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21) Shenandoah
Author
Series
Civil War battle series volume 8
Publisher
Cumberland House Pub
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Shenandoah follows a Southern family through the trials and tribulations of the American Civil War. The long-absent Titus Brannon returns home to find that his wife has remarried.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In May, 1863, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton's army to retreat to Vicksburg. But after sustaining heavy casualties un two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence and morale is low. Grant reluctantly decides to lay siege to the city, trapping soldiers and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy in this epic and intimate work of “superb historical fiction” (Booklist, starred review). Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete...
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Civil War double feature from History includes two compelling films that provide a unique perspective of the Civil War. Gettysburg depects one of the war's most significant battles through the eyes of the soldiers fighting on the ground. Raw, immersive and emotional, the groundbreaking film puts viewers inside the epic, three-day battle in which 50,000 men lost their lives. Produced with the cooperation of leading Civil War historian Winston Groom,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as “the first organized terrorist movement in American history,” rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members, no small number...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[-2011]
Language
English
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
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