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  • Sabine Pass

    The Confederacy's Thermopylae

    by Edward T. Cotham ...
    Series Book 7 - Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series
    This " beautifully written . . . and meticulously researched" Civil War history vividly recounts one of the most decisive battles fought in Texas (Civil War News).Jefferson Davis once said the Battle of Sabine Pass was "more remarkable than the battle at Thermopylae." But unlike the Spartans, who succumbed to overwhelming Persian forces at Thermopylae more than two thousand years before, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decisions of the Galveston Campaigns

    The Twenty-One Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations

    by Edward T. Cotham Jr. ...
    Series series Command Decisions in America’s Civil War
    The Galveston Campaigns were a series of naval and overland battles that pitted Confederate General John B. Magruder and his often-improvised Confederate forces against General Nathaniel P. Banks and a variety of Union army and naval forces. A Federal fleet entered Galveston Bay on October 4, 1862, and the city surrendered after the expiration of a four-day truce. However, on New Year’s Day of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Juneteenth

    The Story Behind the Celebration

    by Edward T. Cotham Jr. ...
    Juneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Observances from coast to coast have turned this event into part of the national conversation about race, slavery, and how Americans understand, acknowledge, and explain what has been called the national “original sin.”But, why Juneteenth? Where did this celebration—which promises to become a national holiday—come from? ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Battle on the Bay

    The Civil War Struggle for Galveston

    by Edward T. Cotham Jr. ...
    Series series Texas Classics
    The Civil War history of Galveston is one of the last untold stories from America's bloodiest war, despite the fact that Galveston was a focal point of hostilities throughout the conflict. As other Southern ports fell to the Union, Galveston emerged as one of the Confederacy's only lifelines to the outside world. When the war ended in 1865, Galveston was the only major port still in Confederate ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rockets, Tanks and Submarines

    The Ingenuity of Civil War Texans

    by Edward T. Cotham Jr. ...
    Few topics have fascinated American readers more than the Civil War. Occurring as it did at the beginning of a new industrial age, it fostered a wide variety of strange and innovative contraptions that shaped the course of the conflict. Texans were among the most creative in their designs, and added their talents to the mix, creating a variety of war machines and devices that are remarkable for ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine

    The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley

    Edited by Edward T. Cotham ...
    The confiscated Yankee diary that ran in the Confederate press, fully annotated and illustrated with drawings by a fellow Civil War Marine.On September 28, 1863, the Galveston Tri-Weekly News included an item headlined "A Yankee Note-Book." It was the first installment of a diary confiscated from U.S. Marine Henry O. Gusley, who had been captured at the Battle of Sabine Pass. It was so popular, ... Read more

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  • A Buff Looks at the American Civil War

    A Look at the United States’ Greatest Conflict from the Point of View of a Civil War Buff

    by Shon Powers ...
    There have been thousands of books put out about the Civil War, but none by a Civil War Buff, so I wrote one. This book was a produce of five years' work and puts the war in a way that casual fans of the war will be surprised at what took place. This book is in three parts: Civil War Timeline: the events, battles, politics, and personal observations of those who were a part of the war. Things that ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Sherman's March Through the Carolinas

    by John G. Barrett ...
    In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was more convinced than ever that the bold application of his ideas of total war could speedily end the conflict. John Barrett’s story of what ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Chicago's Battery Boys

    The Chicago Mercantile Battery in the Civil War's Western Theater

    by Richard Brady Williams ...
    The history of an artillery unit and its role in the Civil War, at Vicksburg and beyond, with photos, maps, and illustrations.The celebrated Chicago Mercantile Battery was organized by the Mercantile Association, a group of prominent Chicago merchants, and mustered into service in August of 1862. The Chicagoans would serve in many of the Western theater's most prominent engagements until the war ... Read more

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  • The Yazoo Pass Expedition: A Union Thrust into the Delta

    by Larry Allen McCluney Jr. ...
    Series series Civil War Series
    After six failed attempts to reach Vicksburg, General Ulysses S. Grant developed a plan. The Yazoo Pass Expedition was a Union army/navy operation meant to bypass Vicksburg by using the backwaters of the Mississippi Delta. Operations began on February 3, 1863, with a levee breach on the Mississippi River. The expedition was delayed as a result of natural obstacles and Confederate resistance, which ... Read more

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  • Shiloh

    The Battle That Changed the Civil War

    by Larry J. Daniel ...
    The battle of Shiloh, fought in April 1862 in the wilderness of south central Tennessee, marked a savage turning point in the Civil War.In this masterful book, Larry Daniel re-creates the drama and the horror of the battle and discusses in authoritative detail the political and military policies that led to Shiloh, the personalities of those who formulated and executed the battle plans, the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Southern Storm

    Sherman's March to the Sea

    by Noah Andre Trudeau ...
    A gripping, definitive, New York Times –bestselling account of Sherman's legendary and destructive march through Georgia."Mr. Trudeau's narrative is peppered with trenchant observations from Sherman, one of history's more quotable military leaders. . . . Mr. Trudeau accomplishes what he set out to do: march through the experience in all its detail." — The Wall Street Journal... ... Read more

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