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Test your knowledge of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. This book is the most complete collection of facts assembled on one of our greatest Americans.Author: Gordon LeidnerPublisher: Burd Street...

Showing the importance of Andersonville Prison in our understanding of the prisoner of war experience in American history, Andersonville Journey objectively tells its complete story from before the...

Written by a participant of I Company, Beyond Pearl Harbor details actual incidents that illustrate the peculiar nature of the war in the Pacific during World War II. From the early days in New...

In August 1944, a few hundred men defended a hill near Mortain, France, against a massive German counterattack. For most of the six days and nights of fighting, the Americans were cut off from supply...

This historic narrative is a marriage of fact and fiction. It presents a factual picture of the operation of America's greatest Civil War military supply base at City Point, Virginia, and what might...

During the War Between the States, James McCormick, an Irish-Catholic immigrant in Potsdam, New York, works for a carriage manufacturer and wants to marry Annie Cutting, the boss's daughter. Cutting...

More Strange Tales of the Civil War presents readers with more predictions, coincidences, medical oddities, and other bizarre events of the Civil War. Wounded soldiers fight off hungry hogs on the...

Do You Know the Truth about American Slavery? With the slave reparation issue a hot topic in the 21st century, do Americans today really know what slavery was like in the 19th century? Myths &...

Offers a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at the bad behavior, off-duty antics and sexual shenanigans of soldiers North and South.Author: Douglas Lee GibboneyPublisher: Burd Street PressPublication...

Through a collection of personal anecdotes, whimsical tidbits, and tales of the humor, irony, accidental encounters, and minor events with major consequences, Sidelights and Lighter Sides of the War...

One of the largest comets of the 19th century suddenly appears just weeks before the Battle of Bull Run. Stonewall Jackson's sword mysteriously falls only hours before his fatal wounding at...

Morris M. Penny and J. Gary Laine have produced a compelling story of Law's Alabama Brigade's attempt to wrest the Round Tops from Federal hands. In July 1863, Evander McIver Law, age 26, was one of...

When the Battle of Gettysburg ended, Robert E. Lee was faced with the problem of getting his wounded back to Virginia. Some were prisoners of the Yankees, others were out of Lee's reach, and a few...

How well do you know the Confederacy? Here are more than 4,000 questions and answers, covering not just military matters but also everyday life, politics, music and literature, nicknames, crime and...

Flying in the face of tremendous prejudice against women in uniform, Selene Weise joined the army in 1944 to serve her country, ultimately as a cryptographic technician in forward areas, but even her...

During the early to mid-1800s, the railroad changed the transportation industry and dramatically impacted the nature of the American economy. Entire families, such as the Humphreys from Cambria...