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The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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In the summer of 1862, as Union morale ebbed low with home front division over war costs, coming emancipation, and demoralizing battlefield losses, 24-year-old William White Dorr enlisted as a lieu- tenant in the 121st Pennsylvania Volunteers, a new Union regiment organizing in Philadelphia. His father, the Reverend Benjamin Dorr, rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, strived to prevent divisions in his congregation from sundering that Episcopal
...44) Robert E. Lee
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Rourke Publishing
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Biography of Robert E Lee who was a great hero as well as a general in the civil war.
46) Ulysses S. Grant
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Publisher
Rourke Publishing
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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Biography of Ulysses S Grant who was the 18th president as well as being remembered as a great general.
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ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
There is renewed interest among Civil War historians and history buffs alike about events west of the Appalachian Mountains and their impact on the outcome of the conflict. In examining the Chickamauga campaign, this book provides a fresh analysis of the foremost Confederate victory in the Western theater. The study opens with a discussion of two commanders, William S. Rosecrans and Braxton Bragg, and the forces swirling around them when they clashed...