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Is the Union voluntary or an agreement with no escape route? Setting the tone, John M. Taylor leads off by noting the travails of a respected ancestor. Major questions in America are explored, including differing views of the meaning of union. Though numerous issues led to war, most modern establishment historians generalize everything down to one. Pre-war and post-war years are largely ignored, trivialized, or sanitized. Protectionist Whigs and other big government advocates created the centralizing vehicle-the Republican Party-to accomplish their goals. In 1860, they selected Abraham Lincoln to implement the agenda. Taylor shows how Lincoln and the Radical Republicans planted the seeds of leviathan we witness today. Available in hardback or paperback.
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Sale!Recorded at the Abbeville Opera House. Steve Gipson portrays "The Captain", a veteran Union officer from Tennessee, who remains loyal to his beloved Union. He encounters his uncle John late in the War and their family loyalties are put to the test. His uncle John, John Mobley, surprises his nephew when he walks into camp wearing Confederate Gray. Their conversation will delight you and the ending will melt your heart. Great for kids ages 6 and up...and for those who slept through history class. This DVD uncovers the Southern side of the story long lost in our modern world. Amazing trivia, oddities, and laugh-out-loud true stories from the time of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.
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Sale!Ross brings you the treasured acoustic sounds of a musical evening in the Appalachian hills. Includes: Wayfaring Stranger, Shenandoah Falls, Appalachian Round-up, Scarborough Fair and Meghan's Theme.
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The author explores the personality of this iron-willed commander & brilliant tactician & gives us colorful profiles of the men who served under him. This is the most complete & compelling account to date of the fighting unit so hated by Grant that he ordered any captured Ranger to be summarily executed without trail.
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During the Civil War, few men had seen camels on the battlefield. But one Mississippi infantry marched into battle with Old Douglas, who served with the Bloody 43rd and died in the Siege of Vicksburg. The regiment became known as the Camel Regiment, and its soldiers carried memories of Old Douglas through the end of the war and until the end of their own lives. They went on to fight in fourteen battles, including Corinth, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville and Bentonville before they surrendered at war's end. Author W. Scott Bell's fascination with the Camel Regiment began because his great-great-grandfather fought with them.
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ONE COPY AVAILABLE! Beautiful over-sized hardbound book. These books are very difficult to find and this one is in excellent condition. Has very detailed information about the war. 480 pages. The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War: The Campaigns, Battles, Sieges, Charges and Skirmishs / The Foundation and Formation of the Confederacy / The Confederate States Navy Hardcover – October 1, 1977
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TWO COPIES AVAILABLE! Hardbound. 404 pages. Excellent condition. Born in New Jersey in 1818, a graduate of West Point in 1843, Samuel French won distinction in the Mexican war as a lieutenant of light artillery. At Palo Alto, Resaca, Monterey and Buena Vista he was actively engaged, receiving two brevets for gallantry in action and a serious wound at Buena Vista. But with the coming of the great civil war his narrative takes on a sterner interest. French was of Northern birth, but it is plain that the South had not a more devoted adherent. Commissioned a brigadier general in the provisional army of the Confederate States in October 1861, French served in various capacities with zeal and efficiency until his appointment as major general to command a division of the army under Gen. J.E. Johnston. A very interesting read!
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ONLY ONE COPY AVAILABLE - EXCELLENT CONDITION! Hardback. The military events surrounding the frontier village of Westport, Missouri, during the autumn of 1864 were part of a Confederate raid that exceeded any Civil War cavalry raid. The climax of a last-ditch Confederate invasion of Missouri, the battle ended forever the bitter fighting that had devastated the Missouri-Kansas border. First published more than thirty years ago and now available with a new introduction and notes that update the text, Action Before Westport presents the only full account of that most unusual and daring Civil War battle. In addition to incorporating official records, newspaper accounts, letters, diaries, journals, and privately printed records, Monnett consulted several previously undiscovered manuscripts, two of them the work of key Confederate generals in the raid. The result is a classic work that is both immensely readable and impressive in its documentation.
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ONLY ONE COPY AVAILABLE! Published in 1996. Hardback. Good condition. This book looks at the ordinary people who fought the war and the people they left behind. It is about Belle Starr and Johnny Clem, one of the South's top female spies, the other a nine-year-old drummer boy who went on to serve 46 years in the U.S. Army. It is about the first shot fired at Fort Sumter and the final lowering of the Confederate flag. It is about death on the battlefields and in prison cells, about women fighting to be recognized for their accomplishments, and how people on both sides managed to survive the deadliest war this nation has seen.
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ONLY ONE AVAILABLE! This beautiful reproduction wool rug was hand hooked right here in Columbia, TN using an antique pattern from the 1800's. Anyone who's ever hooked a rug before knows the enormous amount of time it takes to create these masterpieces. This is truly a work of art and would look amazing as a wall hanging. Measures 30" x 19". Have you ever heard of Hero the Bloodhound of Libby Prison? He was an enormous Russian Bloodhound who was imported from Russia in 1859 for sports of the arena. He was seized by the Confederates shortly after the War Between the States broke out in 1861 and was subsequently used for guarding Union prisoners at Libby Prison. He was believed to be the strongest dog in the world and was famous all around the country. He was so famous that he was in a travelling exhibition and even had his own carte d'visite (calling card) which detailed his enormous size. His weight was 198 pounds; height 3 feet 2 inches; length from tip to tip, 7 feet 1.5 inches.