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Author
Series
Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 1
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary lives, passions, and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--come to a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. A worthy companion to The Killer Angels ... Shaara brilliantly charts the war, the exploits of the combatants and their motivations. He also concisely shows how the early parts of the campaign unfolded....
3) The crossing
Author
Series
Last cavaliers trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Crossing opens a new trilogy about the years leading up to the Civil War. Widower Daniel Tremayne returns to his Amish roots, while his son, Yancy, joins a Virginia militia and becomes one of "Stonewall's Boys" in the War Between the States. Rich with characters struggling to make sense of the war and Amish pacifism while maintaining loyalty to family, the first in The Last Cavaliers series combines adventure and romance in a thick historical...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An account of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's rise to prominence during the Civil War.
"Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country's greatest military figures. His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the...
Language
English
Description
Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson,...
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He earned his nickname for bravery at Bull Run and led some of the most stunning campaigns of the Civil War. An outstanding leader and brilliant tactician, Stonewall Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest Confederate commanders. Visits some of the bloodiest battlegrounds in America for a riveting portrait of the commander who held his ground 'like a stone wall.'
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
324 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson's military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson;s strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861-65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry,...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 digital videodiscs (254, 219 min.) : sound (stereo), color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gettysburg: Civil War drama depicting the events and personal struggles of the Union and Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Gods and generals: Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
vi, 375 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Historian Ben Cleary takes readers beyond the legend of Stonewall Jackson and directly onto the Civil War battlefields on which he fought, and where a country once again finds itself at a crossroads"--
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