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The 1862 Army Officer's Pocket Companion

A Manual for Staff Officers in the Field

By: William P. Craighill

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The 1862 Army Officer's Pocket Companion

A Manual for Staff Officers in the Field

By: William P. Craighill

Unique summary of "military science" as it stood at the beginning of the Civil War.

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324

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Stackpole Books

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ISBN 10

0811749460

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9780811749466

Crucible of Command

Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged

By: William C. Davis

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Crucible of Command

Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged

By: William C. Davis

A dual biography and a fresh approach to the always compelling subject of these two iconic leadersÑhow they fashioned a distinctly American war, and a lasting peace, that fundamentally changed our nation

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690

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Da Capo Press, Incorporated

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0306822458

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9780306822452

The Allstons of Chicora Wood

Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry

By: William Kauffman Scarborough

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The Allstons of Chicora Wood

Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry

By: William Kauffman Scarborough

William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period. Scarborough's examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family focuses on patriarch Robert R. F. W. Allston, his wife Adele Petigru Allston, and their daughter Elizabeth Allston Pringle Scarborough. Scarborough shows how Allston, in the four decades before the Civil War, converted a small patrimony into a Lowcountry agricultural empire of seven rice plantations, all the while earning an international reputation for the quality of his rice and his expertise. Scarborough also examines Allston's twenty-eight-year career in the state legislature and as governor from 1856 to 1858. Upon his death in 1864, Robert Allston's wife of thirty-two years, Adele, found herself at the head of the family. Scarborough traces how she successfully kept the family plantations afloat in the postwar years through a series of decisions that exhibited her astute business judgment and remarkable strength of character. In the next generation, one of the Allstons' five children followed a similar path. Elizabeth "Bessie" Allston took over management of the remaining family plantations upon the death of her husband and, in order to pay off the plantation mortgages, embarked on a highly successful literary career. Bessie authored two books, the first treating her experiences as a woman rice planter and the second describing her childhood before the war. A major contribution to southern history, The Allstons of Chicora Wood provides a fascinating look at a prominent southern family that survived the traumas of war and challenges of Reconstruction.

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225

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LSU Press

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0807138452

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9780807138458

Railroad Crossing

Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910

By: William F. Deverell

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Railroad Crossing

Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910

By: William F. Deverell

Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial America from the middle of the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth. Americans clamored for the progress and prosperity that railroads would surely bring, and no railroad was more crucial for California than the transcontinental line linking East to West. With Gold Rush prosperity fading, Californians looked to the railroad as the state's new savior. But social upheaval and economic disruption came down the tracks along with growth and opportunity. Analyzing the changes wrought by the railroad, William Deverell reveals the contradictory roles that technology and industrial capitalism played in the lives of Americans. That contrast was especially apparent in California, where the gigantic corporate "Octopus"—the Southern Pacific Railroad—held near-monopoly status. The state's largest employer and biggest corporation, the S.P. was a key provider of jobs and transportation—and wielder of tremendous political and financial clout. Deverell's lively study is peopled by a rich and disparate cast: railroad barons, newspaper editors, novelists, union activists, feminists, farmers, and the railroad workers themselves. Together, their lives reflect the many tensions—political, social, and economic—that accompanied the industrial transition of turn-of-the-century America.

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312

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Univ of California Press

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0520917758

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9780520917750

Book's by William P. Craighill

The 1862 Army Officer's Pocket Companion

The 1862 Army Officer's Pocket Companion

Crucible of Command

Crucible of Command

The Allstons of Chicora Wood

The Allstons of Chicora Wood

Railroad Crossing

Railroad Crossing

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