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The story of four real-life women who risked everything to take on a life of espionage during the Civil War. After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow,...
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Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2002
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Recounts events surrounding the mysterious sinking of the Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley, and its recent recovery from deep in the waters off the coast of South Carolina.
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Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Details the conditions at Andersonville Prison in Georgia--including overcrowding, lack of supplies, harsh rules, and prison gangs--that led to the deaths of 13,000 Union prisoners, and recounts the trial of the camp's commandant, Henry Wirz.
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"An in-depth history of the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment who played a vital and often decisive role during the Civil War in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains -- and in the westward expansion of the American empire"--
249) Gods and Generals
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson,...
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University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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"Alexander and James Campbell, born and raised in Scotland, immigrated to the United States as teenagers in the 1850s and settled in vastly different regions of the country - Alexander in New York City and James in Charleston, South Carolina. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Alexander and James opted to fight for their adopted states and causes: Alexander enlisted in the 79th New York "Highlanders" and James in the 1st South Carolina...