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1) Bull Run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm. Why not let the magazine's 125,000 readers in on the conversation by offering a series of articles written by officers in command of both...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the events leadin up to the Battle of Gettysburg and its imporatance in the Civil War. Sidebars include information on Union generals and the text of Abraham Lincoln's Gertysburg Address.
Author
Publisher
Bareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Description of events leading up to the Civil War, approach of the armies, the battle and events following. Includes bibliographical references and index, glossary, time line, illustrated.
Author
Publisher
Rolling Wheel Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Unforgettable History! Great Battles for Boys is the bestselling history series that sends young readers "into the fight." Boys learn about military leaders, weapons, and strategies that won-or lost-history's most important battles.Want Boys to Read Books? Give them books they WANT to read!History leaps off the page through historic photographs, maps, and short, powerful chapters. Great Battles for Boys will capture the attention of even reluctant...
Author
Series
Centennial history of the American Civil War volume 3
American Civil War trilogy volume 3
Centennial history of the Civil War volume 3
American Civil War trilogy volume 3
Centennial history of the Civil War volume 3
Language
English
Description
Never Call Retreat (Vol 3): Appomattox; the Vicksburg Campaign; the Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea; the assassination of Lincoln.
Author
Series
His The Army of the Potomac volume 1
Language
English
Description
A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
An educational collection of amazing-but-true facts about the Civil War shares accounts of such events as female spies fighting for the Rebel cause, cavalry rides in enemy territory, and the reelection of President Lincoln.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes about her family's experiences living in Washington, D. C., in 1864-5, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Includes historical notes.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885)."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Army of the Potomac volume 3
Pub. Date
1953
Language
English
Description
An historical account of the final year of the Civil War and the surrender at Appomattox.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Complemented by maps and period photographs, a narrative history of the Civil War focuses on some of the war's most significant battles, including Fort Sumter, through the war's turning point at Gettysburg, to Appomattox.
20) Chancellorsville
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
One of the most dramatic battles of the Civil War, Chancellorsville was Robert E. Lee's masterpiece. Outnumbered two to one, Lee violated a cardinal rule of military strategy by dividing his small army, sending Stonewall Jackson on his famous twelve-mile march around the Union flank. Charging out of the Wilderness with Rebel yells, Jackson's troops destroyed one entire corps of the Union army, and Lee drove the rest across the Rappahannock River.
Lee's...