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Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.
In March 1847, 8,000 soldiers landed on the beaches of Vera Cruz, led by the army's commanding...
In March 1847, 8,000 soldiers landed on the beaches of Vera Cruz, led by the army's commanding...
Author
Series
Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Pulitzer prize–winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. The Last Full Measure tells the epic story of the events following the Battle of Gettysburg and brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. Jeff Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant—complicated, heroic, and deeply troubled men. For Lee and his...
5) Lee & Grant
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Produced with the cooperation of leading Civil War historian Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump, a personal look at two iconic leaders of the Civil War. Surprising details reveal the bold choices and almost godlike power Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee summoned on decisive battlefields like Vicksburg and Gettysburg that, within days of each other, turned the tide of the war.
Author
Series
Source book volume no. 1
Publisher
Eastern National Park & Monument Association]
Pub. Date
1964.
Edition
[first edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 96 pages : illustrations (part color), facsimiles, portraits (part color) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"[P]ortrait of Lee as a brilliant general, a devoted family man, and principled gentleman who disliked slavery and disagreed with secession, yet who refused command of the Union Army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his beloved Virginia. Well-rounded and realistic, Clouds of Glory analyzes Lee's command during the Civil War and explores his responsibility for the fatal stalemate at Antietam, his defeat at Gettysburg (as well the...
14) Robert E. Lee
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin company
Pub. Date
1923.
Physical Desc
2 pages leaves, 128 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
15) Great-heart
Author
Publisher
Dorrance & Co
Pub. Date
[1946]
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
16) Traveller
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1988]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
18) Lee of Virginia
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1958]
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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