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Every Civil War scholar and serious student of that conflict will be well-advised to become familiar with this, Alan and Barbara Aimone's very helpful and informative book about the Official Records and how best to go about using them.

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Chronicles the final year of the Marine Corps' experiences during the United States Civil War.

On land and water, in the North, the South, and in foreign seas, the United States Marines expanded their service in the third year of the Civil War. In the South, near the end of the third year, Marines joined in the ill-fated attempts of September 1863 to recapture Fort Sumter, and in May 1864 the Red River expedition on the other side of the Confederacy.But the Corps' work in the ongoing coastal war yielded success, as that duty continued.

In the second year of the war, the Marines fought everywhere the Navy did, especially in the Union's year-long struggle to gain control of the Mississippi River and the Confederacy's coasts.

The LoyaI Legion is the oldest veteran's organization of the Civil War. Union Blue recounts the history of the Loyal Legion and gives illustrated biographies of each of the commanders in chief who served in the Civil War and lists every Companion of the First Class with their name, rank, unit brevet rank. State Commandery and insignia number.

New insights into the senior command levels of the United States fighting elite. Stories include accounts of men in battles from World War II. This book fills a void in the literature of Marine Corps leadership. Supplying the biographies of the first eleven men to hold the proud title of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Uncommon Men offers new insights into the senior command levels of the United States' fighting elite. This book portrays n...

The results of the Tullahoma campaign were strategically more important that Gettysburg, and tactically on a par with Vicksburg.

In this fascinating book, a physicist looks at the details of some of the unusual and creative uses of science and technology during the Civil War.

This collection of 245 stories from the South presents a synopsis of Southern life, events, and culture during the Civil War.

During the Irish Famine from 1845?1850 over a million people perished due to hunger and fever. Thousands of ships brought more than two million Irish people to North America in search of food. The Irish Dresser is the saga of the McCabe family who struggle to survive during this difficult time. When thirteen-year-old Nora McCabe crawls into the old dresser that sits next to the hearth holding a few pieces of her mother's china, she dreams of l...

Story of the rescue of a Pennsylvania airman by the US Army Air Force during WWII.

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The Civil War was fought by men. Men started it and men ended it. At least that is what everyone thought. With Civil War destroying the country, Mary Adams and Lynn Rhodes decide to help even if they aren't wanted. Mary joins an aid society and helps to heal the wounded, eventually meeting Clara Barton. Lynn joins her twin brother and disguises herself as a boy to fight alongside the men and boys of the Union army. Each of them faces different...

Biography of Confederate combat leader Brigadier_General Micah Jenkins from Edisto Island, South Carolina.

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