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No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called "Father Abraham." In Lincoln's Men, historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries-the voices of the volunteers-to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became "Father" throughout both the army and the North as a whole.
How did Lincoln inspire the faith and courage of so many shattered...
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The histories of thirteen of the greatest and bloodiest battles of America's Civil War, told through the events that shaped them and the lives of the men that fought them. This third volume in the Rebels & Yankees series features color photographs of uniforms, weapons, flags, and ordnance from the Civil War, together with contemporary photographs and full-color maps of the battles themselves. -- Publisher's description on cover (p. 4)
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"Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history - and about what really happened in that battle." "Through tremendous research and with unprecedented access to Mexican military archives, Davis strips away the many layers of myth, legend,...
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A must for any Civil War library. Recounts the stories of thirteen of some of the most important battles of the war, from First Manassas in July 1861 to the Battle of Nashville in 1864. Full-color double-page maps show the reader each move of the opposing forces. No effort has been spared to include rare war era photographs and color photos of rare artifacts. Engagingly written by William C. Davis, the author of more than thirty books on the American...
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In the waning days of 1814, a fleet of Royal Navy warships closed in on the waters below New Orleans. The gateway of the Mississippi River and America's heartland, it was defended by General Andrew Jackson with an 'army' of farmers, merchants, backwoodsmen, smugglers, slaves, and Choctaw Indians, many of them unarmed. Davis tells the story of one of the most impactful battles ever fought on American soil-- a tale of resilience, bravery, and uncommon...