A Family and Nation Under Fire: The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill 163101305X, 9781631013058

"This Infernal War": The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard 1606353357, 9781606353356

Nobody knows anything about it but them that has the trial -- I cramped a darkie and a mule -- Talk of war at home -- I

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Touched With Fire: Civil War Letters and Diary of Olivier Wendell Holmes 9780823295715

Holmes’s wartime letters and diary entries have attracted students of war as well as biographers of Holmes as rare glimp

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A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War 0190902795, 9780190902797

In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed

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The essence of laughter, and other essays, journals, and letters.

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Letters Of A Civil War Surgeon 9781786254832

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Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War 9780300182286

The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-w

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Major McKinley: William McKinley and the Civil War 0873386574, 9780873386579

"The Civil War was a crucial experience in shaping the character and political life of William McKinley. In this en

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Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction 9780073385556, 0073385557

Ordeal by Fire blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and w

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Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era 9780801463761

In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American

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Why Confederates Fought : Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia [1 ed.] 9780807887653, 9780807861844

In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheeh

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