from soldiers’ advocate Clara Barton and African American leader and Lincoln critic-turned-admirer Frederick Douglass (who called the speech “a sacred effort”) to conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth―all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln
including Scottish Deerhounds
The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War
Pula’s extraordinary research and penetrating analysis offers a fresh interpretation of the Chancellorsville defeat while challenging long-held myths about that fateful field
A Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat from Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign (Gene Barr - DLM) Material:Hardcover from soldiers’ advocate Clara BartonA Civil War Captain and His Lady: Love, Courtship, and Combat from Fort Donelson through the Vicksburg Campaign by Gene Barr More than 150 years ago, 27 year old Irish immigrant Josiah Moore met 19 year old Jennie Lindsay, a member of one of Peoria, Illinoiss most prominent families. The Civil War had just begun, Josiah was the captain of the 17th Illinois Infantry, and his war would be a long and bloody one. Their courtship and romance, which came to
