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  • Shifting Loyalties

    The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina

    In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war. Focusing on a wartime community with divided allegiances, Judkin Browning offers new insights into the effects of war on southerners and the nature of civil-military relations under long-term ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Seven Days' Battles

    The War Begins Anew

    Series series Battles and Leaders of the American Civil War
    Written in a clear and engaging narrative style, this book analyzes the pivotal campaign in which Robert E. Lee drove the Union Army of the Potomac under George B. McClellan away from the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA, in the summer of 1862.The Seven Days' Battles: The War Begins Anew examines how Lee's Confederate forces squared off against McClellan's Union Army during this week-long ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Southern Mind Under Union Rule

    The Diary of James Rumley, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1862-1865

    Series series New Perspectives on the History of the South
    James Rumley was nearly fifty years old when the Civil War reached the remote outer banks community of Beaufort, North Carolina. Comfortably employed as clerk of the Superior Court of Carteret County, he could only watch as a Union fleet commanded by General Ambrose Burnside snaked its way up the Neuse River in March 1862 and took control of the area.In response to laws enacted by occupying forces ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • An Environmental History of the Civil War

    Series series Civil War America
    This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world. To be sure, environmental factors such as topography and weather powerfully shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and the war could not have been fought without the horses, cattle, and other animals that were ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Deserter Declarations

    Letters from North Carolinians Who Abandoned Their Confederate Units

    Edited by Judkin Browning ...
    Series series New Perspectives on the Civil War Era
    This book explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance from 1861 to 1865. It shares the voices of deserters or friends and family petitioning on their behalf. Browning helps us understand who deserters were and lets us tease out some of the factors that motivated soldiers to leave their posts. These letters add vivid specificity to the often ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    An Environmental History of the Civil War

    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world.To be sure, environmental factors such as topography and weather powerfully shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and the war could not have been fought without the horses, cattle, and other animals that were ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southern Communities

    Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South

    Community is an evolving and complex concept that historians have applied to localities, counties, and the South as a whole in order to ground larger issues in the day-to-day lives of all segments of society. These social networks sometimes unite and sometimes divide people, they can mirror or transcend political boundaries, and they may exist solely within the cultures of like-minded people.This ... Read more

    $124.99 CAD

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    The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict

    Edited by Clifford L. Linedecker ...
    With hundreds of entries, as well as photographs, drawings, and a handy time line of events, Civil War, A to Z encompasses everything about this historic conflict . . . from Appomattox to Zouaves.This encyclopedic illustrated reference features facts both familiar and engagingly new, organized in an easy-to-follow alphabetical format. Ranging from the basic to the bizarre, from secession to spies ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Negro's Civil War

    How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slaves and soldiers, preachers, visionaries, doctors, intellectuals, and common people--during the Civil War. Drawing on contemporary journalism, speeches, books, and letters, he presents an eclectic chronicle of their fears and hopes as well as their essential contributions to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War

    by Tim Rowland ...
    Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don’t get told, and the misadventures you haven’t read about in history books. Share in all the humorous and strange events that took place behind the scenes of some of the most famous Civil War moments. Picture a pedestal in a public park with no statue on top; Rowland’s book explains that when the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

    Discovering America's Hallowed Ground

    by Jeff Shaara ...
    TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORYJeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg/Appomattox. Shaara explores the history, the ... Read more

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  • The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

    Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

    by Alan Taylor ...
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