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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Presents Stephen Crane's classic novel about Henry Flemming, a young Civil War Union soldier who experiences his first battle and then has to come to terms with his own fears and feelings of cowardice.
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In The Yankee Widow, gifted storyteller Linda Lael Miller explores the complexities and heartbreak that families experienced as men took up arms to preserve the nation and defend their way of life. Told in a smart, assured and compelling voice, this is the story of Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2011], p1998
Language
English
Description
"Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind."-San Francisco Chronicle. It has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America's War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything we never knew about our nation's bloodiest conflict in Don't Know Much About ® the Civil War-another fascinating and fun installment in his acclaimed series.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Laura's sister, Carissa, marries her Confederate beau, Laura finds herself in a difficult situation when she overhears plots to kill Union soldiers. Though in her heart she feels she should share this information with Union officer-and-romantic interest Brandon Reid, Laura fears she will betray her sister's trust and possibly endanger her sister's life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
Author
Publisher
Library Services Branch, Province of British Columbia
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The impact of the Civil War on lovers. Inman is not the man he used to be, as wounded in battle he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina. His sweetheart, Ada, too has changed, no longer a flighty belle but a hard-working farm woman. Will love be the same?
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the mistress of her brother's Missouri plantation, Miss Elizabeth Blair has learned to play her part as the perfect hostess - and to not ask questions about her brother Walker's business affairs. When Walker's political aspirations lead him to organize the Wildwood Guard in support of the Confederacy - and to offer his plantation as the center of operations - Libbie must gracefully manage a house with officers in residence and soldiers camped on...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The original, hand-stitched silk flag with gold-painted stars was designed for the Confederate Army of the Potomac after the first battle of Manassas. It was created as a military necessity, without the authority or knowledge of the Confederate government-however, it filled a dire need. Gens. P. G. T. Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston recognized that Confederate units needed to have an identifiable banner to unite them on the battlefield. A sketch...
10) With this pledge
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When her home is converted into a Confederate hospital Lizzie Clouston must be true to her own heart while standing for what she knows is right.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 21
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War where they meet Clara Barton.
Author
Publisher
C. Scribner's sons
Pub. Date
1907, 2002
Language
English
Description
The Mississippi, The Mrch to the sea - Franklin and Nashville, The army under pope, Atlanta, The Shenandoah VAlley in 1864, The Virginia campaign of 1864 and 1865, Statistical record of the armies of the U.S., The outbreak of rebellion, From Fort Henry to Corinth, The Peninsula, The Antietam and Fredericksburg, The Army of the Cumberland.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two award-winning historians bring to life the greatest Civil War battle at sea, which was fought off the coast of France in 1864 and effectively ended the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas.
On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a clear day with windswept skies, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union warship Kearsarge in an all-or-nothing fight to...
Author
Series
I survived volume 7
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone--they're marching with the army. But then orders...
17) Varina
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This book looks at the 1862-63 battle for Vicksburg through the eyes of three children: ten-year-old Lucy, the daughter of a Vicksburg merchant; eleven-year-old Willie, the son of a minister; and twelve-year old Frederick, the son of Ulysses S. Grant.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In compelling poetry, the spirit of Frederick Douglas, John Brown, and William Tecumseh Sherman comes alive. So does the heart-rending tale of a Confederate son and Union father, the desperate struggle of boys fighting like men, the horrifying shrieks of the wounded, and the pitiful plight of a toil-weary slave.
One poetic letter finds distraught parents aching for a son who hasn't been heard from in months. While another spotlights a wounded lad...
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