into such topics as Professor Lowe's reconnaissance balloons; the court-martial of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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