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Animal Histories of the Civil War Era
Animals mattered in the Civil War. Horses and mules powered the Union and Confederate armies, providing mobility for wagons, pulling artillery pieces, and serving as fighting platforms for cavalrymen. Drafted to support the war effort, horses often died or suffered terrible wounds on the...- $45.00
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Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River
Banners to the Breeze analyzes three major Civil War campaigns that were conducted following a series of devastating Confederate defeats at the hands of Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1862. After the recapture of Tennessee, Confederate armies under Braxton Bragg and Edmund...- $24.95
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Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy
As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping...- $27.95
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Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield
The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deployed in a conflict fought in the Western Hemisphere. It was as sizable and powerful as any raised in prior European wars. Moreover, Union and Confederate artillery included the...- $50.00
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Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness
For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends that long-range...- $45.00
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Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness
For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends that long-range...- $30.00
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Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation
Winner of the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies by the New York Military Affairs Symposium During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies, and equipment required coordination on a...- $45.95
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Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies
Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award Civil War Supply and Strategy stands as a sweeping examination of the decisive link between the distribution of provisions to soldiers and the strategic movement of armies during the Civil War. Award-winning historian Earl J....- $50.00
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Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare
Civil War Torpedoes examines the history of landmine development and use in the Civil War and beyond. The author organizes his scholarship around technology, and morality. Hess uses multiple archival sources to tell a compelling narrative that considers the moral stigma most contemporaries attached...- $110.00
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Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare
Civil War Torpedoes examines the history of landmine development and use in the Civil War and beyond. The author organizes his scholarship around technology, and morality. Hess uses multiple archival sources to tell a compelling narrative that considers the moral stigma most contemporaries attached...- $39.00
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Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864
Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks--used by Confederate and Union field armies at all major battle sites in the eastern theater of the Civil War. Hess moves beyond the technical aspects of construction...- $40.00
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Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War
As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fortifications located to take advantage of rugged terrain. While the Confederates consistently acted on the defensive, digging eighteen lines of earthworks from...- $35.95
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In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications & Confederate Defeat
In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War. Hess covers all aspects of...- $40.00
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Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg
A comprehensive examination of the iconic Civil War battle, its tragic outcome, and the personalities involvedThe battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, was the defining event in the 292-day campaign around Petersburg, Virginia, in the Civil War and one of the most...- $44.99
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July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta
So remarkable was the fighting to the east of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, that it earned its place as the only engagement of the Civil War to be widely referred to by the date of its occurrence. Also known as the Battle of...- $49.95
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Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign
While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864, and Sherman initially...- $30.00
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Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade
The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolina's best-known and most successful units during the Civil War. Formed in 1862, the brigade spent nearly a year protecting supply lines before being thrust into its first major combat at Gettysburg. There, James Johnston Pettigrew's men...- $39.00
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Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg
Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War. He transforms exhaustive research into a moving narrative account of the assault from both Union and...- $32.95
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Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece
There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years. . . . It is a transcendent experience, and no one who loves movies can afford to miss it.--Roger Ebert. America's most popular...- $29.95
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Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863
The most overlooked phase of the Union campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the time period from May 18 to May 25, 1863, when Ulysses S. Grant closed in on the city and attempted to storm its defenses. Federal forces mounted a limited attack...- $42.50
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The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta
Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John Bell Hood desperately fought to stop William T. Sherman's advancing armies as they tried to cut the last Confederate supply...- $28.00
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The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta
On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city, the defending Confederate Army of Tennessee replaced its commanding general, removing Joseph E. Johnston and elevating John Bell Hood....- $39.95
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The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the...- $60.00
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The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the...- $39.00
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The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee
"Hess's account of the understudied Knoxville Campaign sheds new light on the generalship of James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, as well as such lesser players as Micah Jenkins and Orlando Poe. Both scholars and general readers should welcome it. The scholarship is sound, the...- $29.95
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The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth
The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, and convincing assessment of the rifle musket's actual performance on the battlefield and its impact on the...- $24.95
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The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat
I saw enough to sicken the heart. . . . The scenes which I witnessed were enough to overthrow all imaginations concerning the glory of war; but, dreadful as they were, I hope and believe that I would be willing to suffer the worst,...- $24.95
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Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign
Earl J.Hess's study of armies and fortifications turns to the 1864 Overland Campaign to cover battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of battlefields at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Bermuda Hundred, and Cold...- $39.95
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Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road
Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove were three of the most important battles fought west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War. They influenced the course of the first half of the war in that region by shaping Union military efforts while...- $19.95
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