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Earl J. Hess
As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military fai
Until relatively recently, conventional wisdom held that the Trans-Mississippi Theater was a backwater of the American Civil War. Scholarship in recent decades has corrected this oversight, and a growing number of historians agree that the events w
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Marshall L. DeRosa
The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War presents a unique opportunity to consider the motivation behind General Robert E. Lee's efforts to defend the Confederacy against his once beloved United States. What will be learned from this book is th
Autor:
Lawrence K. Peterson
Known as one of the most aggressive Confederate officers in the Western Theater, Brigadier General Alfred Jefferson Vaughan Jr. is legendary for having had eight horses shot out from under him in battle—more than any other infantry commander, Union
Autor:
Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Thomas E. Schott
A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry Williams not only produced such acclaimed works as Lincoln and the Radicals, Lincoln and His Generals, and a biography of Huey Long that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book A
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Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Thomas E. Schott
In contrast to Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, the armies and events of the Civil War's Trans-Mississippi Theater have received scant historical attention, to the detriment of our understanding not only of individuals and events west of th
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Lawrence L. Hewitt, Arthur W. Bergeron
The American Civil War was won and lost on its western battlefields, but accounts of triumphant Union generals such as Grant and Sherman leave half of the story untold. In the third volume of Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, editors Lawre
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Charles R. Knight
“Brilliant... really gives one a sense of what it took to both lead and run an army in the Civil War.... Superb.” —Chris Kolakowski, author of The Virginia Campaigns: March–August 1862 In From Arlington to Appomattox, Charles Knight does for
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Daniel J. Crooks
This Civil War biography sheds light on the Confederate General's first year serving the newly formed Southern Republic. Early in the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee was given command of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and East Florida. Ma
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Connor Towne O'Neill
“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Connor Towne O'Neill's journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began