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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...
Author
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The Civil War explodes, air thick with musket fire, soil drenched with the blood of kinsmen, bodies piling up like cords of wood. In the madness and fury, a small group of Union soldiers fall into the hands of the Confederate army. Overnight, they find themselves herded aboard a prison train bound for the deepest regions of the South, to a slice of Hell carved out of the Georgia clay known as Andersonville. A moving drama that tells the most tragic...
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Tales of the Gun : Guns of the civil war: "Guns were around for centuries before the 1860s, but the innovations of the Industrial Revolution brought them to a new level of precision and handling. The deadly result: more Americans were killed in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined." Eighty acres of Hell: "From 1862 to 1865, 26,000 Confederate soldiers passed through Camp Douglas, a rarely mentioned prisoner-of-war camp in Chicago....
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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