CADET GREY & BUTTERNUT BROWN
A multitude of contemporary accounts from newspapers, letters and diaries are used in the text to describe the appearance and supply of Confederate soldiers.
This is the best book regarding CS uniforms to come out in a long time. Mr. Arliskas lets the men speak for themselves and does not "interpret" the information for us as so many would be researcher do.
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FREEMASONS AT GETTYSBURG
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THE JENNIE WADE STORY
The heavy stench of death and gunpowder swirled thickly around a which sat forlornly between the village and a hill crowned by a now dilapidated cemetery. Ghostly figures in brown and grey darted silently in and out of shot scarred buildings only yards away, up a deserted, bullet swept street. Occasionally a rifle spat, shattering the once still July morning with it's sharp, sinister reverberation.
Such was the morning when the stray host of death found poor Jennie Wade.
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CONFEDERATES KILLED IN ACTION
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PAPA WAS A BOY IN GREY
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A KEYSTONE REBEL
In this book, Joseph Garey describes the Confederacy's western theater as he experienced it, with all the excitement, boredom, joy and sorrow. And at the end he expresses his sense of sadness as he slowly accepts the dying of the cause for which he so valiantly fought.
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RIFLE AMMUNITION
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MINISTERING ANGEL
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BLOODY BILL ANDERSON
Bloody Bill Anderson, the short, savage life of a Civil War guerrilla. It was a different war in Kansas And Missouri - a very different war. Though the Civil War raged violently in the east there is yet a story to be told of the terrifying depths to which the horrors of war sunk the soldiers of the west. It is a story of bitter bloodshed, one in which farmers and honest laborers are transformed into thieves and murderers. In retaliation for Union injustices, bands of bushwhackers emerged - men who pillaged for profit, who fed and grew strong on the nourishment of revenge. Among these men, William Anderson became one of the most despised of them all. Fear trembled on the lips of all who mentioned "Bloody Bill," and recounted his terrifying acts.
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INSIDE THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
Inside the Army of the Potomac, the Civil War experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson. At the outbreak of war, twenty-year-old Donaldson enlisted in the 1st California regiment (later know as the 71st Pennsylvania Volunteers) of the famous Philadelphia Brigade of the II corps, Army of the Potomac. He fought at Ball's Bluff (where he was captured) and participated in the peninsula campaign until he was wounded at Battle of Fair Oaks. For more than 125 years, Donaldson's letters have lain virtually untouched in the Civil War library and museum in Philadelphia. J. Gregory Acken has painstakingly edited this remarkable collection, making these never-before-published letters available for the first time. Their detail and honesty will astonish and enthrall anyone who has ever taken an interest in the Civil War.
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FIELD ARTILLERY TACTICS 1864
Translated from the French by Brigadier General R. Anderson, United States Army. War Department, Washington, D.C. March 1, 1863. This system of instruction for field artillery, prepared under direction of the war department, having been approved by the president, is adopted for the instruction of troops when action as field artillery. Accordingly, instruction in the same will be given after the method pointed out therein; and all addition to or departures from the exercise and maneuvers laid down in the system are positively forbidden. Edwin M. Staton, Secretary Of War. Beautifully hard bound with gold print. Over 300 instructions with plate after plate of diagrams for moving artillery into the line.
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TWO YEARS ON THE C.S.S. ALABAMA
Classics of Naval Literature: Two Years On The C.S.S. Alabama. It was first published in 1895. It is impossible to determine how popular it was, although a second slightly expanded edition, from which this book is reprinted, came out the following year. Only two reviews of the book have been located, both in national magazines, both were favorable. This volume is complete and unabridged and includes an authoritative introduction written specifically for Classics Of Naval Literature.
There was nothing more frightening to a US merchant seaman than to see the Naval Jack of the C.S.S. Alabama closing in on your wake. Rejoin the men of the most successful Confederate raider as she literally sails round the world in search of U.S. ships to send to the bottom. ITEM #843 $19.95
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HISTORY OF THE 20th MAINE INFANTRY
Army Life, A History of The 20th Maine Infantry Regiment; A Private's Reminiscences of The Civil War. One of the most famous regiments of the Civil War was the twentieth regiment of Maine volunteers. Formed in 1862, the regiment saw action in some of the fiercest campaign and battles of the war. After the war only one veteran of the unit attempted to chronicle the exploits of the 20th Maine infantry. In 1882, Reverend Theodore Gerrish published "Army Life". although there are brief, scattered accounts written by other veterans of the unit's wartime exploits, this remains the only full-length book, purposely published by a 20th Maine veteran. ITEM #844 $24.95
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CLARA BARTON, A WOMAN OF VALOR
Woman of valor, Clara Barton And The Civil War. When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of the conflict. Now award-winning author Stephen B. Oates, drawing on archival materials not used by her previous biographer, has written the first complete account of Clara Barton's active engagement in the Civil War. The story of a truly remarkable women.
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CUSTER, SON OF THE MORNING STAR
Son of the morning star, Custer and the Little Big Horn. Perhaps no episode in American history has done so much to forge our attitudes and national character as the usurpation of Indian lands in the inexorable passage of westward settlement. And, no incident in that struggle has overshadowed in our imagination the obliteration of General George Armstrong Custer's seventh cavalierly at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Yet the human story of the battle, of the federal and antagonists, and of the battle's place in the context of the plains Indian wars has never been so marvelously told. Son of the Morning Star recreates an era from our past that haunts us still.
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STOP THE EVIL, MURDER AND DESERTION IN THE CIVIL WAR
As the civil war dragged on and battlefield casualties mounted, the evils of desertion and draft evasion threatened to decimate the Union forces. It was against this background that Private William H. Howe, a simple German farmer from Pennsylvania, stumbled into a sequence of misfortune and misunderstandings that led to an awful verdict: to be hanged for desertion and murder. The man who might have been a Civil War hero became instead the victim of a government that needed an example of what would be done to any soldier who deserted.
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U.S.S. MONITOR, THE SHIP THAT LAUNCHED A MODERN NAVY
By modern standards, the U.S.S. Monitor was not much of a ship. She was only 172 feet long, displaced only a thousand tons, and carried only two guns. Her career in the U.S. Navy was short - less than a year from the day she was commissioned until the day she sank. She fought only one battle, and in that engagement she fired only 41 shots. Yet her startling appearance in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 8 March 1862, and her near muzzle-to-muzzle gun duel with the C.S.S. Virginia on the following day shook the world as nothing would again until Hiroshima made the headlines three wars later. Never had a date been so clearly marked in the pages of history as when the age of sail ended and the age of steam-powered, armored ships began.
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HEART OF A SOLDIER, THE LETTERS OF GENERAL PICKETT
For half a century these letters have lain locked away from the world, the lines fading upon the yellowed pages, their every word enshrined in the heart of the noble woman to whom they were written. To her they came filled with the thunder of guns, the lightning of unsheathed sword, the tumultuous rage in the heart of the storm; but through them all the radiance of pure devotion outshone the battle flash and the lyric of a great love rose above the cannon's roar. Through the medium of this volume these letters are given, out of the hands of one who has cherished them tenderly for many years, into the keeping of all those who honor courage, loyalty and the love of man for woman.
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