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Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General by David Dixon

Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General by David Dixon published by University of Tennessee Press (2020) $40.00 Hardcover. Author David…

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Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga by Eric J. Wittenberg

Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga by Eric J. Wittenberg published by Savas Beattie (2018) Hardcover $29.95 Kindle $9.99…

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Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy by Edward Ball

Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy by Edward Ball published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) $28.00 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle. Edward…

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University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy

University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy published by Oxford University Press…

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America Kindle by Heather Cox Richardson

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson published by oxford…

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Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America by Fergus M. Bordewich

Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America by Fergus M. Bordewich published by Knopf, 480…

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The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby

The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby published by University of Virginia Press, 272 pages (2020) Hardcover…

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Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy by Earl J. Hess

Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy by Earl J. Hess, Published by The University of North Carolina Press (2016) 368 pp. $35.00 Hardcover,…

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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel published by Oxford University Press (2019). Here is…

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For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops by Kelly Mezurek

For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops by Kelly Mezurek published by Kent State University Press (2016). $37.95 Hardcover, $18.49 Kindle For Their…

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