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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
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Language
English
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"In The Yankee Widow, gifted storyteller Linda Lael Miller explores the complexities and heartbreak that families experienced as men took up arms to preserve the nation and defend their way of life. Told in a smart, assured and compelling voice, this is the story of Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army to...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After marrying a Mississippi landowner in hopes of living a life of security, Varina Howell finds her expectations upended when her husband is appointed as the leader of the Confederacy.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Sunflower Sisters is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real : As we roamed the neat brick streets of Charleston, past filigreed fences and palmetto trees, the atmosphere so gentle and refined, we never dreamed we'd stumble headlong into hell. Mother, my sister Georgy and I had come from...
7) Love and war
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 8
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
333 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Civil War Western Theater Tetralogy volume 4
Language
English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn. November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds to Ulysses S. Grant's successes by bringing the general east, promoting Grant to command...
13) North and South
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Series
Language
English
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Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point. Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter-until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!
15) The Civil War
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[1969]
Physical Desc
215 p. illus. (part col.), col. maps. (1 fold. in pocket) 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Simple explanations and high-quality historical photography introduce middle grade students to the people, battles and politics that shaped the American Civil War, covering subjects ranging from child soldiers and healthcare heroes to the roles played by the railroads and the media.
Author
Series
Civil War Western Theater Tetralogy volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The latest installment in the series that began with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. Summer, 1863: the Federal triumph at Vicksburg has secured complete control of the vital Mississippi River from the Confederacy. Under the now-proven leadership of Ulysses Grant, the victorious Federal army moves eastward, intent on the capture of the rail hub of Chattanooga, with the eventual goal of a march on Atlanta. But the Confederate forces are not...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
173 p. : ill.,map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.