481 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, all in black and white, spiral bound.

    His deafness excludes him from military service and condemns him as an outcast. Mae Parrish’s dissatisfaction extends to a life of too much work and too little joy. She forms a wary alliance with Creighton when they are included among hundreds of southern textile workers arrested for treason and deported to northern prisons under Federal guard. Their crime: manufacturing Confederate uniforms. Clingstone chronicles their arduous journey by wagon and train, followed by an emotional internment rife with privations and disease. It is during the course of these hardships that their resilience is repeatedly tested, and their pact of survival deepens into a steadfast love that withstands even the deepest self-inflicted wounds of war.

    From the Antebellum South to Fort Sumter, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the fitful peace of Reconstruction, the Atlas of the Civil War displays eye-opening maps-and a gripping, self-contained story-on every spread. Eighty-five rare period maps, many seen here for the first time, show a land at war with itself: from 19th-century campaign maps of strategies to vintage battlefield charts used by Union and Confederate generals alike, along with commercial maps produced for a news-hungry public, and comprehensive Theater of War maps. In 35 innovative views created especially for this book, the key moments of major battles are pinpointed by National Geographic's award-winning cartographers using satellite data to render the terrain with astonishing detail. Also, more than 320 documentary photographs, battlefield sketches, paintings, and artifacts bear eyewitness testimony to the war, history's first to be widely captured on film.

    Hanger was wounded at Philippi, Virginia on June 3, 1861 and became the first amputee of the American Civil War. He hated the Yankee peg leg his Union doctor gave him. Instead, he used his ingenuity and engineering background to invent an artificial leg with a joint at the knee and a hinge at the ankle. He patented his Hanger Limb.His invention revolutionized the prosthetic industry. The company Mr. Hanger founded still operates today (Hanger Inc.) as the country’s largest provider of artificial limbs. His story is quite remarkable.

    Some fought for love, some for money and others out of patriotic fervor. Lucy Tessier just wants to escape the hangman's noose.Alone in the world and brutalized by a neighbor, Lucy Tessier fights back. With a knife. A year has passed since the first woman in Minnesota was hanged for murder and Lucy has no plans of being the second. She cuts off her hair, dresses in her dead brother's clothing, and joins the First Minnesota regiment as Private Rob Edwards. Lucy's plan to immediately desert changes when she realizes how much she relishes the freedom and respect extended to her as a 'man' in a man's world.Before long Lucy falls in love with a fellow soldier, but he likes another girl, and that girl is infatuated with Rob Edwards. Complicating things further, the doctor who saved the life of Lucy's attacker is the regiment's new surgeon. He's guessed Lucy's secret, but for reasons of his own is keeping the knowledge to himself. And as the regiment battles almost to the gates of Richmond, Lucy is tested physically and emotionally and learns that friendship, and love, are always worth the fight.Historical fiction with a bit of romance--Gone for a Soldier is the story of a real Civil War regiment and a fictional girl.

    

    A Union assault that began at 4:30 A.M. on May 12, 1864, sparked brutal combat that lasted nearly twenty-four hours. By the time Grant’s forces withdrew, some 55,000 men from Union and Confederate armies had been drawn into the fury, battling in torrential rain along the fieldworks at distances often less than the length of a rifle barrel. One Union private recalled the fighting as a "seething, bubbling, soaring hell of hate and murder." By the time Lee's troops established a new fortified line in the predawn hours of May 13, some 17,500  officers and men from both sides had been killed, wounded, or captured when the fighting  ceased. The site of the most intense clashes became forever known as the Bloody Angle. Here, renowned military historian Jeffry D. Wert draws on the personal narratives of Union and Confederate troops who survived the fight  to offer a gripping story of Civil War combat at its most difficult. Wert’s  harrowing tale reminds us that the war’s story, often told through its commanders and campaigns, truly belonged to the common soldier.

    Edmonds' home was frequently invaded by Union troops, she had loved friends and family members killed by disease or in battle, and was herself a defiant defender of the Confederacy. Edmonds lived in the heart of John Singleton Mosby's Confederacy; her own brothers rode in his 43rd Battalion. This diary is Amanda Edmonds' eye-witness account of the years 1857-1867: impending secession, war, and its aftermath. Edmonds writes of both Union and Confederate infantry and cavalrymen, naming the men along with their regiments and companies that passed through northern Virginia. Her diary is an incredible resource to anyone who loves social or military history. She gives an incredible, eye-witness account of war.

    Enter Nick Goodsight, former lawman, entrusted with the task of rescuing the ranger Henry Morris and his daughter Gwen, who have both been kidnapped by Caslin. Little does Nick know that this time, the job’s personal when his path crosses with a notable figure from his past. When Nick is captured too, it does not seem as if anyone will make it out of Caslin’s isolated hideout alive. As the action unfolds in the rocky valleys and canyons of the Potrillos, hope of rescue seems to become less and less likely. But just when all hope seems to be lost, Tinker Gant – Nick’s dependable partner – soon joins in the pursuit, teaming up with the impressive Mexican bounty hunter Gaspar Bianco and his beguiling sister, Faquita. The job becomes even more complicated with the involvement of a double-crossing ranch owner and another bounty hunter by the name of Carl Bachman, a man with questionable morals, as ruthless as Caslin himself. It’s a battle of the wits and brawn as the bounty hunters try to outfox the outlaws, and vice versa in this classic Western escapade. Who will come out on top? Mason Macrae is a prolific author of Western literature, creating some of the most thrilling novels on the Wild West from the past century. Other titles from Mason Macrae include Distant Hills, Bounty Hunter and Thunder Valley.

    

    

    2 CDs and a 56 page guidebook.

    Great audio cassette!

    

    She knows nothing of the preacher who searches for her, or of the whore who dreams of a better world, the fanatical judge determined to serve God by hanging as many sinners as possible, or Anne and the black man struggling to keep their farm alive, but they all touch her life in different ways and bring her one step closer to home.The story explores how a world filled with the bloody atrocities of war can also be a world where a benevolent, mysterious, and wonderful God exists. The characters are woven together into a tapestry, their fates intertwined in the fabric of The Dead Soldier’s Jacket.

    

    

    

    

    This Halcyon Classics eBook contains four works by ex-slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, including his autobiographical 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.' Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.Contents:Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassMy Bondage and My FreedomMy Escape From SlaveryReconstructionThis unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.