Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso's Civil War 9780300210965, 9780300227772

The first edited edition of a Union soldier's remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare a

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Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso's Civil War
9780300210965, 9780300227772

The first edited edition of a Union soldier’s remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on

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A gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to

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In 1872, just seven years after his emancipation, a thirty-four-year-old former slave named John Washington penned the s

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It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war—a siege that drove men, women, and children to seek shelter in caves under

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About the Author: Ken Wharton is 59 and is resident now in Australia with his partner Helen. Father of seven and grandfa

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On September 8, 1962, John H. Westervelt enlisted as a private into the 1st New York Volunteer Engineer Corps. That same

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ANew York TimesNotable Book for 2011 ALibrary JournalTop Ten Best Books of 2011 ABoston GlobeBest Nonfiction Book of 201

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This is the third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a "masterpiece." Sp

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One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance an

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