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Gumps! Wharf Lice! Ditch Hunters! Though it’s reasonably clear that those terms are insults, few people today have any idea what they mean. Like much of the language used in the 1860’s, these expressions have vanished from everyday speech. This comprehensive volume will delight the historian, the writer, and the reenactor. Now in paperback. -
Here are the "FACTS" on Slavery, Secession and Reconstruction by John S. Tilley, M.A. (Harvard). Nothing is more dangerous than the 'Half-Truth'. -
In the middle of the 19th century steam power replaced muscle power as the prime mover of civilization, and the Industrial Revolution roared across the world. A new World-Cycle, the Machine Age, was born. But in the Southern United States men took up arms against the imperatives of the machine, and their Lost Cause marked the end of the Age of Agriculture. By the editing of contemporary diaries, letters, essays, newspaper editorials, memoirs, histories and official records, and the collation of them into a narrative form, this work attempts to paint a contemporaneous portrait of the storm-tossed Confederacy and the revolution that swept it away. -
This work offers a contemporaneous portrait of Old Virginia, her unwavering stance on State sovereignty, and her fight to the death to defend the fundamental principle upon which the Republic was founded. -
Originally published in 1863. Clement Vallandigham, a Northern congressman, exposes the despotism of Lincoln and the fanaticism of the Republican Party. -
Marse Bradford Harrison, of St. Michaels, MD, gave 4 year old Eliza Ann Benson to his new born daughter, Braddie, in 1841. Eliza would be a slave to her infant owner in Harrison’s way of thinking. But a friendship began & a promise was made. Eliza stayed with Braddie through Braddie’s married life, which included the War Between the States & its aftermath; and when Braddie & her husband died leaving a family full of children & no one to rear them, there was one more promise that Eliza wanted to keep. Eliza’s down-home philosophy, loyalty, fortitude and love positively impacted Miss Braddie & 3 generations thereafter. -
BACK ORDERED! The essential handbook for Southerners - proudly proclaims the traditions, the culture, and the values that have long distinguished the South from the rest of the nation. -
One of Savannah, Georgia's closest calls to total disaster happened with the arrival of Wm. T. Sherman and sixty-two thousand Union Troops. This fifty-three-day heart-pounding, nail-biting, hair-raising horror story of her onion-skin-thin bare survival centers on the central question: who REALLY saved Savannah? -
The ladies who wrote about their experiences wanted future generations to know about their trials and tribulations in the spring of 1865. Their stories have been almost forgotten, but they are printed in these pages for you to read and study, and to pass on to generations yet to come. For if one generation forgets, these stories will be lost for all eternity. Let’s not let this happen! -
This is a collection of war letters written by teenagers George and Walter Battle during their service in Company F, 4th North Carolina Regiment, CSA. Underage, yet full of vitality and idealism, these boys were not just fighting for their country; they were fighting to protect their family's name. Two young brothers had gone off to war as mere boys. Their experiences quickly hardened and molded them into veterans of the greatest army ever to march on American soil. -
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A collection of 15 songs about the CSA - featuring Ross’ twelve acoustic instruments and stirring vocals. Selections include ‘Young Rebel - The Story of Sam Davis'; ‘Last Day at Gettysburg’; ‘Southern Son’; ‘Aura Lee’ and ‘I Am Their Flag’ narrated by Dr. Michael Bradley. -
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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.