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Family And Nation Under Fire - The Civil War Letters And Journals Of William And Joseph Medill

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 This collection of previously unpublished diaries and correspondence between Maj. William Medill and older brother Joseph, one of the influential owners of the Chicago Tribune, illuminates the Republican politics of the Civil War era. The brothers correct newspaper coverage of the war, disagree with official military reports, and often condemn Lincoln administration policies.
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They Have Left Us Here To Die - The Civil War Prison Diary Of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry

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 Besides the risks of death or wounding in combat, the average Civil War soldier faced the constant threat of being captured by the enemy. It is estimated that one out of every seven soldiers was taken captive and held in prison camps infamous for breeding disease and death. This is the chronicle of one Union soldier's seven months in captivity.
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Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known - The North''S Union Leagues In The American Civil War

by Paul Taylor

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 Examines the Union League movement. Often portrayed as a mere footnote to the US Civil War, the Union League's influence on the Northern home front was far more important and consequential than previously considered. The Union League and its various offshoots spread rapidly across the North, and in this first comprehensive examination of the leagues, Taylor discusses what made them so effective.
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This Infernal War - The Civil War Letters Of William And Jane Standard

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 Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families.
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Our Little Monitor - The Greatest Invention Of The Civil War

by Anna Gibson Holloway

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 On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roadsâ€"the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White bring ""Our Little Monitor"" to life once more in this beautifully illustrated volume, telling her story from conception in 1861 to sinking in 1862.
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Recollections Of A Civil War Medical Cadet - Burt Green Wilder

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 In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Forty five years after the war ended Wilder began to draft his recollections of an era that had transformed him personally and radically altered American medicine.
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Recollections Of A Civil War Medical Cadet - Burt Green Wilder

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 In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Forty five years after the war ended Wilder began to draft his recollections of an era that had transformed him personally and radically altered American medicine.
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Lincoln'S Generals' Wives - Four Women Who Influenced The Civil Warâ€”For Better And For Worse

by Candice Shy Hooper

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 The story of the American Civil War is not complete without examining the extraordinary and influential lives of the wives of Abraham Lincolnâ€™s top generals. Candice Shy Hooperâ€™s lively account covers the early lives of her subjects, as well as their families, their education, their political attitudes, and their personal beliefs.
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For Their Own Cause - The 27th United States Colored Troops

by Kelly D. Mezurek

41,91€

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 Presents the first comprehensive history of the 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT). By including rich details culled from private letters and pension files, Mezurek provides more than a typical regimental study; she demonstrates that the lives of the men of the 27th USCT help to explain why blacks in the US continued to offer their martial support in the front lines and the back.
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The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known - The North'S Union Leagues In The American Civil War

by Paul Taylor

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 Examines the Union League movement. Often portrayed as a mere footnote to the US Civil War, the Union League's influence on the Northern home front was far more important and consequential than previously considered. The Union League and its various offshoots spread rapidly across the North, and in this first comprehensive examination of the leagues, Taylor discusses what made them so effective.
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A Family And Nation Under Fire - The Civil War Letters And Journals Of William And Joseph Medill

37,84€

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 This collection of previously unpublished diaries and correspondence between Maj. William Medill and older brother Joseph, one of the influential owners of the Chicago Tribune, illuminates the Republican politics of the Civil War era. The brothers correct newspaper coverage of the war, disagree with official military reports, and often condemn Lincoln administration policies.
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This Infernal War - The Civil War Letters Of William And Jane Standard

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 Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families.
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Recollections Of A Civil War Medical Cadet

by Burt Green Wilder

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 In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Forty five years after the war ended Wilder began to draft his recollections of an era that had transformed him personally and radically altered American medicine.
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Pure Heart - The Faith Of A Father And Son In The War For A More Perfect Union

by William F. Quigley Jr

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 Clearly and engagingly written, Pure Heart is unique in its narrative synthesis of home front political divisions and frontline infantry experiences during the US Civil War. The emotional heart of the story lies in Reverend Benjamin Dorrâ€™s relationship with his soldier son, poignantly revealed in a recently discovered collection of his sonâ€™s wartime letters.
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Johnson'S Island - A Prison For Confederate Officers

by Roger Pickenpaugh

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 In 1862 Johnsonâ€™s Island prison, the Unionâ€™s sole military prison, was born. This title tells the story of the camp from its planning stages until the end of the war. Because the facility housed only officers, several literate diary keepers were on hand; Roger Pickenpaugh draws on their accounts, along with prison records, to provide a fascinating depiction of day-to-day life.
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The Printer'S Kiss - The Life And Letters Of A Civil War Newspaperman And His Family

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 In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor Will Tomlinson, his opinionated wife (Eliza Wylie Tomlinson), and their two children (Byers and Belle) in the treacherous borderlands around that â€œabolitionist hellholeâ€, Ripley, Ohio.
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Conspicuous Gallantry - The Civil War And Reconstruction Letters Of James W. King, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

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 The Union states of what is now the Midwest have received far less attention from historians than those of the East, and much of Michiganâ€™s Civil War story remains untold. The eloquent letters of James W. King shed light on a Civil War regiment that played important roles in the battles of Stones River, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge.
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Andrea Del Sarto - The Renaissance Workshop In Action

by Julian Brooks

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 "This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from June 23 to September 13, 2015 and from October 7, 2015 to January 10, 2016 at the Frick Collection, New York."
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Northerners At War - Reflections On The Civil War Home Front

by The Kent State University Press

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 Includes essays on the Northern home front. This title brings together essays on the economic, social, and domestic aspects of life in the North during the Civil War. It tackles a range of Civil War home front topics - from urban violence and Gettysburg's wartime history to entrepreneurial endeavors and the war's economic impact.
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The Night Sun

by Raul Novo

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The Printer'S Kiss - The Life And Letters Of A Civil War Newspaperman And His Family

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The Satellite Communication Ground Segment And Earth Station Handbook, Second Edition

by Bruce Elbert

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 This updated and expanded second edition reflects the state of earth station design and ground segment architecture.
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Orlando M. Poe - Civil War General And Great Lakes Engineer

by Paul Taylor

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 Presents the biography of Orlando M Poe, William Sherman's chief engineer and the man whose post-Civil War engineering work changed Great Lakes navigation forever.
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A Punishment On The Nation - An Iowa Soldier Endures The Civil War

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 Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to fight in a war that he believed was Godâ€™s punishment for the sin of slavery. Only through the warâ€™s purifying bloodshed, thought Haven, could the nation be redeemed and the Union saved. Havenâ€™s Civil War crackles across each page as it chronicles one manâ€™s journey from Iowa to war and back again.
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