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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn't the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River and it could have been prevented.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"...explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers, doctors, and nurses. The Civil War took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and left countless others with disabling wounds and chronic illnesses. Bullets and artillery shells shattered soldiers' bodies, while microbes and parasites killed twice as many men as did the battles. Yet from this tragic four-year...
7) Assassin
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known.
10) Picture the dead
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
262 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After Jennie Lovell's fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even well over a century later, there are still many misconceptions and misunderstandings about the U.S. Civil War. In this detailed, entertaining book, students will learn about how and why the war started (including the key role of slavery), the leaders on both sides, the battles, and the aftermath--and the repercussions that continue even today. The book includes timelines focusing on the events in each chapter as well as the overall volume, and...
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Lincoln's murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed...
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