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"e;The Importance of the North River (the Hudson), and the sanguine wishes of all to prevent the enemy from possessing it, have been the causes of this unhappy catastrophe.

"e;Chick does a good job of portraying [General Beauregard] as the first real hero of the Confederacy, who at times proved his own worst enemy.

"e;[Serves] as both a helpful concise history text and as a phenomenal field guide to modern Valley Forge and its surroundings.

Abraham Lincoln knew if the Union could cut off shipping to and from New Orleans, the largest exporting port in the world, and control the Mississippi River, it would be a mortal blow to the Confederate economy.

"e;Profusely illustrated .

A history of the series of American Civil War battles fought at a town outside of Richmond, Virginia.

The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher.

Gettysburg: Kids Who Did the Impossible!

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee.

In the spring of 1862, the largest army ever assembled on the North American continent landed in Virginia, on the peninsula between the James and York Rivers, and proceeded to march toward Richmond.

In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj.

Many thousands of books have been written about the Civil War, but only a handful cover the story of the Southern soldiers and sailors who wore the gray uniform and fought for the Confederacy.

Despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the Civil War, surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the conflict’s final months in the Carolinas.

Across the Confederacy, determination remained high through the winter of 1864 into the new year.

After the unprecedented violence of the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Lt.

Robert E.

The Dunker Church is one of the most iconic structures of the American Civil War.

The Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential.

Winner, 2018, Unit History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWith the publication of Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War: Volume.

Finalist, 2018, Reference, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardThe Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 - January 22, 1863 continues Bradley M.

The Marine Corps Way of War examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since our last great conflict in Asia.

TRANS-MISSISSIPPI THEATER BOOK OF THE YEAR (BATTLES AND CAMPAIGNS) – CIVIL WAR BOOKS AND AUTHORSThe Sand Creek battle (or massacre) occurred on November 29-30, 1864, a confrontation between Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians and Colorado volunteer soldiers.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain earned the sobriquet “Lion of the Round Top” for his tactical brilliance leading his 20th Maine Infantry on the rocky wooded slopes of Little Round Top at on the evening of July 2, 1863.

The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.

Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Finalist, 2016, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardThe Maps of the Wilderness: An Atlas of the Wilderness Campaign, May 2-7, 1864 continues Bradley M.

Winner, 2014, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardRichmond Redeemed pioneered study of Civil War Petersburg.

"e;Focuses on the extensive contributions to the pyrrhic Confederate victory at Chickamauga made by the brave Lone Star State soldiers.

Michael J.

An in-depth look at the institution as the center of many important cultural shifts with which the South and the wider Church have wrestled historically.

A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that-for the first time-ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849.

South Carolina Fire-Eater is the first book-length biography of Laurence Massillon Keitt, one of South Carolina's most notorious advocates of secession and apologists for African American slavery.

The Spirit of an Activist chronicles the life and distinguished career of Isaiah DeQuincey Newman (1911-1985), a Protestant pastor, civil rights leader, and South Carolina statesman.

A collection of scholarly essays exploring the American Civil War from international perspectives.

A window into the social and cultural life of the South Carolina upcountry during the nineteenth centuryThe history of South Carolina's lowcountry has been well documented by historians, but the upcountry-the region of the state north and west of Columbia and the geologic fall line-has only recently begun to receive extensive scholarly attention.

In State of the Heart, Aida Rogers has crafted an artful love letter to our state, with contributions from a host of nationally and regionally recognized writers who've written short essays on the South Carolina places that they cherish.

An "e;excellent biography"e; of General Washington's aide-de-camp, a daring soldier who advocated freeing slaves who served in the Continental Army (Journal of Military History).

"e;It is likely as fine-grained an account of the actions of the Yamasee War as we are to possess for decades.

"e;A fine, fascinating book.

The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family's rice-mill dynastyIn the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston.

An examination of the Georgian city's complicated and sometimes turbulent developmentSavannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J.

From trusted to tainted, an examination of the shifting perceived reputation of overseers of enslaved people during the eighteenth century.

Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers, and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S.

Building on the work of his 1989 book The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M.

The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view of the Irish historical and cultural experiences as phenomena transcending traditional chronological, topical, and ethnic paradigms.

A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, "e;The Plantation,"e; broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system.

Tara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who from 1933 to 1942 built sixteen state parks, all of which still exist today.

2010 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOut of the hundreds of published slave narratives, only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers.

The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Counties of South Carolina documents the defining aspects of the forty-six counties that make up the state, from mountains to coast.

The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the Governors of South Carolina documents the lives and careers of the 111 white men and one Indian American woman who have held the Palmetto State's highest office from 1669 to the present.