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This groundbreaking Civil War history illuminates the unique development of antislavery sentiment in the border region of south central Pennsylvania.
During the antebellum decades every single fugitive slave escaping by land east of the Appalachian Mountains had to pass through south central Pennsylvania, where they faced both significant opportunities and substantial risks. While the hundreds of fugitives traveling through Adams, Franklin, and...
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The History Press
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2022
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When Lincoln issued a call for troops in 1861, Norwich sprang into action. In a meeting lasting two days, the town elected to offer cash awards for volunteers, as well as financial support for their families. The city's women immediately began sewing uniforms for the volunteer soldiers, while mill owners and other wealthy locals donated funds to the war effort. Norwich's Dan Tyler was named head of the Connecticut regiment and led his troops into...
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An den Grenzen der bekannten Galaxie geht es rau zu: Seit Jahrzehnten beuten die Konzerne der Kernwelten-Union die Randwelten aus. Eine Revolte auf der Bergbaukolonie Higgins' Moon ist der Funke, der das Pulverfass entzündet ... und ein einziges Wort entfaltet seine verheerende Sprengkraft: Bürgerkrieg! Mittendrin: John Donovan, Frontiersman - einer jener furchtlosen Frachterkapitäne, die ihren nicht immer ganz legalen Geschäften dort nachgehen,...
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An den Grenzen der bekannten Galaxie geht es rau zu: Seit Jahrzehnten beuten die Konzerne der Kernwelten-Union die Randwelten aus. Eine Revolte auf der Bergbaukolonie Higgins' Moon ist der Funke, der das Pulverfass entzündet ... und ein einziges Wort entfaltet seine verheerende Sprengkraft: Bürgerkrieg! Mittendrin: John Donovan, Frontiersman - einer jener furchtlosen Frachterkapitäne, die ihren nicht immer ganz legalen Geschäften dort nachgehen,...
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An den Grenzen der bekannten Galaxie geht es rau zu: Seit Jahrzehnten beuten die Konzerne der Kernwelten-Union die Randwelten aus. Eine Revolte auf der Bergbaukolonie Higgins' Moon ist der Funke, der das Pulverfass entzündet ... und ein einziges Wort entfaltet seine verheerende Sprengkraft: Bürgerkrieg! Mittendrin: John Donovan, Frontiersman - einer jener furchtlosen Frachterkapitäne, die ihren nicht immer ganz legalen Geschäften dort nachgehen,...
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An den Grenzen der bekannten Galaxie geht es rau zu: Seit Jahrzehnten beuten die Konzerne der Kernwelten-Union die Randwelten aus. Eine Revolte auf der Bergbaukolonie Higgins' Moon ist der Funke, der das Pulverfass entzündet ... und ein einziges Wort entfaltet seine verheerende Sprengkraft: Bürgerkrieg! Mittendrin: John Donovan, Frontiersman - einer jener furchtlosen Frachterkapitäne, die ihren nicht immer ganz legalen Geschäften dort nachgehen,...
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Experience the history of the Maryland Campaign with this Civil War chronicle and guide featuring battlefield information and day-trip itineraries.
In the summer of 1862, the world watched anxiously as Confederate armies advanced across a thousand-mile front. Reacting to the Army of Northern Virginia's trek across the Potomac River, George B. McClellan gathered the broken and scattered remnants of several Federal armies within Washington, D. C.,...
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In the closing months of the Civil War, General James Wilson led a Union cavalry raid through Alabama and parts of Georgia. Wilson, the young, brash "boy general" of the Union, matched wits against Nathan Bedford Forrest, the South's legendary "wizard of the saddle." Wilson's Raiders swept through cities like Selma, Tuscaloosa and Montgomery, destroying the last remaining industrial production centers of the Confederacy along with any hopes of its...
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A guide to the former Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, with "a good deal of historical information, much of it neglected in histories of the war" (The NYMAS Review).
"On To Richmond!" cried editors for the New York Tribune in the spring of 1861. Thereafter, that call became the rallying cry for the North's eastern armies as they marched, maneuvered, and fought their way toward the capital of the Confederacy.
Just 100 miles from Washington,...
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Abraham Lincoln knew if the Union could cut off shipping to and from New Orleans, the largest exporting port in the world, and control the Mississippi River, it would be a mortal blow to the Confederate economy. Union military leaders devised a secret plan to attack the city from the Gulf of Mexico with a formidable naval flotilla under one commander, David G. Farragut, a native New Orleanian. Jefferson Davis also understood the city's importance-but...
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The fall of Vicksburg in July 1863 fundamentally changed the strategic picture of the American Civil War, though its outcome had been anything but certain. Union general Ulysses S. Grant tried for months to capture the Confederate Mississippi River bastion, to no avail. A bold running of the river batteries, followed by a daring river crossing and audacious overland campaign, finally allowed Grant to pen the Southern army inside the entrenched city....
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Ironclad against ironclad, we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness, reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers following that momentous engagement between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) in Hampton Roads, Sunday, March 9, 1862. The day before, the Rebel ram had obliterated two powerful Union warships and was poised to destroy more. That night, the revolutionary-not to say bizarre-Monitor slipped...
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North and South. Enemies and Lovers.Following a steamboat explosion, Southerner Jeffrey Couvion must make a choice no man should have to make. A choice affecting not only himself, but all those in his world, including his twin sister. He knows what he must do. What any man of good conscience would do. But only he knows at what cost. When he meets southern belle Claire, he finds not only his life in danger, but his heart as well. And everything he...
14) Keep Me Safe
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Antietam. The bloodiest day in American history. Camila lives a simple life. Until the war forces her family into hiding. But instead of making life easier, her world turns upside down. Wyatt Quinn fights battles of his own. Things other than just the war. Their attraction is unquestionable. But can they survive the bloodiest battle of the Civil War? An enchanting and spellbinding historical romance set against the backdrop of the American Civil...
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The Kent State University Press
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The remarkable life of a noteworthy-yet overlooked-Union general turned Reconstruction-era politician
A central figure in Reconstruction-era politics, Adelbert Ames and his contributions during a significant and uncertain time in American history are the focus of Michael J. Megelsh's fascinating study. As Megelsh discusses, Ames's life took many compelling turns. Born on Maine's rocky shore in 1835, he served as a Union general during the American...
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