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The
Demobilization of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1865-1866
William
B. Holberton
$24.95
Hardcover, 224 pages, 17 b/w photos
Order Number: 0-8117-0788-1
What
happened to the hundreds of thousands of men in the Union and Confederate armies
after they lay down their arms? According to William Holberton, many of these
men had miles to travel before they were discharged from service, and the
passage of these miles included some rather unique situations and experiences.
As always, there was bureaucratic red tape and mishandled orders, and in some
cases, tragic accidents, such as the Sultana disaster. Beginning with the
surrender at Appomattox Court House, the author takes the reader through all the
aspects and phases of demobilization, including the Grand Review in Washington,
the desertions of soldiers overly eager to return home, the differences between
Union and Confederate demobilization, the repatriation of prisoners of war, and
the deferred demobilization of many black troops.
The
late William Holberton was a retired priest living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
He spent the years since his retirement researching and writing Homeward Bound,
his first book. He had previously published related articles in magazines such
as Civil War Times Illustrated.
Stackpole Books
The
Legacies of America's Bloodiest Conflict
Gerald
S. Henig and Eric Niderost
$29.95
Hardcover, 480 pages
A Military Book Club/History Book Club Alternate Selection
Order Number: 0-8117-0354-1
The
Civil War was an era of unparalleled innovation. From armored battleships and
hot air balloons to photography and medical care, the period between 1861 and
1865 saw a great transition in the way the world fought, recorded, and survived
war. It wrought change in the lives of individuals as well, transforming society
unlike any other single event in American history. Authors Gerald S. Henig and
Eric Niderost trace these changes and explore the legacies of America's
bloodiest conflict in this thought-provoking study.
Gerald
Henig is a professor of history at California State University, Hayward. He is
the author of Henry Winter Davis: Antebellum and Civil War Congressman from
Maryland, and various articles on the political and military history of the
Civil War. Eric Niderost is instructor of history at Chabot College in Hayward,
California. A freelance author, he has published nearly 300 articles on American
and European history.
Stackpole Books
Winners,
Losers, (and Some Who Were Both) in the Civil War
Albert
Castel
$24.95
Hardcover, 256 pages, 16 b/w photos, 3 maps
Order Number: 0-8117-0005-4
"Readers
have come to recognize Albert Castel as one of the masters of the Civil War
genre, and in Articles of War he demonstrates yet again that they are
right."
--William C. Davis, former editor of Civil War Times Illustrated
The
American Civil War is filled with fascinating characters. This collection of
biographical essays on the "winners and losers" of the Civil War
covers some of the most intriguing: Ulysses S. Grant, Sam Houston, Nathan
Bedford Forrest, and William Clarke Quantrill, to name just a few. The articles
represent a broad cross-section of the scholarship of noted author Albert Castel;
most were written over a fifty-year period for publication in national
"popular history" magazines such as American Heritage, Civil
War History, and Civil War Times Illustrated.
Albert
Castel is one of the most respected and prolific scholars
in the Civil War community. He has won several prizes for his work, most
notably the 1993 Lincoln Prize for Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign
of 1864. Castel previously co-authored Bloody
Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla.
Stackpole Books
How
Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865
by
E. Lawrence Abel
$29.95
Hardcover, 352 pages,10 b/w illustrations
Order Number: 0-8117-0228-6
From the recruiting songs that celebrated early war efforts to the "lost cause" songs of the Confederacy's last days, this study chronicles how music helped the South discover and celebrate its identity.
WITH
THE 3rd WISCONSIN BADGERS
The
Living Experience of the Civil War Through the Diaries of Van R. Willard
edited
by Steven S. Raab, foreword by William C. Davis
$29.95
Hardcover, 304 pages
Order Number: 0-8117-0002-X
"Entertaining, enlightening, consummately human, Van Willard's war may have had days when time hung heavily on his hands, but no reader will suffer his boredom in reading this narrative." -William C. Davis
The American Civil
War
La Guerra Civil • La
Guerre Civile • Der Bürgerkrieg
by Dean and Jim Thomas
$11.95
Softcover, 8.5” x 11”, 96 pages, 0939631296 I want to order this book.
Concise histories of more than 40 Civil War battles in a unique multi-lingual format—English, French, Spanish and German with a map and photo, statistics, history, and significance. Gettysburg Address in the above languages plus Japanese.
Callow, Brave,
and True
A Gospel of Civil War Youth
by Jay S. Hoar
$20.00
Softcover, 6" x 9", 288 pages, ISBN: 1577470451
I want to order this book.
Just who were the youngest soldiers, Union or Confederate, of the Civil War? The culmination of 25 years’ research, Professor Hoar presents the heroic, and sometimes tragic, aspects of the war, exemplified in the “littlest” Billy Yanks and Johnny Rebs. More than 40 concise biographies.
The Civil War
Infantryman
In Camp, On the March, and in
Battle
by Gregory A. Coco
Hardcover--$19.95
Softcover--$12.95
Uses first-hand accounts to shed some light on the “common soldier” of the Civil War from enlistment to muster-out, including camp, marching, rations, equipment, fighting, and more. Hard or softcover • 72 pages, 6 x 9 • ISBN: 1577470095 (h), 1577470079 (s). I want to order this book.
"A treasure trove of information for the Civil War buff interested less in the history of the Civil War than in the lives of men who fought it." —York (PA) Intelligencer Journal
(Thomas Publications)
I'd like to place a mail or fax order.
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from Civil War and More
James E. Schmick,
proprietor
Original material © Copyright Civil War and More, James E. Schmick, 2005
Book cover illustrations and descriptive text courtesy of Stackpole Books,
Mechanicsburg, PA; used by permission.
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