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A Native of Maryland and later resident of the Carolinas, Isaac Shelby fought in three wars: Lord Dunmores, The Revolution and the War of 1812. While leading Kentucky to statehood he served as her first governor.

A retired armor officer, military historian, and director of curatorial services at the Augusta Richmond County Museum (GA) relates the story of America's senior and most distinguished armored regiment, from its creation in World War I to its triumphant entry in Berlin in July 1945. Includes maps of the regiment's Louisiana and Carolina maneuvers in 1941, and photos of its men and equipment in Sicily, Normandy, and Germany.

Drawing from the primary resource of Charles Judson's diaries from 1863 and 1864, Stewart Petrie incorporates other information concerning the Union VI Corps to paint this picture of Civil War life. The unending problems of long marches, heat exhaustion, poor food, and illness are punctuated with episodes of brutal warfare and stark terror. The Union VI Corps participated in such hard-fought battles as the Wilderness, North Anna River, the sla...

In the summer of 1864, for the second time in the Civil War, two great armies struggled for control of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, one to defend the granary of the Confederacy, the other to destroy its ability to support the rebel cause. But sixteen-year-old Matilda MacDonald is tired of war, and lonely on the farm with only her mother and their servant, Jenna, for company. Concerned about her father, who is away fighting for ...

A book of tales and jokes served to relieve some amount of stress during the war.

First hand account of the top 21 Nazis who were incarcerated in Nurnberg Prison.

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A biographical roster of men and officers of the Jeff Davis Legion, calvary, created to compliment the book entitled "The Little Jeff" by Donald a. Hopkins.

In July 1861 one thousand excited, patriotic Indiana farm boys and shopkeepers left Indianapolis, ready to do their part in ending the rebellion. Together with the other Western regiments from Wisconsin and Michigan which formed the Iron Brigade, they received their baptism of fire and famous nickname at the Brawner farm in 1862. Three years after their enlistment, barely one hundred survivors of the battlefields of Antietam, Gettysburg, and t...

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Robert E. Rodes personifies the best of those brave men, north and south, who gave the full measure of their life to their cause. Rodes' accomplishments in brigade command were legendary. His divisional leadership earned him ranking with the elite of the Confederacy's generals and officers. Born in 1829 in Lynchburg, Virginia, Rodes attended the Virginia Military Institute and worked as a civil engineer before the outbreak of the Civil War. In...

On a muddy waterway, once called the River of Death, James Cooke and Charles Flusser met again after parting when the Civil War started. Once both navy lieutenants, they now were the opponents in naval warfare. Confederate Navy Lieutenant James Cooke had as many years of active naval service as Charles Flusser had years of living. Cooke was a devoted family man while Flusser was a bachelor with a mind for young Southern women, whiskey, cigars,...

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The persona and character of the World War II Marine vividly comes alive in this book, which interprets and analyzes the Marines's personal and cultural history, the pleasant and unpleasant, serious and not so, the ordinary and exceptional. It is about men doing their duty and nothing else.

If you want to touch the "hallowed ground" of a battlefield, follow in the footsteps of the ghosts of legions of soldiers as they tramped through the countryside of Maryland, or see with your own eyes how a Confederate smuggler's boat could disappear in the glare of the sun on the waters of the Potomac, then you need A Guide to Civil War Sites in Maryland.With more than two-hundred sites, this book is the most comprehensive Civil War guide to ...

A farm girl from the mountains of what would become West Virginia leaves home to join a group of rebel raiders who strike Federal Army encampments during the Civil War.

The 43rd Alabama Infantry Volunteers were mustered into the Confederate States Volunteer Army in the spring of 1862. The companies moved from their homes throughout Alabama and formed their regiment in Mobile, Alabama. Archibald Gracie, a New Yorker by birth, European-educated, and a graduate of West Point, raised the regiment and served as their commander. General Gracie led the 43rd through their training and into war in Kentucky. They fough...

God Gives a Song is a valuable tool in today's increasingly violent society. The author's witness to God's grace is a powerful testimony.

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