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1) Grant
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Ron Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency."--Book jacket....
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Personal accounts of nurses, soldiers, and more tell the stories of unfamiliar figures of the US Civil War. Learn about the women, people of color, and others who played a crucial role in the war"--
4) Secret lives of the Civil War: what your teachers never told you about the War between the States
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamander
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The challenge of command and the horror of battle through the words and experiences of Civil War officers. Illustrated with contemporary photographs, artwork of uniforms and equipment, and a specially commissioned series of color photographs of many of the rarest remaining artifacts of the period. Featuring among others the uniforms and personal memorabilia of Generals Lee, Grant, Meade and Jackson.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March to the Sea, which resulted in a devastated swath of the South from Atlanta to Savannah, cemented his place in history as the pioneer of total war. In The Scourge of War, preeminent military historian Brian Holden Reid offers a deeply researched life and times account of Sherman. By examining his childhood...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Profiles ten Union generals: Ambrose Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Halleck, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joseph Hooker. George McClellan, George Meade, Philip Sheridan, William T. Sherman, and George Henry Thomas.
Author
Publisher
Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
An epic elegy in American Studies, this collective biography warmly delineates some 170 centenarian lives among the nation's last remnant of Confederate veterans of the 1940s and after. Heavily genealogical, this monumental 15-year study answers ambitious questions its author wanted to know about the last survivors of the War Between the States--who were they, how old did they live to be, where were they from, in what order did they die, how did...
18) Women of the war: their heroism and self-sacrifice : true stories of brave women in the Civil War
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Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Midpoint Trade Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Born to a well to do, connected family in 1816, Montgomery C. Meigs graduated from West Point as an engineer. He helped build America's forts and served under Lt. Robert E. Lee to make navigation improvements on the Mississippi River. As a young man, he designed the Washington aqueducts in a city where people were dying from contaminated water. He built the spectacular wings and the massive dome of the brand new US Capitol. Introduced to President...
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