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"At the outbreak of the Civil War, nearly everybody was caught up in patriotic fervor--men and women, Union and Confederate. Many women supported soldiers through knitting and sewing needed items, growing food, making bandages, gathering medical supplies, and more. But others wished they could be closer to the fight. These women defied society's expectations and bravely chose to take on more dangerous, unconventional roles. [This book] reveals the...
6) Key figures
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Discusses the key figures and leaders during the American Civil War from both the Union Army and the Confederate Army.
11) People
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"In an alphabetical almanac format, includes biographies of significant individuals on both sides during the U.S. Civil War. Provides details of their lives and explains their contribution to the conflict"-- Provided by publisher.
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.
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The last Southern state to secede form the Union, Tennessee contributed 120,000 soldiers to the Confederate cause and 31,000 to the Union - more Union soldiers than all Confederate states combined. Many of the witnesses to the war in Tennessee were very young. This book tells the story of some of those children and teens. Soldiers, Spies and spartans tells the story of the Civil war in Tennessee as it has never been told before. More Civil War battles...
18) Crucible of command: Ulysses S. Grant and Rober E. Lee -- the war they fought, the peace they forged
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A dual biography and a fresh approach to the always compelling subject of these two iconic leadershow they fashioned a distinctly American war, and a lasting peace, that fundamentally changed our nation
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When the Southern states seceded from the Union in 1861 to form their own nation with Jefferson Davis as President, his wife Varina became the second first lady, for the first and only time in American history. It was a position she accepted with dismay and held for almost the same length of time as her Union counterpart, Mary Todd Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln is well remembered by history, but Mrs. Davis seems to be forgotten. This film tells Mrs. Davis'...