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Calamity at Frederick

Robert E. Lee, Special Orders No. 191, and Confederate Misfortune on the Road to Antietam

By: Alexander B. Rossino

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Calamity at Frederick

Robert E. Lee, Special Orders No. 191, and Confederate Misfortune on the Road to Antietam

By: Alexander B. Rossino

The loss of Robert E. Lee’s Special Orders No. 191 is one of the Civil War’s enduring mysteries. In this meticulous study, Alexander Rossino presents a bold new interpretation of the evidence surrounding the orders’ creation, distribution, and loss outside Frederick, Maryland, in September 1862. Rossino makes extensive use of primary sources to explore these subjects and other important questions related to the orders, including why General Lee thought his army could operate north of the Potomac until winter; why Lee found it necessary to seize the Federal garrison at Harpers Ferry; what Lee hoped to accomplish after capturing Harpers Ferry; where Corporal Barton Mitchell of the 27th Indiana found the Lost Orders; and if D. H. Hill or someone else was to blame for losing the orders. The result is a well-documented reassessment that sheds new light while challenging long-held assumptions. Calamity at Frederick is the Confederate companion to The Tale Untwisted by Gene M. Thorp and Alexander Rossino, which told the story from the Union perspective.

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Savas Beatie

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1954547625

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9781954547629

Exploring Washington's Past

A Road Guide to History

By: Ruth Kirk,Carmela Alexander

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Exploring Washington's Past

A Road Guide to History

By: Ruth Kirk,Carmela Alexander

A traveler's guide to Washington state, focusing on historical sites. Sections on various regions describe local history, with entries on towns and sites offering information on festivals, museums, and historic districts. Contains b&w photos, and a chronology. c. Book News Inc.

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University of Washington Press

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0295974435

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9780295974439

Their Maryland

The Army of Northern Virginia From the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862

By: Alexander B. Rossino

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Their Maryland

The Army of Northern Virginia From the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862

By: Alexander B. Rossino

“Engagingly written and persuasively argued, this daringly revisionist book is an essential addition to the Antietam bibliography.” —Brian Matthew Jordan, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Marching Home What if the histories previously written about Robert E. Lee’s 1862 Maryland Campaign, the first major Confederate operation north of the Potomac River, missed key sources, proceeded from mistaken readings of the evidence, or were influenced by Lost Cause ideology? As Alexander B. Rossino, author of the acclaimed Six Days in September, demonstrates in Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia from the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862, these types of distortions indeed continue to shape modern understanding of the campaign. Rossino reassesses the history of the Confederate operation in seven comprehensive chapters, each tackling a specific major issue. He addresses many important questions: Did supply problems in Virginia force Lee north to press the advantage he’d won after the Battle of Second Manassas? What did Rebel troops believe about the strength of secessionist sentiment in Maryland, and why? Did the entire Army of Northern Virginia really camp at Best’s Farm near Frederick, Maryland? Did D.H. Hill lose Special Orders No. 191, or is there more to the story? How did Maryland civilians respond to the Rebel army in their midst, and what part did women play? Finally, why did Robert E. Lee choose to fight at Sharpsburg, and how personally was he involved in directing the fighting? Rossino makes extensive use of primary sources to explore these and other questions. In doing so, he reveals that many long-held assumptions about the Confederate experience in Maryland do not hold up under close scrutiny. The result is a well-documented reassessment that sheds new light on old subjects and reinvigorates the debate on several fronts. “The reader will come away with a greater understanding of this crucial campaign and battle.” —James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author of Battle Cry of Freedom

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Savas Beatie

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1611215587

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9781611215588

Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George Alexander Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

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Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George Alexander Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

A well-researched collection of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617034282

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Jump Commander

In Combat with the 505th and 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments, 82nd Airborne Division in World War II

By: Mark J. Alexander,John Sparry

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Jump Commander

In Combat with the 505th and 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments, 82nd Airborne Division in World War II

By: Mark J. Alexander,John Sparry

The thrilling memoir of the legendary army colonel and paratrooper—the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat during WWII. In his distinguished service during World War II, Col. Mark James Alexander took command of three separate battalions of parachute infantrymen within the 82nd Airborne Division. A legend in his own time, he fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France. Even after sustaining serious wounds in Normandy, he insisted on playing a role in the Battle of the Bulge. Alexander’s exploits in Italy, from capturing hundreds of prisoners in Sicily to holding ground against German counterattacks in Salerno, won him a reputation known from the lowest private to Airborne generals Gavin and Ridgway. At Normandy, Lt. John “Red Dog” Dolan called him “the finest battalion commander I ever served under,” after witnessing his leadership through the bloody battle for La Fière Bridge and Causeway. This memoir is based on the transcription of hundreds of hours of recorded interviews made by Alexander’s grandson, John Sparry, over a period of years late in his life. Providing valuable insight into the beloved commander who led three of the most storied battalions in the US Army, Jump Commander also contains a wealth of new detail on 82nd Airborne operations and unique insight into some of the most crucial battles in the European Theater.

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289

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Casemate

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1935149512

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9781935149514

Misfits of Mars

By: Shirlanne Alexander-Gay

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Misfits of Mars

By: Shirlanne Alexander-Gay

Fall into a worm hole of deception and adventure as three Texas teens find out that they are actually magical beings from another realm. Somehow, this unlikely trio must quickly put their emotions and differences aside, if they are to survive encounters with the relentless assassin, whose only goal in life is to kill them in the name of his master Videera, colossal giants and a fierce dragon as they navigate their way back to their land of birth.

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277

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Shirlanne Alexander

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148120078X

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9781481200783

How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

By: Bevin Alexander

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How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

By: Bevin Alexander

Could the South have won the Civil War? To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable? Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals in this provocative and counterintuitive new look at the Civil War. In fact, the South most definitely could have won the war, and Alexander documents exactly how a Confederate victory could have come about—and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond fanciful theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war’s key battles, How the South Could Have Won the Civil War offers surprising analysis on topics such as: •How the Confederacy had its greatest chance to win the war just three months into the fighting—but blew it •How the Confederacy’s three most important leaders—President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson—clashed over how to fight the war •How the Civil War’s decisive turning point came in a battle that the Rebel army never needed to fight •How the Confederate army devised—but never fully exploited—a way to negate the Union’s huge advantages in manpower and weaponry •How Abraham Lincoln and other Northern leaders understood the Union’s true vulnerability better than the Confederacy’s top leaders did •How it is a myth that the Union army’s accidental discovery of Lee’s order of battle doomed the South’s 1862 Maryland campaign •How the South failed to heed the important lessons of its 1863 victory at Chancellorsville How the South Could Have Won the Civil War shows why there is nothing inevitable about military victory, even for a state with overwhelming strength. Alexander provides a startling account of how a relatively small number of tactical and strategic mistakes cost the South the war—and changed the course of history.

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Forum Books

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0307450104

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9780307450104

The Ancient Ways of Wessex

Travel and Communication in an Early Medieval Landscape

By: Alexander Langlands

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The Ancient Ways of Wessex

Travel and Communication in an Early Medieval Landscape

By: Alexander Langlands

The Ancient Ways of Wessex tells the story of Wessex’s roads in the early medieval period, at the point at which they first emerge in the historical record. This is the age of the Anglo-Saxons and an era that witnessed the rise of a kingdom that was taken to the very brink of defeat by the Viking invasions of the ninth century. It is a period that goes on to become one within which we can trace the beginnings of the political entity we have come to know today as England. In a series of ten detailed case studies the reader is invited to consider historical and archaeological evidence, alongside topographic information and ancient place-names, in the reconstruction of the networks of routeways and communications that served the people and places of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Whether you were a peasant, pilgrim, drover, trader, warrior, bishop, king or queen, travel would have been fundamental to life in the early middle ages and this book explores the physical means by which the landscape was constituted to facilitate and improve the movement of people, goods and ideas from the seventh through to the eleventh centuries. What emerges is a dynamic web of interconnecting routeways serving multiple functions and one, perhaps, even busier than that in our own working countryside. A narrative of transition, one of both of continuity and change, provides a fresh and alternative window into the everyday workings of an early medieval landscape through the pathways trodden over a millennium ago.

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Windgather Press

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1911188542

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9781911188544

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Additional Letters 1777-1802 Addenda and Errata Cumulative Index

By: Alexander Hamilton,Harold Coffin Syrett,Jacob Ernest Cooke

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The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Additional Letters 1777-1802 Addenda and Errata Cumulative Index

By: Alexander Hamilton,Harold Coffin Syrett,Jacob Ernest Cooke

Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.

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714

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Columbia University Press

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0231089260

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9780231089265

Cobalt Christmas: A Cobalt Rogue Story

By: Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

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Cobalt Christmas: A Cobalt Rogue Story

By: Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

2031 A.D. Just a week before Christmas, all hell breaks loose. A crime wave tears through Cryo City like a typhoon, with a sudden explosion of poisoned eggnog on the supermarket shelves and a swarm of an immortal psychopath's sentient, multiplying limbs riding the wave. Damian Warkowski is caught in the middle of this royal mess as he's tasked with finding the man he believes to be responsible for all this chaos--an immortal bank robber whose agenda seems to extend a lot further than running a few bank jobs to fill his pockets. Something big is going down, and no one knows what, but they do know that it ain't gonna be pretty. He's got till Christmas Day to bring it all to a stop; otherwise, the city might not survive to see the New Year.

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478

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Lulu.com

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1989331041

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9781989331040

Mystery Of Time, The: Asymmetry Of Time And Irreversibility In The Natural Processes

By: Alexander Leonidovich Kuzemsky

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Mystery Of Time, The: Asymmetry Of Time And Irreversibility In The Natural Processes

By: Alexander Leonidovich Kuzemsky

The book focuses on the study of the temporal behavior of complex many-particle systems. The phenomenon of time and its role in the temporal evolution of complex systems is a remaining mystery. The book presents the necessity of the interdisciplinary point of view regarding on the phenomenon of time.The aim of the present study is to summarize and formulate in a concise but clear form the trends and approaches to the concept of time from a broad interdisciplinary perspective exposing tersely the complementary approaches and theories of time in the context of thermodynamics, statistical physics, cosmology, theory of information, biology and biophysics, including the problem of time and aging. Various approaches to the problem show that time is an extraordinarily interdisciplinary and multifaceted underlying notion which plays an extremely important role in various natural complex processes.

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World Scientific

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9811267022

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9789811267024

Book's by Alexander Hill

Calamity at Frederick

Calamity at Frederick

Exploring Washington's Past

Exploring Washington's Past

Their Maryland

Their Maryland

Mississippi Black History Makers

Mississippi Black History Makers

Jump Commander

Jump Commander

Misfits of Mars

Misfits of Mars

How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

The Ancient Ways of Wessex

The Ancient Ways of Wessex

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Cobalt Christmas: A Cobalt Rogue Story

Cobalt Christmas: A Cobalt Rogue Story

Mystery Of Time, The: Asymmetry Of Time And Irreversibility In The Natural Processes

Mystery Of Time, The: Asymmetry Of Time And Irreversibility In The Natural Processes

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