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THE THREE-CORNERED WAR: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82525More details Price: $21.50 -
ARCHITECTS OF OUR FORTUNES: The Journal of Eliza A.W. Otis 1860-1863 with Letters and Civil War Journal of Harrison Gray Otis.
Edition: First printing.
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library. (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first publication of the Civil War letters and journals of Eliza A.W. Otis and her husband, who together went on to become the publishers of the "Los Angeles Times." These cover the early years of their marriage, when he, a printer, joined the Union Army and she, a poet, travelled through the upper South to remain close to him. Edited and with an introduction by Ann Gorman Condon. Photographs, bibligraphy. xli, 267 pp. ISBN: 0-873281810.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87561More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ANTIETAM AND FREDERICKSBURG (The Army in the Civil War, Volume V)
Edition: Subscription edition.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1885.). Hardcover - A detailed first hand account of the campaigns of the East in the summer of 1962. Frontispiece of Burnside, with tissue guard. Maps. Index. Bound in the original quarter leather over marble boards, marbled endpapers. Spine lettered and decorated in gold, top edge gilt. x, 228 pp.
Condition: Exlibrary, but with relatively few markings and overall very good condition.
Book ID: 57620More details Price: $30.00 -
SOLDIER'S HEART: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A short novel for older children. Based on a true story, this tells what the Civil War was like, battle by battle, for boys and young men like Charley - who was 15 and lied about his age in order to enlist. At the end of the Battle of Gettysburg only 47 out of the 1000 men in the 1st Minnesota were left standing. Author's note. Brief bibliography. 106 pages. ISBN: 0-385-324987.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72714More details Price: $16.50 -
SOLDIER'S HEART: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1998) dj. Hardcover - A short novel for older children. Based on a true story, this tells what the Civil War was like, battle by battle, for boys and young men like Charley - who was 15 and lied about his age in order to enlist. At the end of the Battle of Gettysburg only 47 out of the 1000 men in the 1st Minnesota were left standing. Author's note. Brief bibliography. 106 pages. ISBN: 0-385-324987.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 20862More details Price: $13.50 -
NEW MOON RISING.
Edition: Family Bookshelf edition.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - Her second novel, set in the Georgia sea island of St Simons in the years before and during the Civil War. 281 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (edgewear to dj).
Book ID: 28859More details Price: $12.50 -
QUANTRILL'S WAR: The Life And Times Of William Clarke Quantrill 1837- 1865
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which portrays Quantril as a career criminal with no personal convictions who used the Civil War as an opportunity to do what he loved most: slaughter and steal. Among those who joined him in his raids were Frank and Jesse James, Cole Younger and Bill Anderson. This book ends with his bloodiest battle: the sacking of Lawrence ,Kansas where he had 185 killed. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Bibliography, index. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-312147104.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 35158More details Price: $25.00 -
GODS AND GENERALS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the years just before the Civil War and up the Battle of Gettysberg, a prequel to Michael Shaara's Pulitzer prize winning novel 'The Killer Angels.' Maps, afterword, x, 498 pp. ISBN: 0-345-404920.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (a copy with signs of reading wear.).
Book ID: 50932More details Price: $12.50 -
TRAVELS TO HALLOWED GROUND: A Historian's Journey to the American Civil War.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. (1988.) dj. Hardcover - Stories or vignettes about 10 Civil War battle sites, including Harper's Ferry, Roanoke Island, Mobile Bay, Petersburg and more, and reflections on the significance of these sites. Maps, photographs, index. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-87249-4772.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (prev owner's name), newspaper clippings laid in.
Book ID: 45737More details Price: $12.50 -
THE CIVIL WAR IN MARYLAND.
Edition: Later printing.
Baltimore, MD: Toomey Press. (1991.) dj. Hardcover - From the introduction: this is 'a chronology of military operations and major political events within the state. Its aim is two-fold: first, to dramatize the involvement and importance of Maryland, the smallest border state, during the first year of the war. Second, to recount for the first time over 150 battles, skirmishes, and minor military operations that occurred throughout the state." Maps, photographs, footnotes, index. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-961267003.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (prev owner's name).
Book ID: 40913More details Price: $20.00 -
GETTYSBURG: An Alternate History.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67011More details Price: $18.00 -
FOR THE SAKE OF MY COUNTRY": The Diary of Col. W.W. Ward, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, Morgan's Brigade, C.S.A.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Laid in is a card with a two-page handwritten note from Gregory to Delbert Mann.
Book ID: 57976More details Price: $75.00 -
SAM BELL MAXEY AND THE CONFEDERATE INDIANS.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press / McMurray University, (1998). First edition - A title in the Civil War Campaigns and Commanders series. "General Maxey. . . arrived in Indian Territory in 1863 to assume command of a diverse and motley army of Indians. The troops are in disarray; they are suspicious of tribal alliances, weakened from malnutrition, their crops have been pillaged, and they are discouraged by a series of battlefield setbacks at the hands of the Union Army invading from Kansas." Maps, photographs. Suggestions for further reading. Index. Label showing the publisher as the McWhiney Foundation have been pasted over the orginal publication information. 100 pp. ISBN: 1886661030.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78073More details Price: $18.00 -
DISTANT BUGLES, DISTANT DRUMS: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, (2006). First edition - A look at an almost unknown episode in the Civil War from the Union perspective. Based on diaries, letters and contemporary newspaper accounts, this account describes the recruitment of 1,000 men in Colorado, their epic march to Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, and their triumph over 3,000 Confederate (mostly Texan) soldiers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography. xix, 278 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80128More details Price: $20.00 -
GATE OF HELL: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863.
Edition: Hardcover.
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover - An account of the combined Union army and naval assault on Charleston which included the Battle for Ft. Wagner and the use of black troops. Numerous maps and photographs. Appendix: The Roll of Battle. Notes, bibliography, index. xii, 312pp. ISBN: 9780872499850.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, but otherwise appears unread, A tight copy).
Book ID: 58091More details Price: $20.00 -
YEARS OF MADNESS.
New York: Putnam, 1951. dj. A book written about the Civil War to reveal the "utter and cruel absurdity" of it - published posthumously, this is a book that makes no pretense of being unbiased.
Condition: Very good in black cloth, no dj.
Book ID: 14390More details Price: $15.00