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  • - The Civil War Diary of John Henry Westervelt
    af Anita Palladino
    718,95 kr.

    Westervelt's words, not intended for the history books but for the education of his young son, present an authentic and humble vision of military life and of the North's struggle in the civil war. It offers a "truer, if not beautiful" picture of war.

  • af Herman Belz
    479,95 - 1.233,95 kr.

    This work examines the tendency of American constitutionalism during the Civil War. It analyzes the political thought of Abraham Lincoln, his exercise of executive power, and the application of the equality principle. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays combine history and political science.

  • - Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making
     
    308,95 kr.

    This book examines Lincoln's leadership by assessing his decision-making process and patterns in shaping military strategy, political affairs, and religious interests during the Civil War. In doing so, it shows how Lincoln defined the presidency in wartime, played the role of party chief, and pointed the moral compass of the nation.

  • - Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making
     
    638,95 kr.

    This book examines Lincoln's leadership by assessing his decision-making process and patterns in shaping military strategy, political affairs, and religious interests during the Civil War. In doing so, it shows how Lincoln defined the presidency in wartime, played the role of party chief, and pointed the moral compass of the nation.

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    781,95 kr.

    Despite a wealth of books on campaigns of the American Civil War, the subject of combined operations has been largely neglected. This book offers ten case studies of combined Army-Navy operations by Union forces. It is presented in chronological order, each essay illuminates an aspect of combined operations during a time of changing technology.

  • - The Life of William B. Franklin
    af Mark A. Snell
    479,95 - 1.223,95 kr.

    This text is the complete life story of one of the most controversial yet least well known generals on either side during the Civil War. The number one graduate of the West Point class of 1843, William Buel Franklin served in the US Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers.

  • - NY and the Civil War
    af Harold Holzer
    318,95 - 1.158,95 kr.

    In celebration of the publication of The Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State Archives, the New York State Archives Partnership Trust held a two-day symposium on New York's role in the Civil War. This title offers a compilation of the papers that were presented at the symposium.

  • - Civil War Letters and Diary of Olivier Wendell Holmes
    af Mark de Wolfe Howe
    498,95 - 878,95 kr.

    Holmes's wartime letters and diary entries have attracted students of war as well as biographers of Holmes as rare glimpses into the mind and heart of a soldier who withstood the great slaughter.

  • - The Civil War Letters of Major Abner R. Small of the 16th Maine Volunteers.
    af Harold A. Small
    430,95 - 888,95 kr.

    Abner Small served as a non-commissioned officer in the Third Maine Infantry during the summer of 1861, experiencing battle for the first time at First Bull Run. As a recruiting officer, he helped to raise the Sixteenth Maine Infantry and served as its adjutant. This book tells his story.

  • - Essays from the Journal of the Lincoln Association
    af Thomas F. Schwarz
    390,95 - 1.168,95 kr.

    This volume brings together essays by 14 accomplished Lincoln scholars. They provide an insight into how Lincoln's administration dealt with the issues of war and slavery. The work covers facets of three general themes, the problems of emancipation, presidential politics, and the Lincoln legacy.

  • - Northern Planters During the Civil War and Reconstruction.
    af Lawrence N. Powell
    390,95 - 1.158,95 kr.

    Powell addresses the role that the Northern Planters had on the post-Reconstruction system. He deals with a variety of issues, including race relations, the planters' motivations, work habits, capital investment patterns and their gradual disillusionment as problems mounted and profits declined.

  • - Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War
    af Frank L. Klement
    440,95 - 1.223,95 kr.

    Frank L. Klement reassesses Clement L. Vallandigham, the passionate critic of Lincoln's policies, and history's judgment of him. Frank L. Klement was Professor of History at Marquette University. His books include The Copperheads in the Midwest and Dark Lanterns. Steven K. Rogstad is Review Editor of The Lincoln Herald.

  • - The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
    af Jean Harvey Baker
    430,95 - 1.273,95 kr.

    An exploration of the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-19th century lived their public lives. The author begins with an explanation of how people became Democrats, and goes on to discuss topics including the Democratic ideology, and their mordant rascism and partisan behaviour.

  • - The Civil War Letters of Samuel Fiske
    af Stephen W. Sears
    508,95 - 1.158,95 kr.

    This volume collects together battlefront letters composed by Dunn Browne (the pseudonym of Captain Samuel Wheelock Fiske of the 14th Connecticut regiment) during the American Civil War. Fiske was both a fighting infantryman and an experienced newspaper correspondent.

  • - The Union Ethnic Regiments
    af William L. Burton
    427,95 - 1.158,95 kr.

    This work shows how immigrants in the USA responded to the Civil War. It stresses the social and political situation in the US from which the phenomonon of the ethnic regiments emerged, the relationships the groups had within larger society, and the impact the war had on the ethnics.

  • af George Washington Williams
    370,95 kr.

    A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861¿1865 (originally published in 1888) by pioneer African American historian George Washington Williams remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In this powerful narrative, Williams, who served in the U.S. Colored Troops, tells the battle experiences of the almost 200,000 black men who fought for the Union cause. Determined to document the contributions of his fellow black soldiers and to underscore the valor and manhood of his race, Williams gathered his material from the official records of U.S. and foreign governments and from the orderly books and personal recollections of officers commanding Negro troops during the American Civil War.The new edition of this important text includes an introductory essay by the award-winning historian John David Smith. In his essay, Smith narrates and evaluates the book¿s contents, analyzes its reception by contemporary critics, and evaluates Williams¿s work within the context of its day and its place in current historiography.

  • - The Civil War Diary of Sidney George Fisher
    af Sidney George Fisher
    363,95 - 788,95 kr.

    An aristocratic member of a prominent Philadelphia family, Sidney George Fisher was a prolific man of letters. He kept a detailed diary that chronicled not only daily life in America's second city but also the key political, social, and cultural events of the 19th century. This book talks about the Fisher's diary written during the Civil War.

  • - Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, and Local Communities in the Civil War Era
    af Ryan W. Keating
    398,95 - 1.293,95 kr.

  • - The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870
    af David G. Smith
    318,95 - 698,95 kr.

    Describes the development of antislavery activism in border south central Pennsylvania. Rather than engage in public protest, activists concentrated on protecting fugitive slaves and prosecuting those who sought to recapture them. This approach paid dividends before the Civil War, but did not provide a solid basis for equal opportunity afterwards.

  • - The Civil War and the Formation of the Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City
    af Russell L. Johnson
    698,95 kr.

    Examines the experiences of Dubuque's soldiers and their families to answer crucial questions: What impact did the Civil War have on the economic and social life of Dubuque? How did military service affect the social mobility of veterans? And how did army service, as a form of industrial organization, help create a modern workforce?

  • - Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration
    af Hans L. Trefousse
    433,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

  • - A Press Portrait
    af Herbert Mitgang
    318,95 - 1.233,95 kr.

    This biography of Abraham Lincoln is drawn from the writings of his contemporaries. It extends from his political beginnings in Springfield to his assassination, revealing a less god-like and more beleaguered character than has been previously depicted.

  • - Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln
     
    1.058,95 kr.

    Each November, Lincoln and Civil War enthusiasts mark the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address by gathering together for the annual Lincoln forum. This is a selection of the Lincoln Forum lectures which offer re-examinations of Lincoln as military leader, communicator, family man and icon.

  • - The Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County, Ohio
     
    508,95 kr.

    Many of the farm families in the river country of southern Ohio sent fathers, husbands, and sons to fight and die in Civil War. Few families have bequeathed a record of that experience as remarkable as that created by the Evans family. This book features a collection of letters that offers a portrait of life on home front and on the front lines.

  • af Earl F. Mulderink III
    360,95 - 563,95 kr.

    Examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront, 1861-1865, and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans.

  • - State Civil War Claims and American Federalism
    af Kyle Sinisi
    898,95 kr.

    Explores a little-known chapter in the history of American politics - the struggle between states and the federal government over the costs of fighting the Civil War. Focusing on Kansas, Kentucky, and Missouri, this book explores the process by which states were reimbursed by Washington in the intergovernmental contact of the 19th century.

  • - The Civil War and the Northern Front
    af Paul A. Cimbala
    743,95 kr.

    These original essays bring fresh perspectives to our understanding of the impact of the Civil War on daily life in the northern states. From family, race, religion, and popular culture to political organization and party ideology, the essays chronicle the many dimensions of the "uncommon time" of the North's Civil War.

  • - Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory
    af Christian B. Keller
    426,95 - 1.168,95 kr.

    The battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. This work reconstructs the battle and its aftermath from the German-American perspective, military and civilian. It critically analyzes the performance of the German regiments.

  • - Oliver Otis Howard
    af John Carpenter
    430,95 - 1.233,95 kr.

    This text is a biography of the American military historical figure Oliver Otis Howard. It looks at his career as a distinguished army officer in two wars, and his philanthropical work as the founder of two universities, and the promoting of African-American education with the Freedman's Bureau.