A disgraced Confederate soldier and two impressionable youths come up with a plan to organize a militia and give the Yankees a taste of militia warfare.
American Civil War (1861-1865)
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Auteur:Howell, HannahSommaire:New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell sweeps us away with the passion-filled adventures of the MacEnroy brothers, seven daring Scotsmen who take on America in her most turbulent days-and capture the hearts of the ladies each...
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Auteur:Walker, MelissaSommaire:Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War chronicles the lives and concerns of the Anderson, Brockman and Moore families of piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras through 124 letters dated 1853 to 1865. The...
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Auteur:Bowen, MichaelSommaire:Intellectual property attorneys, romance publishers, and librarians—the very last people you’d expect to be mixed up in murder! Add a pinch of authentic Civil War re-enactors and a sparkling tour of Kansas City, and voilà, a classic yet...
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Auteur:Manning, ChandraSommaire:By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps." This book probes what the camps were like and how former slaves and soldiers warily united there--...
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Auteur:Datta, ChristopherSommaire:Touched With Fire, a novel of the Civil War inspired by the true story of Ellen Craft. Ellen Craft is property; in this case, of her half-sister Debra, to whom she was given as a wedding gift. The illegitimate daughter of a Georgia...
- Auteur:Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:
Fervent abolitionism rules the day in 1862 Water's Ford, Pennsylvania. So when the local men answer Mr. Lincoln's call to arms, wives are left behind to keep the town functioning. Fortunately, the ladies of Elm Creek Valley...
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Auteur:Rivers, SusanSommaire:The Civil War South comes to vivid life in this electrifying story of a woman's plight and a legacy of deceit that echoes for generations. When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left...
- Auteur:Hendrickson, RobertSommaire:
Covers the final months of the Civil War, including Robert E. Lee's final battle and surrender at Appomattox in 1865. Explores how the surrender met with disparate reactions among the troops, Americans, and people around the world.
- Auteur:Kearby, MikeSommaire:
Free Anderson's days as a soldier may be over, but his war is just beginning. An enemy stalks him, waiting to exact vengeance. Now framed and set to hang in Texas, Free is aided by a friend from his army days. Together again on the...
- Auteur:Connealy, MarySommaire:
Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He's come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the people who killed his brother. Instead...
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Auteur:Crane, StephenSommaire:During the Civil War, a Union Army soldier flees the battlefield in terror and then must contend with his own internal shame. A gripping exploration of heroism, cowardice, and one boy’s maturation, this novel is most remarkable for...
- Auteur:Fenady, Andrew J.Sommaire:
After the Civil War, Johnny heads home to Texas to find the mother and sister of a close friend who died beside him in battle. What Johnny doesn't know is that a merciless saloon owner has staked his claim on the sister, and the brute...
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Auteur:Peters, RalphSommaire:From the butchery of the Crater to the election of 1864, this novel resurrects the Civil War's hard reality. Fabled leaders turned for help to rising heroes, while common soldiers paid the price for the blunders of commanders who would...
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Auteur:Murphy, JimSommaire:Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.
- Auteur:Wright, StephenSommaire:
Born in 1844 in upstate New York as the child of ardent abolitionists, Liberty Fish finds his life influenced also by his grandparents, Carolina slaveholders, a conflict that he struggles to resolve by enlisting during the Civil War....
- Auteur:White, KarenSommaire:
In the Shadow of the Moon, when Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she's overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have been waiting for years and offers an old photograph of a woman with...
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Auteur:Pinkney, Andrea DavisSommaire:In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
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Auteur:Wells, RosemarySommaire:As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever...
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Auteur:Lee, Robert E.Sommaire:Robert E. Lee, the famed Confederate forces commander and icon of the South, is a towering figure in U.S. and military history. The son of a famed Revolutionary War officer, his path to greatness included graduating at the top of his...
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