John C. Fremont's 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri by author Gregory Wolk

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John Fremont’s 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri is a brief (216 pages) work that chronicles events that were critical in decisive days in a Border State, and reflect how political influences that are representative of other s

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Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes

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Unlike Anything That Ever Floated approaches the classic Battle of Hampton Roads between the Monitor and Virginia from two perspectives. It goes into extensive detail about the engineering and mechanical features of each vessel as well as the occur

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War In The Mountains: The Macbeth Light Artillery At Asheville, NC 1864-1865 by J. L. Askew

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War History Network members know that war studies have many aspects.  They focus on the big story, who won the war or battle, the life of the individual participant and the betwixt and between, the smaller battles, and the roles of the participants

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A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray by Edward G. Longacre

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This tome may have been written with War History Readers in mind.  The title of “A Soldier to the Last” is very descriptive, as it is a biography of Major General Joseph Wheeler with his military career the focal point.  His personal and political

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Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein

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Most war literature focuses on battles, armies, navies, soldiers, sailors, ships, planes or ordinance.  War History Network members know there is much more. “Ways and Means” documents the crucial role economics played in the Civil War, particularly

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Guerrilla Hunters In Civil War Missouri By James W. Erwin

Civil War literature frequently focuses on the dashing Confederate guerillas and cavalry who took the war to the Unionists.  “Guerrilla Hunters In Civil War Missouri” is the story of the soldiers and militia who hunted and put them down.  Their story

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