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.Galvanized Yankees
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by: Dee Brown

1986-12
Brown writes with authority and feeling about his subject.While the title suggests that we might learn something of these"turncoats",the act of betraying the Confederacy made them secretive. However, in enlisting them to fight Indians, the Union army gained some first class fighting units to protect the frontier against Indian depredations. This book is recommended to be read as a prelude to Browns "The Fetterman Massacre" which also deals with the Indian Wars of this period.
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.The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as President
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by: Ward Hill Lamon

May 01, 1999
Brown writes with authority and feeling about his subject.While the title suggests that we might learn something of these"turncoats",the act of betraying the Confederacy made them secretive. However, in enlisting them to fight Indians, the Union army gained some first class fighting units to protect the frontier against Indian depredations. This book is recommended to be read as a prelude to Browns "The Fetterman Massacre" which also deals with the Indian Wars of this period.
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.Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861-65
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by: Richard S. Brownlee

1984-04
Brown writes with authority and feeling about his subject.While the title suggests that we might learn something of these"turncoats",the act of betraying the Confederacy made them secretive. However, in enlisting them to fight Indians, the Union army gained some first class fighting units to protect the frontier against Indian depredations. This book is recommended to be read as a prelude to Browns "The Fetterman Massacre" which also deals with the Indian Wars of this period.
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.Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston
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by: Edward T. Cotham

June 01, 1998
Brown writes with authority and feeling about his subject.While the title suggests that we might learn something of these"turncoats",the act of betraying the Confederacy made them secretive. However, in enlisting them to fight Indians, the Union army gained some first class fighting units to protect the frontier against Indian depredations. This book is recommended to be read as a prelude to Browns "The Fetterman Massacre" which also deals with the Indian Wars of this period.
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.Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville, the Last Great Campaing of the Civil War
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by: Winston Groom

1996-07
My great-great grandfather fought in these battles, so this book was heart-breaking to read. It has been a month since I read it and my mind is still filled with "what if's". The blunders were so huge, the courage so magnificent. I thought the author did a superb job of trying to get into the minds of the key players; I found the book very personal.
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.Uniforms of the Civil War: An Illustrated Guide for Historians, Collectors, and Reenactors
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by: Ron Field, Robin Smith

January 30, 2005
My great-great grandfather fought in these battles, so this book was heart-breaking to read. It has been a month since I read it and my mind is still filled with "what if's". The blunders were so huge, the courage so magnificent. I thought the author did a superb job of trying to get into the minds of the key players; I found the book very personal.
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.Free at Last: Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War
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by: Ira Berlin, etc., Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland

January 30, 1994
My great-great grandfather fought in these battles, so this book was heart-breaking to read. It has been a month since I read it and my mind is still filled with "what if's". The blunders were so huge, the courage so magnificent. I thought the author did a superb job of trying to get into the minds of the key players; I found the book very personal.
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.Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero (Eminent Lives)
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by: Michael Korda

2004-10



Military history is often a tragedy the first time around and a farce when it repeats, as this perceptive book makes abundantly clear in outlining and assessing the career of America's greatest general.

Fans of Robert E. Lee may well argue about the "greatest", the blunt fact is that Grant understood Lee better than Lee understood Grant. Korda makes the point again and again that Grant, except on rare occasions, was able to correctly assess battlefield conditions and quickly exploit every indication of weakness.

Grant was bitterly criticized as a butcher, similar to Gen. George "Blood and Guts" Patton in World War II. Veterans of Patton's armies have told me Patton's success was based on "his guts, ... Read More:
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.The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America
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by: Roy, Jr. Morris

2008-02



Military history is often a tragedy the first time around and a farce when it repeats, as this perceptive book makes abundantly clear in outlining and assessing the career of America's greatest general.

Fans of Robert E. Lee may well argue about the "greatest", the blunt fact is that Grant understood Lee better than Lee understood Grant. Korda makes the point again and again that Grant, except on rare occasions, was able to correctly assess battlefield conditions and quickly exploit every indication of weakness.

Grant was bitterly criticized as a butcher, similar to Gen. George "Blood and Guts" Patton in World War II. Veterans of Patton's armies have told me Patton's success was based on "his guts, ... Read More:
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.Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (Da Capo Paperback)
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by: G.F.R. Henderson

March 01, 1988
When I first read this book, in a library in about 1970, it started my interest in the American Civil War. On buying my own copy and rereading it recently, I'm pleased to find that it remains one of the best ACW books I've read, and I've read a number of them by now.

Colonel Henderson was a British officer and was about seven years old when the American Civil War started. Despite these handicaps, he writes about it in such vivid detail that his book stands well alongside the autobiographies of participants such as Grant and Alexander. This is a highly convincing and readable book. As Henderson says in his preface, "The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion contain every dispatch, letter, and message, public or confidential, which has ... Read More:
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