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Series
Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Language
English
Description
Sharyn McCrumb's Edgar Award-winning series features the savvy exploits of forensic anthropologist and not-so-amateur sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson. In MacPherson's Lament, family troubles in Virginia spin out of control, forcing Elizabeth to leave her adopted Scotland to sort out the multiplying problems. Struggling to start a new law practice in Danville, Virginia, Bill MacPherson will handle almost any case, even his parents' divorce. But when he...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may endanger them all--or help free 400 Union soldiers who...
Author
Series
Elizabeth MacPherson volume 7
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
While Elizabeth is in Virginia to help her brother and parents, she attempts to solve the puzzle of the missing Confederate treasury.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered one of our country's greatest military figures. His briiliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the Union high command in knots and threatened the ultimate success of the Union armies.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Petersburg campaign began June 15, 1864, with Union attempts to break an improvised line of Confederate field fortifications. By the time the campaign ended on April 2, 1865, two opposing lines of sophisticated and complex earthworks stretched for thirty-five miles, covering not only Petersburg but also the southeastern approaches to Richmond. This book, the third volume in Earl Hess's trilogy on the war in the eastern theater, recounts the strategic...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. He challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy because their class interests were not being met. Instead he argues that Virginia soldiers continued to be motivated by the profound emotional connection...
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