Days of Destruction: Augustine Thomas Smythe and the Civil War Siege of Charleston 9781611177718

The Siege of Loyalty House: A Story of the English Civil War 9781639363117, 9781639363100, 1639363114

An immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in the English Civil War that illuminates the human experien

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Yorktown's Civil War Siege: Drums Along the Warwick 9781614235910, 9781609496562

On 4 April 1862, Major General George McClellan marched his 121,500-strong Army of the Potomac from Fort Monroe toward R

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Frommer's EasyGuide to Charleston, Savannah and St. Augustine

These three charming Southern "capitals" (including the oldest in America) are massively popular tourist desti

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Brother of mine: the Civil War letters of Thomas and William Christie 9780873517812, 9780873518109, 0873517814, 0873518101

The collection story -- "A part in this great struggle," October 21, 1861-March 17, 1862 -- "The bullets

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Vicksburg: The Bloody Siege that Turned the Tide of the Civil War 9781621577652

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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The Immortal 600 : Surviving Civil War Charleston and Savannah 9781625840578, 9781609499891

In 1864, six hundred Confederate prisoners of war, all officers, were taken out of a prison camp in Delaware and transpo

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The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege : A Sensory History of the Civil War 9780199322626, 9780199759989

Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this

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Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War 9780812202946

In an age of new threats to international security, the old rules of war are rapidly being discarded by the great powers

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Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley 1108424090, 9781108424097

The Lower Mississippi Valley is more than just a distinct geographical region of the United States; it was central to th

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Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War 9781465549617

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