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Subject: Looking for Recommendations for Civil War Books
Date Posted: 5/1/2009 11:47 AM ET
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I love reading about the Civil War and was hoping t more...
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Date Posted: 5/1/2009 3:01 PM ET
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Here are a few I've read recently: The March b more...
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Date Posted: 5/1/2009 7:31 PM ET
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Wow!  Thank more...
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Date Posted: 5/1/2009 11:03 PM ET
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Angie, I h more...
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Date Posted: 5/7/2009 12:06 AM ET
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I like small more...
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Date Posted: 5/8/2009 9:08 PM ET
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The Civil War for Dumm more...
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Date Posted: 5/15/2009 9:57 PM ET
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CO AYTCH by Sam R. Watkins Hardtack and Coffee or more...
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Date Posted: 5/20/2009 9:46 AM ET
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Angie, the books I listed above are a more...
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Date Posted: 5/20/2009 11:14 AM ET
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I'm glad to see you r more...
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Date Posted: 6/12/2009 12:33 PM ET
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I'm pretty sure that this isn't wh more...
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Date Posted: 6/14/2009 6:24 PM ET
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I don't think anyone' more...
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Date Posted: 6/14/2009 7:25 PM ET
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Date Posted: 8/7/2009 8:48 PM ET
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I recently bought more...
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Date Posted: 12/5/2009 9:01 PM ET
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I am reading Ambrose Bierce's Civil War - a collection of short stories, factual and fictional, about the Civil War. Bierce f more...
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Date Posted: 12/7/2009 7:16 PM ET
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I'd like to second the rec more...
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Subject: way too many books about the War of the Rebellion
Date Posted: 4/1/2011 11:47 PM ET
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I've been reading about the War of the Rebellion (as Abraham Lincoln called it) for over 50 years.  Which do I recommend?  Perhaps you should start with more...
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Date Posted: 9/8/2013 11:29 PM ET
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When I became a Civil War reenactor and living historian (there is a difference between the two) over 20 years ago, I met a guy who claimed he had proof that 200,000 African Americans fought for the Confederacy.  His table at a reenactment had some b more...
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Date Posted: 10/13/2013 12:06 PM ET
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I just finished another, A South more...
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Date Posted: 10/26/2013 11:08 PM ET
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Here is another interesting book, The True Story of Andersonville Prison: A Defense of Major Henry Wirz, by James more...
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Date Posted: 3/5/2014 3:38 PM ET
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Here is another good on more...
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Date Posted: 3/6/2014 7:41 PM ET
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I was re-reading the posts in this thread and have a few comments to make. Mike Shaara's book The Killer Angels was a great book. The movie Gettysburg, which is one of my favorite Civil War movies, is based on this book. But you should never forget that Gettysburg is a Hollywood movie based on a novel. Not everything that happened in the movie or the novel occurred in history.  If you really what to know w more...
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The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote. This is a complete more...
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Date Posted: 4/20/2014 8:29 AM ET
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Bruce Catton has w more...
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Date Posted: 4/20/2014 11:15 PM ET
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Bruce Catton has written some good books on the Civil war. His 2 volume book about Grant is more...
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