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Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
""The greatest of our Civil War novels" (New York Times) reissued for a new generation As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil War's 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nation's bloodiest conflict. MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville tells the story of the notorious Confederate Prisoner of War camp, where fifty thousand Union soldiers were held captive...
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Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Jesse Alden Wilder was a captain in the Army of Tennessee. Wounded and forced to choose between a virtual death sentence in prison or helping the North, he chose life. Disgraced for having joined up with the Yankees, Wilder did what he could after the war - he became a mercenary soldier who gained a legendary reputation performing daring rescue missions for the U.S. army. Exhausted, Jesse is trying to live a peaceful life in Tucson, when a desperate...
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Language
English
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On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis boarded a train from Richmond and fled the capital, setting off an intense chase as Union cavalry hunted the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Being a prisoner of war during the American Civil War was a plight full of unknowns. Both the Union and the Confederacy had to manage increasing numbers of captured soldiers. Many had served together before the war but now found themselves on opposite sides. A prisoner exchange system was developed early in the war to return prisoners to their homeland. Unfortunately, by May of 1863, exchange was no longer assured ... In fact, few exchanges took...
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